For Some People a Moment Is a Year
Some people’s innate capacities blossom in a instant, while others are gradual, unfolding little by little. Human nature contains both of these.
They look to conditions, and change accordingly. Sometimes they develop slowly. Sometimes they are dark like gunpowder, then suddenly explode into luminous fire.
Sometimes one look transforms coal into diamonds. Sometimes a touch transmutes stone into elixir. A single glance of Allah the Most High’s Messenger
instantly transformed an ignorant nomad into an enlightened man of knowledge. If you want an example, ‘Umar before Islam and ‘Umar after Islam.
Compare the two: a seed, a tree. It instantaneously produced fruit, that look of Muhammad, the Prophetic effulgence.
Of a sudden he changed coal‑like natures in the Arabian peninsula into diamonds;
with their morals as black as gunpowder, the people all became luminous lights.