Spiritual Journey: Some Spiritual Classics

Below you will find lists of some spiritual classics that would work for discussion/project groups, along with full-text versions of the books online and a suggested published version for a group. I've included a couple of informational web sites for each, though there are plenty more out there (use google.com).

You will need to give me first, second, and third choices by e-mail by 9-23 or in class on 9-24. If I don't hear from you, I may assign you to a group, so be sure you get back to me.

Once you have chosen a book, remember that everyone in the group needs to use the same edition. Most of these books can be ordered through Amazon.com and gotten used. Use the on-line text versions to sample the books to see what attracts you.
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The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
by Helen Waddell (Translator), John F. Thornton (Editor), M. Basil Pennington (Introduction)

This is a collection of short stories of very early Christian mystics, individuals who fled the decay of the Roman cities to seek God in the desert. Their self-denial and living conditions were harsh to modern sensibilities, but they provided the model for Christian monasticism that developed later in charity and self-less seeking of the Divine. Here's a taste of this material and some background: http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/fathers/indexdesert.htm

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Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin Classics)
by Julian, Elizabeth Spearing (Translator), Julian of Norwich, A. C. Spearing, Julian Norwich

Julian was a 14th century anchoress living in England. An anchorite or anchoress was a person who lived in a little room attached to the church and spent the rest of life in meditation and prayer (along with doing some spiritual guidance for people in the surrounding area). Julian's book was written in the vernacular (that is, English) rather than in Latin, so she describes herself as "unlettered". She actually has two books in one: a short book telling a series of visions she had while very sick; the second book is a more elaborated and interpreted version of the visions, including the insights she had received through prayer and reflection on the meaning of her visions. Julian was in truth a creative theologian, but as a woman, had to communicate her insights in a very deft way. Her understanding of God was that God was very tender, forgiving, and loving; her big intellectual crisis was how to square that sort of God with the Church's teachings about hellfire and damnation. She came away with a reassurance that, though humans can't figure it out and make it right, God can. She also experienced Christ as a mother - pretty radical for us, but something that other mystics of her day had done as well. This web site includes lots of information, including full-text versions of her book (but in very archaic language - much better to buy the version above). http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/julian.htm -- but watch out for the music, which can be a little hard to turn off!

Here's another web site with information on Julian and also some internet-available booklets on Julian and on other mystics before her and after her - some really good stuff: http://www.umilta.net/julian.html

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The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
by Ugolino (Editor), W. Heywood (Editor), Ugolino Di Monte Santa Maria, Carol Zaleski (Preface)

St. Francis is a well-known and beloved Italian saint, who founded an order of poor friars in the early 13th century. The book was written in the middle of the century by Brother Ugolino, one of the early Franciscan friars (presenting an idealized picture of Francis and the early movement). Here's a rather extensive Catholic Encyclopedia article on St. Francis: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm

Here's a reading guide for the book put out by the publisher (Vintage): http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/little_flowers_of_st_francis_of_assisi.asp

Here are some electronic versions of the book (though the Vintage version is a better choice for a reading group):

http://www.ccel.org/u/ugolino/flowers/

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Interior Castle
by St. Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers (Translator)

Teresa of Avila, of 16th century Spain, is one of the most brilliant and insightful of mystics in the canon of spiritual classics. She wrote (or perhaps dictated) in Spanish and has been described as an important formative literary influence in Spanish literature. She writes plainly, citing her own experience and using Biblical references, but portrays some very sophisticated psychological issues facing people doing serious prayer and meditation (such as, "how do you know whether you are really in contact with the Divine or experiencing an illusion?").

Here's another link with a brief bio and additional links for more information:

http://www.ccel.org/t/teresa/teresa.html

Here's a web site that has some information about Teresa and also the full text of the book (but for the group project MUCH better to get the book in print):

http://www.catholicfirst.com/thefaith/catholicclassics/stteresa/castle/interiorcastle.cfm

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The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the Poor
by John Woolman, Frederick B. Tolles (Introduction) (Paperback - October 1972)

John Woolman was an American Quaker working and writing in the early second half of the 1700s. He came to have a deep and profound leading (as Quakers call it) to work within the Society of Friends to guide Quakers away from owning slaves. In doing so, he seeded a strong abolitionist movement among Quakers that was very influential. The Journal traces his own spiritual development on this issue, and on other related issues, such as the moral responsibility of consumers to know something about the conditions under which our consumer goods are created - still VERY timely. The published book has more of his work that goes in this direction.

Here's a link to a full-text version of the Journal:
http://www.strecorsoc.org/jwoolman/title.html

Here's another full-text version, with an introductory note:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1772woolman.html

Here's another introductory note:

http://www.bartleby.com/1/2/1002.html

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Dark Night of the Soul : A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross
by E. Allison Peers (Translator), St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross was a 16th century mystic and reformer, like St. Teresa from Spain (and influenced by her), who wrote spiritual poetry.

Here's an introductory note about this book and about St. John of the Cross:

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/john_cross/dark_night.html

Here's the full text of the book:

http://www.catholicfirst.com/thefaith/catholicclassics/johnofthecross/dark_night/darknight1.cfm
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Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis - There's a published version by Vintage.

Born in the 14th century and lived in Holland. This book has been one of the most influential of spiritual classics in the world. First published anonymously in 1418, it has more recently been firmly attributed to Thomas a Kempis. See this site for a long biographical article from the Catholic Encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14661a.htm

Electronic version: http://www.ccel.org/k/kempis/imitation/imitation.html

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The Practice of the Presence of God
Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence
I'd suggest this edition for a group:
Revell; Reprint edition (January 1, 1999)

Here's a piece about Brother Lawrence, born in France in the early 1600s. He was a soldier, then worked in the kitchen in a monastery, practicing a simple devotion that is reflected in the book (recorded by others and edited from his letters).

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/lawrence/practice.html

Electronic version of the book full text: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/lawrence/practice.html

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Here's a description of Wild Ivy The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, Translated by Norman Waddell - from the publisher (Shambala Press). Please note: this is a book reflecting a complex culture and historical time, much like the Christian texts that are set in an earlier time, but including references to Japanese culture and history that will take some thought (and time!) I've read part but not all of the book. Master Hakuin seems to be quite a character, fond of having a good time.

"Hakuin Zenji, also known as Hakuin Ekaku (1689-1769), is often referred to as the "father" of the Japanese Zen Rinzai school. His reforms revitalized the school, ensuring its endurance even to our own day. A fiery and dynamic teacher and renowned artist, Hakuin reemphasized the importance of zazen, or sitting meditation, in his teaching.

This intimate self-portrait of the Zen master includes reminiscences from his childhood, an account of how he came to practice Zen, and a description of his enlightenment experiences."

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Possibility for anyone interested in being more daring and stretching a bit: choose one of these Sufi classics - find descriptions on this web site of Paulist Press under Classics of Western Spirituality: http://www.paulistpress.com/ClassicsWesternSearch.html?id=AVq4aN5i

Ibn Al' Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom
edited and introduced by R.W.J. Austin; preface by Titus Burckhardt

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes
translated with an introduction by William Chittick and Peter Wilson; preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Ibn 'Ata 'Illah/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari: The Book of Wisdom and Kwaja Abdullah Ansari, Intimate Conversations
translated, introduced, and notes by Victor Danner and Wheeler M. Thackston; preface by Annemarie Schimmel

Ibn 'Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by John Renard (Translator), Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Ibn 'Abbad, Annemarie Schimmel (Translator)

Comments

here's the link on the lakota sacred pipe controversy:

http://www.argusleader.com/specialsections/2003/cultures/sundayfeature.shtml

Posted by: jeanine | October 4, 2004 5:07 PM

A DEBATE BETWEEN ALLAMAH YOUSUF GABRIEL AND PROF. ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL
By
Sharif Farooq editor Daily Jihad, Peshawar Pakistan
Since a few years the articles and essays of Allamah Yousuf Gabriel had appeared in continuity. In these essays and articles a particular topic that appeared conspicuous was about the atomic hell and
its hazards and the universal destruction of mankind. In the beginning I paid no attention to these articles but when the same topic and the same writer would discuss different aspects of a topic from the Quranic point of view then ultimately the reader is forced to give attention to the topic, particularly when the solution of problem is presented in reference to some divine scriptures and the faith of human beings. Also in the entire world of today, particularly in America, Russia, China, Japan and Europe etc., the topic which receives the greater attention is the same atomic hazards of the future and the atomic destiny of mankind. On one side, man is working miracles in the field of science and is striving from the achievement of every kind of facilities to the end of human diseases; to the extent that by means of artificial heart and artificial liver efforts are being made to revive the dead. While on the other side, upto this time, the most advanced nations of the world have prepared the atomic piles and various germs producing gases to an amount whose one fourth is enough to not only destroy this flourishing world but will cast this world into a sort of a hell whose slightest imagination is enough to cause the human mind to tremble with fear. The great thinkers and the friends of humanity set up demonstrations against the havoc to be wrought by the atomic radiations within these great world powers but all in vain, but:-" the more the treatment is given the worst becomes the disease. Perhaps, in this context the first "Campaign for the Nuclear Disarmament" had started by Bertrand Russel. Some other movements of the same nature are active in those countries. But by the passage of time the atomic destructive activities are on the increase. It is said that the atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and which caused the death of hundreds of thousand of human beings and even today those parts are incapable of any production, were very small bombs of very low velocity. Man has prepared means of human destruction and in the twinkling of an eye the human race would not only be destroyed but also there shall remain no signs of life on earth. When the civilized man sees the uncivilized ways of the destruction he becomes panicky.In January 1963, I had a chance to speak to the head of NATO (which is the greatest defensive organi-zation in Europe and America) General Norstad in company with a group of Journalists of the common wealth. When I questioned about the sudden outbreak of atomic war, the General disclosed that such arrangements were extent that in case of undeclared atomic war within two or three minutes orders of atomic counterattack be given. However, over the continent of Europe due to fear, war planes equipped with atomic weapons keep on hovering for twenty four hours in the name of defensive purposes. If 22 or 23 years ago the ability to destroy the world within two or three minutes was achieved then today, on what stage of instant destruction will this world be? Allamah Yousuf Gabriel, who offers the solution of every universal problem and presents the methods of preventing the universal destruction in the light of the teachings of the Quran, remains always in the state of restlessness to save the humanity from Nuclear Destruction. Allamah Yousuf Gabriel is a highly learned scholar with unusually great versatility of subjects; is a celebrity among the distin-guished Doctors of Islamic Law and Theology; has unusually great understanding of the Quran and shows equally exceptional knowledge of both the Quran and Science. He is a simple man who lives the life of a dervish in seclusion. If He had been in some other country with an organized propaganda machinery behind him then certainly he would have been counted among the greatest thinkers of the world. He would have been declared as a great Harbinger and mouthpiece of world peace and many books would have been written about him and certainly he would have been awarded Noble Prize for peace. But Allamah Yousuf Gabriel who passed M.A. without a teacher and who has equally great command over English, Persian and Arabic etc., lives in a small Mohallah Nawababad of Wah Factory in a very ordinary quarter. If anyone would see him he would not consider him deserving better attention than a simple and rustic villager. However, where there is intellectual greatness there the worldly splendour is not needed. Knowledge has its own delight and that is the delight of satisfaction and contentment; a delight from which the material world is deprived.I knew Allamah Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel by his articles published but I had no meeting with him. One day when returning from Islamabad, I set out to find him and found him in his quarter. He was astonished. I saw him dressed in simple clothes of local ordinary cloth, wearing simple white turban and standard beard. The accent envisaged rural rusticity, wearing a simple ordinary slipper in his feet, declining age but very strong physique. He took me to a small quarter of his son. His son works in Wah factory. This quarter was his. In the adjoining room was the table of Allamah with very ordinary furniture. In every-thing appeared simplicity. I was offered tea in a simple cup. He said to me, " I have rented a room in separation away from here. There I do all my writings".I was gazing at Allamah Yousuf Gabriel in surprise, his simplicity was making its effect upon me. After formal introduction when Allamah began to explain the atomic destruction of the world in the scientific Light of Quran, I sat spell bound and amazed at the enlightening ocean of knowledge that came out from the lips of Allamah. When he recited the English translation of the relevant signs of the Quran in fluent English, I was astonished. And along-with that he stated the details of a debate which he had with famous German Orientalist PROF. ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL. PROF. Schimel denied the divine original of the Quran. Allamah Yousuf Gabriel convinced her that the Quran was the book of God and based his debate on the Quranic chapter "Al-Homaza". He shows exceptional great knowledge in the subject of atomic science and atomic radiations.Allamah told me that in 1964 BERTRAND RUSSEL, the famous English Philosopher in reply to my letter wrote, " Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never abstained from any folly that he was capable of and the end is atomic hell". Allamah said that apparently the surmise of Russel was correct. certainly he was not amiss about the end of mankind as may be seen in the present circumstances, but the prophecy of the Quran about the atomic hell (Chapter-Al-Homaza)is such a miracle in the world of science and philosophy that there is no possibility of refutation either by scientists or the philosophers. The Quran has given the causes of the appearance of the Atomic Hell, therefore it is possible for mankind to escape from atomic doom by removing the causes which the Quran has given as the causes of the appearance of atomic hell. And thus it is due to the hope which the Quran gave to me that I did not follow the suit of Bertrand Russel but rather took my own way in the hope that mankind will be saved from the dreadful end in the Nuclear Fire. The atomic hell of this present transient world is the replica of the Hotama (the term used by the Quran) of the next eternal world and the cause of both the atomic hell and the Hotama are the same and therefore who escaped the punishment of atomic hell in this world they will certainly find the Hotama i.e. the atomic hell of the next world in wait for them.The nature of the debate between Allamah Yousuf Gabriel and PROF Annie Marrie Schimmel was historic. It was to have very far reaching effects. It was in September 1963 that in the Punjab University Lahore, PROF. Annemarie Schimmel had to deliver a lecture form 3'O clock to 5'O clock. The topic was that the Quran was not the word of God but rather the Prophet of Islam Muhammad ( May Peace be Upon Him) had written it. Allamah Yousuf Gabriel reached the Punjab University at quarter to three and found the seat in the first row on the left side. About twenty celebrated Ulema of Pakistan were present.Four Christian Fathers were also there. Allamah Allaud-Din Siddiqui who was the head of Islamiat and thereafter retired as the Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Uni-versity, was in the chair. Exactly at 3'O Clock the learned Scholar PROF. Annemarie Schimmel arrived. She took the seat and asked permission to start the lecture and she began to count mistakes that according to her were in the Quran and she kept on enumerating the mistakes upto 4'O clock. At 4'O clock Allamah Allauddin Siddiqui who was in the chair,, dragged his chair and brought it on my left side. I said to Allamah Alla-ud-Din Siddiqui,"Sir! You have abdicated your throne". His answer was, " brother! I had great expectation in you, but you sit mum. The Ulema also are sitting silent. I being the president have to remain neutral have therefore brought myself into the audience so that I may be able to say something to refute the view of the Madam".I said to Allamah Allau-din - Siddiqui, " Allamah Sahib ! Is the Quran yours?" He said, "No".Then I said, " Am I the author of the Quran?" His answer was no. Then I said, " To God belongs the Quran and certainly God is the best protector of his word. Let us admire the Madam".(Actually God was making such arrangements that would give Allamah Yousuf Gabriel a chance to refute the Madam. Even when she was delivering the lecture, the act of leaving the chair by Allamah Allaud Din puzzled the lady and she stopped the lecture and thus Allamah Yousuf Gabriel found the chance to stand up and discuss the topic with her.) Madam's lecture was in English. Allamah Yousuf Gabriel stood up and addressed the lady in English.The following dialogue was recorded:-
GABRIEL "Madam! You deny the Quran's divine original because you think there are mistakes in the Quran. Surely Madam There are no mistakes. Quran is free from mistakes. You are mistaken. Btu there is no time that I may clear those mistakes which you say, are in the Quran. I will therefore leave this side to you and will show you something in this Quran which nobody knew accept the God when the Quran was revealed to the Holy Prophet (May Peace be Upon him)"
MADAM:- "What is that?"
GABRIEL:" Pray Madam tell me, when the Quran was revealed or was written by the Prophet as you think?".
MADAM: "1380 years ago".
GABRIEL "And when atom bomb was made?".
MADAM:-"In 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by the American bombers".
GABRIEL The Quran was revealed 1380 years ago while atom bomb was made in 1945. Is there some distance between the two dates?".
MADAM:"Yes! There are centuries intervening".
GABRIEL:-"Madam! Please look into your conscience and say, was it possible that 1380 years ago in the country of Beduins, in the city of Mecca, an illiterate person (Muhammad, Peace be upon him, was admittedly a person who never had read any book nor had held a pen in his hand to write) would write abook in pure Arabic and name it the "Quran" and in that Quran he would write a chapter about the theory of modern atomism and give the essence of atomic science and portray the atomic bomb explosion, giving the theory of atomism as the cause of the appearance of atomic hell that is the atomic bombs and atomic radiations; all in about 36 words. Do you not consider it a miracle of the Quran?".
MADAM:-"Are you in sense?". Is it possible to find the atomic science and atomic bomb in the Quran because the Quran was written 1380 years ago at a time when here was no modern science in the world while the atomic science appeared in 19th century, and the atomic bomb made its appearance in the world in 1945. Further the Quran is not a book of science, it is a book of religion. Science could not be expected in the Quran. I have myself read the Quran, nor any of the Muslim Ulema has ever mentioned the existence of atomic science or the description of atomic bomb in Quran".
GABRIEL:-"Madam! I never drink hashish, nor have I uttered anything that might envisaged the derangement of man's mind. In reality you only think it impossible to find atomic science and the description of atomic bomb in a book which appeared 1380 years ago when there was no vestige of modern science in the entire world. So far as you think that the Quran is a book of religion and no science could be expected in that book is a notion quite wrong. If you have read the Quran you certainly might have read the claim of Quran in two places wherein the Quran says:-
'WE HAVE DISPLAYED FOR MANKIND IN HE QURAN ALL KINDS OF SIMILITUDES".The tribes of Aad and Thamud were destroyed by the worth of God. The Quran mentions their destruction many times. These tribes were no more than a Muhallah of Lahore, that is, were no more than a few hundred thousands whereas the
use of atomic bombs in the world atomic war means such a destruction of the entire life on earth from Tokyo to New York that no signs of life would be left anywhere. The Quran which mentions the destruction of the tribes of Aad and Thamud with great zeal, why should it not mention the destruction done by the atomic bombs that would involve all life on entire earth. What about the Quran's claim that of displaying for mankind all kinds of similitudes. certainly the Quran has treated almost all of the subjects of human knowledge.If no Ulema has ever mentioned the existence of atomic science and the description of atomic bomb in the Quran, there is no wonder because this fact I discovered only last year and have not disclosed anywhere.You are the first person to here it".
MADAM:-"Show me where is that?".
GABRIEL:" Please read the Chapter "Al-Homaza", the 104th Chapter of the Quran."
MADAM:" I am not Hafiz.( Hafiz means a person ho has memorized the Quran).
GABRIEL:" Shall I myself read it or shall I fetch the Quran for evidence?".
MADAM:" You read it. If you will read wrong I will catch you. I know the Quran".
GABRIEL" In the name of God, the beneficent, the merciful. Woe unto every slanderer and back-biter who heapeth up riches (of this world) and prepareth the same
( for the times to come). He thinketh that his riches will render him immortal. By no means. He shall surely be cast into Al-Hotama. And what shall cause thee to understand what Al-Hotama is?" Pray tell me Madam ! What is Hotama?
MADAM:" Your commentators write that Hotama is a sort of fire which grinds the things into powder due to the intensity of its flame".
GABRIEL:" You are quite write Madam. The answer which you have given to my question shows that you really have appreciable study of the Quran. However, the answer which you have given is the answer of the commentators of the Quran that reveals their admirable knowledge. For your information the term "Atom"" used by the scientist is wrong for atom means that which cannot be broken while the scientist himself has broken the
atom into parts. On the other hand, "Hotama" the term used by the Quran means that which breaks and this is the term which is correctly used regarding the topic. " Hotama" is a noun derived from "Hatama" which means to break. Its second form is "Hattama" which means to break with great intensity. For example you have a glass in your hand and you violently strike it against the rock and the glass explodes into pieces. The last form is "Tahattama" which means to explode. It can be easily seen how far the terminology of the Quran in this context is correct, and how far the word "Atom" as used by the scientist is erroneous. Indeed Madam! When we compare the Nuclear explanations given by the scientists to those which are given by the Quran, we can clearly see the difference between the human mind of the scientist and the divine mind of the Quran. The difference is that of a human being and the God."God says, " What shall cause thee what Al-Hotama is?". And thereafter God explains Al-Hotama. " It is a kindled fire of God which shall mount above the hearts (of those who shall be cast therein) verily (It shall be as) an arched vault above them, on columns of vast extent. (Quran Chapter-104 Al-Homaza).These are the distinct characteristics of atomic phenomenon,and the characte-ristics which distinguish the Nuclear Phenomenon from the chemical Phenomenon and indeed from every other kind of Phenomenon to be found in the world. This explanation of the atomic fire as is given by the Quran and apparently very simple, is in itself a miracle of knowledge.No atomic scientist in the world could ever be competent enough to describe the characteristics of atomic phenomenon in the manner in which the Quran has described. The Quran says, Atomic Fire is the fire of God enkindled. No doubt, the millions of the degrees of temperature seen in the atomic fire could never be expected in the Chemical Fire.The Quran says Hotama is a fire which mounts above the hearts. No doubt, the explosion of the atomic bomb at first kills its victims by giving shock to their hearts. But further study of the subject reveals a particular attraction of atomic radiations for the heart or that which is related to heart. The Quran says verily the atomic fire shall be as an arched wall above them. No better description of atomic bomb explosion could be given. But the research further takes us to the bounds which far exceeds the bounds found by the modern atomic scientist. Pray tell me Madam! Have you ever seen the atomic bomb explosion?".
MADAM:"No ! If I had seen the atomic bomb explosion, how could I be here, for that certainly kills the person".
GABRIEL:" Have you seen any photograph of an atomic bomb explosion Madam? Is there any column to be observed?".
MADAM:"Yes! The column of Hiroshima bomb rose to the height of four miles".
GABRIEL:That Madam! the Quran says, "On columns of vast extent". The rising column of the atomic bomb explosion rises changing various colours indeed very magnificent to see. For your information, the column of the 20 megaton Thermo Nuclear bomb which is called the Hydrogen bomb and the Hell-Bomb, rises to the height of 20 miles and has a diameter of 3 miles. Madam ! If you sat on the peak of Himalaya called Mount Everest, the peak which was conquered a few years
ago by Sir John Hunt and his party, and you looked through a telescope, and before your eyes in the plain of Panipat where in the past so many battles have been fought, rose atomic bomb's explosions in one thousnad square miles in an arranged symmetry, just as the trees grow in a garden. You would see a magnificent seen of rising columns of atomic explosions changing beautiful colours and rising to the height of 20 miles and there covered by a beautiful roof. You would think that it was a magnificent palace of some great Emperor or some great Amphi-Theatre that was being constructed. No Madam! It was Al-Hotama as is described by the Quran. It is a sort of Hell Fire in which anything is cast, is crushed into the particles of atoms. The Quran in the beginning of this Chapter Al-Homaza has given the causes of the appearance of Hotama and its replica in this world that may be called the Atomic Hell.The First of these causes is the slander and back-biting which is the habit universally seen in this modern age of Baconian materialism. The second cause is the accumulation of riches which also is the basic feature of this modern culture. The Third cause is the belief that the wealth will keep on increasing eternally. This also is a recognized feature of this science-guided materialism. This belief of the people
is so strong that they may be said to think that they will achieve immortality due to their wealth, and that the monuments of their wealth will become immortal. To which the Quran says by no means. Both they and the monuments of their wealth will be plunged into the crushing Hotama. All these three characteristics, namely the slander, the accumulation of wealth and the complete faith in the eternity of the accumulated wealth are the basic features of the theory of modern atomism that is the Baconian Philosophy of fruit and utility. The debate ended with the fall of Madam on the Chair. Madam fell on the chair. There is difference between the sitting on the chair and falling on the chair. She had received a severe shock. Her mission had failed. She had received an answer which really had convinced her of the truth of the argument and had explicitly falsified her own view. In reality, she was converted to Islam at that very moment because she had seen a clear truth of the divine original of the Quran, which she had intended to destroy. She departed. Afterwards, the Ulema, who were the main audience of PROF. Annemarie Schimmel, asked Allamah Alla-ud-Din Siddiqui about me because they did not know me because I had always struggled in seclusion.
To them Allamah Allauddin Siddiqui said:-" Respectable Ulema! This is a man whom the providence has created in the Muslim Nation by chance. The intellectual light of knowledge and the light of the Quran which the providence has bestowed on him, if your nation will fail to benefit by that hen God will never forgive your nation. One like him will not be found in this nation".
Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Adara Afqar e Gabriel, nawababad wah cantt. Distt Rawalpindi Pakistan.
Yousuf_gabriel@yahoo.com

Posted by: yousuf gabriel | May 4, 2009 2:57 AM

DESCRITPTION OF ATOMIC BOMB BY QURAN
BY Allama Muhammad Yousaf Gabriel
The Quran says:-
Lo! (it is) a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns (Al-Homaza- 104)
Now, then, this fire is, a fire closed in on them! The Sahabah, that is the companions (disciples) of the Holy Prophet, said, "It is a fire, enkindled in a huge edifice with a roof on arched vaults supported by columns of vast extent". And now let us see in the light of the practical facts of Nuclear phenomenon, whether this fire is a fire closed in on them.
(a) The heat-flash
The hat-flash which we have already described as the initial radiation of the atomic explosion, a radiation which appears within a fraction of a second on detonation, and which travels with the speed of light, that is 186,000 miles per second, and lasts for only about two seconds or so, and is the only original body of atomic explosion besides the atomic radiations. It begins within a fraction of a second on detonation and after only two seconds disappears. But within these two seconds it completes its work, that of burning the skins of the people, in its effective range. The other effects of the atomic explosion, namely the blast and the atomic radiations complete their process within ten seconds at most. That is, the process of the atomic explosion begins within a fraction of a second and is complete within ten seconds. The effective range of the atomic explosion might be as far as eighty miles. Now, then who is the man, and what are the means to carry him out of the effected zone within a fraction of a second or two seconds or ten seconds. No, but the die is cast, and the destiny of those unfortunate people who happened to be within that enclosure is spun. There is no exit in case of the atomic explosion. They are in a pan, in a fold, in an enclosure. The fire is closed in on them.
(b) The story does not come to an end with this forty miles enclosure of atomic fire. The area of radio-active fallout is even larger. it may be 7000 square miles, or it may be 100,000 square miles. Nay, even it could be as large as the whole surface of the earth. For the March, 1956 test explosion (a 15 megaton bomb) it was 7000 square miles. The hazard depending on meteorological conditions and particularly the wind velocities. It may cover an area upto 100,000 square miles. Now all the persons in the fallout area must have been exposed to a large dose of deadly radiation. They must be evacuated to a safer place within a day or so following detonation, if they are to escape serious consequences. But Alas! the evacuation of so large a mass of population in so short a time is not a probability. It cannot be considered a practical thing even for a highly industrialized country. Further, where would be found a safe area, particularly in case of war, to provide a shelter to such a huge mass of evacuated people! Alas! the fire of atomic explosion has been closed in on them. A fire so treacherous as to turn back on the house of its master, who, a few moments ago had unleashed it on his foe. And then after having consumed the house of his foe, it would turn back on him and reduce his house to a heap of hot ashes.
(c) Hotama a huge edifice of fire
Now, just as the companions of the Holy Prophet(peace be upon him) had described the Hotama as a huge edifice of fire with a roof on arched vaults supported by columns of vast extent, the atomic explosion, certainly is a huge edifice of fire, with a roof on arched vaults, supported by columns of vast extent. We shall now describe, how it is, let us take for example, a nominal high yield fission bomb (surface burst).
Now suppose the bomb is detonated. See the fire ball, being in close contact with the earth, it has produced a gigantic crater a mile in diameter. Now the fire ball is rushing upwards, expanding and cooling. It now has assumed a diameter of three miles, strong upward air currents follow the rapidly rising ball carrying with them dust and debris. In a few minutes the explosion cloud has reached the tropopause at a height of 40 thousand feet. It has met here the temperature inversion in the atmosphere which has considerably slowed down its upward motion. Now see the cloud has literally expanded into a "Mushroom" 100 miles in diameter, placed on top of a stem of diameter about the same as that of the fire-ball (3 miles). The central portion of the cloud (head of the stem) still continues to push forward, reaching 80 thousand feet in about 10 minutes, but because of the marked increase in the temperature with height in the higher levels of the stratosphere, it cannot go much beyond 100,000 feet (20 miles) and there the head of the stem is changing into a thin layer by the stream of the prevailing current of air. This current of air shall keep this layer of fallout in circulation around the earth for many years, say ten years. During this period the particles of fallout will gradually keep on settling all over the earth, on crops, plants, soil and the sources of water etc. Now, this fallout being radioactive it will affect every thing it will come in contact with, and produce terrific results. The cow will eat the crop. You will drink its milk. The milk is radioactive. The next generation, or any other future generation will be born in the form of monsters. The disease of cancer will widely spread. The plight of humanity will then be most miserable. Alas! For them. But let us revert to our edifice of the atomic bomb.
We have portrayed the picture of the atomic explosion to you. Now please bring that picture before the eye of your mind, and see, a column three miles in diameter, ten miles high, a mushroom 100 miles in diameter resting on top of it. Now, in view of the fact that the effective range of such a bomb would be about 40 miles around, just imagine a hollow, transparent, cylindrical column 40 miles in diameter, rising upward, to meet the lower edge of the 100 miles' mushroom, the mushroom covering this 40 miles cylinder like a lid, and itself resting on the central three-mile round column, which stands like the central pole of a tent. Now the picture of the atomic edifice is complete, and it is all fire. How, majestic, how awe-inspiring. But just have a peep into the interior of it.! what a havoc is being played therein. A storm of fires raging and consuming every thing. Mad earthquakes furiously pulling down buildings. Man, women, children, and brutes being roasted alive for the feast of the devil, and so on so forth in a fire closed in on them. A fire from which there happens to be no exit, no emergency door.
But our picture of the edifice is not yet complete. It has not been fully described. Further an earth wide edifice has also been built. Just look up please, and see, above the mushroom. The upper column that of the upper story of the edifice is resting on the head of the lower central column, and rising further ten miles into the stratosphere. There, its head is melting into a layer of fallout the layer which keeps on circulating around the earth for ten years. Now please keeping this double storeyed edifice into view, just see, all over the earth, the atom bombs symmetrically planted and then detonated simultaneously. Say 1000 atoms bombs, or say 10,000 atom bombs and see 10,000 columns rising to the height of ten miles, and there see the mushrooms like arched vaults resting on top of these 10,000 central columns, and then see from every column another column shooting upwards and reaching a height of twenty miles and there spreading itself into a layer of fallout. Then see this fallout spreading and joining to make a perfect spherical roof above the earth: whole of it. The picture now is complete. Just see the edifice with its majestic columns, its mighty mushroom-arched vaults ad its universal roof, and inform the inhabitants of Mars if there be any, of this grand achievement of demizens of the earth. Or if, you be so touched at this fate as to cry, then retire to a corner and weep to your heart's content, and wonder how the fire is closed in on them, all of them including yourself, in a universal, world-wide enclosure.
(d) And if there be still any doubt about this "Closing-in-on" nature of this fire, we will refer to "operation alert" of the U.S.A. A mock exercise of Nuclear attack which proved beyond any doubt this "closing-in-on" character of Atomic fire:-
"Operation Alert June 15, 1955, the first US National-wide civil defence exercise based on a mock attack using Nuclear weapons".
" It was assumed that 60 cities were struck by 61 bombs varying in size from a Nominal bomb to a 5 megaton bomb. The warning time (that is the advance information of the attack) allowed was about three hours. Based on the data collected by the bomb damage assessment group of the federal civil defence administration, it was estimated that at the end of the first day of the attack more than 8 million people would have been killed, and another 8 million would have died a few weeks later. About a quarter of the deaths would have been caused by radio-active fallout. It was also estimated that the attack would have damaged more than 11 million dwelling units and rendered about 25 million people homeless. In New York alone a 5 megaton bomb (surface burst) would have killed about 3 million people (38 percent of the population) and injured another 23 percent. Of every 8 New Yorkers about 3 were estimated killed and 2 injured. Civil Defence officials said that the nation was far from being ready to withstand a nuclear attack. And who could withstand the Nuclear Attack when the enkindled fire of Allah was closing in on them. This was a mere mock attack, and unluckily the things in a real nuclear attack with real atom bombs raining on the heads of a blinded people would be not quite so easy to imagine, and there, neither would be the bomb assessment groups to asses the damages, nor the civil defence officials, to give their opinions about the readiness of nation.
To this is to be added the following piece of information in order to understand the international closing-in-on-them character of the nuclear fire:-
" When referring to a full scale Nuclear Assault, Lt. General James Gavin (Chief of the US Army Research & Development) in his testimony to the US Senate Sub-Committee, investigating comparative Air Power is reported to have said, " Current planning estimates run on the order of several hundred million deaths that would be either way depending on which way the wind blew. If the wind blew southeast they would be mostly in the USSR although they would extend into the Japanese and perhaps down into Philippine area. If the wind blew the other way, they would extend well back into western Europe". And thus it would mean that no one, friend or foe or neutral would deem himself safe from the deadly radiological hazard. No mater in which part of the earth one lived. The atomic fire has closed in on them from every side and a check on the wind could not be imposed.
(v) Quran says, "Outstretched columns": that is, a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns:-
We have sometimes written in this chapter columns of vast extent. This does not seem to be the most exact translation of the word which is used by the Quran. The nearer translation might seem to be outstretched columns, just as a pot marker draws upward the clay pot while moulding on his wheel. The Quran always would use a basic expression, and suppose tomorrow it is proved, that over every little microscopic nucleon in fission a column is built up, and this column is not going to be of vast extent, although in proportion to the size of the nucleon it may be judged as a vast extent. These however are sheer subtleties; let us proceed with our point.
A column is a characteristic feature of an atomic explosion. The terrific fire bell raises upwards dragging behind it a column of fission products, vapourised dust and debris. It is a fascinating scene to be hold. Sensations of awe and wonder unite to impart to the mind of the spectator of this enkindled wrath of Allah a strange inexpressible feeling. A column so grand rising so majestically to such formidable heights. If the reader remembers aright, one such column we have described previously in D-IV, which if so desired, could be recalled to mind. A column is an essential feature of atomic explosion in air, surface, underground or under water burst. Though in case of deep underground or deep underwater bursts, it may be muffled up by the enormous weight of earth or water. Most spectacular view is presented by the column in case of a shallow underwater burst. The BIKINI (1946) test (Baker) was a shallow underwater explosion. Generally, in the shallow underwater burst, the detonation takes place at the depth of about 50 feet. The first thing seen in "BAKER" was flash of light, much less luminous than for air burst as the fire ball broke through the water surface. A column of water in the form of a hollow cylinder (Plume) with a straight stem rushed upwards. In 15 seconds it was a mile high and attained its maximum height of about a mile and half within a minute; the stem was one third of a mile in diameter, and the "Mushroom head" about a mile and half across; the water contained in the column was of the order of a million tons. Due to the force of explosion the water present in plume was in a state of fine drops, and the subdivision was carried further as the water column began to fall after it had attained its maximum height. From the base of the column there rolled out a white ring of mist (named "base surge") at a speed of about fifty miles per hour. (This was an unexpected phenomenon). After about three minutes of the explosion, rain began to fall from the bottom of the expanding surge, and soon the outward spreading slowed down and altogether stopped in another two minutes. The base probably covered a total area of more than five square miles. It carried a part of the fission products, but it is likely that the major fraction of the fission products was in the mushroom top.
Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Adara Afqar e Gabriel QA St. Nawababad Wah Cantt Distt Rawalpindi Pakistan
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Posted by: yousuf gabriel | June 17, 2009 1:20 AM

Quran and Atomic bomb
by Allama Yousuf Gabreil:Idara Tasnifate Gabriel, Nawababad:WahCantt.Distt Rawalpindi. Pakistan
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It is most interesting astonishing and absorbing topic of a universal nature and one of most momentous import, but in so brief an article I would no more be able than to give a bare skeleton, and hardly even all the basic features. I on my own part have no reason to doubt that the topic will be most welcomed every where the humanity exists. Quran says: 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. And what Al-Hotama is? It is fire of Allah enkindled which leaps unto the hearts. It is a (fire) closed in on them in outstretched columns". (Quran-104-Civ-Al-Homaza). Hotama: means a hell of fire generated by nuclear that is atomic energy with all its attributes, namely, the heat radiation, blast and radio-active fallout. This word etymologically speaking is derived from the root verb (purely Arabic) Hatama, which means the process of breaking something into pieces, or reducing something into particles. In scientific language we could say, the process of atomizing. The noun from the root verb Hatama is Hitamaa which means a smitherine. Keep in your mind the identity between the two words, that is the Arabic word Hatama or Hitama and the English word Atom or its origin the Greek word Atomos, both as regards sound and meaning. Further, first etymological inflection of Hatama is Hattama, that is T is doubled. It means to shatter something to pieces. Second inflection is Tahattama, which amounts in impact to explosion. The Inhatama means, to be broken into pieces. Hutaam-ud-Dunia signifies, the vanities of the world, which are perishable. And so also the term Hutam-Us-Safina which means, the wreckage of the ship. Now the word Atom has been adopted from the Greek word Atomos. Atomos means that which is uncuttable. The word atom therefore as is used by the scientist seems to be a misnomer since the atom has been broken into sub atomic parts, e.g. electrons, protons, neutrons, positrons etc. On the other hand the word used by the Quran that is Hattama, is correctly used. It is surprising to note that, the scientists gathered in a conference in order to coin some suitable term in place of atom, but after discussion they decided to leave the thing as it is. All this in contradiction to the basic spirit of science and its dictates. In this context we could with plausibility make a conjecture that the very same power which had placed the prophecy about the atom bomb in the Quran, it had also so managed the mind of the scientist as to let atom remains atom due to the phonic resemblance between atom and Hatam, so that when the time came, the discovery of the secret in the prophecy be made possible. This phonic resemblance between these two key words served as the clue. Without which even the most exact corroboration of the descriptive facts contained in the prophecy would find a little difficult recognition. What is Hotama. The Quran says" What will convey unto thee what Al-Hotama is? This question implies the strangeness of the phenomenon as well as its terribleness. The Quran however proceeds with the description of al-Hotama. It is a miraculous description. The topic just as the Quran has said, is, too deep too high and far too intricate. To appreciate it fully, the knowledge of science, philosophy, theology, the Quran and the Arabic language is necessary. The Quran says "Hotama is the fire of Allah, kindled, which leapeth up over the hearts. It is closed in on them in outstretched columns". And now the five characteristics of the fire of Hotama. The characteristics of Hotama.(1) Fire: The nuclear explosion is fire. It has two main constituents, namely the heat-flash and the ionizing radiations. Both these are fire. The heat flash is the initial radiation, more dazzling than the sun. It appears at a minute fraction of a second on detonation and lasts for but two seconds. The ionizing radiations, that is alpha, beta, gamma rays and neutrons are inherent in atomic explosion and appear as fission products. There is indeed the blast as powerful as earthquake, but it is only an associated effect. And there are colossal fires than consume whole cities, but they are started through connection, or due to damaged electrical appliances. Sixty percent of deaths and seventy five percent at least of all causalities in Hiroshima were due to fire. Fire of Allah: The fire of Hotama has appeared as wrath of Allah and as retribution, because of a set of inconsistencies which the Quran has enumerated as slander and back-biting, complete engrossment in the accumulation of wealth, and wealth worship. The intensity of flame, magnitude of fire and extent of destruction is so great that, it could reasonably be attributed to the name of Allah. Hiroshima bomb developed a temperature of million degrees. C Normal high yield bombs develop temperature of an order of tens of millions of degrees C, while for the triggering of Thermonuclear bombs the temperatures developed are of the order of hundreds of millions C. Such temperatures are not of earthly but of solar and stellar nature. the earliest commentators of the Quran justly defined Al-Hotama, as " a kind of a hell in which whatever is cast is reduced to powder, through the sheer intensity of the flame". Barely a couple of pounds of Uranium-235 liberates energy equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT. A thousand Kilograms of Uranium-235 that is one metric ton would liberate energy equivalent to twenty million tons of TNT. This last means energy of the order of large scale natural phenomena like hurricanes and earthquakes. The explosion energy produced by a single 15 megaton thermonuclear bomb far exceeds all the explosive energy produced in the whole human history united. Whereas the heat-flash, its subsequent fires, and the blast of a single 20 megaton thermonuclear bomb destroy largest cities in the world, the radioactive fallout of such a bomb would lay waste areas equal to states: to wit an area a little less than five-hundreth part of the whole surface of the earth. Five hundred such bombs therefore would devastate the whole of the earth, so that unfortunate survivals if any would envy the doom of those dead, in a dungeon horrible on all sides round as a huge furnace flamed, but from those flames no light but rather darkness visible, to discovery sights of worry, regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and set can never dwell, hope never comes, that comes to all, but rather an endless torture still urges in a fiery deluge fed with ever-burning uranium unconsumed. The ionizing radiations of Nuclear energy whether generated with peaceful views or for war purposes are always there and are fatal to human health. So that by and by humanity would be turned into cancer ridden freaks. No remedy has hitherto been found for the perils of radioactivity. Atomic explosion : a fire which leaps up over the hearts and a point which presents a very interesting study:-The Heat Flash: The heat flash as stated before appears within a fraction of a second on detonation. It lasts for about two seconds, it travels with the speed of light, it strikes the body of exposed persons within its effective range; and while within a particular zone nearer to the site of explosion it kills its victims on the spot; at greater distances it leaves its victims with serious to minor skin burns. We know that it does not penetrate beneath the skin. How does it then kill on the spot? It kills by the heat which has entered the lungs and has choked the heart to death. The terrible shock also plays a considerable role along with the heat, in bringing about the instantaneous death. Nucleus: The name given to the central core of atom is most appropriately "Nucleus". And what is the meaning of nucleus if it is not the "heart, The Central Core, the Kernal". Thermonuclear: This most patent term thermonuclear is no more than the translation of the Quran's phrase, “A fire which leaps up over the hearts". Thermo means heat or fire and nuclear means that which is related to nucleus that is "Heart". The atomic radiations: These radiations, alpha, beta, gamma rays and neutrons are inherent in the very nature of atomic explosion. These radiations entering into the blood stream seek the bones and there attack the Bone-marrow. The function of bone-marrow is to generated blood. The radiations render it incapable of generating blood, and destroy both the rend while blood corpuscles. The supply of blood to the heart is thus stopped and the heart thus dies of starvation and torment. All the blood-forming organs are a very attractive target of radiations. The relation between the blood-forming organs and blood and heart is well known. The symptoms of radiation sickness are, leukemia; a disease of blood, hemorrhages that is blood leaking also a disease of blood; fever, also connected with blood, nausea and vomiting, also related with heart. All multi-cellular organism with more perfected heart and lungs, and more elaborated circulatory and respiratory systems are without exception more sensible to the effects of radiations than all the unicellular organism that have less perfect heart and lungs and less elaborate circulatory and respiratory systems. This also proves a decisive affinity of the radiations for heart. The presence of oxygen enhances the action of radiations whereas its absence retards their action. The role of oxygen in the aeration of blood and lungs and heart is apparent. Muscles, nerves and brain are the organs least sensible to radioactivity, whereas, Heart and all those organs that are connected with heart are most sensible to the effect thereof. It proves a particular affinity of these radioactive rays for heart. The nuclear energy is generated even on the same principle that is the heart-attack. In fission process a neutron attacks the heart of an atom in a pile of fissile material and knocks out two neutrons. These knocked out neutrons as if in a retaliative mood attack in turn an atom each and knock out two neutrons from the heart of atom each. This process continues multiplying the n umber of knocked out neutron and so the fission chain reaction is built up till the whole mass of fissile matter becomes reed hit and explodes in wrath at the hearts having been disturbed. And so also in the fusion process the hearts (nuclei) of two atoms are crushed together and energy is liberated. The Fire of Discontent: Who could be unaware of the fire of discontent which is raging today in every human heart. The cause of this heart-burning is the present materialistic age, with its peculiar slander and backbiting, excessive engrossment in the accumulation of wealth and wealth worship the very same characteristics which also are the cause of the emergence of nuclear weapons.(4) The fire of Hotama according to the Quran is a fire closed in on them. Please bring your imagination into play and enact the scene of an atomic explosion of say a twenty megaton bomb. There is a column ten miles high, three miles across like the central pole of a tent. This column is topped by a mushroom shaped lid a hundred miles across. Around this column imagine a hollow, transparent cylinder eighty miles in diameter, ten miles high and covered with the hundred miles mushroom lid of the column. This imaginary enclosure is actually the effective range of the bomb in question. The anterior of this eighty miles wide cylinder comprises, heat-flash, blast waves inter-woven with radiation invisible rays, interspersed with colossal fires and flying incandescent debris amidst shattering buildings, toppling spires of lofty churches, all enveloped in whirling clouds of ash-ridden smoke and choking fumes, and indeed unwhole-some odour of burning bodies of men, women, children in an atmosphere of wails, unheard, grooms uncarved and cries unresponded in an enclosure eighty miles around and ten miles high. But the description of the enclosure is not yet complete. There is yet another storey above this awe-inspiring edifice. Raise up your head and see, the central three miles wide column has shot upward from the mushroom lid towards the higher regions above the tropopause into the stratosphere another ten miles. There the head of the column has spread itself into a thin layer of radioactive fallout, to be driven by the prevailing streams of wind around the earth like satellites for about ten years, gradually settling out on the earth, and contaminating vegetation and sources of water, and turning human beings into chimeras and monsters begetting monsters. And thus we see that even the whole earth has been enclosed by the fire of Hatama. Also, that the action of atomic explosion starts with heat-flash within a fraction of a second, then comes the blast and lastly the ionizing radiations. All this takes place at the most in ten seconds. Who could, therefore get out of the effective range of the explosion which may be as far as eighty miles, a fraction of a second or even ten seconds. Judging from the number of affected persons which may run into millions the evacuation of such huge masses of people as might have survived the heat-flash and the blast and are affected by radioactive fallout, seems an impossibility even for the most industrialized countries, for the people affected by fallout have to be removed to safer places within a day or two, if serious hazard is to be avoided. Again, whereto they are to be evacuated, where is a safer place to be found in case of war? In short it is a fire closed in on them. (5) Outstretched Columns: An outstretched column and the mushroom top is a characteristic feature of atomic explosion. One such column twenty miles high and three miles across we have already mentioned, but the most spectacular view is presented by the column of water raised in case of a shallow under water. The Commentators of the Quran: The earliest commentators who have quoted the Sahabah (the companion disciples of the Holy Prophet peace be upon them) have described Al-Hotama, that is the atomic hell, in the clearest of terms and have left nothing ambiguous. Space would not permit us to quote all that we have quoted in our book "Quran predicts atomic bomb", from Tafsir Ibn Abbas", and Tafsir-e-Kabir by Imam Fakhruddin Razi", and "Al-Jallaalain", and Tabri, and Tafsir-Ul-Quran-Il-Azam by Imam Ismail Ibn Katheer". These are all the most authentic resources, but in the following we give a few specimens that will provide the reader with a glimpse. All the commentators however, had the next eternal atomic hell in the external world in view. It is we the unfortunate that were destined to see its worldly replica. Ibn-Abbas (a) "Wail", (English translation is woe) implies extreme severity of torment. It also means a "pit", a dungeon, a cell in hell. It also means "a valley of pus and suppuration". Now please read this description in the light of the symptoms of radiation sickness already mentioned, i.e. leukemia, hemorrhages, nausea, vomiting and severe heart-burning, in a post atomic assault area.(b) Amadim Mumaddadah (English translation is outstretched columns). "Columns of fire having considerable depth". Al-Jalalain: Innaha Alaihim Musadah Fi Amadim Mummaddadah (english translation is, a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns". The victims having been put therein, the cylinders are to be closed". Please read this and recall to your mind the process of atomic explosion from detonation to its full development to the mushroom top. (b) "Al-Hotama is a fire which is never extinguished". The worthy commentator here had in view the atomic hell in the next world. Yet the fire of atomic explosion in this world is also afire which characteristically cannot be extinguished until it has completed the whole explosion process. Once an atom bomb is detonated, its action will only cease after the heat-flash has appeared, the blast has taken place and the ionizing radiations have been liberated. All this might take about ten seconds. This, however, a transient world and its atomic hell also ought to show this characteristic as against the next eternal world, wherein the atomic hell shall for ever and incessantly burn. (iii) Tafsir-Il-Kabir by Imam Fakhrud-din Razi:(a) "Al-Hotama is a fire which grinds to powder whatever is cast therein. A fire which crushes bones, eats up flesh, till at last it attacks the heart". Now see that the bones are crushed and the flesh is eaten up by the atomic radiations, till at last the heart is attacked. This great Commentator of the Quran has in this context raised come extremely subtle points which he has beautifully discussed. (b)"......then imagine its (hearts) plight of hell-fire be plunged into it (Yet the strange fact is) that although the fire of hell of Al-Hotama has completely overwhelmed it, yet it is not consumed thereby". We have seen that the heat-flash, although it burns the skin of its victims, yet it does not neither burn the body, nor the heart. (IV)Tabri:(a) Innaha Alaihim Musadah (english translation is it is (a fire) closed in on them". There is going to be a man, in one of the apartments of hell, crying perpetually for a thousand years, "O Benign Allah! O Merciful Allah. Allah (out of Mercy) will command the angel Gabriel, go take my servant out of fire. Gabriel (in obedience to the command of Allah) will go, but finding the fire closed in on them will return and say, O Allah! the fire is closed in on them. Allah will say, go open it, and take my servant out of it. The man will thus be taken out of fire and placed outside the paradise, till Allah will cause his hair, flesh and blood to reappear". Hair are affected by atomic radiations, springs of blood are dried up and the flesh is eaten up. (b) Innaha Alaihim Musadah (english translation is "It is a fire closed in on them". "The victims are first to be put in the cylinders and the cylinders are then to be stretched upwards". Recall to your mind the column of atomic explosion being stretched upwards after detonation. (V) Quotations attributed to the Prophet by Jallalain "Allah shall appoint over the victims, angels, equipped with covers of fire, and nails of fire, and columns of fire. So the angels shall cover the victims with the covers of fire, and shall transfix them with the nails of fire and will stretch the columns of fire upwards. Whole thing shall be rendered so over-tight that neither relief could enter therein, nor agony could find exit from within". It is impossible to find another description of the atomic explosion more characteristics. The effective range of an atomic explosion is exactly like an inverted cauldron. The radiation rays are nails that transfix the victims, and the columns of fire are the columns raised by the fire-balls of atomic explosion.(3) The Causes of the Appearance of Atomic bomb: The Quran says:" Woe unto every slandering traducer, who gathereth wealth (of this world) and arrangeth it. He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal. Nay, but verily he will be cast into Al-Hotama". The causes thus are given out as (slander and backbiting, complete engrossment in the accumulation of wealth, undue confidence in wealth, amounting to worship. Now, it hardly needs the discerning eye of a Socrates to know, that all the three characteristics are the most peculiar and particular characteristics of this our modern materialistic age of propaganda, wealth accumulation and wealth worship. We shall not need therefore any elaboration of the point. (4) Please, remember, that this prophecy of the Quran is a warning, and hence, if the cause is removed the danger must automatically disappear. The scientist has failed hitherto, in producing any sort of neutralizer of atomic explosion, nor he has been able to find out any treatment of radiation sickness. And so has the strategist, found himself quite at a loss to find any ways of safety or defence against the nuclear warfare. Treaties and agreements will prove but signed hair and the only hope for mankind has appeared in this warning of the Quran. A scripture has at last risen to the occasion, to save humanity and to vouchsafe glory to the world of Allah in his last declared will to the whole mankind. It has taken me two volumes to treat the topic, namely, Quran predicts atomic bomb, and the unscientific philosophy of the scientist. It is a living miracle of the Quran, and the last hope of humanity. Every one may understand the topic, but real appreciation thereof is reserved for the elite only, as are possessed of versatile genuine of the highest order.
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Posted by: YOUSUF GABRIEL | July 8, 2009 2:49 AM

HEART QURAN AND NUCLEAR PHENOMENON
By Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
The Quran says “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. And what could teach thee what Al-Hotama is? It is fire of Allah, enkindled, which leapeth up onto the hearts. It is (a fire) closed in on them in outstretched columns".
(Quran-CIV-Al-Hotama)
The Quran says "Hotama is a fire which leaps up into the hearts". The atomists have used the word nucleus, while the Quran has used the word "Heart". Nucleus and Heart are synonymous. Arab lexicographers have translated the nucleus as "Heart", and there exists characteristic and functional resemblance between the two. The death of either the nucleus or the heart means the death of the body. Delicacy and sensitivity is the feature associated with both. It is the atomists themselves that call the nucleus as heart. Edward Teller, in 1939 spoke of obtaining energy from the heart of atom in a lecture on atomic energy delivered by him, (Vide the Hydrogen Bomb by James. R. Sheply and Clay Blair Jr. pages 48-49) while passages like the following meet one's eye when reading the standard text books of atomic physics:-
“Each fast particle comes from the break up of very heart of a single atom _- The Nucleus -- of the radioactive material".
(Vide Physics, Physical Science study committee--- second edition -- D.C. Heath and Company Lexinton, Massachusetts, July 1965 page 130).
And:-
“How many heartbeats are in the life-time of a radioactive nucleus which lasts only billionth of a second".
(Vide IBID page 21 Short problems)
Even the part of the atomic reactor wherein the process of the atomic energy generation takes place is called the heart of reactor (Vide Our Nuclear future by Edward Teller and Dr. Albert L. Latter 1958, from a photograph of the reactor).
Atomic fire leaps up onto the hearts. After the identity between the nucleus and the heart is established, let us show how the atomic fire leaps up onto the hearts. Both in fission and fusion process of the generation of the atomic energy it is the nucleus of the atom that is involved. In the fission process the atomic particle leaps up onto the nucleus of the atom, and disintegrates it, and energy is released. For instance the Neutron leaps up onto the Uranium-235 atom and ejects two neutrons from the nucleus that is the heart of the atom. The broken nucleus like the broken heart is disintegrated, and energy is released. The two ejected neutrons in turn leap up onto the nucleus of other uranium atoms in the lump, and do exactly as the first neutron had done, to wit, that they attack the nucleus of an atom each, and eject therefrom two neutrons each. The nucleus is disintegrated and divided and energy is released. Thus the neutrons keep doubling and ejecting the neutrons from the atomic nuclei and the operation continues till the whole of the lump of uranium explodes. In fusion process the nuclei of several small atoms, say four, are crushed together and the energy is released. Fusion of an atom is not possible until a heat with a temperature of the order of millions of degrees is available. To produce such a temperature is not within the reach of chemical processes. Atomic fire is therefore required and is provided by means of a fission device. The heat thus produced is directed onto the fusile material, say hydrogen. This process is called as the thermonuclear process and perhaps provides the best example of atomic fire's leaping up onto the hearts. Hydrogen bomb is the example of the thermonuclear process. A fission bomb is placed inside the fusile material, and hydrogen is spread around it in a shell. When the fission bomb is detonated, the tremendous heat liberated leaps up onto the nuclei that is the hearts of the hydrogen atoms and fuses them in groups of four, and the energy is released. And there we see very clearly how the atomic fire leaps upon onto the hearts. This nuclear trait is exclusively of atomic fire and is its distinct feature. However, by just uttering the name of nucleus, the point of leaping upon the hearts is established, because the nuclear energy is the energy produced from the nucleus that is hearts.
Atomic radiations too leap up onto the nuclei that is hearts. Atomic radiations attack the nuclei of atoms. In inanimate matter they cause transmutations of atoms by disintegrating and changing the order of the nuclei. In living bodies they eject nucleons from the nuclei of atoms, while in the nucleus of the cell they break the chromosomes.
The effect of radiations is beyond the brain at the level of the heart of life itself. Radiation's effect the coordination of function at the level where it is beyond the control of the brain. It may be said that they attack the very heart of life itself.
Radiation's exceptional attraction toward all that is related to heart in the body. The decided attraction of radiations for all that which is related to heart in the body as against the brain, the nerves and muscles is a fact. Bone-marrow which forms blood corpuscles, and also all the blood forming organs are far more sensitive to the effect of radiation than the brain, the nerves, and the muscles. Further it may be noted that all the multicellular organism, that as a rule are possessed of more elaborated and more perfected circulatory and respiratory system than all the unicellular organism, are more sensitive to the effects of radiation than the unicellular organism. The relation of the circulatory and respiratory system to heart through blood is obvious. It may further be noted that the action of radiations in the absence of oxygen is retarded. And again the relation of oxygen to heart through blood is well known. Just as is the relation of blood with heart.
The heat flash and radiations of atomic bomb explosion too leap up onto the nuclei that is hearts. Heat-flash of the atomic bomb explosion burns the skin of the exposed persons dark or brown, but it has no time to penetrate further into the body of its victims, yet it kills those who happened to be within a certain distance from the zero point by applying shock to the heart of the victim. The atomic radiations whether emitted by the explosion itself or whether emitted by the fission products, also leap up onto the nuclei of the atoms both in the inanimate matter and in the living body, and do also attack the nuclei of the cell and break the cell chromosomes.
Atomic fire a nuclear crusher. The Quran has said "Hotama is a crushing fire which leaps up onto the hearts (Quran-Al-Homaza-104). The atomic fire crushes the nuclei of the atoms; hence it is a nuclear crusher that is the crusher of hearts. Atomic fire is a thermonuclear crusher. The Quran has said" Hotama is a fire which leaps up onto the hearts". The atomists use the term thermonuclear for Hydrogen bomb, for, in the hydrogen bomb, heat is generated by an inner fission device and then the heat is directed onto the outer wrapping of the fusile material, say hydrogen, where the heat impinges on the nuclei of the fusile material, and causes them to fuse together in groups of , say, four. Here we see the atomic fire leaping up onto the nuclei of the atoms of the fusile material in a clear manner. This term thermonuclear proves the anticipative and scientific miracle of the Quran, and the term thermonuclear it is that brings credit to the atomists for the marvel of a term which is indicative of a proper understanding of the phenomenon and the appropriateness in choosing the term to express the phenomenon. The term thermonuclear and the Quran's word, namely, " A fire which leaps up onto the hearts", have been found to be the intertranslation of each other, while the thermonuclear process is the one that shows in the clearest of colours the phenomenon of a fire which can be seen to leap up onto the nuclei that is hearts.
We will bring this point to its end by quoting a little couplet of Wordsworth that contains a sparkling truth in relation to our theme:-
'TO LET A CREED, "says Wordsworth,
BUILT IN THE HEART OF THINGS,
DISSOLVE BEFORE A TWINKLING ATOMY".
Wordsworth lived when the atomic energy as yet was not discovered, nor were its effects manifest in any way, yet the couplet of Wordsworth mean exactly:
"To let the universe built in the nuclear system
Dissolve before the tempting energy

Do you also see the wonder of the little couple?
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Posted by: YOUSUF GABRIEL | October 5, 2009 3:23 AM

BACON AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
BY Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
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The hand of providence gave a twist to the cause of Bacon’s life by causing the death of his father. Then Bacon gave a twist to the religious doctrine of moral and natural philosophy by reverting the order of moral and natural philosophy. He changed the places of moral and natural philosophy. He placed the natural philosophy in the place of moral philosophy, and placed the moral philosophy in the place of natural philosophy. The former twist that is, which was given by the hand of providence to the course of Bacon’s life through the untimely death of Bacon’s father tossed Bacon on to a track that culminated in the appearance of his universal and far-reaching philosophy. The latter twist which Bacon gave to religious doctrine of moral and natural philosophy, flung the entire human race, cross and the crescent, the swastika and the chucker, the hammer and the scythe, onto a course which running through stages ultimately culminated in the blazing flames of the atomic hell, the logical and scientific conclusion of Bacon's philosophy of modern atomism. Not all the most convincing arguments and references to prove compatibility between a particular religion and this modern atomism could alter the course of the philosophy of atomism that led to the atomic hell, nor all the wishful thinking of the Baconian world could avert the logical doom from a misguided mankind. Indeed all those world-wide eulogies, that have been poured on the author of so felicitous a philosophy, and on the philosophy itself since its appearance would be signed by merely the mention of the result of Bacon’s philosophy, the atomic hell, that is these very atomic bombs and atomic radiations that today threaten the existence of life on earth. English nation prided over Bacon’s nationality, but who will own the honour for the appearance of the results of Bacon’s philosophy. Bacon, indeed, did not formulate his philosophy in any vindictive mood, nor did he mean harm intentionally, far it be from him, but it all resulted from the error of his judgement, and the intensity of his feelings, indeed, it is not for man to give mankind a philosophy of his own contriving. It is for the divine revelation to do that. Religion for man has been perfected and completed by God to be resorted to by mankind for guidance, and Bacon cannot be absolved from the guilt.
In 1607, Bacon was given the post of Solicitor-General, and was thus at least relieved of the fear of want, and worked on his philosophy in leisure. In 1613, Bacon became Attorney General, and in 1617 the Lord Keeper ----- an appellation which he later changed for the higher title of Chancellor. In October 1620 he presented the king with the great work of his life, the "NOVUM ORGANUM", the objet of which he said was to enlarge the bounds of reason, and endow man’s estate with new value. That day for Bacon might have been a great day. It is difficult to imagine the inward joy of his mind. He had realised both the ambitions of his life. He had by then reached the zenith of his worldly power and dignity, and he had completed his philosophical work which had haunted his mind ever since a student in Cambridge, and which he thought was a light to guide humanity to eternal bliss.
It is surprising to hear in the light of Bacon’s life and his activities that the works of Shakespeare were written by Bacon. The tongue turns simply dumb with wonder to hear such an opinion. Most of Bacon's time from sixteen to sixty was spent in wool-sack and council board. While yet a boy he was plunged into the midst of diplomatic business. Thence he passed to the study of a vast technical system of law, and worked his way up through a succession of laborious office to the highest post in his progression. In the mean time he took an active part in every parliament: he was an advisor of the Crown: he paid court with greatest assiduity and address to all whose favour was likely to be of use to him. Scarcely any man has led a more stirring life than that which Bacon led from sixteen to sixty. When did he then write all those bulky plays of Shakespeare? Perhaps people preferred to think that plays get written by themselves and require neither time, talent, wit or labour. Or that every work of Merit should be attributed to Bacon. A man, who clamoured for a decade for a lucrative place in order to write his philosophy, could not be expected to have turned off thirty-seven plays of Shakespeare, in shear amusement. The assumption might have been regarded as more plausible if the writing of Shakespearean plays was attributed to king James himself, who considering the work below his regal grace might have transferred it to Shakespeare. Indeed, neither Bacon, nor King James, nor any one else could have written those plays except Shakespeare himself. How could Bacon have written shylock. And if he could have written it, then indeed he could have been regarded a monster of far greater rank than Macaulay has given him out to be.
“Bacon’s greatest performance” says Macaulay, “is the first book of the Novum Organum. All the peculiarities of this extraordinary mind are found there in the highest perfection. Many of the aphorisms, but particularly those in which he gives examples of the influence of the Idols, show nicety of observation that has never been surpassed. Every part of the book blazes with wit, but with wit which is employed only to illustrate and decorate truth. No book ever made so great a revolution in the mode of thinking, overthrew so many prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. Yet no book was overwritten in a less contentious spirit. It truly conquers with chalk and not with steel. Proposition after proposition enters into the mind, is received not as invader, but as a welcome friend, and, though previously unknown, becomes at once domesticated. But what we now most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which, without effort, takes in at once all the domains of science, all the past, the present, and the future, all the errors of two thousand years, all the encouraging signs of the passing times, all the bright hopes of the coming age”- (Literary Essays by Lord Macaulay page 320).
Now this is all very nice and beautiful. But woe, woe to the times. This passage of Macaulay that indeed is a masterpiece in itself even today appears no more than the delusion of a capable mind. Time has disclosed the reality of Bacon’s philosophy. It appeared at first as honey which eventually has proved to be a bitter poison. Yet it is not to be wondered if a species which yesterday could attribute the plays of Shakespeare to Bacon, today interprets hopes of avoiding the hazards of atomic age “Science”. They would say even today, “Science could be used both for constructive as well as destructive purposes, it depends on men whether they used science for constructive or whether for destructive purposes”. Now who could tell them that the present perspective of the affairs shows the impossibility, to wit, that it is not possible for anyone to use this atomic science for constructive purposes, and that the end of this modern progress certainly is in the flames of atomic hell. But if this world prefers to play the blind who could convince them of the existence of the sun during the bright day light. Judging from the mood of this present day generation it appears, that it will be hard for them to believe in the assertion even when they will be being actually broiled in the fire of atomic bombs, or will have been changed into a bundle of cancers or chimeras due to the atomic radiations. Their assertion even then will be, “Science could be used both for constructive as well as destructive purposes, and man himself is responsible for all this". And it is well said, for, no doubt a man himself is responsible for all this. The difficulty only is that it is not in the power of man to avert the atomic doom or to provide means of protection against the atomic phenomena. Macaulay has alluded to the bright hopes of future, and we have before us the darkened horizons that presage complete atomic annihilation of all life on earth.
Macaulay continues to says, “Cowley, who was among the most ardent and, and not among the least discerning followers of the new philosophy, has in one of his finest poems, compared Bacon to Moses standing on mount pisgah. It is to Bacon, we think, as he appears in first book of “Novum Organum”, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great law-giver looking round from his lonely elevation on an infinite expanse; behind him a wilderness of treasury sands and bitter waters in which successive generations have sojourned, always moving yet, never advancing, reaping no harvest, and building no abiding city; before him a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified only by some deceitful mirage, he was gazing from a far higher stand on a far lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilising rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great capitals, marts and havens, and portioning out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beer sheba".
(Ibid -page 320-1)
O how really splendid a description and we have to say nothing but that the name of Moses be substituted by anti-Christ, as is described by the Prophet of Islam, (peace be upon him,) by a particular appellation of Messiah-id-Dajjal, that is the lying, simulating Christ. Anyone acquainted with the topic will find a very interesting example. We will presently add that Bacon pointed only to the panorama of atomic hell, and that the prophets of the past ages were not amiss. Bacon’s philosophy has given only intensified sense of unappeasable hunger, and desolation of mind, and problems that could not be solved and were ever-increasing.
Earl of Essex was a real benefactor and a kind of friend of Bacon. We are obliged to state such events only to reveal the nature of Bacon, the originator of modern philosophy, and we confess that we do so with some pain. Circumstances drew the Earl in some real trouble. He was sent to Ireland and he returned in disgrace. Trouble flared up when he was summoned to give the account of his conduct in Ireland, and he made reckless by despair ventured on a rash and criminal enterprise. He rushed out of his house with two hundred men on foot, crying hysterically that plots were laid against his life, and that the country was sold to the spaniard. And armed scuffle took place and two men on each side were slain. Essex himself was shot through the hat, but escaped to his house and surrendered in the evening. It was on the strength of arms that the intended to make terms. The person of the Queen was to be secured but not to be harmed, but blunt it is said, confessed on the scaffold, that “They were prepared, rather than fail in their ends to have drawn blood from herself”. The case obviously was of a grievous nature. We do not intend to sit here as a judge to decide the case, Essex versus Bacon. But what we intend is to show what friendship and gratitude in the eyes of Bacon was when his own interest was at stake.
The person on whom, during the decline of his influence, Essex chiefly depended, to whom he confided his perplexities, whose advice he solicited, whose intercession he employed, namely, Bacon, a friend so loved, so trusted, bore a principal part in ruining his fortunes, in shedding his blood, in Blackening his memory. Bacon, indeed, had no desire to injure Essex. He did whatever he could to serve his friend, but when he felt that he could not help his friend without doing damage to his own interests he changed his role. This was of those conjectures which show what men are. To high-minded man, wealth, power, court-favour, even personal safety, would have appeared of no account, when opposed to friendship, gratitude and honour. Such a man would have stood by the side of Essex at the trial, would have spent all his power, might, authority, and amity in soliciting the mitigation of the sentence, would have been a daily visitor at the cell, would have received the last injunctions and the last embrace on the scaffold, would have employed all the power of his intellect to guard from insult the fame of his generous though erring friend. An ordinary man would neither have incurred the danger of succouring Essex, nor the disgrace of assailing him. But Bacon did not even preserve the neutrality and became the instrument of the court. He appeared as the counsel for the prosecution. He employed all his wit, his rhetoric, and his learning, not to insure a conviction for the circumstances were such that a conviction was inevitable- but to deprive the unhappy prisoner of all those excuses which, though legally of no value, yet tended to diminish the moral guilt of the crime, and which therefore, though they could not justify the peers in pronouncing an equittal, might incline the Queen to grant a pardon.
All this, however, is wishful thinking in which we join with Macaulay, but unfortunately nothing and no one could stand in Bacon’s way to a lucrative place, so that he might write his philosophy for this world. But the more you will read about this case of Essex the more clearly you will see the character of Bacon. And indeed, we are concerned not so much with the conduct and the character of Bacon, as with a correlation which appeared between the conduct and character of Bacon and of this Baconian culture, and this Baconian population. Bacon’s was a mean, opportunist, mal-odourous and skunky philosophy of life that emanated from a similar origin, and infused the same qualities in those who adopted and practised it. And hence it was, that most of the biographers of Bacon were blinded to see these particulars, and did everywhere see a plausible defence and innocence of their hero and their redeemer, who according to them, was the redeemer of all mankind from all the misunderstandings of mankind since the human race began its life on earth. And it was nothing, short of a miracle that Macaulay, otherwise great admirer of Baconian philosophy should keenly observe the faulty conduct of Bacon and the lowly features of his actual nature. But to fate might be referred the affair of Bacon.
And let us resume the sad event that shed a flood-light on a particular point of Bacon’s conduct. The Earl urged as a palliation of his frantic as that he was surrounded by powerful and inveterate enemies, that they had ruined his fortunes, that they sought his life, and that their persecutions had driven him to despair. This was true; and Bacon well knew it to be true. But he affected to treat it as an idle pretence. He compared Essex to Pisistratus who by pretending to be in immediate danger of assassination and by exhibiting self-inflicted wounds, succeeded in establishing tyranny at Athens. This was too much for the prisoner to bear. He interrupted his ungrateful friend by calling on him to quit the part of an advocate, to come forward as a witness, and to tell the lords whether, in old times, he, Francis Bacon, had not, under his own hand, repeatedly asserted the truth of what he knew represented as idle pretexts. The story altogether is lamentable, and the reader is requested to note the trends and tendencies which help to reveal, the true nature of men when on test. Bacon returned a shuffling answer to the Earl’s question, and, as if the allusion to Pisistratus were not sufficiently offensive, made another allusion still more unjustifiable. He compared Essex to Henry Duke of Guise, and the rash attempt in the city to the day of the Barricades at Paris. Why Bacon had recourse to such a topic, it is difficult to say. For, it was quite unnecessary for the purpose of obtaining a verdict. It was certain to produce strong impression on the mind of the haughty and jealous princes on whose pleasure the Earl’s fate depended.
The Earl was convicted. Bacon made no effort to save him, though the Queen’s feelings were such that he might have pleaded his benefactors' cause plausibly with success, and certainly without any serious danger to himself. The English Queen certainly was never to be so mean as not to understand the feelings of a person under such obligations of a friend who stood on the verge of death. The unhappy nobleman was executed. And now let every one who is a follower of Bacon, rush to the mirror to see if there were no similar signs of opportunistic ingratitude to be discerned in his own face in this age of Baconian attitude. And who in this age is not the follower of Baconian philosophy, a philosophy of Moral bankruptcy. The fate of Essex excited strong, perhaps unreasonable feelings of compassion and indignation. Essex had a place in their hearts and they admired and loved him for his qualities. The Queen was received by the citizens of London with gloomy looks and faint acclamations. She thought it expedient to publish a vindication of her late proceedings. The faithless friend who had assisted in taking the Earls’ life was now employed to murder the Earl's fame. The queen had seen some of Bacon’s writings and had been pleased with them. He was accordingly selected to write. A declaration of the practices and treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex, which was printed by authority. The excuses of Bacon in this respect appear to be insufficient. He was under no professional obligation to write this abusive pamphlet regarding a man who was in his grave, and was once a friend and benefactor of Bacon. Bacon exerted his professional talents to shed his friend’s blood, and his literary talents to blacken his memory. And all this for what?
If Bacon could lie prostrate at the feet of Buckingham and would not rise till excused, why Bacon could not fall at the feet of the Queen to beg life of his benefactor and a loveable gentleman. For his own benefit, though provided indeed the proud and haughty English Queen would suffer him to do so, he would as life throw himself a hundred times at her feet and expend all his rhetoric is supplication uttering heart-touching moans. It is hard to miss the resemblance between this habit of Bacon and of this present day Baconian culture. Just mark the prevailing selfishness and opportunism in this Baconian race. Macaulay’s surmise was “Bacon was a servile Advocate that he might be a corrupt judge”. And Macaulay could not have been regarded as amiss in his surmise.
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Posted by: yousuf gabriel | October 29, 2009 12:27 AM

QURAN'S VIEW OF BACON'S PHILOSOPHY
By
Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
If you have viewed a detailed study of the Islamic License of material utility, and Islamic view of this world against the other world, and of the rivalry existing between man's love for God and for this world, and the correlation between the love of this world and infidelity, and the Islamic view of the moral of the disbelieves, and might by own have made a clear picture of the whole, to realize that Quran is an severe and as austere in its policy about this world and its wealth as is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or any other religion that teaches renunciation of this world, and monasticism and hermitage, which Islam does to. Islam, though it has prescribed individual monstracism, and the renunciation of the world, yet it s close study revels that it has aimed at a universal monasticism, that is to change this entire death into a monetary, just as it has declared all this earth to be the mosque of Allah, with the difference only that it has a sort of a social monasticism in view, a monasticism in which people live in Society, do, but never entangling their hearts with this world, never considering it as their permanent abode, and looking always at the next world with such anxiety and longing as is to be found cherished in the mind of a person living in a strange land and yearning always fort his homeland. All this may appear strange, but in fact all the pious Muslims in any are a have passed their lives o n this earth like this. The heart of Hazrat Omar (Razi Allah ho Ta'ala Unho) the second caliph of Islam during his tenure of caliphate may be seen hardly less detached from this world and its pomp than digenesis the tub-dweller of ancient Greek. The necessities of life, however, are allowed by Islam, without any perceptible severity as has been the custom in certain other religious, though the indolence is not without conditions and is restricted. The difficulty today is that the mankind of these present times has completely lost any sense of guilt or remorse associated with the love of this world.
The person of the Holy Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, being the first and foremost model for his followers, for his mission embraced the entire human race, the question naturally arises, what was his attitude toward the Islamic licence, how much did he himself avail of it. Obviously his life appears before the world like a clear book, and he lived life of self-imposed poverty and self-abnegation throughout the tenure of his prophetic office. His motto was, "Poverty is my pride". His opinion of this world and its seekers was publicly given as, that this world was dead carrion, and its seekers the dogs. He himself preferred to wear coarse apparel. He never once ate a full meal. He and his house-hold frequently suffered starvation. And all these sufferings continued even after he was raised to the status of a head of a state. He distributed thousands house ands among the people, but generally he himself went him empty-handed. And what a home. His family lived in cells whose roofs were touched by the head of a man. He sat on the floor, and he possessed one blanket, which during summer he would speed beneath him, while during winter he would wrap it about his person. Yet he was a paragon of nobility and generosity. No needy person ever went empty-handed formed him, if there existed anything to give in his home. Nay, even he borrowed from the Jews to give to those in need.
This was the prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, but he had inspired his disciples with the same views. All the of them (Peace Be Upon Them) knew the virtue of poverty and its place in religion. Most of them strove to follow the model. Some have left memorials that whole human history has failed to produce the like of them. Hazrat Abu Bekr Siddique (Razi Allah ho taala unho) was the first caliph. He lived a life of poverty such as could not be the envy of the poorest among the people. Hazrat Omer -e-Farooq Razi Allah ho taala unho , the second caliph. The conquer of Iran and Rome. Hazrat Omer-e- Farooq, Razi Allah ho taalla unho, the terror of emperors went about wearing a short with fourteen patches, dined on the tops of the mosque, inviting the passers by to his diner who generally declined the offer, w slept under a palm tree at noon with his whip under his head as the pillow, the drops of sweat tickling down his forehead and being absorbed by the sand below. And all this be suffered intentionally.
Hazrat Othman Ghani , ( Razi Allah ho Taala unho) the third caliph, who o was famed forth is wealth and for his generosity, would put out the lamp of his public office, and light up his own, if the conversation was of private nature. Hazrat Ali Karamullah Wajhu, (Razi Allah ho taala unho), the fourth caliph was a model of poverty. Self imposed poverty, and was generous beyond imagination. Hazrat Omer Ibn Abdul Aziz, also deserves mention. It is enough to mention about him, that on his demise, the Roman Emperor wept and wailed a loud, saying, "Today a saint has departed from the world. If here was a saint, it was Omer. The world was beneath his feet and he shunned it".
These were the disciples of the Holy Prophet, (Peace Be Upon Him), or were the disciples of his disciples. Let us see the state of the Islamic saints thereafter to this present day. Poverty has always been their motto and the basis of their cult. This was the decisive, distinctive, distinguishing feature of their order. This was the criterion of judgment or their merit. The slightest sign n of the world's love or worldly temptation was a signal for their fall in the estimates of the people. And it is still like that. But in the cases of this Baconian progress the world has became blind of sight. Even today the first requisite for the saintly life is the poverty and disinterestedness .The peculiar situation of this world today form the viewpoint of this Baconian system of progress, however, warrants a peculiar attitude on the part of this mankind in universal manner. The entire mankind has individually and collectively to adopt the saintly attitude of poverty, if escape form the all-devouring flames of the atomic hell, the logical consequence of this Baconian progress is desired.
This dispute is nothing new. Poverty, humility and charity have been the features of God's religion always. See any religion, and you will find no exception anywhere. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and indeed every teacher of religion has taught this. Controversy, however, appears to be of little avail in the case of this modern Baconian system of progress. The philosophy of this age is s based on rationalism, and it is easiest thing in the world to say, this modern progress stops no one form either adopting the religious attitude or from understating religious practices. Though ages of controversy could hardly succeed in furnishing that this mankind with a decisive answer, thanks to the agency of time that the real decision has appeared without the least ambiguity the form of atomic hell, the logical and scientific result of Baconian progress. The wonderful thing in this respect is that the Quran has contained for all these past fourteen centuries, the subject of Baconain philosophy of modern atomism, and a complete characterization therefore, and the resultant atomic hell. The description of the Baconian philosophy of atomism as is given by he Quran it is a miracle. And to deduce the appearance of atomic hell that is atomic bombs and radiations from the Baconian atomism as the Quran has done is a miracle. And the scientific characterization of the atomic phenomenon and its manifestations by the Quran in is a miracle. And it is a challenge to the scientist ad as well as the philosopher of this Baconian age. And the atomic weapon is not a weapon of defense, it is the wrath of Allah, it is the divine vengeance. It is the grievous retribution. It deserves radiation, before it has eradicated this life on earth.
Before we quote the answer of the Quran to Baconian philosophy, that is the prophecy which has been alluded to above, it appears reasonable to pose a question to every well-informed person in the world, namely, that could Islam or nay to other religion, even if it were completely, perfectly promulgated, save its followers, or the mankind, or even itself form the flames of the atomic hell, if this Baconian progress were allowed to continue as it did? The answer is the negative. The consumption of this world by the atomic hell is inevitable in the presence of this Baconian progress. The stage by now is set and the time is long past for such verbal assertions as:-
(a) Does not Islam allow the necessities of life and the material utility of the resources of nature?
(b) Do we not find in the Quran the emphasis laid on the contemplation of the work of God? And does not Quran alluded to the conquest of nature?
(c) Is not Islam a progressive religion?
(d) Is not Islam averse to monasticism and hermitage? And is not Islam a dynamic religion?
Such assertions and others for this kind are now long past their age. They are noteworthy herein, nor can they give the least protection against the blazing reality now advancing toward a mistaken mankind like an infallible doom. For rolling is the text of the prophecy of the Quran about the Baconian hell, that is atomic hell, that is nuclear hell. The worst and most terrible of tall the hell. The Quran says:-
“Woe unto every back-biter, 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. And what could teach thee cast into Al-Hotama. and what could teach thee what Al-Hotama is? It is fire of Allah kindled with leapeth up onto the hearts. It is (a fire) closed in on the m in outstretched columns".
(Quran 104-Al-Homaza)
What does this mean? The Quran which allows the material utility, is here seen uttering terribleness denunciations against those who id is their own opinion, and indeed with a clear conscience, are only utilizing the permissible license of the Quran, keeping within the limits and adhering to the basic policy. This indeed is a postulate that warrants keenest attention of those who have not as yet acquiesced in the preordained doom. A very terrible, most frightful, and besides that exceedingly shameful doom.
You have read the prophecy of the Quran about the atomic hell. Please re-read it, and seethe nature of the evils that amazingly implicate such a terrible punishment. Do you find disbelief, the most grievous in included therein? No, none of that. This excludes the differentiation between the Muslim and the non-Muslim. Believer and non-believer. It embraces everyone. Do you u seek shirk (giving partners to God), the next grievous a sin? No. Not even that. Is it murder of felony? No. Is it thereto, man-slaughter or fornication? No. Nothing. What is the crime then? It is merely the slander. It is only the engrossment in wealth-accumulation. it is just a belief in the eternity of riches. If you have any regard for the God's word, or you realize the proper significance of the word of God, then look. This Baconian philsophy of modern atomism is a slander of the doctrines of revealed religion. And this is an age in which the habit of a slander moves like the spirit form one corner of the earth to the other. This is the age of criticism and propaganda .And this Baconian progress is n no more than a process of systematic, organized, ever-increasing, infinite and eternal wealth-acquirement, wealth-increase and wealth-arrangement. And this is a generation which has implicit and explicit faith in the ever-increasing eternity of his wealth-acquiring progress. The case is clear. And above all else, its result is no more a bidden secret. It is there in the form of atomic hell .Now only its gate has to be thrown open. What remains now is only, that you sit open. What remains is only, that you sit alone and think if you are not involved in it.
The crux of the mater as you have yourself read in the prophecy of the Quran, is that the causes both of the appearance of this temporal atomic hell of this transient world, and those of the punishment in the eternal atomic hell of the next eternal world, wherein there is no notion of death, are the same. They who deserved hotama, the atomic hell, are the same. They who deserved Hotama, the atomic hell, even if they escaped this transient atomic hell of this world, cold not escape the eternal atomic hell of the next eternal world. The Baconian philosophy is a beautiful snake which appears innocent, harmless and lovable. But actually its bite is so deadly, and its breathe is so fiery, that it would not allow its victim to count there to ask for water, or to explain the trouble.
When we seek the example of this Baconian philosophy of man's dominion over nature for material benefit in the Gospel of Jesus we find the following striking example that my be read with interest and for instruction equally by the Christian and non-Christian communities:-
(33) "Here another parable: There was a certain house-holder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a vinepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husband men, and wet into a far contrary:
(34) And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husband men, that they might receive the fruits of it.
(35) And the husband men took his servants, and beat one and killed another, and stoned another.
(36) Again he sent other servants more than the first; and they did unto them likewise.
(37) But last of tall he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son.
(38) But when the husband men as a what son, they said among themselves, this is the heir; come let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
(39) And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
(40) When the Lord, therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
(41) They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out His vineyard unto other husband men, which shall render Him the fruits in their seasons".
(Gospel St.Mathew XXI- 33-41)
This world is the vineyard of God. He has let it out to mankind. Bacon has sought man's dominion over this vine-year .Poverty, humility, and charity appeared as servants of God to take the fruits. But poverty was beaten, is beaten, humility was killed, is killed, charity was stoned, is stoned. Then the idea of resurrection appeared as the son of the master of the vine-yard, and was killed, is killed. Baconian mankind, wants to seize on the inheritance, the dominion of God. But will it succeed? No the matter is far beyond human power. It is blasphemous even to think of such a thing. The successful of mankind hitherto in the scientific achievements has been only an enticement into the final trouble. Steam bent itself to the service of man. Then electricity followed the suit and bent its back to Man. Then atomic phenomenon appeared before man as an adamant advisory. The folly of man now is to think that the will be able to subdue and trap and tame this fierce, fiery giant atumbumb. It is a kind of false optimism and blind confidence of Baconian spirit that will lead this mankind right into the heart of the atomic hell without any hope of redemption. And this will be eternal woe.

Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Adara AFqar e Gabriel Quaid E Azam Street nawababad wah cantt
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Pakistan
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Posted by: yousuf gabriel | November 3, 2009 3:57 AM

THE WARNING OF QURAN ABOUT ATOMIC BOMB
BY Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Yousuf_gabriel21@yahoo.com
I found the warning about the atom bomb in the Quran, and now, it has become a duty incumbent on me, as my faith implies, to make it known to the whole vast mankind. My duty however is to tell only, and then it remains for them to do as they would deem fit. Whether to a hell ablaze, themselves, and along with them their children, in order to be roasted alive, one and all, in a world of cancer-ridden monsters, or by avoiding the hell, that is the atomic hell, on to the path of peace and safety, to their ultimate destination. How little did the atomists know, when engaged in the study of Nuclear Energy, what they were doing? They did no more than apply the keys to the gate of atomic hell. A gate which they eventually did succeed in throwing wide open. The powers then appeared to round up the lowing mankind from every side, like mad cowboys, towards this mighty gate of atomic hell, and whipping them mercilessly with a show of chivalry of course, endeavored to push them through the gate, with promises of bliss inside: gardens, palaces, rivers, peace, prosperity and indeed everything that could be the desire of one's heart. What else it could be, if it is not sheer madness, that they disbelieve in the promises of Allah about he gardens in the next world as mere fantasy, whereas they believe in the promises of bliss in the Nuclear Energy in this world.
The prophecy of the Quran about the atom bomb, that is the atomic hell, fortunately enough for mankind, is in the form of a warning, and is based on cause and effect, deed and consequence, and not at all a decree preordained. The Quran has manifestly given the causes that are responsible for the resultant emergence of Nuclear Power and its consequent fruit, the hell bomb. The danger therefore could certainly be averted through repentance and the removal of the basic causes, the causes which have been enumerated by the Quran in most explicit of terms. Nay, the danger even could be averted, a little before the atomic Holocaust has taken place. It is just as the sins of a sinner could be pardoned by the Merciful Allah, on repentance even a little while before death.
The prophecy, rather the warning about the atomic hell in the Quran is primarily to be interpreted as, and assumed to be, an event of the next eternal world, but, just as fire and garden are there in this world to represent hell and heaven respectively, this atom bomb on earth is to represent the atomic hell in the next world, with the difference indeed, that whereas the victims of the atom bomb on earth might taste death, the victims of the atomic hell of the next world are doomed to burn therein for ever without ever dying. And also, that, while among the victims of Atom bomb in this world there might be people innocent; the inmates of the atomic hell in the next world are, one and all going to be men, judged individually and found deserving of the particular punishment. Those innocent people however who unluckily fell victims to the atom bomb in this world would find ample compensation in the next world for their loss and suffering, in this world, through Allah's unabounding mercy, just like those innocent believers who would fall victims along with other bad people whose evil deeds have incurred the wrath of Allah and the subsequent chastisement, will according to the promise of Allah be compensated on the day of judgment for undeserved sufferings. Those unfortunate people however, whose deeds will justify their punishment in the form of Atom bomb in this world will be doubly punished, that is, both in this world and the next world. If on the one hand they will suffer the punishment of burning in the atomic fire in this world, on the other hand they will be hurled in the atomic hell in next world to burn therein eternally.
And pray, now, do not call me superstitious or fanatic, or a bigot in anyway (for I may be a man more or at least as enlightened as you yourself might be) if I venture to place before you a fact, curious through and strange indeed, yet not in any way impossible, nor fantastic. To wit, that during my ordeal, an ordeal very gruesome, very blood-curdling and extremely horrible, and you may wonder, what! I say the ordeal of writing this book which you are now going to read. A book which you may think not very different in any way from many other books, yet, there might be men in this very world, possessed of a sight clear enough to discern the truth of my ordeal in the pages of this book, and they might hear the shrieks, cries, laments and thunders of a different kind, not to be found in many other books. But what I want to tell you now is that, during my writing this curious book - a book written in frightening circumstances, circumstances even more adverse than those of Great Milton, when he wrote his "Paradise Lost" - I have remained throughout the subject of two strange powers. One of these I found to be helpful in a mysterious way and working like an under-current. A very encouraging power indeed. The other power, aggressive, hostile, cunning and mischievous. Always in a state of extreme exasperation, always furious to the point of dreadful frenzy, a perfect fright, a picture of horror, a fury insatiate, a terrifying witch with fearful teeth, fiery eyes and covered all over with hair, always in excitement, always in a threatening mood, as if in readiness to snatch away my papers right from my hand, but would not dare, due to the awful majesty of Allah, in whose service I moved. Think me not at all unaware of the age in which I live. A purely materialistic age. An age in which a thing like this would be deemed a mere hallucination, mere fantasy, something sheerly unbelievable. But, what if the spiritual lights have been dimmed to a faint glimmer. What if the celestial edge of human mind has been dulled to extreme bluntness? Yet the human intellect is not as yet so blurred as not to realize the truth of my statement if I explain the thing a little further. Brethren, and fellow human-beings! The power which I say was helpful to me was the personification of the merit of the present day humanity. A power which endeavoured to lead them away from their impending doom, that is the atomic hell. While, the other power which was hostile towards me, was the personification of the guilty part of the conduct of the present day mankind. It endeavoured to the utmost of its ability to drag them towards the pit of punishment ablaze with atomic hell. Both these powers incessantly struggled in a tug of war, and the fate of humanity will be decided according to whichever of these two powers would finally succeed. Do you understand it now? I thought, not the understanding of some sage extraordinary was required to comprehend such a simple thing, but, why, the question arises, these powers thought me to be a fit object of their attention. The answer is equally simple, that both these powers realized the worth of that warning of the Quran which I held in my hand and was engaged in preparing the same for its presentation to mankind. So great has been the worth of this warning in the eyes of the devil that the fiend has been in mourning ever since I undertook this work and has done all that was in his power to deter me from my enterprise. There is every possibility, that mankind may shake its dizzy head at the sound of this warning, and may ponder over the problem, and realizing their folly may repent and thus be saved. A thing not at all to the liking of this constant enemy of the sons of Adam. Indeed so overzealous had this devil been in its endeavours against me, that but for the unabounding grace of Almighty Allah, the pages of this my book might have been scattered all over, the plane which was once the scene of a removable battle fought between Alexander the Great and the brave Poras centuries ago. And now that I have done my part, it remains for me only to wonder what pranks this resourceful fiend is going to play with mankind in the matter of their acceptance of this book and their subsequent conduct in heading the warning of Allah: their creator, about the Atom Bomb. Our hearty prayer today ought to be, May God give us wisdom, such that we may be saved from the atomic hell. And so also our children and all mankind. That which I have suffered was necessarily the part of my training and will always be.
That the Quran has prophesied about Atom Bomb must naturally come as a surprise to the world. A miracle has happened in an age of no miracles. It indeed is a miracle and a miracle of no ordinary kind. A miracle in no way less wonderful than that of raising the dead from the graves. Indeed something has been raised to life, that lay dead and buried in its grave for no less than fourteen centuries. A call sounded at a most propitious moment, when humanity stood in readiness to make a leap into the Nuclear Hell which they have themselves created. Only if humanity would condescend to listen and pay heed to this resounding trumpet of the most beneficent Allah, the most Merciful Creator of mankind, they may still with certainty avert a most painful end. Judging from the present state of distressed mankind, and the nature of horrors, that stand in readiness to fall upon it, no topic could justly be considered as of a more momentous import or in any way of a graver aspect than the one which unfortunately is most neglected, and is entirely ignored by mankind viz. the Nuclear Energy and Atom bomb. Far more grievous is the aspect that of the treacherous Nuclear Radiations in comparison with the atomic blast and raging fires. These radiations constitute a hazard of quite a different nature, of a far more serious nature to humanity. Mankind have the solace of No-atomic -war-pacts and these are not reliable. They have the satisfaction of safeguards against he Nuclear Radiations, and no safeguards could be a guarantee against the Nuclear radiations. What hope of peace is there in a world of many nations and diverse considerations, particularly when the devil is at large to hatch his plots to bring about the ruin of human race. The atomic war in such circumstances may at any time start and seal the doom of miserable humanity. The only sure way of annihilating the danger of atomic warfare lay in the removal of basic causes responsible for the appearance of atomic bomb. The worth of the warning of the Quran about atom bomb manifested itself most conspicuously in the fact that of the enumeration of the causes of the emergence of atom bomb. This warning of the Quran ought to be deemed a God-sent opportunity at a most critical juncture, and if mankind failed to recognize its true worth, there could not be found a precedent as unhappy as that, in the whole history of human race.
Devil, as I have said, is as free in this age of confusion as it never was in the past, and its chances of success are as great in this age of constant tumult and unrest as were never before. We will tell a story about the devil even at the risk of incurring the title that of old fashioned and outmoded. The story however may be interesting, instructive and to the point, and one which reveals the extent of the ingenuity of the methods adopted by the devil in bringing about the ruin of men. It is feared that in the presence of such a resourceful fiend, the most genuine and well-meant efforts of Nixons and Kosignes to banish the Atomic Warfare, might well, be doomed to final frustration.
Once, it is said, a man remonstrated with the devil for creating all the broil and clamour amongst men to break the peace of the world. To which the fiend replied, “Brother! I do not more than dab the wall with a syrupy finger, and the rest of it all is done by humans themselves". This said, he beckoned the man to follow him, and straightway went to the shop of a confectioner. The confectioner sat busily preparing sweet-meats. The devil stood silently watching for a while and then stealthily dipped his little finger in the syrup and silently entering the shop, just made a little dab on a wall by his syrupy finger, and retired to an obscure corner within, and there sat himself down, secretly musing. Presently a few flies gathered on the dab. A lizard propped up from somewhere and sat on the lurk silently behind the flies. The cat of the confectioner mysteriously emerged and crouched behind the lizard. Outside, came a customer to buy sweetmeats for his children, and along with him came his bulky dog smelling and sniffing all the way. The dog sensed the presence of the cat inside, and at once fixed its anxious eyes upon it, and stood wagging its tail in excitement. The scene was by now set, and then a deep suspense for a while ensued. The moment at last arrived. The lizard suddenly made a jump on the flies, the cat like a flash pounced upon the lizard, the dog came at once fell swoop upon the cat. The exasperated owner of the cat threw his syrupy ladle at the dog and maimed it forthwith. The infuriated master of the maimed dog struck the exasperated owner of the cat with club on the head and killed him on the spot. The plot was by now well on its way to final success. The police naturally arrived in the wake, and the awful creak of the hinges of the jail-door, and the hanging noose, and the widowed women and orphaned children, and a life-long mourning, etc. The devil leaving his seat and approaching its complainant- who stood with its eyes wide open in wonder at the mysterious play-slightly patted his shoulder and peeping deep into his startled eyes said, " Look friend, I did but dab the wall with a syrupy finger, and the rest is all done by humans themselves. Why then to whole blame on me for that which others do?".
Mankind today is in a state of great distress everywhere, both in the east and the west, heart-burning; anxiety and frustration are everywhere as common and as cheap both in the castle and the cottage as the wind that now blows. The spell of science is over and the panic is on the increase amongst humanity in exact proportion to the relative increase in material progress. The higher the piles of commodities and greater the number of factories, deeper the sense of poverty, and fear of hunger. The much repeated terms of the modern times, namely, the peace, progress, plenty and prosperity have come to assume forms, perverted in reality. The scientific progress indeed gave a delighting swing in the beginning, at a time when Macaulay and along with him an innumerable host of master minds had, nothing but praises for the fruitful philosophy of the modern age of science. Bacon the supposed initiator of the modern philosophy of fruit, and the recognized trumpeter of the modern age was unanimously hailed as the greatest philosopher of his times and the true benefactor of all humanity. But alas! the short-sighted followers of Bacon had taken too short sighted a view of Baconian philosophy and having discarded the grand trunk road of a balanced outlook had fallen instead on the delusive paths of pure, ungodly and unspiritual materialism towards immediate gain, and then, quite naturally so, the honey gradually assumed a bitter taste and the illusion of a fast approaching paradise began to show signs of a deceptive mirage. The reaction of nature against those who had proceeded to achieve its conquest for material gains only within this world, and in the absence of spiritual considerations, began to appear in a revengeful mode, and inwardly stirred up, heart-burning, discontent and frustration in the minds, and outwardly led them on to the paths which ended in front of that grisly horror, the atom bomb. Slander, back-biting, mutual mistrust and distrust, excessive greed and complete engrossment in a systematic accumulation of wealth of this world, and an exaggerated and indeed undue confidence in wealth amounting to worship, - in short, all the qualities which the Quran has given out as requisites of the appearance of atom bomb- fused together and finally appeared in the form of Nuclear Energy and its corollary the atomic bomb, together with their issuing fragrance, the atomic radiations. The Nuclear Energy once hailed as a great boon turned out to be a bane and not at all a boon. A feature which darkened even the brighter aspects of science and which eventually is justly to be feared as the killer of science itself along with human race. This Nuclear Energy if not abolished in time and not supplanted by some harmless means of power, is going to destroy the whole world, there is no doubt about it. Or do I Exaggerate my fears? I say, go ask a scientist. I am no fanatic. I have a balanced mind just as balanced as it would be wished for, But I see a humanity playing an ostrich and I am engaged only in shooing them out of this sand in which they now stand with their heads buried deep and eyes closed, imagining themselves safe in their blindness, and thinking that, just as they cannot see the approaching wolf, the wolf also is not seeing them.
Humanity, only if it had a little faculty of imagining the horrors of the Nuclear Power, whether used for war or for peace, they would have preferred poverty and indigence without Nuclear Power to plenty and opulence with nuclear energy. Humanity has tolerated the conventional bombs and air-raids in the hope of facilities to be provided by science, but the nuclear energy has come as a killer of all hope. Unfortunately, the general humanity knows little about the nefarious features of Nuclear Energy. They will for ever live absorbed in their own problems of the necessities of life, food and clothing, and will eventually be driven like herds of cattle into the Atomic pit, after a painful existence in an atom ridden age. Let now the rational scientist and the wise politician have courage to stand up to mankind and declare that the atomic-ridden science is soon going to throw all the most contemptible arts of magic, and all the most abhorrent features, and all the most despicable forms of witchcraft of the dark ages into shade, and that, all the toil and labour and patience, perseverance and all the sacrifice of hundreds of past generations of humanity and a history-long Endeavour to build up a civilization worthy of man, is going to be ultimately destroyed by a tiny little invisible atom due merely to the folly of the most knowledgeable and most enlightened age of the whole History of mankind on earth. It is a painful reflection and it reminds me of a little distich of Wordsworth.
"To let a creed built in the heart of things,
Dissolve before a twinkling atomy".
Indeed the creed built in the heart of things has been let to dissolve before a twinkling atomy, and we just say, wonderful Wordsworth.
Allama Muhammad Yousaf Garbriel
Gabriel House Idara Ufqar e Gabriel Quaid e Azam Street Nawababad Wah Cantt Taxila District Rawalpindi Pakistan.
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