Fall is my favorite time of the year. Even the flower whose name I share uniquely blooms only in the fall. I love fall’s every quality, but most of all the falling leaves. A leaf falling seems completely random, unpredictable, the time and path of its descent impossible to model by the most advanced super computer. And then there are billions of them all over the earth. Yet, this is the simple and familiar visual that God chooses to illustrate His Omnipresent Omnipotence. If something as seemingly haphazard and insignificant as a single 🍁 leaf’s path is within His consciousness and power, then what about your path, your struggle, your journey back to Him? Let the falling leaves remind you t

I’m looking through the window at leaves swaying in the wind, and this ayah is speaking to me so loudly. My Lord’s knowledge is so mind-blowing!

Let me just zoom in on one leaf like He does in this ayah, as He knows not only the whole inventory of trees on the planet but every leaf upon each tree. His words here ('ma…min…illa') emphasise the absolute impossibility of any one leaf escaping His attention and perfect awareness.

Allah highlights the moment of falling, but this points to every moment that led up to it, how the leaf was first known within the seed and appeared as a bud, then every creature that crawled upon it and every breeze that stirred it as it made its journey from green to

In the middle of the seventh juz’, Allah reminds us of two of His attributes: His all-encompassing knowledge and power. He says, 'He has the keys to the unseen: no one knows them but Him. No leaf falls without His knowledge, nor is there a single grain in the darkness of the earth, or anything, fresh or withered, that is not written in a clear Record.' (6:59) There’s so much we can reflect on just from this example of a leaf. Allah knows the precise details about each and every single leaf on each and every single tree that has ever existed and will ever exist: how many times it sways before it falls; when and where, and how it falls; and what happens to it afterwards—and this is just one ex

🌟'But above those ranking in knowledge is the One All-Knowing.' (12:76) 🌟'With Him are the keys of the unseen—no one knows them except Him.' (6:59) 🌟'For Allah has ˹perfect˺ knowledge of all things.' (24:64) I was eating an apple recently and when I reached the seeds, I remembered a lovely quote I heard years ago: 'Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.' He knows the infinite potential of every seed, while we know very, very little. We actually know less than we think we know. So, what are all the potentials held within one apple seed...? 🍎Will the seed sprout and grow into an apple tree? 🍎How many apples

Be optimistic...

'And not a leaf falls without his knowledge What a power, strength, and all-encompassing knowledge.

'And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing] but that it is [written] in a clear record.' Even the grain that sprouts in any place, even in the dark, He knows it and it only comes forth by His knowledge.

And then you say: My worry is great and my problem has no solution..?! Be with God.