With all miracles of Allah, there is logical explanation behind it
salam. well, i am a muslim. but to be logical, the houses build in aceh are made out of wood, while the mosques are built in cement.
do not trash me for this, but islam is the most logical religion. i love islam a lot, so don't ever call me a kaffir for saying this. we are no one to judge anyone else, only Allah can make judgement on us. i just don't like follow a religion or anything for that matter blindly. that is why, research is VERY important.
what i'm trying to imply is, many of us muslims make us of such "miracles" without seeing the logical part of it.
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Have you ever been to aceh before? not all of the houses made of wood, of course it depends on the social-economic status of the owner, but at the time tsunami struck, even some houses in small villages made of bricks and cement and all similar material they use to build the mosque.
If you look carefully to the 3rd picture on brother abdellah007 post you can see the foundations left from bricks and cement made houses, some of them are covered by mud, but the square shape pattern surrounding the mosques are from the house foundations, as most of mosques here are usually placed as the centre of housing area. Wooden houses don't use foundations like that.
As for the 2nd picture is from a place called Ulhee Lheu, a more than 100 years old mosque called Baiturrahim, at the waterfront of Banda Aceh; Aceh province capital, which took direct hit from the tsunami waves. Like most capital cities of provinces in Indonesia, houses are made of bricks and cement.
And how about the wooden mosque in Meuleboh which only 10 meters from the beach which left without any significant damage while most of surrounding vilages are gone? (sorry, got no links or picture but i saw it on tv many times here in Indonesia)
Of course as muslims we believe there are logical parts behind everything, as Allah The Most High had made the universe based on logical patterns, we here in Indonesia don't take the examples shown blindly, but only to witness the Signs from ALLAH! for our iman shake, and as someone with technical background i also believe; Allah saves those mosques through somekind "natural" mechanism, for example, maybe; Allah knows best, when the wave hit the waterfront mosque, the vector's resultant of that part of the lining waves were pointing not directly to the mosque because of the circulation in it, hence the "weight" of all forces didn't directly hit the mosque, thus it survived. Or because the mosque usually in the centre of housing complex, force of the wave had weaken when it hit the mosque after "depreciated" from the friction through the maze of houses, or any other explanations similar to that, although till now not many people start to make formal research about it.
And still, it is Allah creation of natural systems and mechanisms which save the surviving mosques, but instead, if i insist that there was a jinn guarding the mosques hence they survived, i'll be happy to be called having a blind faith and unlogic...although it might be a chance that ALLAH commanded the muslim jinns to guard them, Allah knows the unseen best...
The logical parts of the surviving mosques of Aceh;
1. While surviving and destroyed mosques in Aceh are the facts, statistically, the surviving mosques are the deviation from a normal curve of destroyed mosques population in Aceh.
2. In human understanding, if we apply the tremendous force like tsunami waves to all buildings directly, we may think those buildings will collapse instantly, but in Aceh case there were mosques survived while the others and surrounding buildings were destroyed, this is as a proof of the existance of the greatest power of all powers in the universe, which capable to save some "fragile-helpless" buildings and such commanding power which able choose those who are saved or not from great disastrous power like tsunami waves.
3. Eventually, statement no 2 leads to the proof of the existance of Allah and no other gods but Him.
Al Quran, Al An'aam, 65
Say: "He hath power to send calamities on you, from above and below, or to cover you with confusion in party strife, giving you a taste of mutual vengeance - each from the other." See how We explain the signs by various (symbols); that they may understand.
Speak know for those who think that 1,2,3 are logically incorrect...
With all respects, unlike muslims, maybe (for example) christians are having difficulties to understand the signs thoroughly, from such great calamities like tsunami, because by having a picture in their heart and mind of a human god, which couldnt help himself from being crusified and killed by his own creation (the romans & jews according to their story), let alone helping human being from great disaster like tsunami.
How disturbing is that, having a picture of god which as vulnarable as his creations?
Well, this what i call logically incorrect, if christians told that Jesus "the man" has saved the mosques, instead of The Almighty Allah, as the Signs of His Greatness...
Like Yusuf Estes said; "in Islam, you got proof as well as faith, and the more you have one, the more you have the other..."
Allah knows best
Wassalam
