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We have now come to the conclusion of our series of parables of the Quran.

Today will be our last parable. Tomorrow will do one more aphorism or statement of the

Quran. And our last parable is actually not to the chronologically last one. I'm going to

choose one from the middle of the Quran because it fits with our theme of finishing off

with the month. So I chose this parable to be the last parable so that we can

inshallah to have a reflect and take advantage of it. It is the parable in Surat

Naha'l verse 94. Allah says,

wa latsakunu kalleti nakadat razlaha minbadi kuwaitin ankatha. Don't be like the

lady who after intertwining all of the yarn, the thread into strong rope, she then

starts breaking it up and then getting rid of it. After it was firm and strong, she

causes its own destruction. The parable is very deep and profound. And of course, the

image is very vivid. I don't know how many of you have visited a carpet manufacturing

place, an actual weaving place. I have visited a number of them in Uzbekistan, another

place is where they do it all school. They take the thread from the silkworm which is

hardly even visible. And then somebody sits there and takes all of this thread and then

uses that spool and bit by bit makes it into something that we can then see. And then

she sits and she does weaving one after the other. Some of these carpets or rugs that

are handspun, they take up to a year to make. And it's very laborious work. Can you imagine

if somebody did that? And then after the carpet is done, after the rug has been woven.

She herself then starts breaking it up and bringing it back into the thin string, that thin

original yarn. Can you imagine somebody doing that?

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