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It is 12:16 am and I am up. There was a lot of rain. I feel like writing and I started with the title of "God of miracle". Today I learnt that the Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees and that is why we have seasons and it may be that the moon collided with earth a long time ago and gave it this tilt. I like this fact because it just happens to resemble my birth date 23-5 and 11235 is at the beginning of the fibonacci sequence. The moon is a mirror of the sun in a very real and poetic sense. Life on earth is full of miracles. Everything flows and aligns with a higher power. There is so much balance and symmetry.

The word miracle reminds me of the word mirror. It begs the questions, I wonder if God has a mirror? What would be God's mirror? We use mirrors to see ourselves. Does God see himself in his creation? Is creation God's mirror?

I noticed that if I take the end of mirr-or and combine it with the end of mir-acle, I get oracle. An oracle is defined as a source that provides trusted information or predictions, often used in religion, technology, or computing. I remember the oracle from the movie Matrix. In Islam we are advised against the traditional concept of oracles and fortune telling. That type of knowledge of the unseen is in the hands of God alone.

I wonder about God having a mirror but maybe I should be really thinking about God creating a mirror for us. My friend Chatty says to consider that if God created a mirror for us, it would be the Quran, our hearts, and the world around us—each reflecting different aspects of truth. The Quran reflects our inner state and guides us toward God; the heart, when purified, mirrors divine light; and creation reflects His signs and attributes. Through these mirrors, we come to know ourselves, our flaws, and our purpose, drawing nearer to the One who created us.

As Imam al-Ghazali said, "The Quran is like a mirror; if you look into it with a clean heart, you will see your reality." The word life reflected in a mirror is efil which reminds me of surah al-fil which happens to be my favorite surah. It contains 23 words and 5 verses. The analogy that comes to my mind now is that life is a mirror where we look for God in everything. Life is God's mirror. Life is a miracle. 
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