Where is God?
By Dr. Ghayur Ayub
London, UK
Looking at a picture taken in Gaza, I saw a young Palestinian boy holding a tiny stone in his fragile hand aimed at a monstrous Israeli tank in front of him. My mind suddenly went blank. I closed my eyes. A question started agitating my mind desensitized by the Wwestern media. ‘Where is God?’
Obviously He was either with that fully exposed boy who must have seen one or both of his parents blown up in pieces at the midnight hell of ‘target strikes’; or with those fully protected soldiers riding the juggernaut.
I remember in my school days the teachers used to teach us that God is on the side of those who are weak but determined to struggle for a just cause. I opened my eyes and looked at the picture to see any sign of God alongside that young boy. I couldn’t. I closed my eyes again and remembered another teacher telling us God is hope. But all I could see in that picture was a weak ill-equipped young boy hoping to destroy a tank with a stone. Was it this type of hope the teacher was talking about? I opened my eyes again to find any other sign of God. I didn’t. Desperation hit me hard and found my eyes filling up with tears. Was I losing my mind regarding God or was He coming to me in the weakest ebb of self? Wherever He is, God plays His games in most mysterious ways.
