Principles of Life

LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND US

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Principles of Life | Al Risala, October 1988

When the U.S. launched its first manned spacecraft in 1969, the first stage rocket boosters produced a horrific noise of such intensity that the entire area within a hundred-mile radius was shaken up by it. But the astronauts inside the rocket blithely went on their space journey quite untrammelled by the ear-splitting din, for after an interval of just 10 seconds it had ceased to affect them.