surprising to see a bird , a man or a cat walking since they are all
living beings. However, something so ordinary forliving organisms is
quite extraordinary when it is seen in nonliving things.
A miracle has been taking place in California's Death Valley National
Park . Rocks that weigh up to a 100 pounds "walk", sometimes traveling
morethan a hundred yards leaving straight , twisted ,or zigzagged
trails behindthem in one or more directions.
THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE WALKING ROCKS HASBEEN SOLVED BY ADVANCED SCIENCE.
The "walking rocks" phenomenon has confounded the scientific community
. Scientists have puzzled over the rocks at the valley for a century.
In 2010, researchers at NASA started investigating the area. Sensors
were placed on the flat area at depths of three-quarters to four
inches deep. The units registered that the top layer of the soil froze
in March , and it was wet up to three inches deep in April. According
to this data, the team drew someconclusions .
In March, the snow on thesurrounding mountains flows into the valley
as a thin layer of water and produces a circle of ice . InApril , when
a second layer of water flows into the valley, this " ice collar"under
the rocks act as a boat on which the rocks float.
The ice collars are as hard as glass , therefore they leave a trail on
the surfaceof the valley , but when they melt and disappear , only the
rocks and their trails are seen afterwards.
Because there is no rain orearthquakes in this part ofthe valley , it
eliminates the possible effects of these occurrences .
Another early suggestion was that the rocks were driven by gravity .
However, this theory was also discounted when it was revealed that
most ofthe rocks are actually traveling uphill.
Walking rocks is not an ordinary event witnessed everywhere. It is
observedin only one area on Earth as a proof of Allah's perfect
creation. Allah is the owner and Creator of the living and the non
-living . He sometimes reminds us of this fact by creating
extraordinary occurrences like the one on Death Valley. He also
creates the causes like thephysical conditions such as rain , wind,
etc. to formthe unexpected result. Both the cause and the result is
his doing.
A Qur'anic verse points to this fact explaining how non-living rocks
move with the awe of Allah :
Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even
harder. For indeed, there are stonesfrom which rivers burst forth, and
there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there
are some of them that fall down for fear of Allah. And Allah is not
unaware of what you do. ( Surat al-Baqara, 74)
Even more fascinating than this is the movementof giant mountains and
massive continents , which weigh millions of tons. They all move with
Allah's permission. This information that we have learned of only
relatively recently, was stated in the Quran with 1,400 years ago in
this verse:
And if there was any Qur'an by which the mountains would be removed
or the Earth would be broken apart or the dead would be made to speak,
[it would be this Qur'an], but to Allah belongs the affair entirely.
Then have those who believed not accepted that had Allah willed,
Hewould have guided the people, all of them? Andthose who disbelieve
donot cease to be struck, for what they have done, by calamity - or it
will descend near their home - until there comes the promise of Allah
. Indeed, Allah does not fail in [His] promise ( Surah Ra'd , 31).
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