Praying Tree

From WikiIslam

The praying tree in Sydney is so ridiculous that it takes the cake. The Islamic sites write:

Tree Resembling Man in Prayer. This is a recently discovered phenomenon in a forest near Sidney. As you can see, the bottom half of the tree trunk is bowed in such a way that it resembles a person in a posture of Islamic prayer - the 'ruku'. Looking closer you can see the 'hands' resting on the knees.

The most amazing thing is that the 'man' is directly facing the Kaaba, Mecca, which is the direction Muslims all over the world face when in prayer.

This tree would have been artificially carved over time to give this impression.

Notice the following:

1. The “head” is carved out and looks as if ir is stuck/glued to the trunk.
2. The hands are funny shaped at their junction with the trunk. At that junction, the hand looks as made of few branches. In a tree the solid trunk divides to branches and not vice versa. This hand is not a natural outgrowth from the tree; it is stuck to the tree.
3. The trunk of the tree in the background behind the bent trunk: is missing at ite root at the ground, Why? Is this due to the heap of branches and leaves supporting the bent trunk from falling?
   In the black and white photo: it is obvious that the man in white is holding the bent trunk. The man on the extreme right of the photo, besides holding that side of the banner, is seemingly helping to hold the trunk.
   In the colored photo: there are these branches and leaves that are seemingly keeping the bent trunk from falling.
4. Related to 3 above: if they will claim that the bent trunk is part of this tree in the background and hence you can not see it lower part, then look carefully at the junction in the picture between the bent trunk and that tree. This junction is so hazy, blotted by a large white area in the picture, Why? Is this a doctored part of the picture?
5. No prove whatsoever that this bent trunk faces Mecca as seen in the provided photo.
6. If it is so miraculous, why the national, independent newspapers in Australia did not publish it. Are those who discovered/doctored the picture afraid of somebody to expose this hoax?

Trees do not have heads and arms to stand in prayer as these naive Muslims claim. Trees bend in different shapes. Using my imagination I can see another tree looking like a man with a very tall neck (the head is not shown in the picture) standing in front of the "praying" tree or walking towards the camera. It seems that the first tree is bowing in front of him or may be praying to him. But I may be wrong, perhaps this tree just happened to be walking towards the photographer while the other one was praying. Muslims scholars have different opinions about this picture. Some opine that the tree is watching the Australian ants walking under its feet, others say that the tree is bowing out of respect of the other tree but the majority and the most credible scholars of Al Azhar affirm that the tree is praying. My personal view is that they are all wrong and the tree is simply bending under the pressure of the huge hump that has grown on its back. Ouch! That must be excruciating! However, I guess we shall never know the truth unless we go to Australia and ask the tree.

[edit] Further developments (Satire)

P.S. After the above picture was released many Muslims were attracted to go to Australia and take a close look at this pious tree. Unfortunately what a friend of mine found shocked him. This is the picture that he took. He was dismayed to see that a dog and a pig had gathered around the tree thus annulling its prayer. Now the tree has to perform Qosl and vodoo before it can continue with its salat, but because it cannot walk, the poor thing has to wait until the next rain.

Upon investigation my friend found that the dog and the pig pilgrims had gone to Australia to ask the tree to plead Allah on their behalf to remove them from the list of najis (filthy) creatures.

A few Muslims have written to say this picture is fake. I wonder why! Just because the pig and the dog are sharper than the background does not mean the picture is fake. It is just another miracle. You have to see this through the eyes of a believer. If you start doubting everything then the whole universe falls apart.

[edit] More Miracles

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[edit] External Links

• More pictures of Tree 'miracles'
• Islamic miraculous photos debunked