Talk about Quiet Before the Storm. I stepped outside to just be and observe the quiet of the early morning and it sure is peaceful out there (Laila tul Qadr?). The wind is moving through the trees so softly you can barely hear it but they have a decent sway to them, so much that it's deceiving- you are looking for the noise from all that motion but nothing is there.
The only thing that'd make the night nicer would be the stars in the sky and the tell-tale close-of-Ramadan moon but the cloud cover from the looming hurricane is too thick to reveal these beauties. I'm bottling up the peace of all this for another time, maybe even as early as this afternoon, when the storm is due to arrive insha'Allah. I could have stayed out there all night. I pray tomorrow is nothing more than a passing storm, that our families and homes are safe from the weather, and most of all, that all the water finds a good place to go. Ameen.
For now, one verse from one of my very favorite recitations of Surah tul Lail sticks with me:
"Salaamun hiyyah hata matala il Fajr", "Peace until the rising of the dawn" ~Qur'anu Rabbi (the Recitation of My Lord)
Wal Hamdullilah.
