Hazrate’ Insaan and the Image of God

The scientific ideologists consider science the answer to most things. If science does not prove a phenomenon they simply dismiss the existence of it.

Throughout history, the scientific rules have been changing with new discoveries. For starters, the scientific community does not agree on the theory of evolution. The history of Homo Sapiens (or Homo Erectus) has changed several times in the past one century alone and is likely to be rewritten, yet again, after the discovery of a skeleton in South Africa thought to be three million years old. If confirmed, this would make the remains 500,000 years older than anything previously discovered.

Some claim that the speed of light is the only absolute thing in the universe; everything else is relative. Too much credit is given to Einstein’s E=MC2. "It's just not true what they say in the textbooks," says Raymond Chiao of the University of California at Berkeley. “For example, a Gaussian shaped light pulse can travel faster than c through some highly absorbing materials.”

Seismologists can tell you all about what causes the earthquake and how it happens but they cannot predict the next earthquake. Listen to the weather reports and look at the predictions about the weather. Meteorologists will never say that it is going to rain tomorrow for sure. They always say there is going to be a certain percentage of chance for rain. The weather for the future is always unpredictable; it is the case with financial markets, the pattern of stock markets, commodity prices, demand and supply, and so many other things, depending upon what we call the uncontrollable. Predictions about some things in the far future are impossible because of, what mathematicians call, a chaos effect. The chaos effect or human beings’ inability to understand things, proves how vulnerable and small we are. Look at the race of Giga Hertz and Giga Bytes. A small wafer with complicated micro circuitry took years of research and development and yet it is not faster than the human brain, which God had created millions of years ago and has not changed in the physical nature, if we believe that religious theory. Ask any neurologist who has little knowledge of the history of human anatomy.

Our study of human psychology is not advanced yet. Psychologists cannot explain why one human being will act differently from another in the same situation. The reason being too many uncontrollables involved, thus “the chaos effect”. The upbringing, the surroundings, education and even standard of living could mold a personality differently. The point is no matter how much we learn about ourselves, or things around us, it is never going to be the ultimate knowledge. Only God has the ultimate knowledge of everything- yes including the CGI script, moving images on the screen of your computer, the art work in Flash, the MP3 audio, hundreds of pages of script, the data link libraries (DLLs) running your operating system, the hydraulics, the automobiles, the airplanes, the food we eat and how it converts into blood and blood into energy, the neurons in our brain, the memory cells, the matter in the universe, billions of galaxies, millions of universes, even the most popular equation E=MC2. We have NOT created anything, including Windows2000, LINUX, UNIX, the atomic reactor, or Betsy the genetically engineered sheep. These are the things, which we are discovering, not creating.

Just like God taught Adam 2700 (or 27,000 languages according to some Muslim Scholars). Maybe all this knowledge is embedded in our genes and we discover new things as time passes. We are thinking about warp speeds and God is challenging, “O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! Not without authority shall ye be able to pass!” (Quran 55:33)

The irony is that we say that we believe in God, but when we close our eyes and create his image we see someone who looks like a Sufi in white robe sitting on a high chair. God is someone who is only paying attention to the Mullahs, Padres, Monks and Sadhoes (pardon me if your image of God is better than mine). So we go about our business not involving him in our daily lives.

What God has to do with Lockheed Martin’s research lab where someone is designing a fighter plan of the future, or in Microsoft where someone is writing hundreds of pages of code for an advance Operating System with voice commands, or in a hospital where a neurosurgeon is performing surgery on a human brain, removing a deadly tumor and saving a life, or in AMD’s (Advanced Micro Devices) lab in Germany where someone is designing micro-circuitry for a new chip which will leave Intel far behind. In our image, God does not go to New York, Tokyo, or London stock exchange.

We are so self-involved and self-indulged that we have started considering ourselves better than everything else. We claim to have a better understanding of things, including the rules set by God. We claim to find flaws in those laws, flaws in those who believe and follow, and flaws in those who practice God’s religion: the primitive people, uncultured, uneducated, the so-called “servants of God” who are still living in the 4th century. It is embarrassing for us to associate ourselves with religious people because Hollywood has made too many movies about religious fanatics. It is embarrassing for some of the Muslims that Islam considers a woman’s witness as half a witness. Only God knows why he set such rules, because he created women and only he knows everything about them.

If we do not accept every rule God has set, then there is something wrong with our faith. If we do not believe that God is smarter than every physicist, mathematician, politician, lawyer, biologist, accountant, engineer, rather all humans combined, then there is something wrong with our faith.

Without this belief we will always question the rules set by God. The first rule is to obey whatever is prescribed; God is not stopping us from researching the causes of a rule, but it is clear that the ones who do not obey all of the rules of God are called Munafiqeen (hypocrites) and these are the worst human beings.

So, in the back of your mind, if God is still sitting on a high chair in a white robe, with a turban on his head, surrounded by people with long beards, my friend, you should go back and re-discover God. Simply denying the existence of God might solve some of your problems. If God does not exist, then you can throw out every religious rule, every religious book, and rule-out the need for prophets. But, if you wish to define your God, then create an image of one God; one who is powerful, bigger in size than all of the Universes and has more knowledge than the whole of humanity. Imagine him sitting on a high chair with billions of angles around him and all seven skies under one foot of his chair.

Imagine the seventh sky as a big round balloon with billions of angles controlling thousands of universes with millions of galaxies in each universe and millions of systems in each galaxy. Imagine a huge ball within that big balloon, lets call it the sixth sky, and this huge ball has universes, millions of galaxies, and millions of systems in each galaxy, just like the seventh sky, but smaller in size. Imagine a third smaller ball within this big ball which is in the big balloon we are calling the seventh sky. Keep on decreasing the size of these balls until you come to the first and the smallest ball of all, which has thousands of universes, and millions of galaxies in each Universe. Imagine one small Galaxy (the Milky Way) in this universe and a small system (the solar system) of one tiny bitty star we call the Sun. In this tiny bitty solar system there is a small planet on which we live in a tiny bitty country, in a tiny bitty house challenging the Lord of the universes; his power, his knowledge, and his wisdom.

We human beings, individually or collectively, living on a planet the size of a salt grain in the bigger scheme of things, are NOTHING; our knowledge is NOTHING, our technology is NOTHING, our understanding of things is NOTHING. Our 60-80 years of life is NOTHING, and we DO NOT achieve anything that can last forever. Forever is too long. Our achievements as a generation do not last but a couple of centuries. So, why the fuss? Accept what you have to or get out of his Universe (if you can).

“It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in God and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfill the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and a diversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing.” (Quran 2.177)

Pardon my ignorance and boldness.