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About The Atomic Hell:
Debate with Anne Mary Schimel)Iqbal wondered when he first observed in Europe
the libraries there bestrewn with the books written by the ancestors of the
Muslims, and there in his poem of Lament he quoted the verse of Ghani Kashmiri,
a notable saint poet of Kashmir:- "Behold O Ghani!
the dark misfortunate of Jacob, that the light of his eyes doth illuminate the
eye of Dhulaikha".The same or nearly similar experience I had when I read
the commentaries of the early authentic commentators of the Quran like Abdullah
Ibn Abbas, Al-Jallalain, Jarir Tabri, Immam Fakhruddin Razi and Ibn-Khatheer,
(may Allah be pleased with them all). Therein I observed with wonder and with
delight, that their comments about the fire of Al-Hotama could have provided
food for thought to modern thinkers and would have provided guidance to the
nuclear scientists, or at least would have warned them of the peculiar
terribleness of the atomic phenomenon, and the causes of its creation. These
commentators have not only discerned the peculiarly distinctive
character-istics of the fire of Hotama, but also have made remarks that would
be the wonder of every nuclear scientist. For instance Imam Fakhruddin Razi
says:-"The fire of Hotama though it overwhelms the heart of its victim,
yet it burns not the heart, for the burning of the heart implied death and
death was not in the next world". There could not have been expected yet
another better description of the fire of Hotama and the fire of this atomic
hell, with the difference, however, that the fire of this present atomic hell
can kill the heart, though it does not burn it. It is only the replica and a
temporal and transient representation of the eternal Hotama of the next world wherein
there is no death. The example of the heat-flash of the atomic bomb may be
quoted, which does not burn the heart though overwhelms it. The early
commentators, however, had the thought of the next world only, since hell is
always associated with the next world. A very remarkable point which appears
from the commentaries of these commentators is that the companions of the Holy
Prophet (peace be upon him) had discerned the distinctive character of the fire
of Hotama as distinguished from that of the ordinary fire, and that they used
to hold discussions about the characteristics of the fire of Hotama and the
strange modes of the punishment in outstretched columns, to show that the topic
of the fire of Hotama was one that permitted discussion and investigation.
Again the Unanimous definition of the fire of Hotama as is given by the
commentators is amazingly characteristic namely " that the fire of Hotama
is a fire in which whatever is cast is ground to powder by the intensity
of the heat". This definition reminds me of a debate which I had
with Miss Anne Marry Schimel, a German Scholar of Jewish origin and of
remarkable scholarly renown. The impression of the rapidity with which she shot
back this definition at me in her reply to my question years ago, is still
fresh in my mind. It was in September 1963 that I visited Lahore
(Pakistan)
there I met Late Allamah Allauddin Siddiqui, then Head of the Department of
Islamiat of the Punjab University,
and he wept when he saw me. A German lady scholar, he complained to me, had
flouted their beards. And He told me further that she had delivered six
lectures in the Punjab University and that she was to deliver here seventh
(last) on Wednesday from three to five. And that she denied the Quran its
divine original and that she thought that the Holy Prophet was actually the
writer of the Holy Quran. And then he pointing to me said, perhaps you have
been fetched by Allah for this purpose, that of saving the honour of the Quran.
I invite you to the lecture. Pray do come. I heard the Allamah and I thought
" to deny Quran its divine original and call it the work of the Holy
Prophet meant to put a scythe to the very root of Islam, proving it to be a
mere imposture". On Wednesday, I sat in the lecture room in the left
corner of the first row. About twenty Ulema of notable standing were there
present. Four of the clergy were also present. Allamah himself was in the
chair. The lady arrived and the lecture began and went on for about one hour.
The lady had a long list of such mistakes as according to her were to be found
in the Quran, and because it was human to err and not divine, therefore it was
apparent that the Quran was the work not of God but of a mortal, post hoc ergo
propter hoc. After about an hour the Allamah dragging his chair behind him came
to my left and there took his seat and sat. When I asked him the reason of his
move, he said " Brother!I had great expectations in you and you sit mum. I
in chair can say nothing. Here now I may say something to clear some mistake of
the lady". To which I asked if the Quran belonged to him, to which he
said, "No". and I asked whether the Quran was mine; I had written
that. To which he said, "No". Then I said "Allamah Sahib!
He who has revealed the Quran to the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), He
can defend the honour of His Quran. But rather let the knowledge and the
audacity of the lady be appreciated". The lady then had paused. I then
stood up and addressed the lady. The following dialogue followed between me and
her:-I: Excuse me
Madam! By your leave, I have not had the honour of hearing your past six
lectures. I do not know what did you say. I am honoured by my presence in this
present lecture, and thereby I gather that you deny Quran its divine original
and you think that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) has been the author
thereof.MADAM: Yes! It is my conviction.
You prove it otherwise.I: I am not a
man of debate Madam! Debates generally mean to churn waters. You have adopted
one line to prove your point, namely by pointing out faults and mistakes
existing in the Quran to prove the human origin thereof. I leave this line
completely to you, and take to another, namely, I show you something in this
very Quran which no Prophet, no Soothsayer, no Astrologer, and no Clairvoyant
could have ventured to say in an age in which the Quran was being revealed, and
none then could reveal that matter, except one, that is the Omniscient Creator
of the world, to prove that the Quran could not have been the work of any one
except Allah. Nor an alteration has ever been made in the Quran, thereafter.MADAM: What's that?I: The Quran
characterizes the atomic hell, but pray first tell me, when the Quran was
revealed, or according to your conviction, when it was being composed by the
Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) ? In secret?MADAM: 1380 year ago.I: And when the
atomic bomb was revealed to the world?MADAM: In 1945, American bombers dropped two atomic bombs
in Japan, on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.I: Does any
distance exist madam! Between these two dates ? 1945 and 1380 years ago?MADAM: Yes! There are centuries
intervening between.I: Then
pray Madam! Look into your conscience and say if 1380 years ago, in a country
famous only for ignorance, in the city of Mecca, an illiterate person, writing
his book in concealment and in pure Arabic and naming it Quran, could have
predicted the atomic bomb, giving out the causes of its appearance, portraying
it and characterizing the nuclear phenomenon in scientific manner.MADAM: Are you in senses?I: I think
I am Madam! For I have said nothing that might presage insanity, or show any
derangement of mind.MADAM: Quran is not a book of science. I have read the
Quran. Nor any of your Ulema have mentioned anything like that.I: In that,
that you have read the Quran and you have nowhere found anything like that, or
that none of the Muslim Ulema have ever mentioned any such thing to exist in
the Quran, you are right, but that the Quran is not the book of science you are
mistaken, for if science is no more than the knowledge of those natural laws
that have been created by Allah himself and which govern this universe, then
they must naturally exist in the Quran, since you might have read in the Quran
during your study, the claim which the Quran has made, namely, to contain every
example for man, and which is the example in the history of man that could be
considered greater than that of the atomic hell which can, and is now about to
devour all life on earth from the East to the West. The Quran does contain the
example of the atomic bomb as certainly as you stand there, and as I stand
here, and as the Quran exists in this world in its pristine form and purity.MADAM: Well! Proceed, show.I: Madam !
Repeat Chapter Al-Homaza.MADAM: I am not Hafiz. (That is I
cannot repeat the Quran from memory).I: Shall I repeat it for you then, or shall I fetch the
copy of the Quran?MADAM: You recite it. If you shall recite it wrong I shall
catch you. I know the Quran.I: I ask
protection of Allah from the snares of the devil. In the name of most merciful
and benign Allah. "Woe to every backbiter-defamer, who amasseth wealth (of
this world) and arrangeth it (against the future). He thinketh that his wealth
will render him immortal. Nay! For verily he will be cast into Al-Hotama".I: What is
this Hotama Madam!? (The answer of Madam came back at me like a backshot,
that would remind me of Rutherford's experience with
Alpha Particles be shot into the Gold foil).MADAM: Your commentators say that
it is a sort of a hell in which whatever is cast is ground to powder
through the intensity of the heat. (Scientist's answer would have been, "
It is a particular phenomenon in which the substance is atomized due to the
intensity of temperature". The rapidity and the audacity of the Madam in her answer came to me as a wonder
mingled with delight and I inwardly admired her remarkable display of
knowledge, and she had proved my point without knowing it.I: This
Hotama Madam! is derived from the root verb Hatama. Hatama is a word of pure
Arabic origin. Just see its phonetic and functional resemblance to the word
"atom", which is of Greek origin adopted by the scientists. Then mark
the various inflections such as Hattama, Tahattama, Inhatama, Inhitaam,
Hitaam-ud-Dunia, Hittam-is-Safina etc. And see thereafter the Quran describes
the fire of Hotama saying, " It is fire of Allah enkindled, which leaps up
onto the hearts. It is a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns".
Madam! When the atomic bomb explodes, the shock of heat-flash hits the hearts,
and blood gushes out of the nostrils, and the victim falls on its knees dead.
However Madam! Have you ever seen the atomic bomb explosion?MADAM: No. If I had seen it, how I
could have been here?I: Have you
seen a photograph of the atomic bomb explosion?MADAM: Yes. That I have.I: Is there
any outstretched column ?MADAM: Yes! There is one miles high.I: That is
what the Quran has said," Outstretched columns". Lady virtually
appeared to have succumbed to the debate. She collapsed to her chair and
appeared visibly indisposed. Her loss was immense. Her life-long study of the
Quran had been proved as erroneous in a matter of moment. For ten years
thereafter she never returned to Pakistan,
as far as my knowledge goes. And when she came, her topic wasn't the human
origin of the Quran but she had written most excellent books on Iqbal, Sultan
Bahu, Amir Khusro and other Sufi Saints of Islam. My overall conceit of her is
one of gratitude. Not all the Ulema of Islam could have rendered me the service
which she was suitable to do. Howsoever the Ulema had been impressed by my
discourse, they could not have given a verdict as certain, and a proof of the
validity of my discovery of Hotama as sure as did that learned lady by her fall
in her chair and by the cessation of her topic of the origin of Quran
thereafter. It might come as a surprise to most that at that time, that is
after about three years of my discovery of Quran's prediction of atomic hell, I
did not even know the structure of atom, nor I had so much as seen a book on
atomic physics. Such has been the guidance in my course as, not a word,
not a point, not a thought, more or less was granted to me than was necessary
for my mission. At a particular point of my course. Noteworthy is the sequence
of events in my lengthy course. It was after 1971 that the knowledge of atomic
physics and Radiobiology burst upon me, and the books were supplied to me in
the strangest of coincidences. So that now the state is different, Einstein
would not be ashamed to sit with me, and perhaps I would suggest him certain
guidelines in his own subject such as would save him considerably unnecessary
trouble and toil.The Ulema present in the lecture highly pleased with my demonstration, asked
Allamah about my identity, and it was in response to their inquiry that the
Allama spoke about me those memorable words, namely, that "This is a man
which Allah has created in this nation by chance. If this nation will fail to
receive that light of the Quran which Allah has bestowed on his breast, Allah
will never forgive this nation to the day of judgment. Another one like him will
not appear in this nation".The efficacy of this warning of the Quran is unfailing, since this warning of
the Quran about the atomic hell is a miracle most manifest. No scientist, no
philosopher can doubt or deny it, with reason. It has exploded the notion of
the denial of miraculous and supernatural by science and not all the works of
the votaries of Baconian philosophy combined could withstand it. Nor all the
stock-piles of atomic bombs in the world could stand its powerful neutralizing
effect. As the only guidance to avoid the atomic ruin and the last hope of
mankind, it has appeared so that a mankind destined to meet a doom preordained
only might miss it or neglect it .My conviction is that it will save this world
from atomic ruin.
AND SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY
Quran Treats the
phenonomenon of Rain and HailDated: 13-8-1982The Quran has claimed not once but twice in most explicit terms to contain all
knowledge that concerned humanity. And has challenged the world to bring a
chapter like it, when I was asked that Quran was not the book of science, it
was only the book of religion. How therefore, the treatment of the subjects
like atomic science, the atomic bombs and atomic radiations could be expected
in a book of religion. My answer to this was and is that the Quran is a book of
a religion indeed, but it is the book of a religion that is perfect and
complete and may be expected to provide answer to every question that was
concerned with the humanity. If the destruction of the habitations of Sodom and
Gomorrah received a mention in it, while these habitations were no larger than
a negligible part of a modern city, how then the mention of a destroyer which
would not leave so much as a blade of grass unburnt from one end of the world
to the other, could be ignored without damaging the claim to universality. The
Quran must be expected to give an answer to the question of atomic annihilation
of the world. Again it may be asked whether the Quran contains the outcome of
the research of modern science of meteorology. The answer to this question is
yes it does. Quran shows this in one sign (Ayat) of about forty words. Read the
following from the Quran regarding the phenomenon of rain and hail:-" Hast
thou not seen that Allah gently driveth forward the clouds and gathereth them
together, and then layeth them in heaps? Thou also seeth the rain which falleth
from the midst thereof, and Allah sendeth down from heaven, from mountains
wherein there is hail, He striketh therewith whom he pleaseth, and turneth the
same from whom He pleaseth, the brightness of His lightening wanteth but little
of taking away the sight".( Quran XXIV - 43 )" Have you not seen that God drives the clouds, then joins them together
and puts them fold on fold. Then you see the rain fall through them; and He
sends down hail from the sky where there are mountains of it, and strikes those
with it whom. He will, and wards it off from whomsoever He pleaseth. His
lightning could snatch away their eyes". (Quran -
An-Nur-43 The Light) You have read
it now, or you have heard it. And if you pen to be a meteorologist, how much of
the science of modern meteorology you have discerned in it, so that after we
have explained it, you might compare. To most of the readers of the Quran it is
merely a matter of common observation which has been mentioned by the Quran ;
whether in the translation or in the original Arabic text of the Quran. Let
this be remembered, however, that the mysteries are revealed only in the
original Arabic text and never in the translations. It is the Arabic text of
the Quran that reveals the essence of the modern science of meteorology about
the phenomenon of rain and hail. Read the Quran -An Noor-43 )In the first
sight there appears to be no scientific facts of the modern research, but by
the grace of Al-mighty Allah there are scientific facts to be revealed to those
possessed of knowledge, and sincere in their faith in the Quran. The original
Arabic text of the Quran has miracles to reveal. Most complex, intricate and
perplexing facts of science and philosophy may be found in the words and
mysteries discovered. To a knowledgeable reader the world of the Quran appears
like kaleidoscopic world. The words changing their forms and clows and assuming
new forms and colours, astonishing and perplexing the poor human intellect.
During my forty-year long research in the Quran more than once I went to sleep
with satisfaction that I had exhausted the meanings of a certain sign. But next
morning to my surprise I saw the same sign blossoming with fresh flowers that
had exchanging colours and delightful fragrance.Let it be
remembered that the modern science of meteorology is of recent origin, while
the Quran was revealed fourteen centuries ago. If therefore the discoveries of
the mo dern meteorology are found in the Quran, there remains no doubt about
the divine original of the Quran, and the Quran deserves to assume a unique
place among the divine scriptures.We will now
interpret the sign (Ayat) of the Quran in the light of all the latest
discoveries of science in the field of meteorology. It is generally observed by
the Non-Muslims, that whenever a discovery of science appears, the Muslims prop
up the Quran saying, Lo! here is it written in the Quran, why the Muslims
cannot find these facts from the Quran before the discovery is declared by
science. The answer to this objection is, that firstly the Quran is not the
text book of science to teach the people the technique of producing the things
that are produced by the science, rather the Quran observes and regulates the
entire life of humanity, every aspect of it. Therefore the Quran has its own
style of treating the subject of pure science. Secondly, the Quran would
not like the appearance of certain things or their wrong use in order to keep
the humanity safe from the noxious effects thereof. Therefore the Quran treats
such subjects of science in its peculiar manner. For instance the Quran has
treated the atomic science, the entire essence of the subject, but has not
taught to build the atomic bombs. Thirdly, if the Quran had explained the
inventions of science as we see them today and had used the terms as we hear
them today, it is not difficult to imagine that the hearers of that time, would
have stampeded away thrusting their fingers in their ears, yelling,
" How impossible, how nonsensical, away, away to your rational creed, the
creed of our fathers". The fate of Islam was thus no hidden secret. And it
was a miracle of the Quran, to say a thing comprehensible and appealing to its
first hearers, and conceal within the same language that could answer all that
was to come in time in any form, scientific, philosophic, economical, social.
Yet let it be understood that the corroboration of the Quran and science is a
topic fraught with imminent dangers. Science changes while the Quran is
constant. Once said, for-ever said. The corroborator therefore must have
thorough knowledge of science, to discern the established facts from more
theories and hypotheses, and should at the same time have the thorough
knowledge of the Quran to its real mind. Otherwise there is a great possibility
of wrecking the reputation of the Quran, and making this word of God about of
ridicule, unrecking at the same time the doom of the corroborator himself. I
have seen many a corroborator that blundered in this field and fell from the
cliffs to the vale of ignominy. God save us from such a doom. I myself am a
corroborator, but I weigh a thing a hundred times and pass many a sleepless
nights before I find courage to pen a single fact or to bring it on record. Yet
I pray to Allah, the Merciful to guide me aright in this hazardous field and
let me have no personal or other consideration, and forgive any slip of fall. I
am obliged to take to this field for no other reason than that it has become
the inevitable necessity of these days. Otherwise the early authentic
commentators of the Quran have left no point unambiguous.Now let us
revert to our topic in the name of Allah the Benign, the Merciful. Allah says:-"(Alam
Tara). Has thou not seen?" This question was first posed to the Holy
Prophet (P.B.U.H) and his contemporary Arabs. Now it could be posed to the
meteorologist. This is the marvellous feature of the All-time and eternal
Quran.Then :-"(Annallaha Yuzji). That is God drives". It is to contradict the view
of those who think that the laws of nature work on their own, or that the whole
affair of creation is accidental only. Here the God asserts his complete
control of the Phenomenon.Then (Yuzji
Sahaban). (Sahab) means a cloud, but the derivatives formed on its root
(sahaba)
give the meanings as, to drive along, to drag along, to withdraw, to recall, to
retract etc. The modern meteorological science on this point says, "
Previous to a thunderstorm, the clouds are in great commotion. Great masses
being torn asunder, others uniting together. These clouds being
electrified, some more some less strongly, act inductively on one another, and
if a piece happens to be torn away with more than its fair share of electricity
that has been induced into it, it may soar away intensely electrified, several
such pieces may unite to form a big cloud".Then The
Quran says:-"
(Thumma Yuallifu Bainahu). That is thereafter affects between the different
parts of the cloud a harmony and achieves affinity between them. Generally it
is translated as " and gathereth them together". In order to know
what sort of harmony and affinity is affected and achieved between the various
parts of the cloud, let us read the following from the science of meteorology." To
achieve the coalescence of the minute spherules of water into fallable rain
drops, a proper electrical affinity, between a particle and a particle within
the cloud and further, within the cloud and the earth has to be achieved.
In the presence of a strong positive charge in the cloud the SPHERULES WOULD
TEND TOWARDS SEPARATION, EXCLUDING ANY POSSIBILITY OF THEIR COALESCENCE. A
charge of milder sort in the vicinity has been found to be helpful for
the desired coalescence for the spherules into rain drops. The necessity of the
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL and hence the electricity itself, having thus been
established a slight ACIDIFICATION of the cloud water is to be UNDERSTOOD as a
means to impart conductivity to the water, which in a state of its purity is a
bad conductor of electricity".Let the
great masters of Chemistry read these chemical processes explained by the
Quran. Then the Quran says:-"
(Thumma Yajaluhu rukaaman)". That is then "layeth them in
heaps". Let us read what the modern meteorological science says about the
heaping up of the cloud. It says:-" When
the vapour in the air is condensed not through contact with cold bodies, but
through the cooling of a mass of vapour -ladden air, then a cloud is formed. A
cloud consists of fine drops of water. if it be near the ground it is called
mist or fog. It would at the outset seem impossible to classify or account for
the myriads of forms of the cloud, but when we come to observe and watch them
closely, two main types of cloud-forms assert themselves. Those which appear in
fillowy well-defined shapes, and those which spread over the heavens in a layer
thick or thin, partial or complete. The former of these is called CUMULUS, a
Latin word meaning HEAP, the latter STRATUS, a Latin word meaning A
LAYER. These names are due to LUKE HORWARD (1802) and have been used by all
cloud observers since his time. The meteorological science is of recent origin.
It developed within the centuries of this modern age. Luke Horward (1802) first
used the Terms CUMULUS and STRATUS". The Quran
has anticipated him by centuries. The word Rukaaman which the Quran has
used means exactly the CUMULUS. So far as the Term STRATUS is concerned, the
Quran has used it in another sign (verse) about the very same topic. The sign
is as follows:That is :
" Allah is He who sendeth the wind so that they raise clouds,
and spreadeth them along the sky as pleaseth Him. And forms them in layers, and
thou seest the rain downpouring from within them".( Quran XXX
- 48 )" It is
God who sends the breezes that raise clouds, then spreads them over the sky as
He please, fold on fold, then you see the drops of rain issue from between
them. When He sends it down to those of His creatures as He will, they are
filled with joy".(Quran The
Romans, 48)The actual
word is (Kisafan) which means to lay in layers, to stratify, to lay layer upon
layer. It is exactly the term STRATUS, the term of Luke Horward. Though
generally it is translated as, "causeth them to break". It is
surprising to note, that the Quran anticipated Luke Horward (1802) by
centuries. The words of the Quran thus are not only scientific but also
prophetic.Then the
Quran says:-(Fataral Wadaqa Yakhruju min khilaalihi). That is : Thou seest the rain which
falleth from the midst thereof. Actual word is (Min Khilaalihi), that is the
rain is pouring from the (khilal) of the cloud. The meaning of this word is
pin, skewer, spit. The root of this word is (khallala) which means to
acetify. "Khal" means vinegar.
Now the necessity of the acidification of the cloud water we have already
narrated in the previous pages. A charge of milder sort is essential to achieve
the coalescence of the spherules. The charge necessitates electricity. But pure
water is a bad conductor of electricity. It is necessary therefore to acetify
the water to endue water with the quality of conductivity. Thus the role of the
word (khilal ) in the phenomenon becomes clear, to mean that no (khilal) meant
no rain, and therefore no life on earth.The Quran
further says:-(wa yunazzilu min assamaae min jibaalin fiha min bardin). That is:- " And
Allah sendeth down from heaven, from mountains wherein there is hail".
First imagine a cloud like a mountain of hail. How beautiful is the mountain of
white pearls and how exact but novel is the simile. But the point which
attracts our attention is hidden in the word (jibaal) which means mountains.
The root of this word is (jabala) which means to kneed. Perhaps the most
astonishing discovery of the modern meteorological science is that no mist nor
fog could be formed, unless there were present in the vapour-laden air
particles of dust or sand to act as the nucleus for the spherules of water that
constitute the fog. This has been proved, since air filtered through cotton
wool, has no tendency towards fog formation. The hail pellets likewise have
been found to have been built around a spec of dust acting as their Nucleus, a
process in distinction from that of the formation of snow. Now let us see the
word (jibaal)
that is mountains used by the Quran. The word Jibaal has been derived from the
root-verb
(jabala) which means to kneed. Then imagine a cloud of rain or of hail, wherein
every spherule has a spec of dust or sand though invisible to naked eye.
Certainly the cloud appears like a mountain made of dust particles kneeded with
water. Remarkable also is the role of mountains in the formation of rain.Now in the
end it may be asked that the Quran in this phenomenon has made no mention of
the great role played by the air. It is the air that carries the moisture, and
it is the air that wafts the clouds. without the air no rain would have been
possible. The question takes our thought to another sign (Ayat) of the Quran
which is identical with the sign which we are discussing, and has mentioned the
role of air. In the previous pages we have alluded to sing just read:-(Quran-Alarum -48)(Allah-u-lazi yursilu-arriaha fatuseeru sahaban). That is, " He is Allah
who sendeth the winds, so that they raise clouds".( Quran XXX-48 )The Quran's
challenge, "Bring ye a chapter like unto it" stands good for every
age, including this age of science. The knowledge of science shown by the
Qruan is such that no scientist will ever think of being an equal to or like
the Quran, the amazing word of Allah, the God of the worlds.
