.: Contact :.

was watching the last part of the movie, 'contact', starring jodie foster, 
directed by robert zemeckiz & screenplay by micheal goldenberg 
- couldnt help but reflect on some of the profound dialogue.
immediately googled to get the transcript at simplyscripts.com 

"I had an experience I can’t prove, I can’t even explain it, 
but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real.
I was part of something wonderful, something that changed me forever;
a vision of the Universe that tells us undeniably 

how tiny, and insignificant, and how rare and precious we all are.
A vision that tells us we belong to something that is greater than ourselves. 

That we are not, that none of us are alone"

"I wish that everyone, if even for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and the hope ..."

a movie that attempts to show the need to combine both science & faith.  islam , has
always thrived on this because it is not just a meaningless, unfounded faith of purely
spiritual basis but instead explains in a clear and rational fashion where we are from,
who we are and what we are supposed to be.

And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah
(mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge) (and lodged it)
in a safe lodging (womb of the woman).Then We made the Nutfah
into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood),
then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of
flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought
it forth as another creation. So blessed be Allâh, the Best of creators.

After that surely you will die. Then, again, surely you will be resurrected.

- al-mu'minun 23: 12-16

we are indeed, tiny, and insignificant because we are created by THE CREATOR.
we do not exist on our own; we are helpless unless given His aid.
and only to Him we turn to for HOPE.
we belong to something greater than ourselves because 
we are created for a GREATER Purpose.

As a line in the movie goes,
" we are an interesting species; capable of sweet dreams and the most horrible nightmares."

which would we choose?