Some people say...
I can’t help myself listening and watching to a live show some time ago where people from Perlis to Kg Ujung Ketun and to Long Pasia (in Sabah) and Tebedu (in Sarawak), calls the TV station and give their view and say what they think was right and what should be done on the topic of the day. The topic of the day is tsunami that hits Northern part of Peninsular Malaysia.
One of the callers suggested that we should have planted mangrove trees along the shore so that if the wave such as the tsunami hit, it will not damage the part stricken by the wave so badly. And then another caller gave his point of view and the suggestion for an early warning system was brought into the viewers’ attention. By having this early warning system, people are notified beforehand and the place where they are actually can be evacuated before the tsunami comes. Frankly, some of the suggestions amused me.
How can you warn people on something you don’t know? Why don’t we ever say that it was from god? We human being can plan the course of our existence, society and our civilisation. But can we know for sure that the arrangement will work or will be carried out as planned? Something we have to comprehend is that how smart human being is (even if you bring the smartest person in the world you know), you can never envisage what god will send you or will take from you. Allah has said so in the Holy Quran: “if the ocean is the ink to write the knowledge of Allah, the ocean will soon dried up and still you cannot finish writing the knowledge of Allah even if you put in the same amount”.
The existence of earthquake, tsunami, volcano eruption and all other major “act of God” as we know it has been at least mentioned in the Holy Quran. For example, the movement of the tectonic plate was mentioned in Surah Maryam verse no 91-92 (if I’m not mistaken). So there is no reason that man does not know the existence. It is only the matter of timing. Can we see whether is going to rain today? Well, with today’s technology, I think it is possible, but do we know for sure whether it is going to rain or not? Do we have control of the whether? Do we have control of the earth’s movement? Do we have control of what’s going to happen next? Do we have control of what’s going to happen in the next two seconds? My answer is no. So, people can always talk. But Allah knows best.
One of the callers suggested that we should have planted mangrove trees along the shore so that if the wave such as the tsunami hit, it will not damage the part stricken by the wave so badly. And then another caller gave his point of view and the suggestion for an early warning system was brought into the viewers’ attention. By having this early warning system, people are notified beforehand and the place where they are actually can be evacuated before the tsunami comes. Frankly, some of the suggestions amused me.
How can you warn people on something you don’t know? Why don’t we ever say that it was from god? We human being can plan the course of our existence, society and our civilisation. But can we know for sure that the arrangement will work or will be carried out as planned? Something we have to comprehend is that how smart human being is (even if you bring the smartest person in the world you know), you can never envisage what god will send you or will take from you. Allah has said so in the Holy Quran: “if the ocean is the ink to write the knowledge of Allah, the ocean will soon dried up and still you cannot finish writing the knowledge of Allah even if you put in the same amount”.
The existence of earthquake, tsunami, volcano eruption and all other major “act of God” as we know it has been at least mentioned in the Holy Quran. For example, the movement of the tectonic plate was mentioned in Surah Maryam verse no 91-92 (if I’m not mistaken). So there is no reason that man does not know the existence. It is only the matter of timing. Can we see whether is going to rain today? Well, with today’s technology, I think it is possible, but do we know for sure whether it is going to rain or not? Do we have control of the whether? Do we have control of the earth’s movement? Do we have control of what’s going to happen next? Do we have control of what’s going to happen in the next two seconds? My answer is no. So, people can always talk. But Allah knows best.
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