You know how Romanticism was like a big nature-love fest? (Blake, Wordsworth etc etc going on and on about nature and its beauty in their poems) or Keats’s description of a female, well recently I realised that nature really is pretty wonderful.

Like did you know one of the signs of Allah’s handiwork (maybe that’s not the right word?) is the concept of nature? Of course you did and so did I. But I read in the Qur’an (this is where it all began – naturally!) specifics like the way a tree’s leaves turn brown or fall off and how it fantastically blossoms again and I realised mannn the colour of leaves and leaves in general are really awesome, what with their different shapes and sizes and smells and um stuff..

I alsooo found that the Allegory of nature is used to describe a person. Like Allah can, from dry ground create life and in the same way He can plant in us some sort of understanding of the Deen (before we were like dry, dead land and with Deen we’re like blooming, nourished individuals)

Oh and each blade of grass and each delicate flower, they withstand so much: stomping, prodding, being eaten! Ok I get that grass and flowers rejuvenates so technically the initial blade is not ‘staying alive’ (or is it?) but still!

I particularly like Asiatic lilies, they are just so pretty! (I only realised this when researching flowers for parts of my disso by the way) And I always wondered why people got so excited when they received a bunch of flowers, but they are actually lovely you know, and just imagine how much time and effort the florist spends on the arrangement!

So now when I hear Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ – I’m feelin him blad (ha!) – *Ahem* Yeh so I’m feeling what he’s singing about!

Although ok I still don’t like to be in touching distance to certain, particular animals but I do appreciate that Allah made them for a reason and that they too have a purpose – some of them (actually I’m sure they all are in some way or another) are quite fascinating i.e. the Leopard Gecko – actually a Lizard (I went to The Tropical Zoo and learnt A LOT – grinno) who can DETACH THEIR TAILS, which is actually a tail full of fat, to save themselves from predators (it has nerves in it which kind of wiggles around while the actual lizard runs away or stays really, really, really still)

Crazzzzzyyyy right?!

Heyy! Am I boring you? Goshhh WAKE UP AND SMELL THE (coffee) FRESH AIR!

Sighh