OUR LIMITS

Universe has been made by God’s Wisdom & knowledge and universe reveals perfection and it is related to the human intellect, which owns certain limits. We live in this wisdom-oriented universe but we are enclosed in the basement of our intellect. Wherein we are confined to such a limited life as a fish is confined in the water. Who passes away her life without any awareness of the dry regions of the world.

In her world of water, a fish never comes to know that what kind of life is lead by creatures of the dry regions and the countless birds in the air. She considers her world of water as the real world and the world, out of water, as an unreal world. The region of her intellect, as such, never goes across her underwater limits.

Within her world of water, a fish always enjoys all that which is necessary for her life___ the underwater life. So___ to know about the dry regions___ is considered by her___ as an unreal and unnecessary thing.

Now suppose that you are a fish in the depth of waters. You are leading an underwater life therein. One day, you happen to meet a particular fish who was, previously, caught by a fisherman and was kept in a glassy jar of water for some days on the beach. There, she came to know about the deceptive ways and trickery of the fishermen___ whereby they used to hunt the fish.

She also came to know on the beach that the pretty ones of the fish were kept in the big glassy jars of water. While the common ones were roasted in the boiling oil.

The same awared fish is, now, addressing to you in the following words:

“O ‘dear, beware!!! To live in the depths of water, is not free from the manifold dangers. While eating something in water, you must be always careful. Lest, it is fastened to a hidden hunting nail. If you, mistakingly, swallowed such a thing. It will pierce into your throat and carry away you to the pot of boiling oil. Do you know the unbearable agony of boiling oil?

What will you do at this very stage? Will you act upon the advice of preaching fish? Or, you will keep on grazing everywhere, without care. Of course, it will be decided by you and you alone___ that what will you finally do?

Now come out of the supposed situation and ponder over the real situation. Is not man___ in the unending limits of space___ just like a fish in the depths of water?

Is not our intellect limited___ just like that of the fish in water?

Is not the news of Hereafter___ about whom Prophets have been talking so continuously___ just like the news of dry regions of the world, for a fish?

Should we not ponder over the Revealed Verses and try hard to grasp them?

To lead a life without awareness___ is not just like the life of animals?

If our limited intellect does not tell us anything about the time___ prior to our birth? Nor it tells us anything about the time___ rear to our death? Then___ should we not weigh and value the all-alike teachings of Prophets?

If we ourselves__ are not the creator of ourselves! Then should we not try hard to know our Creator?

If the sweets are made by the confectioner alone? Then should we not believe in the One Alone Creator of the fruits and flowers?

If a simple machine is not made without an engineer? Then, how the whole chain of complexed cosmic creatures, can come into existence without a Creator___ the One Alone God?

TOWARDS THE RIGHT PATH

We can not conceive, by ourselves, some concept of that state of life___, which is existing beyond this universe. In this regard___ we are totally dependant upon the following three sources:

1. The One, who could see to that state and this world, the both.

2. The one, who could see from that state to this world.

3. The one, who could receive the news of that state, in this world.

Religious means do tell about these three sources.

1. God is the first source Who is All Able to see that state and this world, the both. God is also well known to everyone___ to the believers and the non-believers and the atheists.

2. Angels are the second source who can see from that state to this world. A well-known example thereof is the example of angel Gabriel or the Spirit. Who is popularly known by the people of every religion.

3. Prophets are the third source. Who receive the news of that state___ in this world. They are also well known to everyone___ to the believers and the non-believers and the atheists.

These are the three sources___ without whom we can not receive any news of that state in this world. However, our issue at present is the question, whether some real and alive system is existing beyond this universe or not? At this stage, however, we will have to remove the materialistic fog of this universe, from our vision.

Future of everything in this universe___ is the dark depth of the unknown. The present is changing it into sunshine of the known. Whereas our past is the reserved record of that light which has been collected, ray by ray, from our present.

One end of the past is our birth. Which is an undeniable reality. While the other end is the present moment. Which is passing by the tick tock of clock. And___ the last end of the unknown future is our death. Which is again an undeniable reality.

That is a particular situation wherefrom we are always confronted. And___ among the undeniable realities of birth & death__ we can not ignore the TRUTH. That is why that we are naturally driven to these three basic questions:

Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
What are we doing?

WHERE DO WE COME FROM?

It is quiet easy to say that we have not come in this world from some external place or planet. Instead “we are born” or “we have been born” here___ on the earth.

“We are born” is a pure scientific concept. While “we have been born” is a pure religious concept. But the question of “where do we come from” still needs more clarification.

Some people are of the view that our entity was existing prior to our birth, at some unknown place. It was, perhaps, without body and spirit. Or perhaps with the both as it is at present. Either we have lost our previous memory. Or our present existence is totally different from our previous existence. And___ our present form is completely forgetful of our previous form.

Famous Urdu poet of the Sub-Continent (Old United India) Asadullah Khan Ghalib is of the view that prior to our birth we were part of God. Ghalib has expressed this view in the following verse:

“When there was nothing then God was there. If nothing had been there, even then, God would have been there. My birth has diminished me. If I had not been there then what would I have been”?
(Ghalib)

The verse means that when nothing was yet existing. Even at that time, God was very much existing. And everything to be born in future___ was existing within God including the poet.

The poet is therefore of the view that if he had not taken the birth. Then___ being a part of God___ he himself would have been God.

Cause of such a thought on the part of Ghalib is Sufism (Pantheism). Whereby God is identified in terms of the material universe. And it is popularly believed that:

“God is everything and everything is God”.

Ghalib is, however, to some extent, different from Sufies (Pantheists). Sufies always believe that God is everything and everything is God. But Ghalib’s confession that after his birth, he is no more a God, instead, he is a commonplace creature___ is his open departure from Sufism.

The most ponder-able and noteworthy words, in Ghalib’s verse, are the following words:

“My birth has diminished me”.

Whereby Ghalib is treating his birth as a tragedy and an irrepairable loss for him. For the birth has degenerated him from God to a commonplace creature. So, here Ghalib is far different from Sufies. His theory of birth is based on two parts.

According to the 1st part of his theory, everything is God, prior to its birth. Whereas according to the 2nd part of his theory, everything is degenerated to a commonplace creature after its birth. 2nd part is particularly ponder-able.

Being a subject of birth and death, all the creatures are helpless and mortal including mankind. Here, we feel ourselves quiet agreeable to Ghalib. But we can not agree to the Sufies that we are God. Reasoning does not allow any room for such a notion.

If we are God then why are we so helpless and a subject of birth and death?

If the whole chain of creatures, is God? If it is so___ then why God is so helpless and a subject of birth and death?

Ghalib’s theory of birth, of course, bespeaks that whosoever is born___ that is not God. But the 1st part of Ghalib’s theory is not convincing that prior to our birth__ we were part of God. If the case was, really, like that, then, why those parts have become degenerated and despised after birth? Does God degenerate God’s absolute existence into a diminished creature by birth? And___ if it is true then___ how much of God’s absolute existence is now remained perfect___ and how much is diminished? Is process of birth___ a separation of God___ from God?

These questions do clarify that Ghalib’s theory is a double-faced theory. He has learnt from Sufies (Pantheists) that God is an aggregate whole of many parts. And___ at the same time___ he has learnt from religious scholars that creatures are separate from God and subservient to God.

What Ghalib could not understand, is the fact that God is not an aggregate whole of many parts. Nor anything or any person was a part of God’s Absolute Existence. Nor anything or any person may ever become a part of God because nothing is alike God. God is Holy and the All-Alone Creator of everything___ every person___ and every creature. Hence, Ghalib and Sufies (Pantheists) the both are wrong.

Ghalib’s view that prior to our birth___ we were God and threefold view of Sufies that we were God___ prior to our birth and we are God___ even after our birth__ and we will absorb in God___ after our death___ all in all___ is wrong. Because God is not an entity at all, which is degenerate-able in parts.

In either case___ to approach the reality___ we are bound to know___ nothing else but God. That who is God? What is God? Why God is God? And why God should be believed as One Alone God?

However, before beginning the discussion about God__ we should take into account some other suppositions about ourselves as well.

For instance, we might be remote controlled robots of some scientifically advanced creature of some other planets. As UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are seen here and there, these days and their pictures are published in the newspapers. And___ some people have even met them in person.

Or___ we might have come from many planets duly sent by different creatures. Our mutual differences ___ our preparations of war___ our indulgence in strategic plans___ our celebrations over each others defeats and the likewise rivalry-based movements___ are the practical indications of such a supposition.

The first world war followed by the second world war and now___ preparation of third world war including the cold wars of the peace-periods__ also do speak of the same supposition.

Establishment of U.N.O and veto power of the super powers therein__ is another proof of the same situation.

Faces and forms of the people of this world are so varied and unified___ that they seem all alike and different at the same time. For instance, being humans Africans are just like the English people. But on account of colour & features, they are different from each other just like the day and night.

Like wise, Japanese are different from Arabs and Asians. Asians and Arabs are different from Americans while Americans are different from Russians. It seems as if the earth is a battlefield and different species of mankind are demonstrating their power to dominate each other.

Humans___ in this context, are the chess-soldiers who are ever-ready to kill or to be killed. Negroes, Indians, Arabs, Japanese, Americans etc. are the warring teams of some galactic super powers. Perhaps on the same account___ the countless deads of the Great Wars___ are not remembered with sorrow & grief. Instead, their graves are piled up with the wreaths of flowers___ to praise and glorify their death.

American celebrations on destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki including the innocent residents___ do tell us that the word “civilization” means nothing to us. Humanity is not a thing to be respected and regarded. The only and all-important thing___ is the war strategy and demonstration of power.

A child___playing a video game derives a specific pleasure by hiring & firing on the screen. Perhaps___ the same sort of pleasure is derived by the advanced creatures of other planets. Who have sent the humans-like remote controlled robots on the earth.

Where do we come from? The question is a highly bewildering question. But to bewilder us__ is not its function. Its function is to stimulate us to think & search out the truth.

Beside galactic war & rivalry, we can see the reasonable recesses as well. Whereby it is easily guessed that SOMEONE is definitely there. Who wants to see peace and peaceful co-existence on the earth. Though___ victory is considered more important on national level. Yet on individual level, we can see that face of sorrow and grief is the same.

One may be a believer___ or a non-believer___ or an atheist___ or an Indian__ or an American___ or a Japanese___ but everyone is basically a human being. Whose nature is positively inclined to peace and peaceful co-existence. Majority of the masses, has always disliked the war and war leaders.

On human level, a woman is a woman who never wants to become widow. A father is a father who never wants to see the death of his son. Confronted by war and its disasters, human sorrow and grief has always been all alike throughout the world.

Peace-oriented nature of masses___ does not like the war-oriented leadership. Whereby it is naturally proved that the latent purpose of life is not war at all. Instead, that is peace and peaceful co-existence on the earth.

The convincing concept of human service, prevailing in Christianity is highly admirable. People of all the religions do come within its working orbit. This thing tells us that humans are the creatures of such a CREATOR___ who is the Most Generous and the Most Merciful.

In ancient religions___ coming from Buddha and Mahaveera___ animals and insects are also regarded as God’s creatures and are not harmed at all. Instead, they are left untouched, letting them to breed and prosper. Such a positive care does reflect that the Unseen God wants peace & peaceful co-existence on the earth.

“There is no compulsion in religion” is the fundamental principle of all the religions. It means that all sorts of oppression and exploitation are prohibited in religion. War is permissible in terms of the self-defense alone.

All four legged animals on earth invite our special attention that simply graze in green fields and do not eat flesh. They are the most harmless and peaceful creatures. 

God has given them horns on their heads. These horns are, in fact, their weapons of defense. They use them only at the time when they are attacked by the beasts. Study of nature, as such, tells us that:

1. Weapons are meant for the purpose of peace___ not for the purpose of war.

2. Peace essentially requires defense and destroying peace is a beastly act.

So, the earth is not a battle-field. Nor, war is the aim of life. Nor, humans are the remote controlled robots of the advanced creatures of other planets. Real situation is quite different. We are not the rival tribes at war, instead, we are the peace loving and peace ensuring creature on the earth.

At this stage when all of us are standing on the edge of our ultimate death due to the nuclear and even more sophisticated weapons, we should realize the indispensable need of peace.

Since inception of the human life and the battle of survival on the globe___ a strange human performance has always been in progress. And___ that is the preaching enterprise of the Prophets among their fellow-men. And___ their education has always been regarded as Divine Education.

If we had been a remote controlled creature of other planets. Or___ we had been a composite creature of various gods. Then the Prophets must have told us about such planets and gods including their commandments. But no such news has ever been given by the Prophets___ throughout the human history. Instead, they have always talked about the One Alone God and God’s Commandments alone. And___ they have also told us that we have been created and sent to this earth by the same One Alone God.

Scientific research tells us that our body is made of soil. The soil___ brought to the earth by various meteors from millions of planets. The same soil is now the body of humans and animals on the earth and that is the biological base of life.

Science is busy in biological research but it is silent about self and spirit of the creatures.

Majority of the ignorant masses, is of the view that science is a religion-refuting branch of knowledge but that is not correct. Such a notion on their part is on account of their ever-increasing interest in material gains. They have no time to study the science of realities or the science of religion or even their own souls and selves. So they can not apprehend the world of actual realities.

Such people are of the view that religion is an ancient fossil and that is all. These people do not know that the scientists have succeeded in believing the Lord___ the One Alone God. Not through some external sources but through their own research. Whereby they have reasonably realized that religion is not an ancient fossil. Instead, it is the most moderate and scientific code of life brought forth by our Creator___ the One Alone God. Famous scientist Albert Einstein admits the existence of One Alone God in the following words:

“That is an Infinite and the Most Sublime power and cause whose effects are seen everywhere in this inapprehensible universe”

(Thesis: In confirmation of Einstein’s Creative Power by Marline Buxs Kradar)

Albert Einstein has hinted here upon the One Alone God. He has not hinted here upon two or three gods or two or three causes. By declaring the universe as inapprehensible, he is declaring that the Creator of universe is, also, inapprehensible. Thus he has positively confirmed the reality of Monotheism and discarded the baseless notions of Henotheism and polytheism.

Albert Mc Combus Vanchester (the biologist) says in his thesis:

“Science has strengthened my belief”:-

“Science removes the polytheistic notions___ mingled with our Monotheistic religious beliefs___ by those self-evident realities which can be confirmed by us through the observable testimonies”.

DOES GOD REALLY EXIST?

Edward Luther Castle writes in his thesis: “Let us study the facts without prejudice”:-

“Some people are involved in this absurdity that when God is Eternal then why we should not admit that the universe has come into existence automatically. And___ some people also say that if we can accept that God is Eternal then why we can not accept that universe, itself, is eternal.

Second law of the Movement of Heat, which is known as the “Law of Entropy”, negates the latter notion. Science agrees that universe is not since ever. The Law of Entropy has clarified that Heat always travels from the heat-full to the heat-less__ and such a movement remains always ordered. It can not be driven backward that Heat may travel from the heat-less to the heat-full.

Entropy is the name of ratio___ existing between the receive-able and the non-receivable energy. On this account, we can say that Entropy of the universe is increasing day by day. And___ a time in future, will, definitely come, when Heat of all the objects will become equal and no useful energy will remain intact.

Consequently, no room will remain vacant for the chemical and physical reactions and functions. Life will perish and an all-encompassing state of inertia will prevail. But keeping in view the fact that chemical & physical chain of reaction____ is in progress and life is intact. So it is automatically clarified that the universe is not since ever. Otherwise, its energy would have been exhausted afar back in the past and no feeble ray of life would have been existent here.

Hence, in this way, Scientific research has unintentionally proved that some starting point of the universe is certainly there. As this point is properly proved, so in continuation of the same, God’s existence is automatically proved. Because every temporary thing is, predominantly, in want of some life-giving effect of the First Stimulator.

Scientific research has not only proved this fact that universe is not since ever. It has, rather, proved through it’s latest discoveries that about 15 billion years ago, universe had, at once, come into existence by virtue of a creative bang. And its span is increasing even today.

The people who weigh and value the scientific research and its discoveries___ they can not deny the fact that universe has been created. And___ it’s creation is far beyond the stereo-type laws of nature, as the laws of nature, themselves, are a creation of someone’s creativity”.

Study of science, without prejudice & pre-occupation, therefore, makes the reader understand that some Supreme Creator has created this magnificent universe and its complexed system. Who is to be admitted as God.

Research-oriented persons must ponder over the creation of countless creatures in the same way___ as they ponder over the results of their own research. They will be then, perfectly convinced, that God and Creator of the universe is very much existing___ here and there___ everywhere.

The people, who declare the matter as Cause of Creation, oftenly use the word of Evolution. And as such___ they try to deny the existence of God. And___ they treat the term of Evolution as a paramount argument of their view-point. Whereas Evolution is nothing but a common feature of the nature. In this connection___ Edward Luther Castle has also expressed his views in the following way.