The Butterfly

GOD created the laws of nature to teach us about

ourselves, and HE tells us in Quran that HE will show us

the signs in nature and within our very selves.

GOD created the butterfly to teach us about life and

death.

The butterfly starts out as a little caterpillar and in its life it

eats certain vegetation (which we can compare to the accumulation of

knowledge, whether beneficial or harmful) to prepare it for

a transformation. Then, the caterpillar dies... It actually makes a grave

for itself (the cocoon), and then after some time, a new creature

emerges. The Butterfly represents the soul.

There are two creatures that come from caterpillars. One is the

butterfly, and the other is the moth. They are both very similar in

nature. Or are they? GOD teaches us in Quran that He will make us

a new creation, and that disbelievers will be a seperate creation from the believers.

The butterfly benefits life by pollinating the flowers which, by nature, it enjoys

to do. It is the inescapable result that the actions they enjoy produce

the good. Then the bees can further pollinate and produce honey in

which there is healing. This represents the good soul.

Then there is the moth. Indeed the moth eats the very fabrics that you

wear putting holes in them. Clothing is representative of virtue. As

virtue is a type of 'clothing'. The best clothing. Thus it is the inescapable result

that the action that they enjoy harm (or in the case of human beings, produce evil).

Some people become butterflies and enjoy the benefits of their belief,

while others are destined to become moths. From one thing (the body)

come two different creatures. The believer and the disbeliever. The one

who regards, and the one who disregards.

Verily, GOD teaches us in Quran that He creates everything in PAIRS.

The Locusts and Cicada are also two creatures created in similitudes

who represent the soul. Dormant for years at a time (the time in the

grave) One poses no threat, the other can wipe out feilds (the

garden?).

It is noteworthy to add, that once a butterfly develops in the cocoon,

small or large, that this is it's state forever. It will no longer

grow. I do not know if this has any true relevance... but build up your

soul the best you can now, and be among those nearest to GOD. By GODs

will. As GOD alludes in Quran, once we 'SEE' the test would be over,

then there are no more 'scores'.

Peace,

Issa Ali Mahdi

Knowledge is not power. Wisdom, the proper application of knowledge is power.