"In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate"
Last night I was watching a movie entitled Kate and Leopold and something struck me as I watched a scene in which the scientist told the nurse about the dog who found the rainbow.
The exact movie quote is here:
It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.
Last night I was watching a movie entitled Kate and Leopold and something struck me as I watched a scene in which the scientist told the nurse about the dog who found the rainbow.
The exact movie quote is here:
It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.
And this... struck me as a possibility that is very true. I'm not saying that it is possible to stop time and so on... but the knowledge to stop time or to discover anything profound has always been the possession of Allah and He at times does give the ilham and hidayah to certain individuals [most notably Prophets].
But the profound question that rests here is:
Are we the dogs that are contented with seeing in black and white? Or are we the ones who desire to see the rainbow?
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