Allahu Akbar...Allahu Akbar

The shaking earth sends people running for the hills. Cries of "tsunami" ring in the air- as much as in the minds of people. The smell of fear hangs clear. Will it happen again?

There are those who head for the hills. Then again, there are those who don't. They all tremble. Shivering in cold fear of murky waters.

Fear the angry earth. Fear the roiling seas. The turmoil it threatens to unleash. Can you perceive it?

When it strikes, That's when they remember Him. When the earth rumbles. That's when they call out His name. Is it the fear that invokes their thoughts of Him?

Allahu akbar. Allahu Akbar indeed.

Is this what it takes to bring them closer to God? Is this what it takes to bring us closer to God? Then perhaps it is a blessing.

Will we wake up after being slapped in the face? Will we snap out of our daydreams after being drenched?

Yet, we've been spared. Or have we? To survive a disaster and to remember it well. Though we may have been spared the full force of both the tsunami and the quake, we are the witnesses of mother nature's wrath incarnate.

So what will you do? What will you do when the watery silence comes for you?

Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar