Once upon a time there were two lumps of carbon. They lived so deep underground that no one knew about them. Both of them endured years of pressure and heat. One of the lumps lost hope and allowed his conditions to define who he was. In doing so, he was transformed into a coal who was dug out of the ground by a machine. His life ended when he was burned to ashes in someone’s fireplace.
But the other lump rose above his conditions. He survived and thrived. As the years went by he grew in brilliance and radiance. He slowly transfored into a diamond. One day he was spotted by those with an eye for beauty. They took him and refined him and polished him. Today he lives on and brings light and joy to the world. And yet no one knows that the diamond was once just a lump of carbon that no one knew about.
Who are you: a coal or a diamond?
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jazakAllah brother Babar, Ramadan Mubarak to you and your family
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MashaaAllah, Brilliant post. May Allah shape us all into diamonds.
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I want to be a diamond in sha Allah…
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A friend of me went on treasure hunting and found a 9kg. capsule-formed dark gray-colored stone enclosed in a 1mx2ftx1ft concrete cement which is buried 1 meter below the ground at the water line of the creek. We got a small portion of that stone and submerged it overnight in a nitric acid but it didn’t melt.Then we mixed it with another solution (aqua regia) and let it stand for another 24hours but again the stone didn’t melt. What we did is subjected such portion of stone in an acetylene fire and it turned out that it melted after a few minutes of exposing it into that fire. When the melted stone cool down, it turned like a glass in a very dense black color. Is this a black diamond lumps? If it is, what is the right procedure to unleash this diamond? If he wants to sell it raw, is there any buyer? Who and how much does this possibly costs? Thanks in advance for your much valued answer…
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