That beautiful season when the trees are ablaze, and the ground glistens with frost. A fiery palette painted in mighty strokes across nature’s canvas; curled-up crisp brown leaves swirl in circles, and summer greens become woven with burnt orange and red. Shafts of hazy, honey-coloured sunshine peek through between the branches, highlighting each perfect, intricate leaf vein.

A reflection of the Might and Perfection of The Creator (Al Khaliq), Shaper (Al Musawwir) and Sustainer (Ar Razzaq). The One from whom all originates, and the One who guides each creation on its course. And the One to whom, like the falling leaves, all creation will return.

‘Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud, then makes it go along in the earth in springs, then brings forth therewith herbage of various colours, then it withers so that you see it becoming yellow, then He makes it a thing crushed and broken into pieces? Most surely there is a reminder in this for men of understanding.’

(The Holy Qur’an 39:21) 

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