Question:
#1 Fighting with a black turtle in my home but couldn’t hurt it. I scared it and tried to hide it from guests.
#2 I am amazed, rising very high up an unfinished building, then become scared and fall for a long time. I’m not hurt but don’t stop falling.
Answer:
#1: The turtle represents a scholar with whom you are arguing uselessly and thereby losing his value.
#2:
حُنَفَآءَ لِلَّهِ غَيْرَ مُشْرِكِينَ بِهِۦ وَمَن يُشْرِكْ بِٱللَّهِ فَكَأَنَّمَا خَرَّ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَتَخْطَفُهُ ٱلطَّيْرُ أَوْ تَهْوِى بِهِ ٱلرِّيحُ فِى مَكَانٍ سَحِيقٍ
[inclining] towards God, [and] turning away from all that is false, without ascribing divine qualities to aught beside Him: for he who ascribes divinity to aught but God is like one who is hurtling down from the skies – whereupon the birds carry him off, or the wind blows him away onto a far-off place.
Allah knows best,
Taher Siddiqui
