Ten Stunning Places On Earth That Make You Think of Allah
There are many places on Earth which are both stunning and beautiful, here are ten I selected after much research, hope you like the list. They are in no particular order of importance, in case you were wondering.
1. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls situated between Zimbabwe and Zambia is an immense sight. The many waterfalls form some of the worlds largest and most beautiful waterfalls on Earth.
Victoria Falls is 360ft (108m) in height, and has a width of 5604ft (1708m).
Find out more on Wikipedia.
2. Cano Cristales aka The River of Five Colours
Here is one super cool river in Columbia. For the most part of the year the Cano Cristales is just your regular river, with the usual moss, rocks, and refreshing current flow. During the dry season there is not enough water to support the various life forms in the river, so not much to see then, during the wet season the river flows too fast obscuring the sunlight from the plants and algae near the bottom, so again nothing special here... But when the water level and season is just right, this river changes into something super cool!
During this "just-right" period the algae and moss in the river bloom into an aurora of colours! Coating the river in red, yellow, green, blue, black, and the thousands of shades that come with those colours.
During this time the river looks absolutely magnificent.
I wonder... Could this beautiful sight have been an accident as a result of a huge explosion millions of years ago?
Maybe, after all if whole planets could have just "clunked together" on their own to create the likes of Jupiter, Mars, and of course Earth. Then anythings possible, right?
You can find more information and pictures on this river at this link.
3. Wulingyuan, China
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, has stunning quartzite sandstone pillars, over 3000 of them in fact, some over 800 metres in height. Imagine the beauty!
Wulingyuan is located in China's Hunan province. It has many ravines and gorges filled with streams, waterfalls, pools, and caves. Furthermore it has two large natural bridges.
Wulingyuan spans over 64, 200 acres of land.
4. The Wave, Arizona and Utah
The Wave is a sandstone rock formation made up of Jurassic-age sandstone, over 190 million years old. The art-like formation was formed due to erosion by wind and rain.
The waves are really cool, the Big Bang is very artistic, don't you think? Almost like it "planned" to create life itself...
Sure there is a scientific explanation for this formation, which is very true, which I believe, but there is a scientific explanation for everything, but that does not mean it was never created.
There is a scientific explanation for how the lightbulb works but that does not change the fact that it was invented by a human being. So what if there was an explosion? So what if the Big Bang Theory is in fact the Big Bang Fact? Why should that mean that science has ruled out the possibility of a God?
For all the science-is-the-answer-so-there-is-no-god religion followers out there I ask why do you hold onto this theory and many others as a way of denying the existance of God? When in fact the Big Bang Theory was in fact invented by Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic priest and professor of physics and astronomy.
For the many Muslims out there, and non-Muslims, lets see what the Quran has to say on the "Big Bang Theory" or the explosion of existence.
Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?
Quran [21:30], Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Or another more specific translation by Dr. Rashad Khalifa
Do the unbelievers not realize that the heaven and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe?
Quran [21:30], Translation by Dr. Rashad Khalifa
Just some food for thought.
5. Halong Bay, Vietnam
This place is really magnificent, lots of islands on a sea, a fishing community that literally lives on the water, building these floating huts. Just super cool.
There are fishing villages dotted all around Halong Bay, they live on these floating houses. Really neat huh?
These rocks are nicknamed the kissing rocks.
6. Aurora Borealis
Also known as the "Northern Lights" is a natural phenomenon that can be observed from many parts of the world. However the lights observed near the northern regions of Earth have become the most well known and are named Aurora Borealis.
The lights can be seen from Alaska - USA, Antarctica, Calgary - Canada, and New Zealand.
This photo was taken at Bear Lake in Alaska, USA. The photo was taken by Joshua Strang
This photo was taken at Fairbanks in Alaska, USA. It was photographed by Mila Zinkova.
The Aurora as seen over Calgary, Canada. Photographed by Qyd, user on Wikipedia.
Aurora Australis as seen from the Antarctic. Photograph © Samuel Blanc
7. Havasu Falls
There are a series of waterfalls along the Grand Canyon, but here I am just concentrating on the second main waterfall, the Havasu Falls.
8. Socotra Islands, Yemen
This island looks out of this world. So brilliant and beautiful the plant life here is nothing like you've ever seen before.
The inhabitants of this island are of Arab, Somali, and South Asian origin.
The people of this island are Muslim and they speak Soqotri, their primary means of making a livlihood is fishing, stockbreeding (farming animals), and the cultivation of dates.
A photo of some strange looking, but beautiful, trees native to the Socotra Islands. These umbrella shaped trees are called the Socotra Dragon Trees. Pretty cool name huh? Just another one of the artistic displays of the "Explosion that came from nothing, which was also caused by nothing"... As if. It was created by Allah (God).
This is some kind of alien-looking plant, I think it's a sort of Desert Rose, but I couldn't find the proper name for it. Sure looks strange but beautiful.
Whilst making this list, the Socotra Islands are by far my favourite on it. Why? Well because it just looks so cool and different to anything else I've ever seen. So alien to anything Earth-like, yet it sits here, right here on Earth, who said you have to travel millions of light years to find strange creatures and plants?
9. Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest is well known by many, and it is typicaly featured in lists like these, but only with good reason. I just couldn't resist adding this to the list, some of the pictures are just wonderful. There is so much beauty in the creation of Allah, it is just jawdropping. Like the river that flows through the rainforest, its just so amazing. It just had to go in this list. Although it was a tough choice, there were other amazing places I wanted to add, but I guess they'll have to wait for another list, inshAllah (if God wills).
That is a beautiful river. Let us see a simple verse of the Quran on rivers: Or, Who made the earth a restingplace, and made in it rivers, and raised on it mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! most of them do not know!
Quran [27:61], Translation by Muhammad Habib Shakir
10. The Underground River, Peru
Last but not least is the underground river in Peru. This place looks so amazing and the water just looks so, so tropical. So calming, so nice.
Conclusion
Brothers and sisters, Christians and Jews, as you can see and know the creation of Allah (God) is beautiful in this world, but always remember the hereafter is way better than this, so imagine if these places are so stunning, how stunning must Paradise be? Only by the Mercy of Allah will we ever know, inshAllah.
For all the kind and peace loving Atheists who mock the people who choose to believe in God who believe us to be out of our minds, mad, crazy. I want to ask which is more crazy, to believe in a supreme being who created all this, or to believe all this world came to be by accident out of a super massive explosion which too came to be by accident? And that nothing caused nothing to make everything?
May Allah guide us all to the right path and keep us steadfast, inshAllah. Ameen.
