I leaned later from the bus driver, as he drove away from it, that that was Jabal O7od (Mount Ohod). It's located in Al Madina Al Monawwara, KSA, for those of you who haven’t heard of it before; and no, it's not the one in the picture. I still remember how I felt when I first saw it on my last trip there. I was there before back when I was 10, but then again when you're that young you haven't been exposed to the adult life aka Al Donya. When you're that young, the devil hasn't been able to get to you yet, to make you believe that this is it… this life is yours for the taking.

Yeah well… don't we all love to hear that?

We are adults now aren't we, all mighty in our own deceiving eyes, all welcomed to Al Donya?

I still remember every bit of it… that big mountain. They say that from above, the mountain shapes the word Muhammad in Arabic… I've read about things with the words Allah and Muhammad shaped on them a thousand times. The fish, the tomato, the tree… I've seen them all… in jpg format. But it does so happen that once you actually see something like that with your own eyes, you’d want to keep it forever. That tangerine had to be eaten though or disposed of unfortunately. I did take a picture of it, but what was almost a miracle has now become another jpg file.

On the road from Al Madina to Jeddah, where the airport I took off from is located, all you can see is one black mountain after the next. So black and humble, yet so beautiful. سبحان الله

The one thought that hit me then was a question: How can people in Europe and the Americas, where the most beautiful sceneries in the world are located, still doubt the existence of God? أفلا يتفكرون

Allah said in the Quran that mountainsالرواسي و الجبال are created to set an example to people. As big as they are, they can still be brought down to the ground out of fear from the Al Mighty. من خشية الله They're there to make man understand that even though man thinks he's the king of his own world, he still is small and insignificant.

Atheism numbers today would shock the people who lived a thousand years before dinosaurs.

يا سبحان الله... تهدي من تشاء

ربنا بيحط غشاوة على الأبصار و الأسماع و القلوب

They have waterfalls and meadows. They've invented robodog… and still they doubt the one thing that matters.

اللهم احفظنا من الضلالة

The pyramids, the acropolis, the Yemeni ancient houses build inside mountains قوم عاد, the Mayan ruins, and more and more leftovers of civilizations that lived thousands of years from today. We look at them in awe, take a couple pictures, and get on a plane back home. Allah said in His book that those ruins will be left there to signify some truth, to make people who are still alive understand that there was once a civilization that disbelieved in God… and He sent for an earthquake, a flood, a rumbling, to punish them, to give them what they deserved and take away what they didn't. Examples, examples, and more.

In Egypt, we use the ancient ruins for tourist attraction. We serve wine and offer gambling opportunities nearby to add more to our country's GNP. اللهم احفظنا

Yeah well, I just thought I should share this one.

يهدي الله لنوره من يشاء.. ويضرب الله الأمثال للناس.. والله بكل شيء عليم