Many events call us to think in the unlimited power of Allah Almighty, Read the following article…
A miracle in New York City
Two brothers who worked together as window-washers fell from the roof of a 45-story luxury apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan-USA when the scaffold they were standing upon gave way.
The scaffold had not been properly secured to side of the building. Almost after the brothers stepped onto the scaffold from the roof of the building, it gave way.
One brother was killed immediately, and the other was in critical condition at the Weill Cornell Medical College of New York-Presbyterian Hospital but he made a gradual recovery – in what doctors’ say is a “miracle”.
Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories, hitting the pavement at the equivalent of around 120mph, but he is still alive.
Mr. Moreno suffered severe brain, spine and abdomen injuries and both his legs, his right arm and ribs were broken. But after undergoing a series of surgeries he is awake, able to talk and is expected to walk again.
“If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one,” Dr Philip Barie, a surgeon at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital where Mr Moreno is being treated, was quoted as saying by the New York Times newspaper.
“Above 10 floors, most of the time we never see the patients because they usually go to the morgue… this is right up there with those anecdotes of people falling out of airplanes and surviving,” Dr Barie said.
The building where Alcides fell down almost 500ft, he survived but his brother died.
Dr Barie said that “although there is more work to be done, we are very optimistic for his prospects for survival”.
Here we have to ask ourselves, how can two men fell from the same height at the same time one survives and the other dies?
No human being can give us an answer, but Allah Almighty gave us an answer for these questions as He Almighty tells us in the Qur’an about His unlimited power concerning the matter of life and death by saying: (And no person can ever die except by Allah’s Leave and at an appointed term.){Sûrat Al-Imrân-(The Family of Imran) verse145}.
No one can delay the appointed term
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 2003, when the Space Shuttle disintegrated over city of Texasduring the re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in the death of all seven crew members.
The crew of the space shuttle who died in the shuttle during their mission
The disintegration was a result of damage sustained during launch when a piece of foam insulation the size of a small briefcase broke off the Space Shuttle external tank (the main propellant tank) under the aerodynamic forces of launch.
Launches were often given the go-ahead as engineers came to see the foam shedding and debris strikes as inevitable and unresolvable, with the rationale that they were either not a threat to safety, or an acceptable risk.
During re-entry the damaged area allowed the hot gases to penetrate and destroy the internal wing structure, rapidly causing the in-flight breakup of the vehicle.
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board’s recommendations addressed both technical and organizational issues. Space Shuttle flight operations were delayed for two years by the disaster, similar to the Challenger disaster.
After four years of investigations, they concluded that despite the fast reaction of the crew to the alarm system, the crew were not able to stop the accident and it seemed that they did all of what they should do in these critical situation.
Unfortunately theydied because of the accelerating increase of the speed of falling as they became unconscious and they could never be able to get their conscious back.
Also the report of investigation stated that no one could survive from that terrible accident.
Columbia Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery
Comment
We are in front of two different accidents, the first one for a worker who fell down from 500 feet in a speed of 120mph and he survived without any protection or alarm systems.
The second accident happened for a group of astronauts whowere supported by huge team of experts, scientists and professionals with hundreds of computers and complicated systems to supervise and secure the whole process of launching and controlling the space shuttle, but all of that did not prevent that accident to take place.
What is behind the survival of that worker and the death of the astronauts?
Indeed there is only one explanation that is the worker’s appointed time of death didn’t come yet but the appointed time of the space team came by the order of Allah Almighty.
Below, you can contemplate in four wonderful verses to understand and get an answer for the above critical question:
- (And no person can ever die except by Allah’s Leave and at an appointed term.){Sûrat Al-Imrân-(The Family of Imran)-verse 145 }.
- (And Allah grants respite to none when his appointed time (death) comes. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do.){Sûrat Al-Munâfiqûn-The Hypocrites –verse11}.
- (And when their term comes, neither can they delay nor can they advance it an hour){Sûrat An-Nahl-The Bees –verse61}.
- (And every nation has its appointed term; when their term is reached, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour (or a moment).){Sûrat Al-A‘râf-The Heights- verse34}.
These holy verses tell us that no one may die before the exact time which was determined by Allah the creator , knowing that most of recent psychological diseases are caused by people’s anxiety about their future (professional career, money, children,etc…..)And ignoring that all of these concerns and the time of their death is predetermined by Allah Almighty and no one can change it.
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
- http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/worker-is-killed-in-scaffold-collapse-on-upper-east-side/
- http://www.google.com.eg/imgres?imgurl=http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_01/window040108_468x354.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506050/Window-cleaner-falls-47-storeys-skyscraper–survives-tell-tale.html&usg=__05wn0V38uyziiCKqBERD_OT4eRQ=&h=354&w=468&sz=23&hl=ar&start=7&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=hvMBaFnj0XQODM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDr%2BPhilip%2BBarie,%2Ba%2Bsurgeon%2Bat%2BNew%2BYork%2527s%2BPresbyterian%2BHospita%26hl%3Dar%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7172647.stm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
