Saturday, December 24, 2005
(9:27:00 PM)
"miracle mosques ?"
miracle mosques ?
i was watching channelnewsasia when it started pouring and i just had to turn of the computer. well i was about to fell asleep till diana ser take me to the headlines. :D okay. her reading wasn't bad. but i slept till one of the advertisements.
and i heard about the programmes their telecasting on tv. and the programmes are all about the anniversary of tsunami. well. it's a trageday that everyone would expect it to "go away" and "never come back" , and so should we even call it an anniversary ? eurgh. nevermind that.
tomorrow , on channelnewsasia , 7:30 pm , there's a programme called Island Of Mosques. yes. it has something to do with the Tsunami.
the killer waves came and a mosque standing 20 kilometeres away was still standing after the whole tragedy. so. on that programme i guyess they're going to tell more about it. like - why did it "survived" and how. is it a miracle.
so yeah. it's seeks my attention to share it here.
so here i start my report. hmm.
In Indonesia's tsunami wastelands on the northern tip of Sumatra island, little remains of whole towns lost to the colossal forces that came thundering in from the ocean. But across these battered shores, dozens of mosques still stand, their minarets glinting defiantly in the sun - a phenomenon survivors in the deeply Islamic region credit as much to divine intervention as robust architecture.
"God's invisible hands prevents the mosque's destruction," said Mukhlis Khaeran, who saw the sea sweep away his home village of Baet outside the north Sumatran city of Banda Aceh, but leave the neighbourhood mosque relatively intact.
Mosques are an everyday sight in most of Indonesia, but especially in Aceh, credited with the being one of Islam's main gateways into the archipelago of islands which now forms the world's largest Muslim-populated country. Despite a long-lasting independence struggle, Aceh, parts of which are under traditional Islamic sharia law, has remained a Muslim heartland for Indonesia, which mostly practices a very relaxed interpretation of the faith. Spiritual beliefs in Aceh and around the Indian Ocean were tested to the limit on December 26 when an epic earthquake sent towers of water crashing ashore, obliterating virtually everything in their path.
Me : well. i've ever heard of a saying. a mosque is God's house and no one can destroy it but God Himself.
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maldives.
In Kandolhudhoo in Raa atoll, which is one of the most environmentally vulnerable islands in the archipelago, the mosque also proved to be a safe haven for the islanders when the tsunami dramatically swept across the island.In Meemu atoll Madifushi island, 95 percent of the homes lie in ruins, but not the island’s three mosques.The phenomenon is not unique to Maldives. In the devastated Aceh in Indonesia, the mosque Masjid al-Baith al-Rahman was standing while every home and building around it had crumbled to ground level.
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me : so yeah. i am a muslim. but i still don't know the real answer to why the mosques still stand. i know God made it happen that way. but. i don't know the exact reason,okay. i'm one of His people , not his best friend.
well. i guess the only way to find out is catch that programme and see what Muslims really believed what had happened.
cheers!