The Flat World

To apprehend the matters, higher than the approach of human intellect and conscious___ is possible by virtue of the God-gifted consciousness alone. Such a consciousness is, however, awarded to only those polite people, who tread upon the God-appointed Straight Path, sincerely.

Intellect is although the biggest human instrument, but it is applicable only within certain limits. A lot of unusual matters have never been interpreted by the intellect. And___ inspite of being a heart based creature___ we have been oftenly treating the heart, as a worthless thing.

We can not weigh or measure the love & hope. While without these both, the life is no more than a mechanical process. So everything can not be weighed or measured through the intellect. And___ there are so many things___ in which we believe, without any help or confirmation of the intellect.

Intellect is a thing, which is enclosed within it’s own borders. To know it, in the most proper term, is no doubt, our first and the foremost necessity.

Edmond Abbot was the famous British intellectual, who designed a particular map, to demonstrate the limits of intellect, which is known as the Flat World.

This map contains some basic geometrical shapes. These shapes are hundred percent (100%) two dimensional as they are with the length and the width alone. They do not have any third dimension of height or depth at all.

This map is the best possible method to illustrate the reality. That is why that it has been referred to, again and again, by the subsequent intellectuals. Who endeavoured to interpret every such matter, which is beyond human intellect and conscious.

Detailed explanation of this map has been given by Edmond Abbot in the most desirable way. He has, logically, demonstrated the limits or the borders of human intellect.

Now by means of this very map___ we are going to examine the possibility of such an existing and living Omnipotent, who is beyond our intellect because of being the Creator of intellect.

Suppose____ there is a world, a two-dimensional world, a flat world, based on the flatness similar to shades, without any height or depth___ having only two dimensions of the length and the width alone. A world___ wherein there is no concept of the third dimension at all.

In this very flat world, intellect knows the length and the width positively but it is totally ignorant of the third dimension. Third dimension is very much existing but it is exterior as a third dimension to this flat world. So, none of the intellectuals of this flat world can grasp it by means of his two-dimensional intellect. Nor___ he can apprehend the realities of three-dimensional world or state, which is exterior to his two-dimensional world.

Third dimension remains untrapped by the flat brain of this flat world. Here in this two-dimensional world___ everything is two-dimensional and quite flat. The people___ business___ love___ marriage___ children___ homes__ knowledge___ debates___ disputes and intellect___ all in all are flat, just like the shadows without third dimension.

There is a city of this flat world wherein are living a flat square, a flat circle & a flat triangle. Here in this flat city, every action of the inhabitants, is a flat gesture. Their vision, their hearing, their speaking, their eating, their drinking and their understanding___ every gesture is a flat gesture and it takes place in a flat way.

Here in this city of the flat world___ things with two dimensions of length and width, are easily trapped or captured by the intellect. But the things with third dimension, are not captured by the intellect at all. So, these things are considered as supernatural things by the citizens of this flat city. That is the conditionality, which is treated as natural by these flat citizens and they do lead and spend their lives in the same conditionality.

Now suppose that a three-dimensional creature, incidentally, comes to this flat city of the flat world. None of the two-dimensional inhabitants___ feels the presence of that three-dimensional creature. So___ the presence of three-dimensional creature does not make any difference to the prevailing conditionality of the two-dimensional city.

Three-dimensional creature___ then addresses in its three-dimensional way to the two-dimensional square and says: “Hello!” The innocent square looks here and there in his two-dimensional world but in vain. He listens to the voice of three-dimensional creature which resounds all-around him but he listens to it only within the limit of two dimensions. So, he does not succeed in apprehending its meanings. Consequently,___ instead of responding to the call of “Hello”! He thinks that some disorder has taken place within his self. He, thereafter, consults the Doctors & other Specialists of his two-dimensional world but no one tells him some remedy of his problem and the problem remains as it is.

Three-dimensional creature, at last, scatters the possessions of two-dimensional square to make him realize the presence of his three-dimensional existence but again it makes no difference to the square. The innocent square thinks that he has been captured by some super natural creature.

After sometime, three-dimensional creature lifts up and takes the two-dimensional square into the world of three dimensions. The innocent square is highly astonished at this stage. He sees and realizes such type of things in three-dimensional world, which are all-in-all exterior to him and his two-dimensional world.

Three-dimensional creature, at this stage, gives a message to the two-dimensional square who is, afterwards, pushed back to his two dimensional world. The square grasps the message on account of his new sensibility but he remains confused for a considerable time. He ponders over the event again & again and thinks that who will believe him in his two-dimensional world.

The message given by the three-dimensional creature is of paramount importance and its conveyance to the two-dimensional creature is necessary at all cost. So, the square arranges a party at his home and invites his nears and dears to participate. After the party, He narrates the event and delivers the message of three-dimensional creature to the two-dimensional guests.

Majority of the guests___ demands to see the three dimensional creature by themselves. The flat circle criticizes the innocent square that he has been captured by some super natural creature and he has become mad. That is why that he is misleading the people. The flat triangle, however, accepts the message openly and says to the others that the innocent square has never told a lie as he is an upright fellow in letter and spirit. So, there is no excuse for anyone to refute the square and the message brought by him.

Now___ if we accept the situation of two-dimensional flat world___ as our own situation or as the situation of our three-dimensional world.

Then, refusal of four-dimensional or multidimensional creature will become impossible for us. Especially in that case, when someone of our three-dimensional world, would have met and conversed to the four-dimensional or multidimensional creature or an angel, in person. And___ some message would have also been received by him from the multidimensional creature or the angel, for onward conveyance to us.

This turning point is highly serious for three-dimensional creature____ the mankind. After this example, denial of a Prophet or a Messenger does not remain possible for us. Instead, the nature of Message invites our intellect to ponder over the Message seriously. Where-after the Scriptures brought by the Messengers___ are logically held as the most reliable sources of the truth.

Moses (PBUH) after descending from the mount Sinai, Jesus (PBUH) after returning from the desert and Muhammad (PBUH) after coming out of the cave Hira___ did talk of the same Message and the same truth.

We must think over the situation positively. Since inception of human population on the earth__ the situation is going on___ in the same way. The Messengers have been talking of the Message___ duly received from the Creator of all-dimensions. Believers thereof have been being saved while the deniers thereof have been being destroyed.

Evident is the fact that if human intellect had not been limited___ then, it would have furnished the answers of following questions___ by itself:

Where do we come from?
Where do we go after death?
What is the aim or purpose of life?

As the human-intellect is limited and unable to furnish reasonable answers of these questions. So, it becomes naturally imperative that our Creator may kindly furnish the desirable answers of these questions, through a man like us. Praise be to the Lord___ our Creator has always responded to us in positive terms. Messengers & Prophets have always been coming to us___ in all ages___ and at all times.

Now come to the context again. Is the two-dimensional square, in a position, to show three-dimensional creature, to his fellows? Or can he hint upon the third dimension in such a way that the two-dimensional creature may understand it?

If the two-dimensional creatures demand, again and again, that the two-dimensional square must show them either three-dimensional creature or, at least, the third dimension. Then, in what terms the square will respond? Whereas the square is unable, to draw some image or imagination of three-dimensional creature or the third dimension, within the frame of two-dimensional description. Nor he can bring three-dimensional creature or the third dimension, before them.

Three-dimensional creature is not describable in words according to the structure of intellect of the two-dimensional creature. Nor some picture or sculpture thereof, can be made in colours & lines or in stone or metal, which could be seen, in the two-dimensional terms.

Obvious is the condition that every two-dimensional object will be treated, as actual and the real, by the two-dimensional creature. While every three-dimensional object will be treated as unreal and imaginary by the two-dimensional creature. On the same account, the two-dimensional square is unable to hint upon three-dimensional creature or the third dimension. But inspite of that setback, the square will continue his converse about his incidental meeting with the three-dimensional creature and it’s message for the two-dimensional creature. Consequently, he will be held, as a liar or a super natural creature stricken mad, by his two-dimensional fellows.

Innocent square will be telling them, the truth, but no one will be trusting his statement from his two-dimensional fellows. At last, the limited intellect, which is intervening as an obstacle between the truth and it’s acceptance, will be left aside and the dialogue will come on the following turning-point:

“Whosoever is freely desirous, he may believe in the unseen. And___whosoever denies the truth on his own account__ such one should wait for such a day when the truth will come across him and remove his doubts. Of course the believers will be positively rewarded and the deniers will have to suffer from the retribution”.

We are, no doubt, the inhabitants of three-dimensional universe. Here, our mind and intellect, the both, are corresponding to three-dimensions of length, width and the height or depth. And___ our knowledge is based on the information of three-dimensional world and our life is a three-dimensional activity, within our three-dimensional surroundings.

Here in our world, a man like us, compels us that we should believe in God and the angels. And___ he tells us that he has met a multidimensional creature, the angel Gabriel. Who has given him a message from God___ God is the Creator of all dimensions but God is free from the dimensions and nothing is alike God and as such God is beyond our intellect and conscious.

We respond in terms of the demand that we want to see God and the angels. He replies that it is not possible through our three-dimensional intellect. Especially we can not see God with our eyes as God is not a thing___ nor a material or immaterial object, instead, God is the Absolute Holy.

We discuss the matter at length, in three-dimensional terms but no specific result comes out. We leave the situation as it is, saying thereby, that we are not ready to believe that,which is beyond our intellect. If to see the angel is not possible for us, then, how the Messenger, himself, has seen him?

He tries to make us understand that he has really met the angel Gabriel in a known state and he has really received the Message from him and God is really existing. But we remain captives of our limited intellect and do not accept the truth. Since the state in which Prophet receives message from God, remains our “unknown”, therefore, we stretch out our tongues against the Messenger. And, the process of hearing and accepting the truth, seems to us just like an irrational process due to our three-dimensional approach.

In human society, the matter of belief in God and truthfulness of Verses, has always been like that. In fact, we believe in three-dimensional realities alone. In our eyes, three-dimensional world is the only real world. A famous French painter Gustave Courbet was asked to paint the angels in Church. Courbet replied:

“Angels? How can I paint what I have not seen”. 3

On account of this very statement, Courbet is called as a realistic painter in the world of Art. And___ that is this very instance, which reveals the fact that reality of the people with three-dimensional vision, is always a limited thing.

Church has, in turn, presented the angels and God, as three dimensional creatures. Painted figures of many angels including God, have been brought before the eyes of masses by the Church. So that, three-dimensional people may apprehend and believe in them, in three-dimensional terms. Whereas the 1st Commandment in Bible, is clearly declaring the worship of images, as an act of hatred and enmity against God.
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3 This answer of Courbet was not in response to the Commandments of God but it was based on the realism of three dimensional world.
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Most interesting is the thing that to establish certain notions, church has called such a book___ a revealed book_____, which has been got, written by the church itself. Name of this book is Gospel by John. Introducing the same, Church itself is writing:-

1. “This Gospel was written so that its readers might believe that Jesus is the Promised Saviour, the son of God and that through their faith in him, they might have life”.

(Introduction to John, First Five Lines, Good News Bible, United Bible Societies, 1976, New York)

Almost the same wording is written in the Gospel as well in Verse 31 of the Chapter 20. And___ it is also written therein:

2. “No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God……”.
(John 1:18)

Here____ through these two references___ the Church-made two deliberate alterations, are automatically unveiled.

1. The Church has transformed the multidimensional religion of Jesus into a three-dimensional religion.

2. The Church has made an image of God through the words: “the same as God” relating them to the so called introduction of Jesus. Whereas Jesus had never introduced himself in these words throughout his life.

Jesus (PBUH) always called him as the Son of Adam (Matthew 19:28, 24:44) but Church is calling him as the Son-God. So Church is, as such, trying to prove that God is a man.

How like is God? This very question has already been responded by the God, in the following words:

“I____ and I alone____ am God
No other god is real”.

(Deut. 32:39)

“Worship no god but Me!
Do not make for yourselves images
of anything. In heaven or on earth or
in the water under the earth.
Do not bow down to any idol or worship it”.

(Deut. 5:7 to 9)

Hence, the notion that Jesus is just like God and he was with God since ever and he is the son of God____ is all-in-all wrong. Such a notion tantamounts to a malafide boldness, which has been purposely planned to refute God and God’s Commandments.

John’s statements are, in fact, based on opposition of the Lord, the One Alone God. So, the followers of John are indulged in making a false god with the Real God, the One Alone Lord. They have accepted this very statement of John as it is, without any critical study thereof:

“No one has ever seen God. The only son is the same as God……..”.

(John  1:18)

The statement means that there is another god, beside God, who is just like God.

Such a belief is quite contrary to the belief, described in terms of the Ten Commandments. Wherein God has warned that no image of God should be formed___ as nothing is alike God. To form an image or imagination of God so as to worship it___ is equal to the worship of an idol, which is an act of hatred and enmity against God. Church has formulated a new thing in religion by declaring the Prophet Jesus as God.

Famous American Priest, Jimmy Sweagert says in the way & style of John:

“God descended to earth in the guise of Jesus so as to walk and talk among people”.

It means that Jesus is god and it also means that Jesus alone is god___ the real god. Another belief is also popular that God is the father and Jesus is the son. As such every Christian believes in the following two contradictory things:

1. Jesus himself is god___ the real god.
2. God is the father and Jesus is the son.

Strange is the situation that no Christian bothers to think that if Jesus himself is god___ the real god___ then who is the son? Father & son, the both are different persons. Father can never be considered as son and son can never be considered as father and both can never be considered as one or alone.

Father or son___ are the names of human creature on the earth. Whereas nothing on the earth is alike God. Nor it ever can become alike God.

One of my friends__ was asked by someone that why he did not accept Jesus as the Son of God. He replied that whenever he succeeded in finding some news of the grandfather of Jesus___ he would accept Jesus as the Son of God___ then and there.

As the Christians believe in God, in terms of a creature or a thing on the earth. In the same way, pantheists or Sufies believe in God, in terms of a creature or a thing on the earth. That is why that they oftenly say that:

“God is everything and everything is God”.

Whereas it is clearly written in Bible & Quran, the both that:

“Nothing is alike God”

It means that to form an image or imagination of God by means of three-dimensional intellect or consciousness____ is not possible at all. Rather, it is not possible even by means of multidimensional intellect or consciousness___ as God is dimensions free. So, whosoever makes some image or imagination of God____ indeed he makes an idol and commits a tremendous sin and becomes an enemy of God.

About 1419 years ago or even more, an event took place with a man, like us, in Mecca. The event, which has been explained in the preceding pages through the allegory of two-dimensional world or the flat world.

The event, which took place in Mecca___ is clearly mentioned in Quran___ the Revelation of the Lord to mankind. Which is, by the grace of the Gracious God, free from all sorts of errors and anagram. Heading of the relevant chapter of Quran ___ is “Aun-Najm” (the planet). We, hereby, examine the Verses 1 to 12 thereof with reference to the Edmond Abbot’s flat world.

“AUN-NAJM”
(The Planet)

By the leave of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

1. “By the planet when it disappears”.

(Planet is a symbol of our presence___ and it is corresponding to our intellect. “When it disappears” means that when three dimensional world disappears and a new state appears, which is multidimensional).

2. “That your comrade is not misled, nor is deceived”.

(Talking to the people, God is telling that the man (Prophet Muhammad) who is a man like his fellow-men___ is on the right path. Do not estimate him in diminished way that he is misled or deceived or he has entered into some imaginary or unreal state).

3. “Nor does he speak of his own desire”.

(Here, it is being clarified that Muhammad (PBUH) does not speak of the religion on his own accord or according to his personal estimate or ambition. Instead, he speaks of the religion on accord of the Lord, in terms of the revealed Verses. So He is preaching nothing else but the God’s Message).

4. “It is not anything but a revelation___ revealed to him”.

(Muhammad (PBUH) is preaching the same Message, which is being revealed, to him by his God. So his message is the God’s Message which must be adopted positively).

5. “It has been taught to him by the one powerful”.

6. “One vigorous who grew clear to his view”.

(Verses 5 & 6 are about the multidimensional creature___ the angel Gabriel, who took Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) into the multidimensional state. Where-after, it became possible for Muhammad (PBUH) that he could view the angel Gabriel and receive his message. Angel did appear before him and he (Prophet) saw him (Gabriel).

7. “When he was on the uppermost horizon”.

(The angel Gabriel was on the uppermost horizon at such a point, whereat the world of three-dimensions comes to an edge and where from the state of multi-dimensions takes its beginning. And___ that was the meeting-point of Muhammad & Gabriel. That point or state is far above of the design of mind. So, it has been properly surnamed as the uppermost horizon).

8. “Then he drew near and appeared down”.

(The angel Gabriel appeared down from his multidimensional state and appeared near to three-dimensional world and the both came to a close contact with each other).

9. “Till he was at the distance of two bows or even lesser”.

(The Verse is describing the situation in an allegorical way that the angel Gabriel and the Prophet Muhammad were in such a close contact as the two bows are close to each other, the distance became lesser and the both became closer to receive each other conveniently).

10. “Then, God revealed unto God’s slave that, which God wanted to reveal”.

(The situation is quite clear that Muhammad (PBUH) met the angel at the uppermost horizon, as it is evident from the preceding Verses. He did not met God as God is not a creature. Who could be seen or met by some person or prophet in a creaturely way. The word “revealed” make us understand that God gave the Message to the angel and the angel recited it to the Prophet and that is the God-ordained process of revelation.

If the verse had been like that:

“Then, God conversed with the slave that, which God wanted to converse”.

Only thereafter was a possibility to guess that God Almighty and Muhammad (PBUH) met & conversed to each other. But the presence of the word “revealed” and the absence of the word “converse” is openly clarifying that the meeting took place between the angel & the prophet___ not between God and the Prophet).

The following Verse further clarifies the situation:

“And___ it is not possible for man that God may converse to him but through revelation___ or from behind a veil___ or God sends a messenger who reveals that, with God’s permission, what God wants to reveal”.

(Al-Quran 42:51)

So the people who still believe that it was a God-n-man meeting. And, do not understand that it was an angel-n-man meeting. And, they narrate concocted stories of the God-n-man meeting. And, they diminish the Absolute Holiness of Allah by announcing Allah as a conjugal lover. 4 They are all-in-all wrong and they are committing an unpardonable sin.

11. “And, his heart (Muhammad’s heart) did not repel it, as a lie___ what he saw”.

(Here, the Verse is telling that Muhammad’s heart (PBUH) was a purified heart. It had an ability to perceive the multidimensional creature and to distinguish between the right and the wrong. So, each purified heart is a better and more capable device than the intellect to identify the fair and the foul).

12. “Will you then dispute with him concerning that what he saw”.

(God is telling here that the Prophet’s observation by heart is correct___ and the people of limited intellect should not dispute with him. Instead, they should positively believe in that___ what he advises to believe. They should try to understand his revealed truth so that they may be lead aright).

Famous British scholar, Edmond Abbot’s explanation, which proves the limit-ness of human intellect, practically, confirms the truthfulness of God’s Book. So we must accept it, as it is and obey God and God’s Book. Because any of the contrary life-styles, may lead us to a disastrous end.
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4. The following pieces of poetry convey the sense of conjugal lover: