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Pyaare Nabi Ki Pyaari Nawasi, Shaam Ko Qaidi Ban Ke Chali Hai!

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Hazrat Fatimah Kubra (S.A.), eldest daughter of Imam Husain (A.S.), narrates:

I was standing at the opening of the tent, watching my father fight. I saw him fall from his horse and a few moments later I saw his head being raised on a spear. The enemy’s army started shouting “Allahu Akbar” after killing the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) grandson and instruments of victory were being played.

Then I saw thousands of men start racing their horses towards our tents, all carrying spears. I turned around to go back into the tent but one rider thrust his spear into my back. I fell down.

When I regained consciousness, I found all the women of the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) household sitting huddled under the open sky with bare heads and all the tents were on fire. I turned to my aunt Zainab (S.A.) and asked where my chadar (headcover/veil) was. She replied that the veils of all women had been removed by the riders with their spears.

Together we sat there after four days of hunger and thirst with the children, crying and surrounded by the pieces of our fathers, brothers and sons whose bodies had been torn apart by riding horses over them.

All women and children were tied with ropes the next day. Husain’s eldest son Ali Zain-ul-Abideen (A.S.) was made to wear a heavy stone neckbrace, his hands and legs chained tightly. The Prophet’s family was then marched off to Damascus with the heads of their loved ones on spears in front of them. One head belonged to a six month old, with his mother watching it all.

Imagine being a part of this caravan. Do you cover your head? How would you feel if you were paraded bare-headed in streets and bazaars with crowds gathering to throw sticks, stones and fire at you? What if your brother, son or father was with you? How would he feel?

This was done to the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) women. The Prophet who taught Muslims about the sanctity of a woman, got this in return.

10.01.2009 Animals, Captives of Karbala(A.S.), Enemies of the Ahle Bayt (A.S.), Facts, General Knowledge, History, Husain(A.S), Martyrs Of Karbala(A.S.), Muhammad(S.A.W.W.), Reflections, Religious, Women, Zain-ul-Abideen(A.S.) 6 Comments

Allah And The Intricacies Of Space-Time

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

I asked a question “The Universe is billions of years old. How old then, is Allah?”

Well, here’s the answer after a long wait.

Asking “How old?” implies a measurement of time. Now we all know that time started when the Universe was created. And so did space. But this reduces our frame of thought. There could be any number of things that might have been created before our Universe. There may be parallel universes running alongside ours for all we know.

You can skip this blockquote if you want.

There are many theories about the birth of the Universe. One of them is of Quantum Fluctuation.

Planck Time is the earliest moment in history where our physics still works. It is the shortest amount of time we can probe in the laboratory with our current knowledge of physics. It’s value is 10^-43 sec.

This particular theory states that Universe was born from a quantum vacuum. A quantum vacuum is a state of a quantum field in which no quanta are excited, i.e. no particles are present. It is a state of minimum energy and has potentiality (read Potential Energy). Laws of classical physics do not apply here, only quantum mechanics. Our Universe originated from a quantum vacuum. Before Planck time (10^-43 seconds of the Universe), classical physics is not applicable to the Universe, i.e. space-time did not exist.

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that for a pair of conjugate variables for a particle, such as position/momentum and energy/time, it is impossible to have a precisely determined value of each member of the pair at the same time. For example, a particle pair can pop out of the vacuum during a very short time interval.

So what the theory states is that according to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, there were fluctuations in the vacuum and particles pairs appeared and disappeared quickly, from nothingness. This is not ordinary nothingness, it has potentiality. Slowly, this gave birth to the Universe which was a compact particle in the beginning with extremely high density, and expanded into “black holes forming and disappearing”. Expansion continued, space-time formed after Planck Time and slowly the Universe was created as we see it today.

I’m sorry, that was the most I could understand of this crappy concept. But it accepts the fact that energy (potentiality) was present at the beginning in the quantum vacuum. It’s origin, anyone?

If we take the first creation of Allah, i.e. the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) and mark it as the beginning of celestial time, much before the birth of the Universe, or as the beginning of “all” time, what before it?

Allah is the creator of all, He created Space-Time so He cannot be subject to it. But the question above provides one problem in this theory. What was Allah doing before the origin of celestial time? The word “origin” indicates a beginning. If Allah is devoid of space-time, He has neither a future, nor a past. Only the present. If so, how do we explain our “past, present and future” in terms of His “present”?

Simple!

Let’s take the example of a ray of light. It travels from the Sun to our Earth. Let the Sun and Earth be two points A and B, respectively. At all given moments of our time, Allah is watching both points. He is aware of all that will happen when the ray originates from A, to the moment it culminates at B, i.e. He can see the past, present and future of that ray of light, at the same time!

Still confused? Let me simplify it more.

Picture a film editor with a reel of film spread out before him. The film is divided into different frames, each of which has a different moment of time imprinted on it. When we watch the film on a screen, each frame appears one by one, creating a “motion” effect. But the editor is looking at all frames at the same time.

Here, each frame on the film is analogous to each moment of time. We experience motion but Allah is looking at all moments simultaneously!

For Him, Prophet Adam (A.S.) is being created, the storm of Nooh (A.S.) is in full swing, Musa (A.S.) is splitting the Nile with his Asa (walking stick), Eesa (A.S.) is being crucified, Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) is declaring Prophethood, Ali (A.S.) is being born in the Ka’bah and martyred in the mosque of Kufah, Husain (A.S.) being slain in Karbala with his family and friends, Pakistan gaining independence, me typing this post, Zakir Naik and [Dr. ?] Israr Ahmed going bonkers and upholding the tyrannical Bani Umayyads (L.A.), all at the same moment!

Savvy?