Al-Quran - The Miracle of Miracles [ deedat]

wanted a change and asked for permission to become independent from his in-laws.
Jethro was a very reasonable, and a practical man. He grants Moses (pbuh) leave.
MOSES PIONEERS A TREK
Moses (pbuh) left with his wife and children, together with his share of the sheep and the
goats which he used to herd
for his father-in-law.
After some time he found himself with his family in the Sinai. He had lost direction from
the last habitation with whom he had rested. He had run out of stocks of the braised meat
that he was carrying. There was still enough Matzos the dried unleavened bread of the
Jews. The problem was the meat. He had to slaughter a sheep or a goat. That would be
easy. The difficulty was to start a fire which was a laborious task. It could take as long as
half a day of rubbing two dissimilar materials. Obviously there were no matches or
lighters in those days. He was procrastinating. Putting things off for today, or tomorrow
and his meat problem would be solved, he thought ... "Where is the promised miracle!"
Mr. Deedat?
So far I have given only the background to the story. The miracle is to condense all the
above and more in just four terse verses - four short sentences in the most beautiful prose.
But to appreciate the feat, I must draw your attention to what I would like you to notice in
what is to me, the acme of journalism.
NEWSPAPER PLACARDS
I live some thirty kilometres north of the City of Durban, where I have my offices. Prior
to the construction of the N2 (Freeway) linking the City of Durban, I usually took the
beach (seaside) road to Durban. This route took me pass the amphitheatre on the Durban
beachfront. At the intersection of the amphitheatre I regularly observed a news vendor
offering the morning paper - "The Natal Mercury," for sale. He had a placard daily
with Head line to attract buyers. Again and again on reading the placard, I made up my
mind not to buy the newspaper that day, but on parking my car in Central Durban on
passing other
news vendors, I nevertheless bought the paper.
After numerous such changes of decision, I began to question myself as to the reasons for
my change of mind. I discovered that though the same newspaper was being offered for
sale the placards were different. On the beachfront the placards were made appealing to
European clientele whereas the placards in the area I passed were directed to the Asian
community. By extension the placard for the African and the Coloured areas would be
slanted to induce them to buy the same paper.
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