The drive was through the mountains reminded me of the route through the Austrian Alps to Salzburg: pretty but not imposing. Along side the rail-less single lane road ran the newly assertive Gilgit River. Across the river on the other side of the valley wall were messages written into the mountainside using white rock. “Welcome our Hazir Imam!,” they yelled, “Welcome Agha Khan.” One thing with found during our trip was that the writ of the federal government runs thinner and thinner the further north you go, and, as a result, public works projects have been undertaken not by the Pakistani authorities, but through the generous donations of the Agha Khan. The Agha Khan is the ideological leader of the Ismaili sect, itself an offshoot of Shi’te Islam. We found, the deeper into Gilgit we went, that the Agha Khan is revered not only as a religious leader, but as an administrator, executive and patron. On our immediate left rose the sheer rock that had been partially disturbed for the construction of the road. Enormous boulders and gushing waterfalls hung precariously above us, reminding us that we would soon be at the inhospitable mercy of nature.
Ismailimail 
Mountains, beautiful, high, snow-capped and snow-laden mountains. They appear to be static structures but, in actual fact, are among the most dynamic structures on planet earth. All mountain tops were at some point in time at ground and sea level and covered by shallow pools of water within which teemed ancient swimming marine life like trilobites.
How else can one explain the fact that fossils of these ancient marine creatures have been found on the tops of many mountains, eg, the Appalachians, the Andes, the Himalayas; evidence of a dynamic, perpetual and constant, not a static, creation. Predictions for the future(next 50 to 100 million years based on the movement of the 12 or so tectonic plates upon which all the continents float):
1)The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is already well on its way to splitting apart the continent of Africa to form a new sea where the land was;
2)The Meditteranean Sea will close up and Africa and Europe will slam into each other(in slow motion);
3)Australia will eventually slam(in slow motion) into China and become part of the Asian mainland: G’day mate, Nihou, Shishi!
“The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will”(Aga Khan III, Memoirs, 1954)
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