Read, and it will come

Today, I thought of what comes out of a human. It's all fine and good if it comes out the back, but what if it comes out of your mouth, or fingers as you type, and that toxic by-product of a corrupted mind is just waste, and poison to any who taste it...

a sensory perception, our only link to knowing anything.

'Read, In the name of your Lord who created. Created mankind from a clot (which clings). Read and your Lord is the most generous. The One who taught by the pen. Taught man that which he did not know... '

(From chapter 96 of Noble Qur'an)

Now, if we ponder that, even though English is deficient in comprehending the inferred meanings, I will give my personal perspective on how this chapter causes me to think. Of course I have the benefit of being able to read it in Arabic, and for that all praise is for Allah. I didnt know Arabic before...

So if we look to the chapter - 'Read', it says. Now without our senses it is not easy to read. What do we need in order to read? We need to perceive. So our Lord has created light, which bounces off the page and enlightens our eyes and then the nerve endings send impulses and our brain reads them, and a picture forms in our mind (all beyond our control, that is, unless we refuse to perceive, but that would be ignorance and blindness). Then by that wonderous operandus we come to understand.

So we're told to read, but also directed towards the obvious, that one cannot read unless something has been written, so the pen is mentioned. The pen is the instrument for inscribing the information, which is to be read, and gradually understood (by Allah's will).

What a blessing that we, who began as a mere 'clot' of cells, clinging to our mother's uterine wall, in the safest darkness of comfort and miraculous growth, absorbing nutrients just as a leech draws blood from it's host (which is also included in a varient meaning of the word for 'clot' in Arabic), came into this world. So grand and spacious compared to that dark womb - but what did we know then?

Nothing. And now? Now you're reading this, and I have written it, and by God's will both of us undertstand something of it, and if we learn, then what a generous gift from our Lord to us - that we have the capacity to assimilate knowledge.

And all is from Him, and we all return to Him, when He decides.

Of course, all has been written in the Book of Destiny, which has been written before anything occurred. God created the pen, and told it to write. It said, ' What will I write?'. 'Write everything from the beginning until the last day'.

The pen has been lifted and the ink on the pages has dried.