Happy Muslim Mama: Picture of the Day 19.02.17 – Precious Stones

We visited the Natural History Museum with the children yesterday and the mineral and rock collection scattered across different parts of the museum is brilliant.  I couldn’t stop taking pictures and this is one of my favourite:

I thought it was amethyst at first, but this is a rare kind of Fluorite called Blue John only found in Derbyshire, England, a source which is almost exhausted.  The banded patterning on it is just beautiful, subhan’Allah for Allah’s creations.