A man spends months, years filling a glass vessel with mud... drinking its contents and considering himself nourished by mud...

After a while... he starts to feel sick.. he thinks its due to what he is consuming... and then he feels and knows that there must be something else more nourishing than this...

Then... he hears about water being much better to drink than mud... he is convinced by this... then... he starts to search for water...

He looks around him... searching for water... but... only sees muddy water everywhere.... for all those who searched for water around him never gave up the mud for water... they just added water to their mud... given that this is all he sees around him, he decides that this muddy water is water... then... he starts to drink... initially, it makes him feel much better than drinking mud... it nourishes... but... it is still muddy water... and every now and then, he feels as though he is still drinking something muddy...

Then... after a while... by chance (or divine guidance), he visits an ocean and sees clear water... dazzled, he decides to cast his vessel fully in the water... letting the water wash all the contents of the vessel... at the ocean's pace... every time he attempts to remove the vessel from the water to drink... he finds traces of mud... until... he leaves the vessel ...and submits it totally to the ocean...

After an appointed time... he could no longer see the glass vessel... all he saw was water... waves flowing and storms brewing... still water... the vessel is no more... then... he starts to drink (directly?) from the ocean.. sweet water... nourishing... never ending...

Then... he looks around... looking for himself... but all he sees is water... no hands, no feet, no drinker, no vessel... just.... water...

Allah has created every [living] creature from water

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"I am from water" Prophetic narration