Today on… how tiny we ARE!

Bismillahir rahmanir raheem

We are tiny and fragile, floating on a pale blue dot in an endless black sea…

And still, we are seen. Still, we are heard. Still, we are cared for.

Only Allāh can be that vast and that close at once.

So a few days ago, I discovered that the sun which can fit about 1.3 million Earths, is actually a dwarf star. Yep, you read that right: a DWARF star! and they’re thousands, if not millions, of stars out there into which millions of our Sun could fit into just one. Isn’t that just mind-boggling? It’s so humbling because we’re so tiny! And all of this is still within the first heaven. SubhanaLlah! I remember when I first heard this Hadith

Jabir ibn Abdullah reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, passed through the market from a higher part of the city and people were look at him from both sides. The Prophet passed by the carcass of a one-eared goat and he reached out to take its ear. The Prophet said, “Which one of you would like this for a coin?” They said, “Who among us would want it while it is worth nothing? What would we do with it?” The Prophet said three times, “Would you like to have it?” They said no each time and said, “No, by Allah, if it were alive it would be defective as it only has one ear. How so if it were dead?” The Prophet said, “By Allah, the worldly life is less important to Allah than this is to you.”

Source: al-Adab al-Mufrad 962

I was baffled, how can this beautiful Earth be so worthless to Allāh?

But have you seen His other creations beyond our planet????? And that’s just this heaven. What about what lies beyond it??? the second, the third, all the way to the seventh? And even further than what we’re aware of or could ever comprehend! SubhanaLlah!

I am so curious about the other heavens SubhanaLlah how magnificent they must be. Beyond our imagination! And don’t even get me started on Jannah! Allahu Akbar!

This dunya, this earth is nothing (even in terms of beauty) compared to Jannah!

May Al-Khāliq make us among the dwellers of His magnificent Jannatul-Firdaus.