PART# 01

THE FIRST ERUPTION OF GABRIEL’S ARGUMENT AGAINST THE ATOMIC HELL

By the infinite grace and boundless mercy of Allah, this series of volumes is my original work. The appreciation of scientific facts, and the new discoveries from the Quran are all my own and quite unknown to anyone, anywhere, Muslim or Non-Muslims. And for that, the most benign and merciful Allah be praised, for ever, eternally. And thus it is all my responsibility. And again Allah be praised. And it is my conviction that it will save the mankind from atomic doom.

اللّٰہ کے لامحدود فضل اور بے پایاں رحمت سے جلدوں کا یہ سلسلہ میرا اصل کام ہے۔ سائنسی حقائق کا اطلاق، اور قرآن سے نئی دریافتیں میرے اپنے ہیں اور کسی کو بھی، کہیں بھی، مسلم یا غیر مسلم کے لیے بالکل نامعلوم ہے۔ اور اس کے لیے سب سے زیادہ مہربان اور رحم کرنے والے اللّٰہ کی حمد ہو، ہمیشہ کے لیے۔ اور اس طرح تمام ذمہ داری میری ہے۔ اور پھر اللّٰہ کی حمد و ثنا ہو۔ یہ میرا یقین ہے کہ یہ بنی نوع انسان کو ایٹمی عذاب سے بچائے گا۔

GABRIEL

ہر اُس شخص کے لئے ہلاکت ہے جو (روبرو) طعنہ زنی کرنے والا ہے (اور پسِ پشت) عیب جوئی کرنے والا ہے۔(خرابی و تباہی ہے اُس شخص کے لئے) جس نے مال جمع کیا اور اُسے گن گن کر رکھتا ہے۔وہ یہ گمان کرتا ہے کہ اُس کی دولت اُسے ہمیشہ زندہ رکھے گی۔ ہرگز نہیں! وہ ضرور حطمہ (یعنی چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) میں پھینک دیا جائے گا۔ اور آپ کیا سمجھے ہیں کہ حطمہ (چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) کیا ہے۔ (یہ) اللّٰہ کی بھڑکائی ہوئی آگ ہے۔ جو دلوں پر (اپنی اذیت کے ساتھ) چڑھ جائے گی۔ بیشک وہ (آگ) اُن لوگوں پر ہر طرف سے بند کر دی جائے گی۔ (بھڑکتے شعلوں کے) لمبے لمبے ستونوں میں (اور اُن لوگوں کے لئے کوئی راہِ فرار نہ رہے گی)۔ (۱۰۴۔الھمزۃ۔9-1)

"Woe unto every backbiter, defamer who heapeth up riches and prepareth the same (for the time to come). He thinketh that his riches will render him immortal (that is his riches will remain with him for ever). By no means, he shall surely be cast into Al-Hotama (the crushing fire). And what shall cause thee to understand what Al-Hotama is ? (That is how crushingly terrible this fire is? And how incomprehensibly complex is its phenomenon?). (It is) the kindled fire of Allah (God), which leapeth up onto the hearts. Verily it is a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns".

(The Quran Chapter 104-Al-Homaza)

"Woe unto every slandering traducer who gathereth (wealth of the world) and arrangeth it. He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal. Nay but verily he will be cast into Al-Hotama. Ah, what will convey unto thee what Al-Hotama is?(It is) the fire of Allah kindled, which leapeth up over the hearts. Lo! It is closed in on them in outstretched columns”.

(Quran-104-Al-Homaza)

Read this little Chapter. Philosophically it covers the entire field of modern Baconian atomism, by presenting its essential features. And scientifically covers the entire nuclear phenomenon by presenting its distinctive characteristics as differentiated from the rest of the phenomena, i.e, gravitational, chemical and electrical. And happens to be the only guidance in the world today that leads this world out of the nuclear hell and this modern materialism which is the mother of the Nuclear Hell.

REMINISCENCES

(Einstein to President Roosevelt August 1939)

1. "I draw your attention to the possibility as is indicated by some work of Fermi and Szillard of utilizing the phenomenon of Uranium Fission for the construction of extremely powerful (weight for weight) bombs of a new type, a million times more powerful than conventional bombs. A single bomb of this type carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of surrounding territory".

(The Inscription at Stagg Field University of Chicago".

2. "On August 2, 1942, Man achieved here the first self-sustained chain reaction and thereby initiated a controlled release of Nuclear Energy".

(The President Trueman of America, Memoirs 1956)

3. "One event occurred in 1945 of such magnitude that it was to revolutionize our relations with the world, and usher in a new era for humanity, the fruits and goals and problems of which we cannot even now fully grasp".

(Bertrand Russel)

4. "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never abstained from any folly that he was capable of, and the end is Atom bomb".

(An Appeal of Note Worthies to Mankind.)

5. “Here is then the problem which we present to you stark and dreadful and inescapable. Shall we put an end to the Human race or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this Alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war.....There lies before us, if we choose continued progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we choose death because we cannot forget our quarrels? Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death”.

(An extract from a statement issued in July 1955, under the signature of Albert Einstein, Percy W. Bridgman, Leopold Infield, Herman J, Muller, Cecil F. Powel, Joseph Rotblat, Bertrand Russel, Hedeki Yukawa and Jean Frederic Joliot- Curie- Science 122, 189-1955)

(A Post/Probable-Atomic-Conflagration/Atomic war Epitaph of Humanity by the Author)

6. “Beneath these ruins lie bones, rotten and fossilized, and heaped up mould of a leporous, cancer-ridden race of chimerical monsters: Once humans, who flourished on this earth as vicegerents of God. As the chosen creation they did enjoy the greatest favours of their Creator, and were created in His image. Then, wronged by no one, they brought all this on themselves by their own hands. Unable to check their unbounding greed, and slandering disposition and forgetting their mission on earth and forsaking their home in heaven, they fell on one another like wild animals and furious beasts, and were thus in a mad frenzy destroyed mutually. The ruins of once flourishing habitations all over the earth yet exist to tell a story, a sad story indeed to sighing stars at midnight”. (The sad author)

Quran:-

كَمْ تَرَكُوْا مِنْ جَنّٰتٍ وَّعُيُوْنٍ وہ کتنے ہی باغات اور چشمے چھوڑ گئے۔

How many a garden and spring they left behind! (Ad-Dukhān, 44: 25)

وَّزُرُوْعٍ وَّمَقَامٍ كَرِيْمٍ اور زراعتیں اور عالی شان عمارتیں۔

And green crops and magnificent buildings! (Ad-Dukhān, 44: 26)

وَّنَعْمَةٍكَانُوْا فِيْہَا فٰكِهِيْنَ اور نعمتیں (اور راحتیں) جن میں وہ عیش کیا کرتے تھے۔

And blessings (and comforts) in which they used to luxuriate! (Ad-Dukhān, 44: 27)

كَذٰلِكَقفوَاَوْرَثْنٰهَا قَوْمًا اٰخَرِيْنَ اسی طرح ہوا، اور ہم نے اِن سب کا دوسرے لوگوں کو وارث بنا دیا۔

So it happened! We made another people the inheritors of all that. (Ad-Dukhān, 44: 28)

فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْہِمُ السَّمَآءُ وَالْاَرْضُ وَمَاكَانُوْا مُنْظَرِيْنَ پھر نہ (تو) اُن پر آسمان اور زمین روئے اور نہ ہی انہیں مہلت دی گئی۔

Then neither the heaven nor the earth wept over them, nor were they given respite. (Ad-Dukhān, 44: 29)

7. “How many were the gardens and the water-springs that they left behind. And the cornlands and the goodly sights. And pleasant things wherein they took delight; even so (it was) and we made it an inheritance for other folk; and the heavens and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved”.

(Quran – 44: 25 to 29)

CONTENTS (Part# 01)

PREFACE :-

CHAPTER# 1

Nuclear (Atomic) Theory.

CHAPTER# 2

The History of Atomism.

CHAPTER# 3

Hotama.

CHAPTER# 4

The early Commentators of the Quran and Al-Hotama.

CHAPTER# 5

The characteristics of those doomed to Atomic hell.

CHAPTER# 6

Accumulation of wealth and wealth worship.

CHAPTER# 7

The Quran Extinguishes the fire of Atomic Hell-A Scientific and Philosophic Summary of The Prophecy.

CHAPTER# 8

How to avert the atomic danger in the Light of the Quran.

CHAPTER# 9

A concluding word.

SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS (old)

PREFACE

Chapter- I

Nuclear Theory

(1) Different modes of energy.

(2) The atom and sub-atomic parts.

(3) Atomic Number - Mass Number -Isotopes.

(4) Fission.

(5) Fusion

(6) Radiation.

(7) Atomic weight.

Chapter-II

History of Atomism

1. Quran prophecies atom bomb at a time, when atomism had disappeared. Like an arrow shot in air towards a target remote by centuries - atom bomb never a certainty until experimented.

2 Not Democritus but Leucippus the originator of the theory of atomism -- both Leucippus and Democritus atheists--- Their atheism a cause of people's abhorrence and an obstacle in the way of their theory.

3. The views of early atomists. The most significant point of their views, namely, that motion of an atom persists until checked - It foreshadowed the law of inertia.

4. The atoms of Democritus and ideas of Plato. The greatest contemporary thinkers unanimously condemn atomism.

5 The Epicureanism and Atomism -- The Epicureans adopt atomism not for its scientific significance - why they adopted - Modern atomists and atomism - Epicureans and their rational pursuit of pleasure- Sensualists - Epicurean becomes a word of reproach.

6 Epicureans completely disregard the scientific aspect of atomism. The poet Leucritus and his famed poem, DE RERUM NATURA.

7. Stoics opposed to Atomism -- The encounter of St. Paul with the representatives of stoics and Epicureans in Athens.

8. Not the Epicureans but stoics popular with Romans-why?

9. Stoicism and Christianity are at one against Epicureans.Christianity ultimately emerges completely triumphant ---Epicureanism is completely vanquished --- Christianity the state religion of Roman Empire. The Quran prophecies atom bomb in so called dark ages of the West in 7th Century A.D. -- Opposition to Christianity from every Greek School of Thought completely disappeared. Atomism is revived in 6th Century A.D. Pierre Gassandi introduces atomism ---DE RERUM NATURA.

10. Bacon's design ---His attempt at a compromise between materialism and spiritualism unsuccessful ultimately -- Men soon excluded spiritualism.

11. Dalton's views of atom.

12. Atom adopts its path to Atom bomb ---accidentally-unexpected discoveries are made in succession --- Einstein evinces theory of special relativity and establishes equivalence of mass and energy as a consequence from it ---Rutherford's concept of atom's structure; a solar system in miniature- Quantum theory of atom is advanced---An element (Nitrogen) disintegrated by bombardment with Alpha Particles -- Neutron is discovered -- Artificial Nuclear Transmutation is achieved --- The phenomenon of Uranium Fission is discovered by Hahn and Strassman in 938 --- The whole subject goes underground by 940 till the end of war.

13. Now famous letter of Einstein to President Roosevelt, stating the possibilities of atomic bomb --- A nuclear fission chain reaction achieved by Fermi in 1943.

14. Atom bomb is built -- The tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ---estimated damages.

15. Hydrogen bomb is produced and nicknamed Hell bomb.

16. No one safe from the radiological hazards of atomic bomb explosions. All secrecy inept the tragedy of the Japanese filling boat the lucky dragon.

Chapter-III

Hotama

1. The Text of Quran's Prophecy --- The quality of the translation of the prophecy.

2. It is a warning not a pre-ordained decree- The text of the Prophecy repeated.

3. The Term Hotama explained. Resemblance between Quran's Hatama and scientist's atom or atoms -- This resemblance a key to door of the secret. The Quran correct and the scientist incorrect respecting the term "atom". What will convey unto thee what Hotama is? -- It is something inexpressibly terrible and complex.

4. The characteristics of atomic fire described by the Quran- Subtle distinctions.

5. The characterization of the nuclear phenomenon by the Quran:-

(i) It is a fire -- it is known that Heat Flash is one of the two, and the main original constituent of the atomic explosion.

(ii) Fire of Allah kindled:-

(a) Its retributive aspect.

(b) Its unearthly and solar or stellar temperatures.

(d) Explosive energy produced by a single 5 megaton atomic bomb far exceeds the explosive energy produced in the whole history of mankind.

(e) A-20 megaton bomb destroys cities by its blast and its fire, while its Radio-active fallout devastates areas equal to states.

(f) Nuclear energy destructive for war as well as peace.

(iii) A fire which leaps up over the hearts:-

(a) The Heat-flash--How the heat flash kills.

(b) What is Nucleus if it is not the Heart?

(d) A Wonder: The Quran translates exactly the term Thermo-nuclear when it says: “A fire which leaps up over the hearts".

(e) Nuclear Radiations --inherent in the nature of Nuclear Fission and atomic explosion --how they leap up over the hearts --Bone Seekers --They attack Bone Marrow -- The function of Bone Marrow is to generate blood --Blood-forming organs attractive targets for radiations --Symptoms of Radiation sickness: Leukemia, Hemorrhages, Fever, Nausea, Vomiting – all these connected with blood and heart --Multicultural organ -isms with more perfect hearts, more sensible to the effect of radiations than Uni-cellular organisms with less perfected hearts-presence of oxygen to enhance radiations' action, its absence retards --- the role of oxygen in blood, purification in lungs--Brain, nerves and muscles least sensible organs of the body to the action of radiations, and far less sensible than heart and whatever is more closely related to it.

(f) Nuclear energy generation processes- fission -- nuclear energy -- generated in the heart of atom like-wise in and fusion process.

(g) The fire of discontent raging in hearts

(iv) Hotama a fire closed in on them. The edifice of Hotama described by the Sahabah (The Companions (R.A) of the Holy Prophet Peace Be Upon Him). How is this fire closed in on them:-

(a) The Heat-flash -- its abrupt appearance and short duration

(b) Forty mile round enclosure of fire --by far the larger enclosure is of Radioactive fallout.

(c) Operation Alert in the U.S.A. --its estimated results --- Improbability of evacuating so large a mass of affected people -- A global radiological hazard.

(d) Hotama a huge edifice of fire with a roof on arched vaults supported by outstretched columns of vast extent--portrayal of nominal high-yield atomic bomb on detonation -- a hollow cylindrical column 40 miles in diameter, 0 miles high, covered by a mushroom lid 00 miles in diameter.

(e) They know that Radiological Hazard is constituted by mere generation of Nuclear Energy but greed for power and necessity overcomes their knowledge -- no question of purpose whether peaceful or military, Nuclear energy is fatal in every way.

(v) Outstretched columns - column an essential feature of atomic explosion.

6. A scene of 10,000, twenty-megaton bombs exploded symmetrically and instantaneously over the earth -- the atomic Samson and the gathering of the Lords.

7. A little Advice.

8. The Hazards of Nuclear Energy.

9. On to the Theological proof.

Chapter-IV

Commentaries of the Sahabah on Hotama:-

Remarks of Descriptive nature only quoted:-

a. Tafsir-Ibn-Abbas

b. Al-Jalalain

c. Tafsir-il-Kabir

d. Tabri

e. Tafsir-il-Azim Tafsir -II-Quran-II - Azim.

f. Quotations attributed to the person of the Holy

Prophet (Peace be upon Him)

Chapter-V

The Characteristics of those doomed to atomic hell

1 Characteristics of that atomic hell bound to be discussed --why deferred.

2. Nuclear Energy and atom bomb, the result of a process--- The accidental discovery of Roentgen and the choice of Becquerel not out of the impending line, Like Hawk's flight or spying dog's perception -- Atom bomb the egg of the hen of atomism which Dalton reared --Atomism flourished in suitable conditions -- The Three characteristics responsible for the emergence of atom bomb, namely:-

(i) Backbiting and slander

(ii) Accumulation of wealth

(iii) Undue confidence in wealth.

3. All the three characteristics conspicuous in the modern materialistic age -- atom bomb could not have been created without these three characteristics -mistrust between America and Germany --wealth of America -- mankind bear nuclear energy due to their trust in wealth.

4. Slander and this propagandistical age -- every body engaged in slandering and back-biting every body, slander a sophisticated art in this age --- All for greed-science caused to be involved in back-biting faith -- science-religion conflict at the renaissance of the West, a sad affair for all mankind -- The predisposed mind of the modern unscientific scientist philosopher --Votaries of science ought to have conducted research in religion and to have brought about the necessary reform instead of strangling the faith to death -- Science without the light of faith plays a havoc with men's life.

5 The unscientific philosophy of the scientist philosopher- interesting and instructive in its own way--- Interpretations are placed on the ascertained facts of science and also on hypotheses -- It is a slaughter of philosophy not a philosophy --- A great fact thus disclosed namely, that science cannot give answers to great questions as yet --- Our heart-felt thanks due to the unscientific scientist philosopher.

6. The examples of the prevailing trends of that philosophy --

(i) The earth too small to attract interest of so great a Creator.

(ii) Atoms could happen to arrange themselves in the way they are arranged in a living cell without the control of the Creator, just as a monkey can by chance type off a Shakespeare sonnet.

(iii) This life bound to come to a finish therefore resurrection an improbability.

7. Now we intend to quote the twelve pages of “The Mysterious Universe" --- The views not of Sir James Jeans -- The views to be found therein in the twelve pages to be shown in comparison with those of the Quran -- The Quran miraculously did anticipate the thought and forestall at times even the very words of Sir James Jeans.

8. The atrocities of the church nothing as compared with those of the scientist--- the flames which consumed Bruno not worse than those of atom bomb to consume whole mankind -- The absence of the light of faith and that of the fear of resurrection turned science into an all-consuming hell --- There still is a chance to think, though it is the eleventh hour, the next one is to be the zero hour.

Chapter-VI

Accumulation of wealth and Wealth Worship

These are the second and third characteristics of those atomic hell-bound according to the Quran--- The clearest characteristics of the modern age.

Chapter- VII

The Quran Extinguishes the fire of Atomic Hell. A Scientific and Philosophic Summary of the Prophecy.

Chapter-VIII

How to avert the atomic danger according to the Quran

1. Blame no one particularly, for the creation of atomic bomb, but rather blame the system and culture which resulted in the form of atomic bomb --- Those responsible for informing the world about Quran's prophecy.

2. The kind of applause for the atomists, shrieks of cancer-ridden people.

3. The story of a caged tiger.

4. The efforts of humanity to keep the atomic tiger for ever caged uncertain.

5. Human history a constant struggle between an inherent love of pleasure and abhorrence of pain --- The greatest minds always preferred eternal to transitory, sacrificed transitory pleasures and preferred self abnegation --- This conflict has existed in every pre-modern age --- Spiritualism reached its zenith --- Then faith began to be abused --- Then came a religion balanced between spiritualism and material necessities --- This state persisted for a long time --- Then material triumphed over spiritual --- Faith considered as cumbersome burden --- Materialism prevailed --- Humanity face to face with atomic hell.

6. Compromise between matter and mind needed --- Places to be allotted to both matter and mind justly --- Let mind be the leader ---Evil be fought out manfully --- Let justice and equality be the rule --- This life but transient ---if life considered permanent everything becomes dark.

7. A balanced faith needed between matter and mind, body and soul, material and spiritual this world and the next world ---Let mind, soul and the next world take the lead --- Let all be led by faith ---Let the necessities of life be allowed --- Let religion be generalized ---Let men outwardly live in this world, but inwardly in heaven --- soldiers by day, hermits by night --- knowledge without faith dangerous. It has turned into giant atum bumb.

8 An amulet to ward off giant atum bumb and every witch, and every evil including, dirt, poverty, diseases, ignorance --- It ensures universal brotherhood and sympathy and a transformation of thought --- Atomic danger imminent unless the basic causes removed --- Radiological hazard as dangerous as the atom bomb itself - poverty preferable to atomic hell.

9 The codified amulet prepared from the Quran --- It has the form of a beacon of light with seventy candles -- The scientist unable to produce a Neutralizer of the atomic bomb but the Quran can ---It has predicted atom bomb and it can teach the ways to escape the atomic danger --- if this code of the Quran abided by, this world can become a place worth living ---It also ensures the bliss of heaven --- Let the sailors of the boat of humanity pay heed to the advice of the Quran.

10. The seven sides of the beacon.

11. The spirit, the light, the outer inscription, the face, the seven sides and the seventy candles of the beacon.

Chapter-IX

The Concluding word

The atom bomb does not discern caste, creed, blood , or colour - It is a common foe of all and implies a common cause --Not only death but painful existence -- Future generations of monsters- The truth of faith soon to be manifest --- Let the scientist speak of the grave atomic radiation danger to all mankind --- cruelty of the scientist far exceeds that of the Priest --- No, No-atomic war pacts reliable-Let religious leaders consider their duty --- to save the civilization of Solemn duty of the present generation --- The process to avoid the atomic danger ---Faith, remembrance of the day of judgment, deposition of wealth from usurped God-head to a means and necessity, this world to be subjected to the other world --- The motive and intention behind the act decides the face of any matter --- This life temporary --- cast away greed -- Science to a peaceful use--- Nuclear energy an exception, it is harmful whether used for peaceful purposes or whether as a weapon of destruction, has only one face that of destruction --- Absence of slander, greed, and wealth-worship will automatically dissolve nuclear power into nothing ---eat to serve the cause of God, spend wealth on the needy -- judge men on personal worth --- Need of economic and social justice impelling --- Such injustice the source of most of the troubles of humanity. Horizons over --- cast with calamities- the verdict of time ---Christianity's involvement in so gross a materialism strange --- Christianity a religion anti-materialistic, anti-wealth, anti-back-biting and anti-slander --- innocent men if consumed by the atomic hell in this world along with those guilty, will be recompensed in the next world.

Summary of Part One (New)

Preface

CHAPTER# 1

1. The Atom.

2. Methods of the Generation of Atomic Energy.

i. Fission Process.

ii. Fusion Process.

CHAPTER# 2

1. Author of Atomism.

2. The Early Views of the Atomism.

3. The Atoms of Democritus and the Ideas of Plato,

4. The Greatest Contemporary Thinkers Condemn Atomism.

5. The Epicureans Adopt Atomism as a Symbol.

6. Epicurean has no Regard for the Scientific Aspect of Atomism.

7. Appostle Paul encounters the representatives of Stoics and Epicureans in Athens.

8. The Appostle Paul in Athens and his interesting encounter with Epicureans and the Stoics.

9. Not the Epicureans but Stoics Popular with Romans.

10. Both these Stoicism and Christianity were at one against the Epicureanism and the Atomism.

11. Christianity Completely Triumphant Stoicism Vanquished.

12. Quran prophesied about the Atom bomb in so called Dark Age of the West.

13. Atomism Revived.

14. Bacon's attempt in balancing atomism and spiritualism not successful eventually.

15. Dalton's researches in the field of Atomism

16. The theory of atomism falls on its path to atom bomb unexpectedly

17. Historic letter of Einstein to President Roosevelt of America

18. Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy

19. Hell-bomb is produced

20. No one safe from the radiological hazard

CHAPTER# 3

1. The Prophecy of the Quran about Hotama.

(i) The warning about the Atomic hell.

(ii) The causes of the appearance of Atomic Hell

(iii) The characteristics and the distinctive features of Al-Hotama:-

(iv) The portrayal of the atomic explosion:-

2. DETAIL OF HOTAMA.

(i) The Resemblance between Quran’s “Hotama” and the “Atom” or the “Atomos” of the Scientist.

(ii) The Quran exact but the Scientist is wrong.

(iii) The Quran describes the Nuclear Phenomenon.

(iv) The characterization of the nuclear phenomenon by the Quran.

(v) The Heat-Flash.

(vi) Nucleus.

(vii) The nuclear energy generation processes.

(viii) The Term Thermonuclear.

(ix) Nuclear Radiations leap up over the hearts.

(x) The raging fires of discontent.

(xi) Hotama a huge edifice of fire.

CHAPTER# 4

TAFASIRS:-

(i) Tanwir-al-Miqbas Min Tafsir Ibn-e-Abbas.

(ii) Quotations from Al-Jalalain.

(iii) Quotations from Tafsir-il-Kabir, by Imam Fakhar-ud-Din Razi.

(iv) Quotation from Tabri.

(v) Quotations from Tafsir-il-Quran-il-Azim by Ibn Khatir.

(vi) The Quotations attributed to the person of Holy Prophet himself.

CHAPTER# 5

The Characteristics of Those Doomed to Atomic Hell.

CHAPTER# 6

Quran and the Accumulation of Wealth.

CHAPTER# 7

The Characterization of Atomic Phenomenon by the Quran

CHAPTER# 8

1. An Amulet to Ward off the Atomic Evil.

2. A Light-House with Seventy Candles.

CHAPTER# 9

The Concluding Word.

PREFACE / INTRODUCTION

I found this 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 the 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 as 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. Once the atomic Holocaust has commenced, then nothing but ruin both of this and the next world is certain.

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. Not to oppose the atomic bomb and its causes is guilt punishable. None therefore, appears to be saved. Allah, however, is ever merciful and may take mercy on those guilty of reticence against the atomic bomb due to their powerlessness.

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 the 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, that though the practice of conveying the instruction under the covering of apologue, may in this modern age be regarded as childish, we shall make no apology for adopting this method in an age which appears to be no less superstitious as regards their faith in the ability of science and men, and it may justly be feared that in the presence of such a resourceful fiend, as the devil himself is, and has always been the most genuine and well-meant efforts of Nixon and Kosigen 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 his 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., could be imagined thereafter. The devil leaving his seat and approaching his 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 greater the fear of hunger. The oft repeated terms of the modern times, namely, peace, progress, plenty and prosperity have come to assume the 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 exclusive, ungodly and unspiritual materialism towards immediate gain, and then, quite naturally as, 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 within this world, in the absence of spiritual considerations, began to appear in a revengeful and vindictive 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 showing them out and away from 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 against the 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 forever 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.

The bliss of science has turned into a curse, because the element of faith has been discarded and science has become a prey to certain untoward philosophies, if the word philosophy could rightly be applied to them. And if humanity persists in playing the simple ostrich and nothing is done to restore faith to its proper place; and faith in God and resurrection is not re-established in human mind, and if wealth is not deposed from its usurped godhead to its proper place that of a sheer necessity; and science is not diverted towards correct channels; and nuclear energy is not banished, then let all the tape recorders be kept in readiness to record the outcry of harassed mankind, like the outcry of the enraged Northumberland in Shakespeare's king Henry the IVth, that is:-

“Now bind my brows with iron,

And approach the ruggedest hour that time and spite can dare bring,

To frown on the enraged Northumberland,

Now let heaven kiss earth,

And let not now, nature's hand keep wild flood confined,

Let order die, and let this world be no longer a stage to

Feed contention in a lingering act,

But let one spirit of first born Cain reign in all bosoms,

That each heart being set on bloody courses, this rude scene may end,

And darkness be the burier of the dead”.

(The 2nd part of Henry the Fourth by Warwick Shakespeare Page # 7)

“Now bind my brows with iron; and approach
The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
To frown upon th' enrag'd Northumberland!
Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not Nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confin'd! Let order die!
And let this world no longer be a stage
To feed contention in a ling'ring act;
But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end
And darkness be the burier of the dead!”

(The 2nd part of Henry the Fourth by Warwick Shakespeare Page # 7 From Google)

But Northumberland lived in different times, and judging from the maddening circumstances, heart-rending afflictions, inexpressible sufferings and unpredictable calamities of this our modern age, that have dwarfed the troubles of any previous age to a mere speck, a mere storm in a tea-cup, the outcry of the modern Northumberland is going to be far more painful and far more pathetic and indeed far louder due to hundreds of thousands of resounding loud-speakers producing a din and uproar of an unprecedented kind, unknown to Northumberland, just imagine, all the radios of the world magnifying the outcry of the modern desperate Northumberland, crying before the declaration of the atomic warfare:-

“Now look this world in atomic cell, And spark up the flint-hearted retribution to blaze the destiny of a miserable race, Now, let design expire, let purpose fail, let order die, And let the winked edifice of this tottering universe now kiss earth, That, at last the long-sought notion of a fortuitous concourse of contending atoms prevail, O, Relentless Nemesis! Unsheathe thy uncompromising sword and unleash! Though much wronged nature! thine innumerable hosts of dazzling adders with mortal tongues, blazing vipers with hissing venoms, fiery demons with gurgling thunders, screaming witches with a thousand flaming spouting flames, snake-headed Gorgons with a million petrifying visages, wringgling billions of metero-stinged elephant scorpions, To be set on a rancorous, a ravenous, and ungrateful species, these slanderous slaves of wealth and the world, unpitying murderers of body and the soul, ill-advised, misguided and proud destroyers of science, civilization, art, religion, culture, humanity and all, Now stir thy vengeance and let loose thine all-devouring hell on their once flourishing abominated abode, and turn this globe into a pandemonium of reeking deserts, smouldering debris, whirling storms of scorching sands, Amidst the resounding pearls of devil’s jeering laughter, a foe, over-joyed at so dire a spectacle of ruin, so ignominious an end of his old adversary Adam's unwise posterity, And call this Hell the atomic hell A creation of their own hands really”.

And, let this be clear to the innocent mankind, that the Nuclear Energy, that is the atomic energy, is poisonous basically. The lethal radiations, Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays and Neutrons, which are inherent in the very nature of the atomic energy, do insidiously and without the knowledge of their victim, cause irreparable damage and of course unspeakable harm to human health. Their presence in the body is only known when the die has already been cast and these radiations, cannot be ejected from the body, once they have entered therein. They are no doubt far more dangerous than any other poison known to man, including arsenic, strychnia and cynides. And if you will allow me to talk a little Greek and less Latin to you, it would be said, that the atomic radiations are Thanatoid Perfidia. If all the Venum of the Thanataphidia within the Regalimen of poison is distilled, it will never approach the mark of atomic radiations, and above all else these radiations are Thanatoid Thanataphidia sans Theriaca Andromachi. Now in plain language it all means that the atomic radiations are death-like and treacherous and poisonous snakes, such as there happens to be no antidote for their poison. Indeed it is a fact that medical men all over the world have hitherto failed to find any effective treatment of radiation sickness, although they have succeeded in transplanting the hearts. These atomic radiations not only kill - a fact which may not perhaps have mattered too much -but unfortunately enough they are the surest harbingers of a race of monsters begetting monsters multiplying in a cancer-ridden world with a thousand sexual diseases and disorders and chimerical developments, just ask the scientist. He will attest the truth of my statement. It also may come as a piece of strange news to the innocent and ignorant part of the humanity that these radiations distort and destroy human genetic constitution both in males and females, and create genetic troubles of the worst imaginable kind. These radiations are extra-ordinarily perfidious, and may keep lurking in human body, generation after generation, without any sign whatsoever, in a most surreptitious manner, and then all of a sudden may reveal their presence in the birth of a poor monster baby, born abnormal, and piteously staring at the face of its panic-striken parents. Any atomic plant or atomic reactor situated anywhere in any part of the world is a danger sign, because it unfailingly emits radiations, no matter for what purpose the particular plant is being worked. There is no question whatsoever of the purpose, whether peaceful or bellicose. The atomic plant is quite innocent of the phrase, "The atomic energy for peaceful purposes". Such a phrase is mere self-deception and could only afford satisfaction to human-beings who are endowed with a natural capacity for feigning themselves deaf, blind or mad. The atomic energy knows only to emit poisonous radiations whenever or wherever it is generated, whether for giving light to a city, or whether for taking life out of it, and whether with intentions that are peaceful and civilized, or whether with aims that are savage and belligerent . A man in these days may dive into a river and come out dry, but no man can generate atomic energy and hope to remain healthy or immutable. Safeguards and precautions against the ill-effects of atomic radiations, cannot be relied upon, even if of the most efficient order. The dumping of the refuse of the fissile materials has been a headache and a plague, and will in all probability for-ever remain so. I am not inventing these facts bout the radiations and then telling you. The scientists themselves are loudest in proclaiming all these facts, and even so, to a deaf humanity. These scientists are extremely honest fellows in matters concerned with science. But if mankind pretends deafness against their cries, they cannot be held responsible for that. Yet the scientists are putting up their utmost endeavour for the advancement of atomism and nuclear energy. If all their enthusiasm emanates from pecuniary necessities, that is quite a different matter, but if they honestly believe that they are doing service either to science or humanity by propagating Nuclear Energy, I can tell with utmost certainty that they are thus neither doing any service to science nor to humanity, rather they are procuring death for both and also themselves. Let them therefore reflect alone on the matter and see if there is some truth in what I say.

The basic reason which is given in favour of Nuclear Energy is, that, it constitutes an inexhaustible source of power. Be it even so, but is the deal acceptable to any human being worth the name, if he is told both the pros and the cons of the matter. I say, would you choose to die a leper yourself and bequeath to your posterity monstrosity in-heritage in return for nuclear power, or, would you not prefer a healthy life for yourself and a healthy legacy for your children to power that is to be derived from nuclear energy. But, if you still persist to have plenty, a plenty of food and clothing, do you need to be told that the plenty through nuclear energy brings indeed plenty, yes, but the plenty not of eatables only, but also the plenty of pain, panic, disease and distress and if even then you vote for nuclear energy, is there no mental doctor in your neighborhood, that may test the soundness of your brain, and is there no insurance company in your vicinity that may ensure your head for a thousand measures of nuclear energy in hard currency. I say, let the masses all over the world be told all about the nuclear energy, and then let there be a census, to see how many of them vote in favour of nuclear energy, how many mothers there're who want their children to turn monsters for a few additional morsels of food, how many fathers there are who like to be hurled into the atomic hell along with their children that they may get a few additional calories of fuel. And again, we ask, why it is that they are clamoring for nuclear energy. The enthusiasts may be requested, that if they are bent on bringing martyrdom to humanity, let them chose some other field and renounce such ideas as Nuclear Suicide, and better still keep this unique honor to themselves and leave innocent mankind alone.

Entire responsibility of the ill-application of science and misuse of wealth, and the consequent misery, suffering and afflictions, hazards and dangers, lay solely on the head of those unfortunate people who left faith out as a source of unending troubles, and impedance to progress, and went headlong into exclusively materialistic pursuits, and instead of affecting reform in their religion, in case it existed in a state of corruption, they just decided to cut at its root, and then proceed on the way to progress unhampered and free, little knowing, that in this way they had thrown the load on one side only of the pack-horse and had thus upset the balance. How little did they then realize in their blind zeal for progress that man was not a clay model only, and that he was basically made of two elements namely, that of body as well as soul, matter as well as mind. This was man's basic constitution. How could then, one half of it and perhaps the better half, that is the mind and the soul, be entirely discarded and left to starve without food, a prey to a hundred and one maladies. But they certainly did discard the mind and the soul and lavished all their attention on the body, with the result that the humanity which had sustained its existence through untold calamities, catastrophes and disasters for thousands of years during its long and troubled history in the past, have arrived at the brink of sure, shameful and total destruction within a few centuries in this modern, science guided age.

Science-religion-conflict at the very outset of the renaissance of the West has been an unhappy affair, such as has proved disastrous in the long run to mankind at large. The atrocities of a tyrannical church might indeed have been unbearable, while the rational and beneficent character of science might have seemed a great boon, but thanks to the absence of faith that the unfortunate survivors of the atomic conflagration, unfortunate by virtue of their survival itself, sitting like haggard and wretched group of bald vultures in a forlorn desert, on top of a stinking heap of smouldring debris and choking fumes, might be heard as saying with a sad sigh, " Alas for us, perhaps, the amenities of beneficent science were a mere delusion. Perhaps it was at some accursed hour that ill-starred mankind had adopted the course of science. Alas for us! Perhaps the inhuman atrocities of the cruel clergies were preferable to this. O, death benign, why hast thou spared us miserable creatures? Pray condescend once to visit us and relieve this wretched medley of a painful existence. How we envy the owners of these swollen and stinking bodies. We wish, we were in their place killed and saved this unbearable existence.

It is earnestly hoped, that scientists and politicians will not treat these sentiments as mere mockery, unless indeed, the blinding dazzle of some pre-ordained decree of cruel fate has blinded their eyes and they are foredoomed along with the whole mankind to some most unfortunate end. It is my heart that speaks, and the voice of a heart only the foredoomed can pretend not to hear, and blind only can deny the presence of the sun in heaven. Pray, I entreat you, now awake from your slumber and see what lies ahead over the horizons of humanity.

The world today is thirsty for peace and contentment amidst this maddening uproar and heart-breaking drudgery of Godless materialism. Mankind today pines for long-lost faith in this immoral and unspiritual age, and they now yearn after a world in which science and religion may exist side by side in perfect reconcilement. They find themselves unable to disown science and they feel in their mind a sense of emptiness due to the absence of faith. They cannot relinquish science, without the risk of uprooting the whole economic structure of the world, and they cannot now long renounce faith, for science has been long misused due merely to the absence of the element of faith. Unfortunately science and religion have been kept at loggerheads since the birth of modern science and modern civilization. Their reconcilement therefore seems now a matter of much difficulty. General opinion in this matter appears to be that it might be difficult, yet it is not at all impossible, provided certain conditions are fulfilled, namely, that, science and religion, wealth and God, body and soul, matter and mind, this world and the next world, are allotted the places due to them in an atmosphere of faith, faith in God, the day of judgment and the life in heaven, and under complete sovereignty of the Creator. Science ought to become a servant to faith, the wealth a mere means and necessity. Every act ought to reflect the thought of the judgment of God. Such a reorganization may seem difficult, but when faith is there, nothing is difficult. The world will be seen astonished to see the nuclear energy - now so formidable a problem - dissolved before a creed, built in the heart of things, and the stock piles of the atom bombs will evaporate and disappear like mist before the rays of the rising sun. It will also be seen that mankind could live and happily enough without the agency of nuclear energy, and that the territories could be defended even without atom bombs. The sinking boat of humanity will be seen sailing again in calm and tranquil waters. Alack the day. It is not at possible to affect a compromise between these two.

But, if on the other hand, faith is not brought back amidst mankind, and matters are allowed to deteriorate gradually till at last the stage of atomic conflagration has approached and unfortunate humanity is costumed by atomic fire, then of course those responsible for this unprecedenting heinous deed shall be answerable for it before God, the master of all those innocent as well as deserving creatures who have most mercilessly been cast into the atomic hell. It shall not at all be possible for any one guilty of so terrible a crime to escape the wrath of the creator and the severity of his vengeance. It is an uncommon evil to bring a world to such a tragic end. A world which might have taken millions of years to reach its present state of perfection. A garden planted by the Creator and watered and pruned for ages, and at last when the season of its blossoming arrived it was blighted by those for whose sake it was prepared. How woeful a day when the laughters shall be choked and merriments turned into gloom. When beating hearts will fail, and the wailing souls caught in the blizzard of atomic bombs shall for ever be silenced amidst the groaning flames of all-consuming atomic hell.

It was in 1961, that I discovered this warning about atomic bomb in the Quran. I sat in my study engrossed in writing my book “The Mind of the Quran", when during my perusal of the Holy Quran, the secret just like a flash dazzled the eye of my mind. It indeed was a discovery, more startling and more important than all the greatest discoveries of science united, including atom bomb itself, and far more important than Galileo's astronomy, Darwin's Biology, Newton's Gravity, Einstein's Special Relativity. God at last had taken mercy on miserable mankind and had risen to the occasion. Mighty hand of truth had eventually appeared to give battle to the pernicious tendencies that led the helpless humanity like dumb, mute, blind victims to atomic shambles.

I myself was dead certain about the truth of the prophecy, but to satisfy a sceptic world it was necessary to provide a proof in exact accord with the prevailing spirit of the age, the age of science. A scientific proof therefore was essential. Judging from the particular complexity, novelty and ambiguity of the topic of atom bomb, it was quite natural that the prophecy within the Quran remained a secret to be discovered only after the actual object of the prophecy has made its appearance before the world. The prophecy was a wonder in itself, and the wonder was further augmented by the aptness of the commentaries of the earliest commentators of the Quran, namely the Sahabah (disciples of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him), who had the honour of hearing from the mouth of Prophet himself.

In an age like this in which the scientific proof is a criterion for judging every thing, it was justly feared that without a scientific proof and a perfect corroboration of the prophecy by the actual facts of nuclear science, the whole affair would be treated as a mere fantasy, and therefore my personal certainty would prove of little avail either to myself or the world at large. Nor the affair could be left away without a deep sense of gross injustice and great wrong to mankind, for it is not hard for anyone endowed with average understanding to at once realize both the urgency of the matter and the effective role which such a prophecy could play in saving the mankind from so dreadful a doom. It was a sure neutralizer of the atom bomb. An efficacious antidote against all the venomous characteristics which tended towards the destruction of humanity through nuclear weapons. A sure means of the survival and a hope for the revival of humanity, and a guarantee against the painful extinction of human species, a miracle of miracles, and an inestimable boon of the Beneficent and Merciful Allah, the prophecy possessed my soul, so that I thought, no toil, labour or sacrifice would be too much for a matter so great and so beneficial to fellow human-beings. And I believe in the light of my conscience, that I did all that I could, in my humble way to achieve the scientific proof of the prophecy and to lend it a form presentable to humanity as a result of many years' toil and labour and perhaps sweat and tears too, if you can understand.

My difficulties are great and many. The ones that concerned myself personally I need not mention. But the main difficult incident on the topic itself has come to present itself in a formidable form. Namely, that the true appreciation of the subject, entails a set of pre-requisites not generally to be found together in a single person. It is hard to find one endowed at the same time with thorough understanding of science as well as that of Quran and Arabic language, and endued with a veracious mind, perspicuous intellect and keen sense of sympathy for the world-wide humanity. Darwin's Philosophy is generally and justly considered as a difficult subject, and implies deep understanding, yet that philosophy would not impose conditions of so diversified a nature for its true appreciation as this prophecy under discussion would essentially impose. Men of scientific caliber that of, say, Einstein, and the Philosophical caliber, say, that of Russell, and the Theological caliber, say, that of His Holiness, would indeed be available, but none of these could claim a thorough knowledge of either the Quran or the Arabic language, and also that they may be specialists only in their own respective fields. On the other hand, although there would not be a dearth of men learned in Quran and the Arabic language within the Islamic Counties, a few amongst them could be justly expected to be well versed in the matters of science or modern knowledge. Indeed, and yet, no mistaken notion of over-estimated and unsurmountable difficulties of the matter be entertained. Such high qualifications which we have desired are required only for critical appreciation of the subject. Men so highly gifted would be enraptured by the topic and thrown into ecstasies according to their individual capacity. Otherwise as far as general understanding of the subject is concerned, there exists no such intricacy as would baffle an average understanding. Being situated in a place far removed from all the acknowledged centres of science and learning, I am obliged to rely on the good sense and charitable thoughts of the intelleigensia all over the world. Whosoever has recognized the truth of this prophecy, rather the warning, it is well in the wide interest of the humanity that the same be treated with sympathy and be given the publicity it rightly deserves, that perchance they may reflect and be saved. The circumstances of humanity today warrant a wider and broader outlook - let not our petty considerations in any way veil our understanding or obscure our vision, when we see that the very existence of mankind is at stake. It is my heartfelt conviction that the people all over the world, irrespective of their cast, colour, creed, country or religion, inclination, aptitude or considerations, will view this prophecy with the regard it deserves, and will lend their sympathies, in the name of humanity, and for the sake of their own home, hearth, children and all, since the nuclear explosion respects no such thing. It is a common foe, let us make it a common cause, or else nothing will be left, May, but you will not even have a chance to mourn your dear ones and your near ones. May God bless you with understanding and endow you with wisdom that you may discern the facts and avoid the approaching calamity. Amen.

And now in the end please pay attention, for I am about to say something which is important. Lest you say, tomorrow, we were not told.

If this garden of Allah, and all his creatures are destroyed in an atomic conflagration, then everyone responsible for the catastrophe shall be called to account by the Creator on the Day of Judgment. The enraged Creator of the world, then is well justified in avenging himself on the criminals. His Mercy also finds no bounds. He may forgive everyone, but we must take into account our deeds.

If this world of Allah is consumed by atom bombs, without this prophecy, rather warning of the Quran, having received the publicity which a thing like it rightly deserves, due either to my indolence, or helplessness, or, the neglect of those who are in a position to cooperate in this matter, then we shall be answerable before Allah on the day of judgment. Allah may ask the atomic powers or others having a share in the atomic devastation of the world whether they had received the warning of the Quran, and had considered, the methods of averting the atomic danger contained therein. To which they may reply in negative. I then may be questioned by Allah, what I had done in making the prophecy known to mankind. If I then say, that I did whatever was within my powers, I conducted a research and sought the scientific proof and then wrote the book, but thereafter, no cooperation came from any where. The Muslims excused themselves, for they thought they had their own problems of a material nature more important and showed utter indifference, and I not being myself in a position to cope with the situation single-handed in an age of presses and publication, found myself quite helpless. The Non-Muslim powers were situated remote from me and out of my reach and I could not afford to approach them. The thing therefore was lost. Then Allah may question the Muslims. They may answer they did not understand the topic of the Prophecy and they had a multitude of other problems before them to solve. Allah may then display the atomic hell before their eyes and may explain to them the text of His prophecy and they may then learn a practical lesson soon. But, if this prophecy has reached all the four corners of the world, and this could be achieved only through the cooperation of all concerned, and then thereafter the world has not heeded the word of Allah, and have failed to remove the causes that the Quran has given out as responsible for the emergence of Nuclear Energy and the atom bomb, and mankind is consequently consumed by the nuclear fire, or has turned monster, then all those who have done their duty that of giving due publicity to this prophecy shall be absolved from the guilt and the responsibility shall be shifted on to the negligent part of humanity. Do you now understand? Or will the terrific blast of atom bomb only start your thinking? But will that then a wail you aught? Or will these Muslims understand only after they have received a practical bath in the nuclear hell?

And now please listen. The devil may effectively whisper in your ear, " do not hearken to it, it is the Quran, a book in which you do not believe". And unfortunately the world of this arch-seducer of men “the Satan", may please you, but it is something against the dictates of wisdom, and may eventually prove fatal, and it may bring about grievous consequences, but alas! Then. O, ailing soul if you could acquiesce in the physical treatment of your body by a doctor apparently of a faith different from yours, why then deny life vouchsafed by an advice appearing in a book in which you do not formally believe. An advice in no way contrary to the scripture in which you might have believed. There is an overflowing cup of life-giving elexir pure and celestial, whosoever shall accept it shall do so to his own good, and whoever shall reject the same, shall reject it to his own hurt. Blessed are they who take up the word the truth wherever found, and rejoice therein.

It indeed is most proper that a work of this nature be subjected to extreme scruting, but a few elite and few only through out this vast world, will be able to judge, for an enterprise of this nature entailed Einsteinius scientific genius, Socratic sight of discernment, Darwinian depth of thought, a deep insight into the inner heart of the scripture under discussion, and a penetrating eye to observe the trends, tendencies, ideas, problems and answers to the problems of the modern age. A gruesome ordeal, and a grim fact, and turned more grim due to the fact, that but a few could judge while the applause of the generality of mankind would but be an echo of the recognition by the few elite, in a pioneer work with no model no precedent.

I do not know when this book will be published, and it is possible, some one may in the meantime try to write on the topic in the light of my two articles, namely, “The Quran and the atomic hell.” published in the daily “Pakistan Times”, dated 20-02-1963; and “Atom bomb Ka Dhamaaka Azzab-e-Elahi hai” , published in the daily “Mashrique (Urdu) Lahore dated 05-07-1970”, and also several lectures delivered by me before various audiences. But let me warn such people that it is a most difficult and most delicate of all topics, and it is rightly to be feared that such writers despite best intentions may throw the whole thing into utter confusion resulting in irreparable losses to the topic and consequently the mankind itself. This work has to be scrutinized by the most competent judges all over the world, and it is destined to become the by-word throughout as the sole hope of a doomed humanity in which the Yousuf Gabriel is to figure of a martyr. And peace be with you all.

GABRIEL

Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel, of Khabekki, Valley Soan Sakaser, Khoshab, Pakistan. 17th Feb.1974

CHAPTER – 1

NUCLEAR (ATOMIC) THEORY

Mankind has for long made use of the energy of flowing water and the energy given out in the burning of wood and charcoal. The first is an instant of gravitational energy and the second that of Chemical energy (which is essentially electrical in origin). In recent years an entirely new energy process, roughly a million times more powerful than any chemical process, has been discovered. The source of this energy lies in the force called “nuclear force” which operates between the constituents, protons and Neutrons of atomic nuclei. It should be observed that unlike gravitational and chemical energy the harnessing of Nuclear energy, also called atomic energy-demands deep insight and considerable progress in fundamental science as distinct from the empirical arts and crafts. The discovery and manipulation of Nuclear energy has only been possible after a gruesome struggle in the acquirement of systematized knowledge and continuous scientific progress, and a set up of elaborate economic system, for centuries.

All matter consists of atoms. The atoms are further coagulated into molecules. All atoms consist of a central core, called the Nucleus that is the heart, around which revolve the electrons, like the planets that revolve around the sun. All nuclei are built from two fundamental particles -- protons and neutrons. The neutron is electrically neutral. The proton has a positive charge equal and opposite to the charge of electron. A neutron is slightly-one part in 759 - heavier than proton which has 1836 times the mass of an electron. A neutron outside a nucleus is an unstable particle: It has a half life of about quarter of an hour and decays into a proton and an electron.

The Atom:-

The mass number (A) of a nucleus is a number of neutrons and protons contained in it. The number of protons defines the atomic number (Z) of the nucleus. The atomic number is characteristic of an element, for example, it is one for Hydrogen, 38 for Strontium and 92 for Uranium. For the same element there can exist nuclei having different values of the mass number (A). They are called isotopes of the given element. A nuclear species (Nuclide) is specified by assigning values for Z and A, Thus Z= 92, A= 235, generally written as Uranium-235 (U-235). Uranium 238 contains 92 protons and 146 neutrons, making a total of 238 nucleons -- a "nucleon" stands for either a proton or a neutron. The protons and neutrons are most strongly bound in nuclei of moderate mass numbers, and the binding is relatively weak in heavy as well as light nuclei. It is on this account that heavy nuclei liberate energy on fission and light nuclei on fusion.

The atoms of some elements may have the same atomic number that is the number of protons, but may have different mass numbers that is different number of neutrons contained in the nuclei. For example, the atomic number of Chlorine is 17 that is the Chlorine nucleus has 17 protons. But one Chlorine atom may have 18 neutrons to make the mass number as 35, while another Chlorine atom may have 20 neutrons to make the mass number as 37. Yet they are the atoms of Chlorine, and are called isotopes. This particular kind of variation is of interest to us in this work because the isotopes represent different states of a nucleus that is the heart of the atom. These hearts are in a way in a state of disturbance. The atomic weight is the relative weight of atom.

Methods of the Generation of Atomic Energy.

Fission Process:-

Fission means division of a nucleus into smaller nuclei. Of all the fissile materials the Uranium-235 has been discovered as the most suitable for the fission purpose. If a uranium nucleus is broken into two nuclei of nearly the same size, energy will be released. The process in which a heavy nucleus such as Uranium is broken into two intermediate, nuclei with the release of energy is called a fission reaction or nuclear fission.

When an isotope of Uranium-235 is bombarded with the slow neutrons, fission takes place spontaneously. The neutron strikes at the heart of uranium atom and it splits the nucleus into two approximately equal daughter nuclei, say Krypton and Barium Nuclei, knocking out 2 or 3 (The average is 2.5) neutrons from the nucleus of U-235 atom. These two or three knocked out neutrons strike in turn at the heart of 2 or 3 other atoms and knock out 2 or 3 neutrons each and so on so forth, the process continues. And it is then said that a fission chain reaction is built up. Till the whole mass of U-235 becomes incandescent and eventually explodes with wrath, for, the hearts of the atoms having been disturbed, to an ultra-natural extremity, the resultant commotion has approached a limit, where the natural sustenance becomes an impossibility.

Fusion Process:-

In fusion process, simply lighter nuclei are fused together. A fusion process can be realized in a variety of ways, e.g. by bombarding light elements with charged particles obtained from cyclotron and other high-energy-particle accelerators. The fusion process however becomes possible only at exceedingly high temperatures of the order of millions of degrees. The explosion of nuclear bomb using fission-chain-reaction develops a temperature of the requisite degree and is utilized in achieving fusion reaction in the fusion (that is Hydrogen) bomb. The simplest explanation of this fusion reaction from our point of view could be is that the nucleus (heart) of an atom is fused with the nucleus (heart) of another atom, and the energy is released, when the two hearts are crushed together.

But the nefarious feature of the whole matter is the radiations that is Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays and neutrons which are essentially emitted in the fission reaction. These radiations are undetectable by the five senses, and are not only poisonous, but perniciously, rather wickedly poisonous. They not only kill, but they also cause leprosy, cancer and inheritable monstrosity. These radiations make no difference whether the nuclear (atomic) energy is produced for peaceful purposes, or as a weapon for war destruction. Thus a phrase like “Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes” is only a misnomer and a self-deception, rather a blindness of deluded Humanity. It is a contradiction in terms.

CHAPTER – 2

THE HISTORY OF ATOMISM

We now produce a brief history of Atomism, that is atom to atomic bomb, partly for the purpose of providing the reader with some idea of the paths which atom has traversed during its long journey in twenty five centuries towards its final destination, rather first stage of the destination, the Hiroshima, and partly to show that at the time when this warning about atom bomb was revealed, by the Quran, not a vestige of such a theory as “Atomism” remained anywhere in the world, not to speak of Arabia proper: The inhabitants where of being entirely ignorant then and innocent of any type of Greek Philosophy rather any Philosophy. This fact makes the prophecy indeed more remarkable. The theory of atomism in fact had breathed its last after a doubtful and controversial existence, before the overwhelming pressure of Stoicism (an antagonistic School of Thought) and the Christianity; a religion even more strongly antagonistic towards the atomism. In such circumstances, that is at a time when the theory of atomism did not even so much as exist, after its disappearance before Christianity, a prophecy about the atom bomb, would seem like an arrow shot in space, without any visible target. The arrow, however was shot, which traveled on its way to its target, out of sight, till in fourteenth century of its travel at last stuck its target in 1945, still remaining out of sight of mankind, till about sixteen years after its arrival at its destination, that is in 1961, when it was discovered by me, indeed by the Grace of Almighty Allah. The prophecy which the Quran made about the victory and prevalence of then completely vanquished Greeks against the decisively victorious Persians was a prophecy, according to Gibbon, (the famous author of “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire”, such that nothing could be more remote from its fulfillment at a time when it was ventured by the Quran; for the circumstances at that time were in a state, such as, there seemed not the least probability of Greeks fighting back to defeat the Persians. But the Greeks not only repulsed Persian forces and drove them out of the Greek territories but went further to the throne of the Persian Emperor and forced him to accept conditions of a treaty most disgraceful to him. And thus the prophecy of the Quran about an improbability was fulfilled. This was a prophecy which was fulfilled in a very short time but on the other side of the scale is the Prophecy of the Quran about the atom bomb which took more than thirteen centuries for its fulfillment. The theory of atomism lay buried since centuries, fathoms deep, in obscurity when the Quran made a prophecy about its fruits: the atomic bomb. Then centuries more elapsed in a state of humanity tending farther and farther away from the atmosphere which could be congenial to the revival of atomism. But the time arrived at last when the grave of atomism was discovered by some strange chance, and atomism was revived with a flurry that it gradually, came to pervade every branch of science, and eventually at a decisive stage took on unexpected turn and fell on a way: which ultimately and again quite unexpectedly led to the production of atomic bomb. Nay even the atomic bomb was something not quite surely predictable during all its consecutive stages of development and it was believed as a certainty only after it was tested finally. It however proved to be practicable, and proved also its real efficacy and efficiency in the smoke -ridden ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and indeed, put the spirit of Christian mercy in the crucible. Was it not so? Ask Ronald Knox.

The Author of atomism:-

It is to Democritus of Abdera in Thrace (a younger contemporary of Socrates, and nicknamed, “the Laughing Philosopher”, because he found human life matter for laughter: as against Heraclitus whom the later tradition called “weeping Philosopher”, because he found in human life matter for tears) that the theory of Atomism is attributed though in fact not he but Leucippus was its originator. Little is known about Leucippus, except that he was a Milesian, and that he flourished about 440.B.C. Democritus received the credit because he was responsible for developing the system and making it known. Both Lucippus and Democritus were atheists and their atheism, due to the abhorrence it caused in the minds of the people was largely responsible for the rejection of their theory. It is remarkable to note that when in modern times this theory of atomism was discovered and adopted it was seen that this associated atheism be not revived along with it but somehow and very unfortunately of course, this atheism has found its way into the minds of the modern atom-ridden sceptics, although in a guise most astonishingly queer.

The early views of the atomists:-

Following are the views of the early atomists about atomism:-

(a) The atoms are indivisible and indestructible.

(b) They move about in all directions in a fortuitous concourse in otherwise empty space.

(d) There're different kinds of atoms, distinguished by differences of shape, but individual atoms are too small to be noticed by the senses.

(e) The things we touch and see are made by the arrangement of atoms in groups. Change consists in nothing but their arrangements. There is no alteration in the atoms themselves.

(f) The motion of an atom persists until checked presumably in collision with another atom since the theory itself denies any other cause.

This last is most significant of all the Atomists' ideas. It foreshadows the law of inertia, which states that motion needs no cause to preserve it. The cause is necessary only to produce changes of motion. If a thing is moving, it will continue to move, without change of speed or direction, until something forces it to slow down, accelerate, or deviate from its path. This notion upon which Newtonian mechanics is founded, is opposed to Aristotle's view, that a body comes to rest unless there is something to keep it going. Once the atoms have been given a start, say the atomists, their subsequent motions are determined by invariable mechanical laws. The state of the Universe depends only upon its pervious state. Its future is decided by its present. Here is the philosophy of Determinism in its extreme form. The moral implications arising from the necessary denial of free will are obvious and disturbing. So also is the self-contradiction of the ancient atomists.

Unfortunately, philosophies which are the product of human mind are mostly fragmentary in form and far too limited in scope; for, human knowledge itself is of a nature fragmentary, and human vision extremely limited. The philosophers see an elephant just as the legendary ten blind men of Hindustan had once seen it. The interpretations therefore of the points of such philosophies are susceptible of many and diverse even opposite conclusions, generally in accordance with the predisposition of the mind of the interpreters themselves. Further such philosophies are the reflections of the disposition of the mind of their makers themselves. Aristotle's mind in order to prove the Omnipresence of the Creator and his design and order thought it essential to subject the atom to the controlling hand of the Creator in its motion, whereas Democritus in order to show the absence of the Creator, design and control imparted the qualities to the atom such as would prove fortuitous concourse of atoms in a designless world without any purpose. Neither Aristotle nor Democritus could see anything beyond this in the atom. In the presence of faith every thing seems to one's mind as, converging towards the creator whereas in the absence thereof every thing seems to be running away from him. Many a raging storm is seen to be raised in a tea cup during discussions of these subtle philosophies. So short is Man's vision, that Darwin saw no harm to faith in all his philosophy as is apparent from his very genuine remonstrances. But was his philosophy as innocent as he thought it to be in the haze of his zeal for discovery of the truth. We could discuss this very interesting topic at length but we are, I am afraid deviating from our actual topic, the History of atomism. What pranks, that imagination has not played with human mind, and what part that the corrupt and selfish amongst the religious leaders have not played in driving the people away from faith and in creating disgust and hatred of religion in their hearts. And how often two men have said the same thing without understanding each other, and disputing all the same.

The Atoms of Democritus and the Ideas of Plato:-

Like Plato, Democritus held the eternal and ultimate reality in the world to be the object not of senses but of the understanding. But he considered the nature of this reality very differently form Plato. It consisted of atoms, that is of indivisible (and therefore indestructible) bodies of a size too small to be detected by our senses, differing from one another in shape (whence he could call them by the same name as Plato gave to his ultimate realities of ideas or forms) moving about in a vacuum or void, though the two worlds were different.

The greatest contemporary thinkers condemn atomism:-

The great influence of Aristotle was cast into the scale against the adoption of such a theory as atomism was. Not the influence of Aristotle alone, but the greatest writing philosopher of ancient time, the disciple of Socrates and master of Aristotle, namely Plato, was vehement in opposition of Atomism. The two hundred years which followed the death of Aristotle, despite the fact, that they were the years of great progress in mathematical and Astronomical science, and were made illustrious by such names as those of Euclid, whose "Elements" was the text book of Geometry for two thousand years, of, ERASTOTHENES, who first used the method by which the size of the earth is ascertained, of ARCHIMEDES, the discoverer of the principle of the lever, of HIPPARCHUS who has been called the true father of Astronomy, yet none of these great thinkers so much as condescended to take the name of Atomism, not to speak of any research or investigation or inquiry. Bacon himself, Bacon the trumpeter of the modern age, Bacon the greatest, ablest and most eloquent advocate of atomism, despite his disagreement with Aristotle on many points stood in perfect agreement with him condemning the blindness of atomism to the evidence of design in the world, as afforded by the existence of the structure too elaborate ever to be explained satisfactorily by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. Bacon was keenly sensible of the danger which lay in our attempts to start our investigations from a consideration of the purpose of nature of which we are but too likely to take very short-sighted views. The apprehensions of Bacon unfortunately proved only too true. The spiritual side of the affair was completely divorced in due course and whole attention having been fixed on immediate material gains so that the result was a world-wide discontent, the remedy for which was prescribed as the raining of atomic bombs, releasing ionizing radiations, plagues, poisonous gases and fires.

The Epicurean adopts atomism as a symbol:-

Amidst the universal rejection by all the great minds, there was however a philosophical school which, adopted the atomism as a fundamental part of their system. Its attraction of atomism for this school was not its scientific utility, so much, as its apparent inconstancy with the doctrine of the divine Government of the world, which they regarded as the source of the worst evil that affected mankind, namely the fear of death and of what may come after it. In more modern times, no doubt scientific men have combined a belief in the atomic constitution of a matter with a belief in divine government, but then they have held the atoms to be (as one of them --James Clerk Maxwell -put it), manufactured articles, and the world to include immaterial beings, which were not composed of atoms at all. It seems however, that this idea unfortunately did not work satisfactorily. Once the gate of atomism was opened, the atoms forced out the invisible thought of the immaterial beings and sheer atomism attained complete sway and there are reasons for it far too conspicuous. Anything which could not lend itself to atomic explanation was regarded as unreal and therefore undesirable, because unluckily it was so desired. The ancient atomists too just as their inner wish had so desired had held the atoms to be eternal, and nothing to exist that was not an assemblage of atoms, except the void in which the atoms moved. We find ourselves quite at a loss to understand as to, how the whole world of mind was left out of sight to such intellects as Democritus and some of his followers possessed, except for a doubtful notion, that these atomists had gone into atoms to that sublimity that they thought even the thought itself to be constructed of atoms of an extremely subtle nature in assemblages of different patterns, but again their avowed atheism and their notion of the absence of design negates our view. We should therefore search the reasons of their views in some other field. Democritus was a younger contemporary of Socrates, and in an age in which men like Socrates, Aristotle and Plato flourished in a community, it is hard to believe that such extreme dullness as to be blind to Design in the creation of the Universe, could be found in men hailing from the same community and possessing an intellect in no way contemptibly inferior to their illustrious contemporaries above mentioned. It proves the idea that faith is exceptional boon of Allah and not at depending on either knowledge or intellect.

The School to whose adoption of atomism as a remedy against the terrors of religion have been refereed was Epicureans. To this school the terrors of religion might have seemed quite formidable. It is sure, but if they could have been raised from their graves to live in this present age of perfection of their choice theory that of atomism, the terrors of death and thereafter would of sure have gone out of their heads at the sight of grizzlies which the life has created in herds amidst the modern humanity, even before death, as a reward for the labours which have been expended in the perfection of atomism. Epicurus, the founder of Epicureans School and the Chief Rival of Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, recommended the rational pursuit of pleasure. But his ideal was not followed, and excess became the order of his adherents, because he believed and taught that there was no life after death. And although he did not preach that one should make the most of his life, eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die, and there is no resurrection, and recommended refined pleasures, and moderation. But in the absence of the dread of death and the judgment thereafter, to employ moderation seems quite a difficult thing. It is wished that nature of many men were refined enough to pursue refined pleasure, but that alas is not the case. The sensualists found a good chance in the teachings of Epicurus to claim for their lives the sanction of Epicurean principle, that, pleasure is the Chief good at which alone it is reasonable to aim, and the name of the Epicurean very early became a synonym for a sensualist and a reproach.

Epicurean had no regard for the scientific aspect of atomism:-

Both Zeno, the founder of Stoicism and Epicurus, the founder of Epicureanism are chiefly interesting as outstanding examples of men who shaped their opinions without regard for truth, according to the needs of their ethical systems. Epicurus adopted atomism, not for its scientific merit, but because its materialism supported his denial of a spiritual life after death. The Roman Poet LUCRITUS was an eminent follower of Democritus. He did much by his poem DE RERUM NATURA, to make atomism known. Yet, although the founder seemed to the poet worthy to be called a God as man's deliverer from the superstitious terrors; to a consistent Epicureans, the intellectual and scientific activity, except so far as it served to dissipate the superstitious dread, it could hardly be more than a refined pastime. It is not thus surprising to find, that the Epicureans contributed little to the advance of science or philosophical inquiry. They adopted as their own the atomic theory of Democritus, but in their hands it was neither enabled to meet the objections which may be raised against it as a theory of the ultimate nature of reality, nor made to exhibit its great capacities as an instrument of scientific description and discovery.

Apostle Paul encounters the representatives of stoicks and Epicureans in Athens:-

The Epicureans School was confronted from its cradle by the Stoic, the opponent of atomism. The Stoic gradually prevailed, although for a considerable period these two schools divided the allegiance of a majority of thoughtful men in the countries which at the beginning of the Christian era formed the heart of the Roman Empire. It will be remembered that the philosophers whom the Apostle Paul is related (Acts-XVII-18) to have encountered on his visit to Athens were representatives of Epicureans and Stoics.

The Apostle Paul in Athens and his interesting encounter with Epicu-reans and the stoicKs:-

(18) Then certain philosophers of the epicureans, and of the stoics, encountered him. And some said, what will this babbler say? Other some, he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: Because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

(19) And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, may we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest is?

(20) For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: We would know therefore what these things mean.

(21) For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.

(22) Then Paul stood in the midst of mars hill, and said, ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

(23) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, i found an altar with this inscription, to the unknown god. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.

(24) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is lord of heaven and earth, Dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

(25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

(26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

(27) That they should seek the lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

(28) For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.

(29) For as much then as we are the offspring of god, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

(30) And the times of this ignorance god winked at; but now commandeth all men every-where to repent:

(31) Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

(32) And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, we will hear thee again of this matter.

(33) So Paul departed from among them.

(34) Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: Among the which was Dionysius the areopagete, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

(The ACTS -XVII- THE BIBLE)

18A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean. 21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas). 22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. 24The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b] 29“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead. 32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33At that, Paul left the Council. 34Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

(Acts 17:18-34 NIV From Google)

This preaching of Apostle Paul did not augur well for Epicureanism and along with it the atomism, for with the introduction of Christianity in those parts began sharp decline of Epicureanism which later ended in its dissolution and hence the disappearance of Atomism.

Not the Epicureans but Stoics popular with Romans.

It was not surprising that of all the Greek Schools, the Stoic, was the one, which made itself more at home among the Romans, who in less than two centuries after the death of Zeno the founder of that School had become the masters of the Greek speaking world. Love of knowledge and delight in beauty, the indulgence of subtle doubts and the cultivation of refined pleasures were all alike uncongenial to he Roman temper. This was inclined to charge their representatives among Greek professors of Philosophy with a frivolity dangerous to the sense of discipline and public duty, which had hitherto been the mainstay of the roman state. But such suspicions were less aroused by the Stoics than by any of their rivals. If the moral and religious temper of Stoicism thus won it a special welcome at Rome, there was also something in the tamper of the roman people which was particularly congenial to the Stoic philosophy. This was what has been called “The Sense of Justice and Law”; which marked out the Roman people among all the nations of antiquity and which made the Roman legal system the basis on which the stability of society has ever since been built.

That the Stoics rather than either the Epicureans or the Sceptics, exercised in the long run the widest influence in an age which was seeking for a religious faith, is to be explained by their attitude of devout acquiescence in the predestined or providential order of the universe.

Both the Stoicism and Christianity were at one against the Epicureanism and the atomism.

Both the Stoicism and Christianity were at one against the Epicureanism and the atomism in their exacting standards of conduct; and in their faith in the Divine Government of the world. Moreover, the Epicureans saw in the course of nature an eternal play of atoms, without any predestined plot, the Stoics and Christians alike looked forward to a conflagration in which the present frame of things would perish.

Christianity completely triumphant Stoicism vanquished.

By the fifth century A.D. the period of struggle among numerous competitors ended in complete victory of Christianity. Atomism consequently disappeared along with the Epicrureanism. Christianity had by that time become the state religion of Roman Empire. Every candle except that of Christianity had by then been extinguished. The whole Empire including the Emperor had embraced Christian Religion.

Quran prophesied about the Atom bomb in so called Dark Age of the West.

C.500 to 1000 is a period known as Dark Ages of Europe. The dark ages of the West were called the dark ages, not because the spirit of Christianity was found on the wane or that the sense of the Christian doctrine of the hatred of material world was suspected to on decline, but because the intellectual activity during that period regarding the acquirement of knowledge and learning had been missing. Any inclinations towards atomism were yet out of question. Rather the absence of intellectual activities had hardened the attitude of Christianity against atomism or any such creed which in their eyes was inclined towards the material world. And even if the Christian community had felt the desire of the world inwardly, there was no reason to suspect them of any inclinations towards atomism in its outward appearance because the religious sense of Christians was then at least so strong as to expel any thought of a system associated with atheism, such as Atomism was. At that time, no one could even dream that anything like atomism could ever find its revival in this world. By fourth century A.D. Christianity had become the state religion of the Roman Empire. By fifth century every trace of opposition from any other school of thought had completely vanished. In seventh century when the darkness of the dark age of the West was on its increase, the Quran, in the first decade of that dark century, produced the prophecy about atomic bomb in a country which had to its credit nothing but ages of darkness as long as the memory of historian could take his thought back into its pre-islamic history. A prophecy which was to remain dormant for more than thirteen centuries awaiting its fulfillment. A prophecy at which no human intelligence could venture with utmost surety even a day before the first December 1942, the day before Fermi, the Italian scientist achieved the first successful Fission Chain Reaction in Chicago. It took more than two years even after this achievement to build a workable atom bomb; and only about three years before the successful Chain Reaction, Einstein in his letter to President Roosevelt could not assume a tone of certainty, he only had assumed the possibility of the construction of bombs far more powerful than conventional bombs, by utilizing the phenomenon of Uranium Fission.

Atomism Revived.

It was in 4th Century B.C, that Aristotle had thrown the weight of his authority against the atomic theory, and when Galen the celebrated physician of the second century A.D. added his veto to that of Aristotle, atoms suffered an eclipse that was to last for some fourteen centuries. The eclipse was however cleared at last. The Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, which had employed the faculties of the ablest of men and which held the throne for centuries together were at last destined to fall. These philosophies had worn, many shapes. They had mingled themselves with many creeds. They had survived revolutions in which empires, religions, languages, and races, had perished, but were fated at least to leave before the new philosophy, the philosophy of fruit, utility, and progress. Aristotle was deposed, Plato was confined, and the caravan of the west, led by Bacon, " Buccinator Novi Temporis" (the trumpeter of the modern age), raising the flag of Science and Chanting DE' RERUM NATURA, moved on to the conquest of the realm of nature for the good of mankind in general, with Atomism acting as their guide and interpreter all along.

The knowledge of the atomic theory after its long disappearance was derived from a relic, the poem of Lucretus (1st Century B.C.) in which the earlier views of the atomists were logically marshalled and brilliantly exposed. It was in the light of the information derived from a relevant pieces of this poem (DE RERUM NATURA) that Pierre Gassandi (1592-1655) the provencal philosopher and a Roman Catholic Priest, introduced the views of Greek Atomists. The unbearable austerity which the Christian church had imposed on its followers, (which exempting the ecclesiastical leaders who lived like prince) and an equally unbearable urge for the enjoyment of the feast which nature had spread before them, and besides this perhaps a misunderstood example of Islam, had prepared the Christian world for the acceptance of Atomism. The tyrannical church applied the whip, when able men like Bacon took the lead, and atomism came into the view. Gradually and systematically it gained the field completely.

Bacon's attempt in balancing atomism and spiritualism not successful eventually.

Bacon's design was, by means of inquiries, some of which should be experimental like those of Al-Chemists, but purged from all superstitious taint and directed not towards immediate gain, but towards a thorough-going knowledge, vastly to increase in the long run the dominion of man over nature. To enjoy such a dominion was, he held, the original destiny of our race. But Bacon's discretion was ignored and unfortunate men soon inclined towards immediate gains, and so the higher ideal of Bacon was completely discarded. Nor was Bacon's attempt in adding the practical side of Natural Philosophy to the spiritual philosophy of Christianity successful. For, men left off the spiritual side completely and adopted the material side. Macaulay has highly extolled Bacon's bringing into view the practical side that is the material and fruitful side of the natural philosophy as against the barren philosophy of Ancient Greek Masters, but unfortunately the desired effects have not been achieved, due to men's forsaking the spiritual and oral side of the affair and inclining to the material side only. And thus everything spiritual and moral having vanished, the field remained exclusively for atomism, dangerously unbalanced.

Dalton's researches in the field of Atomism.

Newton and Boyle both believed that matter was atomic but the atomic theory was not systematically adopted in Chemistry until it was taken up by John Dalton (1766-1844) - Dalton's modernization of the long neglected atomic theory, marked the end of the previous epoch which had begun with Copernicus, three centuries ago. Dalton's Chief Contentions are as follows:-

(i) Matter consists of Atoms, which cannot be created or destroyed. Chemical change consists in the combination of atoms which were previously apart, or the separation of those which were combined. There is no change in the atoms themselves.

(ii) The atoms of a given element, are all exactly alike; and they differ, practically in weight, from those of any other elements. It has been necessary to extend and modify his original Hypotheses; but in modern dress they still play a vital part in chemical theory.

The theory of atomism falls on its path to atom bomb unexpectedly.

The atomic theory fell on the path of atom bomb with almost accidental discovery of X-rays in 1895 by the German physicist Roentgen. This initiated a period of unprecedented progress in physical science. In seeking a possible connection between phosphorescence and x-rays, the French Physicist Becquerel chose by a mere chance, Uranium Nitrate as the substance for investigation and was led unexpectedly in 1896; to the discovery of Radio-activity. This in its turn soon led to the discovery of Radium by Pierre and Mme Curie. In 1905, Einstein enunciated the theory of special relativity and as a consequence from it established the equivalence between mass and energy. The great work of Rutherford on radiations (named by him as alpha, beta, and Gamma Rays) emitted from Radio-active bodies eventually led to the concept of atom as made up of a central core, the nucleus (that is the heart) with electrons revolving around it “a solar system in miniature”. Bohr incorporated the Quantum Hypothesis of Plank and Einstein into the Rutherford's atom model and thus formulated his far reaching Quantum Theory of the Atom, in 1919 Rutherford for the first time, achieved the disintegration of an element (Nitrogen) by bombarding it with Alpha Particles. A cloud chamber photograph of the same process was soon provided by Blacket. Chadwick working in Rutheford's laboratories, discovered the Neutron in 1932. In the same year and in the same laboratory Crockcroft and Walton brought about the first artificial nuclear transmutation by bombarding Lithium with Protons accelerated to less than a million volts. New discoveries followed in rapid succession.

The phenomenon of Uranium Fission was discovered by the German Physical Chemists Hahn and Strassman in 1938. The extraordinary significance of the discovery was soon realized and led to a period of intense cavity in the study of atomic nuclei. By 1940 more than a hundred papers had appeared on this subject. Soon after the whole subject went underground, and no further reference appeared in open scientific literature till the end of the war.

Although the basic discoveries leading to the realization of the atomic energy came practically all from Western Europe, it was not western Europe, but, the U.S.A. (soon followed by USSR) which, with its colossal industrial and scientific resources, was the first to harness this basic knowledge to practical ends. Now, however, all the peculiar features of this probable destroyer of mankind are no longer a secret which in early days of its appearance were. It is an open challenge to humanity, starting fiercely at he frightened humankind. Much is being said about putting it to peaceful purposes, but peace and nuclear power cannot co-exist.

Historic letter of Einstein to President Roosevelt of America.

On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote his now famous letter to President Roosevelt drawing his attention to the possibility as then indicated by some work of Fermi and Szillard, of utilizing the phenomenon of Uranium Fission, for the construction of extremely powerful (weight for weight) bombs of a new type, a million times more powerful than conventional bombs. “A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of surrounding territory”, said Einstein. This word of a million times more powerful bomb, was indeed tempting unfortunately. Little was then known of the accompanying hell of all destroying radiations, which would not spare the master himself.

The U.S. Government decided to explore the possibility seriously. The first successful realization of a (slow neutron) fission chain reaction in the graphite-pile built in a converted squash court of the University of Chicago's stagg-field was achieved by Fermi on December 2, 1942. It is a landmark in the history of Nuclear Science. It led to the construction of a gigantic plant at Hanford on the banks of the Columbia River for the production of Plutonium. Following the work of Urea on diffusion a plant for the production of uranium-235 from Natural uranium was built on Oakridge. Another plan at Oakridge produced uranium-235 employing the principle of electromagnetic separation. The designing of a workable atom bomb was entrusted to the New Los Alamos Laboratory (New Mexico) working under the leadership of Openheimer. Three bombs were produced by the Middle of 1945. One made of Plutonium was tested on the ground at the Alamogordo sands on July 16, 1945. The other two were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Fermi who had achieved first fission chain reaction successfully, failed to achieve a protection against the deleterious reaction of radiations he had played with, and soon succumbed to radiation sickness and left this world to exchange sorrow with the victims of Hiroshima in Heaven. What might have been the topic and trend of these close friends when they met, we are not aware, but it seems probable that at the sheer sight of their old friend they might have taken fright and breaking into a stampede emitting wild shrieks, and screaming atomy, atomy, disappeared in every direction, and leaving poor Fermi: great servant of humanity in sudden surprise and a deeply thoughtful mood at this so unusual behaviour of these strange Hiroshimians.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy.

August 6-1945 is an unforgettable date. It was on the early morning of this tragic day that the first atomic (U-235) bomb fell on Hiroshima, killing 78,000 men and injuring another 37,000. The second atomic (PU-239) bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9-1945. The number killed was 24,000 and injured 23,000. The two bombs were about the same power, equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT, but due to the rather uneven terrain in Nagasaki casualties were less there. The bombs were exploded at about 2,000 feet above ground to obtain, as nearly as possible, the maximum area of damage due to the blast of the explosion. The death rate was above 90% percent within half a mile of ground zero (the point on the ground immediately below the burst), above 50 percent between half a mile and one and a half miles. Structural damage was complete (including collapse of earthquake resistant reinforced concrete buildings) within half a mile from ground zero, and most of the houses within one and a half mile were destroyed. Houses upto two miles were badly damaged, and slightly damaged upto about three miles. The explosion because of the very high temperature produced, emitted intense heat radiation causing fatal burns (and almost instantaneous deaths, due to the intense heat and shock of the heat-flash) to exposed persons within about three quarters of a mile of ground zero. Though in general, most of the Japanese atom bomb casualties were due to the combined effects of burns and mechanical injuries, it is estimated that about 60% percent of the deaths (and at least 75% of all casualties) were due to burning (heat flash and fires), about 20% due to physical injuries from falling structures and flying debris (as a result of blast damage) and 20% due to other causes including Nuclear Radiation. The damages such as these indeed sounded terrible, and the figures imposing at first, but the later developments in Nuclear Weapons have dwarfed the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombs into mere toy bombs. The damages expected from the Thermonuclear giant bombs are of quite a different calibre. They destroy not cities but states. And for the large scale Nuclear attack, please refer the U.S.A. Operation alert June 15-1955, a mock civil defence exercise, mentioned in subsequent chapter, wherein Hotama “as a fire closed in on them” is explained.

Hell-bomb is produced.

The first Soviet atomic that is ordinary fission (like the Hiroshima bomb) explosion took place in August, 1949. It was first announced on September 23, 1949, by President Trueman, that US Government had incontrovertible proof that the Russians had detonated a fission device. The US Government immediately decided to go on in for the thermonuclear bomb (the so called H or Super bomb). And on January 31-1950, Trueman directed the atomic energy commission (with David Lilienthal as Chairman), and its general advisory committee (with Robert Openheimer as Chairman), where opinions on the speed and scale of the efforts to go on into the Super had been sharply divided. The conscience of the so called scientists was perhaps put to severe test. After having seen the catastrophes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even the considerations of the national defence could with difficulty induce some scientists to produce yet another even more terrific atomic bomb than the Hiroshima pattern. Conscience after all smites and its stings may be painful. Yet there was another consideration. Namely, that producing more powerful atomic bombs was no remedy for the great wrong which had been done already by the production of Nuclear Weapons. The production of a more powerful atomic bomb no doubt meant to bring even greater destruction on their own people, for, a greater bomb would be retaliated by yet a greater bomb. The plea of national defence however superseded every other consideration, and a very brilliant and indeed very enthusiastic atomist by the name of Edward Teller, successfully experimented thermonuclear device at Marshal Islands on 1st November 1952, and while the science of destruction advanced by many leaps and many bounds, the earth sighed at so signal an achievement. On 1st November 1952, the U.S.A. first tested at Marshal Islands in the Pacific Ocean the thermonuclear device (MIKE); Russia followed the suit. The first Soviet thermonuclear explosion took place in August, 1953. The U.S.A. set off a powerful thermonuclear explosion at BIKINI ATOLL on 1st March 1954. The energy of the explosion being equivalent to about 15 megatons of TNT. In November 1955, the Russians had a thermonuclear explosion about as powerful as the U.S.A test of March, 1954. Britain, France, China, India and Israel came in the wake and became atomic powers, like the legendary, "all the five cavaliers from Delhi, and one after another displayed the unique trick of setting off nuclear bonfire and joined the big ones of Atomic Powers. Necessity expelled the mercy from the hearts of men, and none would like to stay behind, forgetting the fact that how many hungry bellies could be fed, how many naked bodies could be clothed, how many sick could receive treatment, how many tearful eyes could be turned into smiles and how many distressed families could be saved from ruin by that money which was spent on a single atomic bomb to destroy them.

No one safe from the radiological hazard.

It was during the March 1954 test explosion at BIKINI ATOLL in Pacific Ocean that a really grim fact dawned on the atomic powers to their horror, namely that the Atomic bomb was a very treacherous slave. It could also rebound towards its own master who had unleashed it on his foe, and thus bring about the ruin of both, nay even of other neutral peoples all over the globe. It so happened that a Japanese fishing boat with a crew of 23 was lying at a distance of 90 miles from the testing site. The misfortune of this “Fortunate Dragon” that was the name of this boat, appeared in the form of a powdery fallout of the explosion and began to settle on it to announce to the world that the thermonuclear bomb constituted a serious radiological hazard for every one who lived on earth, earth and that it could not be kept secret. The frightened crew of the boat rushed towards Japan, and sailing a distance of 2,000 miles in about 13 days reached the port, all sick with radiation. There the Radio-Operator died after a few months, but the rest were saved eventually. It was however, proved beyond any doubt that no one should deem himself safe from the radiological hazard of nuclear energy all over the globe. The news about the potential hazard of radioactive fallout from thermonuclear weapons burst out of deep secrecy. Twenty three Japanese fishermen announced to the world the first fateful news about the lurking catastrophe that lay in wait for all of us. All the official secrecy proved inept, and the inscrutable Providence of God, decided otherwise. And when the secret come out, through the wrong channels, the shock to the world opinion rivaled the blast of the Hydrogen Bomb itself. Though the world opinion soon slumbered again, on the bed of rosy problems of these days, to wait the real shock that of the real atomic-war. Nothing short of that could possibly have alarmed them.

We bring the chapter to an end with a question, that is, do you want this civilization to remain or do you want it to go? Is there no sensible man among you to inform you about the dangers of nuclear power, or do you know, but overlook the hazard intentionally, as if you are tired of existence, pray die if you want to, but do not die a death which would prove a Darwin to be in the right in his surmise of your origin. And then a monkey have an occasion to say to his mate, “what a contemptible species among the monkeys these humans, that even don't have a tail and still call themselves a race of monkeys”.

CHAPTER – 3
HOTAMA.

“Woe unto every slandering traducer who gathereth 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. Ah, what will convey unto thee, what Al-Hotama is. (It is) the fire of Allah kindled, which leapeth up over the hearts. Lo! It is closed in on them in outstretched columns”. (Quran -104-Al-Homaza)

The Prophecy of the Quran about Hotama.

Now this is the full text of the warning (Prophecy) about the atom bomb. Please, read it carefully, and see what you understand by it. Yet, it is a much regrettable fact, that the translation, of whatever quality and in howsoever great and grand a language, would never portray the exact picture of the original as a rule. Again due to the necessity of remaining as close to the original in the translation, as the peculiar nature of a scripture like the Quran, demands, the translation would be likened to the meat of a slaughtered body of a living oracle worth millions, when alive. In order to discern the various shades and the meaning of its words, and to gain insight in to its mysteries the original Arabic text of the Quran is essential. No translations thus will do. It will be seen however, first, that the characteristics of those doomed to atomic hell, are enumerated, and then the Atomic Phenomenon has been characterized with all its subtle and distinctive features, and lastly the atomic phenomenon in actual explosion has been portrayed.

The Warning about the Atomic Hell.

Let it be known, that it is a warning and not a decree pre-ordained. It is a warning of a danger avertable and avoidable, indeed by removing the real causes of the tragedy, the causes enumerated explicitly in the text of the warning, the causes responsible for the resultant emergence of the atomic bomb, and indeed nuclear energy. Let this be known also, that this warning is primarily alluded to the next world that is the eternal atomic hell in the next eternal world. But just as the fire and the garden are representations of the hell and heaven respectively on earth, this atom bomb is the representation of the atomic hell of the next world on earth. The text of the warning is, as it can be seen, miraculously brief and succinct, yet is most clear and most comprehensive. The tones are oracular. How clearly and completely have all the inconsistencies responsible for the appearance of atom bomb; and also the particular characteristics and the distinctive features of the Nuclear Phenomenon, been described, and how precisely have the atomic explosion been portrayed. All in thirty four words only. We repeat the text thereof. Let the reader see, the characteristics of those atomic-hell bound.

The causes of the appearance of Atomic Hell.

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ ! وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ نِ الَّذِىْ جَمَعَ مَالًا وَّعَدَّدَهٗ يَحْسَبُ اَنَّ مَالَهٗۤ اَخْلَدَهٗ كَلَّا لَيُنْۘبَذَنَّ فِی الْحُطَمَةِ وَمَآ اَدْرٰكَ مَاالْحُطَمَةُ نَارُ اللهِ الْمُوْقَدَةُ الَّتِىْ تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْاَفْئِدَۃِ اِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ فِیْ عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍ ہر اُس شخص کے لئے ہلاکت ہے جو (روبرو) طعنہ زنی کرنے والا ہے (اور پسِ پشت) عیب جوئی کرنے والا ہے۔(خرابی و تباہی ہے اُس شخص کے لئے) جس نے مال جمع کیا اور اُسے گن گن کر رکھتا ہے۔وہ یہ گمان کرتا ہے کہ اُس کی دولت اُسے ہمیشہ زندہ رکھے گی۔ ہرگز نہیں! وہ ضرور حطمہ (یعنی چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) میں پھینک دیا جائے گا۔ اور آپ کیا سمجھے ہیں کہ حطمہ (چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) کیا ہے۔ (یہ) اللّٰہ کی بھڑکائی ہوئی آگ ہے۔ جو دلوں پر (اپنی اذیت کے ساتھ) چڑھ جائے گی۔ بیشک وہ (آگ) اُن لوگوں پر ہر طرف سے بند کر دی جائے گی۔ (بھڑکتے شعلوں کے) لمبے لمبے ستونوں میں (اور اُن لوگوں کے لئے کوئی راہِ فرار نہ رہے گی)۔ (۱۰۴۔الھمزۃ۔9-1)

“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. Ah, what will convey unto thee what Al-Hotama is?”

The characteristics and the distinctive features of Al-Hotama:-

“(It is) the fire of Allah, kindled, which leapeth up over the hearts”

The portrayal of the atomic explosion:-

“It (fire) is closed in on them, in outstretched columns”.

DETAIL OF HOTAMA

Hotama means a hell of fire generated by nuclear, that is, atomic energy with all its attributes, namely, the heat radiation, blast, and radioactive fallout united. We can rightly translate Hotama as Atomic Energy, and its attributions, like Atomic Bombs and Atomic Radiations.

The word Hotama, etymologically speaking is derived from its root verb "Hatama", which means “to Break Something into Pieces”. Borrowing the language of the scientists, we could say; “the process of atomizing”. Further inquires into the grammatical conjugations reveal that the inflective form Hattama, that is Hatama with T doubled, assumes, a sense of greater impact, and thus it means, “to smash, or dash to pieces, to shatter”. The next inflection, namely, “Tahattama”, “TA” having been prefixed to Hattama, means “to break up, go to pieces, or to be wrecked”; and so also would mean the inflection “Inhatama” that is “in” prefixed to the basic word “Hatama”. Further “Hutaam” and “Hitma”, being the nouns and mean, “Smitherines, pieces, particles” etc. Very interesting use of the word “Hutaam” is seen in the phrase “Hutaam-ud-Dunia”, that is the “vanities of the world”. These are called as “Hutaam” metaphorically, since they are perishable and must one day be disintegrated. Again the wreckage of a ship is called by the Arab “Hutaam-us-Safina”.

The Resemblance between Quran's "Hatama" and the "Atom" or the "Atomos" of the Scientist:-

The word “Hatama” is purely of Arabic origin. The word “Atom” as is used by the scientist, has been adopted from the Greek word “Atomos”. The word “Atomos” means uncuttable, indivisible and indestructible. We will now make our utmost endeavor to show the phonetic resemblance, and the resemblance as well as disparity of the meanings and the purport, between the two words that is “Hatama” of the Quran and “Atom” or “Atomos” of the scientist. This phonic resemblance, amounting to astonishing identity is no secret that has to be divulged. Yet judging from the nature of the topic and impending necessity, we are obliged to show it. The slight phonic difference which is noticeable between “Hatama” and the “Atom” or “Atomos”, could well be attributed to the phonic peculiarities of the two different people with slightly variant vocal organs and their accentual variations, and also to the difficulties of transliteration. It may come as a surprise to the reader, if he is told, that the Arabic Alphabet contains no letter, which we could exactly call as T, as it is pronounced for example in the words, tap, test, tip, top, or tucker etc. by the people of England proper, or certain other parts of the world. Arabic language has two other alternative letters that is a soft T and TUA. The T of this TUA is not the hard one, it is soft one, but this TUA is pronounced not as ordinary soft T, but literally as TUA. Keeping this testy discussion in mind, we proceed to note that although the Arabic Alphabet contains the exact letter H as it is pronounced in English “Hat” etc. Yet it has another character which although may sound something like H to a foreigner, yet it is pity that it cannot be exactly, transliterated into not only English, but as far as my knowledge goes, into any language spoken in the world and needs practice to be correctly pronounced by a foreigner and is something in between the letter H and KH. This peculiar letter is used in Hatama and not simple H. However without falling into such minute complexities, we should conclude that the word which we have transliterated as Hatama with H is strictly not at all the exact representation of the word, it is meant to stand for, namely, that is the Arabic Hatama, and the actual pronunciation of the word Hatama, we have spoken about, by virtue of TUA having been preceded by that untranslatable character, we have spoken about and which we are always obliged, to write as H in a foreign language is actually far near to the word ATUAMA in pronunciation, and not HATAMA with H. If the reader happens to be so lucky as to have an Arab in his neighborhood, let him ask this Arab friend to pronounce the word HATAMA as is the actual Arabic word which this Hatama stands for, and you will hear him say something like ATUMA with a strange accent on the first A, sounding something between H and Kh. By all this minute description all that we mean to show, is the miraculous nature of this coincidence that of the phonic resemblance of these two words, that is, the Arabic HATAMA and Greek ATOMOS. If coincidence we may justly call it for it is a miracle manifest, that of the Omniscient Allah. It is this resemblance of these two basic words, which actually forms the key to the door and the clue to the inner secret of the prophecy. I say this on personal experience, since, but for this phonic resemblance I would perhaps have never been let in, into the real mystery thereof. It is a sort of “Open Sesame”.

The Quran exact but the Scientist is wrong.

By saying, that the scientist is wrong in a certain aspect, I do in no way mean to injure the feelings of anyone for whom I feel a heart-felt regard, but I feel myself obliged also to point out a little error which the scientist is himself well aware of and which has had a remarkable mystery concealed beneath it.

By the Greek word “Atomos” is necessarily meant “something uncuttable, indivisible and indestructible”. The same is the meaning of the word “Atomos” in Greek language, and the same was meant by early Greek atomists when they used the word, “Atomos”. This word, rather the term “Atomos” was adopted by the modern scientist as “Atom”, in the same meanings. But in time the atom was split up in sub-atomic parts, such as Neutrons, protons, Electrons and positrons etc. So the “atom” remained no more as “atom”. It has changed its character. It was no more uncuttable. But the question which interests us most is that, was the scientist unmindful of this fact of this basic change of the character of Atom? Did he not realize the necessity of changing the term with the change of the reality, was the earth allowed to retain its previous designation that is “flat”, after it was known that it was not flat, but round. Or was it again allowed to retain its previous quality as stationary when it was discovered that it was not stationary, but rather it revolved around its axis and it rotated around the sun. The answer is No. The word “Flat” was changed to “round”, and, “stationary” to “rotating”. Why not then, the question arises, this word “atom” was changed for some other correct word, while Greek, Latin and all the dictionaries of Europe lay opened before the scientist and we could not suspect DEARTH of talent amongst the scientist community. Whey then the word atom was not changed and why this misnomer was allowed to continue. Was the scientist unmindful of this serious flaw or did he neglect the discrepancy? No. We find Sir James jeans regretting this error, on page 45 of his admirable book, “The Mysterious Universe” as saying:-

“Just as the 19th century was drawing to a close, Sir J.J. Thompson and his followers began to breakup the atom which now proved to be no more uncuttable, and so no more entitled to the name of "atom" than the molecule to which the name had pervasively been attached”.

(The Mysterious Universe by Sir James Jeans, Page # 45)

Then, just as the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, Sir J, J, Thomson and his followers began to break up the atom, which now proved to be no more uncuttable, and so no more entitled to the name of “atom,l* than the molecule to which the name had previously been attached.

(The Mysterious Universe by Sir James Jeans, Page # 45 From Google)

Now this was the case at a time as Sir Jeans tells us, when the 19th century was drawing to a close. But we have seen the “atom” shattered into pieces completely by the scientist during the first half of the twentieth century. And yet the atom retained its previous name as if it were its inviolable birth-right. All this seems strange, but the fact which excites far greater wonder than all this is, that the scientists had actually called up a conference with a view to discussing this very question that of the error in the name of the atom. But did they discuss the matter? The answer is yes, they did discuss it. But did they change the name of atom? The answer is No. The question is why? I have seen in a most authentic record in a book that after the discussion of the matter, it was, (we do not know why or how), decided, to let the word “atom” remain as it was. It may seem something extra-ordinarily strange to anyone acquainted with the accurate nature of science and consequently the scientist. The scientist, the adherent of the principles of science, as a rule could not be expected to call atom as atom which was not atom but was actually tom, that is exactly the opposite of what the scientist meant, subject himself to the charge of a gross violation of the rules of science, and how did he happen to slight and ignore the basic spirit thereof. It is a very interesting situation and there lay behind it a fact far more formidable than at first is to be suspected. And you might ask, what is that fact so astoundingly tremendous to justify so loud a clamour as this. The answer is that, the power which had been so pleased as to place the prophecy in the Quran about the Atom bomb, the very same power had superimposed itself on the minds of the scientists in their conference, that they so decided as to let the “atom” remain as it was. This they did, at the eleventh hour and they dropped the question when they had reached the last rung of their proceedings. We are tempted to ask this question from anyone who would be sceptic about this our assumption; why if this was not the reason, then the scientists dropped the point to violate the very spirit of science, and of course, in vivid contradiction even to common sense, nay even in violation of the general principle of a world in which no one would ever call “ugly” the “beautiful” or “dark” the “white” except in satirical sense. But again the question arises, as to, why the providence was so over-particular, and so very much interested in the name of atom, that it should remain as it is? The answer to this question is this, that this apparent phonic resemblance as existed between the two words, namely, the Hatama of the Quran and the Atom of the scientist, was desired to remain, for it was due to this phonic resemblance that the prophecy about the atom bomb, contained in the Quran, could be discovered. But for this resemblance, the eye of the mind could perhaps not be directed to the inner mystery. This, as I have already said, and I say this on my personal experience, for, it was this apparent, phonic resemblance between these two words that enticed me into the actual bosom of the secret, and I indeed by the grace of Almighty Allah discovered it and then corroborated the facts by the actual characteristics of the phenomenon in the Quran and the phenomenon in practice. It remains only to say now in this respect, that the terminology of the Quran, is, found to be exact and correct, for, the word Hatama, as is used by the Quran implies, cuttability and not otherwise while the scientist has been mystified by the providence that he may persist in error.

And Hotama means a crusher. And crusher indeed the atomic phenomenon is. It crushes the nucleus of atoms, and the nucleus of the cell, both the basic units, irreparably. Atomic bombs and atomic radiations are unique crushers obviously. Atomic phenomenon can crush all life on earth. You can call it, a nuclear crusher, or a thermonuclear crusher.

The Quran says:-

وَمَآ اَدْرٰىكَ مَاالْحُطَمَةُ ٥ اور آپ کیا سمجھے ہیں کہ حطمہ (چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) کیا ہے۔

“And what will make you understand what al-Hutama (the crushing up Fire) is?”

(Al-Humazah, 104: 5)

“What will convey unto thee, (O Prophet) what Al-Hotama is?”

This expression of surprise implies the extreme terribleness, and extreme complexity of the phenomenon. Imperceptible complexity and inexpressible horror, something which we the unfortunate inhabitants of this age were doomed to experience. However that which we have hitherto seen of this hellish monstrosity in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is but a negligible fraction, while the real blazing hell of the Atomic bombs is still farther away, though fast approaching. The atom bombs hitherto dropped on human habitations have merely been toy bombs in comparison with the giants which lately have been developed in this civilized age. The giants which are laid to rest in their dungeons only to be raised at the proper moment for the all-out destruction of humanity. The actual extent of the horror could be narrated by those unfortunate people only who have had the chance of a practical experience, like those of Hiroshima, or like those of Nagasaki, yet it is something, which could not evade human imagination completely. It is very well known at least by the educated class of humanity, that the atomic bomb whether fission, or fusion, is a dreadful and horrifying combination of an all-consuming hell of blazing fires and deafening thunder claps, and striking lightening, raging tempests, and devastating earth-quakes, and invisible storms of poisonous radiations, in short an inexplicable jehannah ablaze on the ruins of this world. Stately buildings, gigantic forts, huge castles, are pulled down and razed to the ground along with a world of huts and cottages. A world of living human beings, but a few moments ago, are now turned into charred dead bodies. Millions of them mingled with the burnt remains of the beast and the brute. The atomic assaults in lesser degree would bestow on the survivors, agonizing maladies like cancers, chafing ulcers, the curse of monstrosity, and a painful and ignominious end. And if you will allow me to be little antique, I should say, the imagination shudders, heart bleeds and the pen weeps, in describing the atomic Holocaust. Yet if the humanity all over the world would pretend to be blind to this global holocaust of Nuclear cannonade now tending towards their home and hearth, then what could be said except that Alas! For ill-fated mankind.

The Quran describes the Nuclear Phenomenon.

The Quran has described the Nuclear phenomenon, with such accuracy, and has

analyzed its characteristics with such precision, and has discerned its distinctive features with so strange a peculiarity that might well come as surprise to the modern reader, particularly the scientist, and we may well describe a truth without being suspected of restoring to ancient and outmoded style of rhetoric if we say, that the description of the characteristics of the Nuclear phenomena by the Quran, would throw the scientist and the philosopher into ecstatic moods, provided indeed, if the faculty of imagination of these celebrated geniuses have not been completely dulled and dried up by science, by materialism and by necessity. They will observe with some interest, a fact namely that, whereas even the fathers of Atomic Bomb had to depend on practical experimentation in order to gain the knowledge of the characteristics of their invention, the Quran has contained all that knowledge, and something more than that, during these past fourteen centuries since the times when men possessed a knowledge of thermodynamics no more than that which could be derived from a lime kiln or a fire that glowed, in their own hearth. The true appreciation of this point could be expected from great atomists of the calibre of Einstein, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Steller and others of note. The Quran contained all this most accurate scientific data about the nuclear phenomenon long before the scientists even had heard the name of the Uranium Fission, nay even the very name of uranium itself. Let someone approach any of these renowned men of the realm of science and ask him, how much did he knows about the various characteristics of the Nuclear phenomena, e.g. its heat flash, its enclosing features, its column raising ideosyncracy, its radiations and their heart-reaching tendencies, and the global extent of the radiological hazards of the fallout below the actual experimentation of the various processes, The Quran has enumerated and explained all these characteristics of the nuclear phenomenon with such dexterity and clearness that could be wonder and delight of an atomist.

The characterization of the nuclear phenomenon by the Quran.

(a) It is a fire.

(b) It is a fire of Allah, kindled.

(d) It is fire closed in on them.

(e) In outstretched columns.

We will now see these facts against the actual facts observed and brought to light during the practical experimentation of the nuclear phenomenon.

i. The Quran says, “It is a fire”.

Today not only the atomists, but the whole humanity knows that the nuclear energy and the nuclear phenomenon are fire, the whole fire and nothing but fire, but the atomist knows also that the initial radiation of the nuclear device on detonation, the radiation called as heat-flash, and besides this the ionizing radiations and the energy liberated are the only ingredients that constitute the nuclear explosion. This heat-flash produces intense heat, and the temperatures developed by its heat are of the order of a million to tens even hundreds of millions of degrees. Indeed there are other fires also. Fires colossal in magnitude and terribly devastating, that consume whole cities, but they are started through convection of heat produced by the initial radiation, and also through damaged electrical appliances or from the adjacent buildings on fire. And also there occurs a terrific blast of the order of an earthquake and constitutes an unspeakable hazard to the dwellings as well as to human life, though in the light of the modern theory of energy, it could be taken as a part of energy itself, or it could be cited as an associated effect of the explosion fire. It is thus practically proved that the nuclear phenomenon is fire.

(ii) The Quran says “It is fire of Allah kindled”.

Because:-

(a) It is a sort of a punishment and is retributive in its character. It appears as a chastisement of Allah, for certain particular evils on the part of human-beings. And it is the resultant form of a continuous process of science. A science misguided and ill-applied due to a particular misguiding philosophy. A philosophy tempered with irreligious and materialistic faithlessness, apostasy and sceptiscism. The fire of atomism consequently appears as a symbol of the wrath of Allah. These untoward tendencies of humanity that are responsible for the emergence of such a fire are enumerated by the Quran as previously stated, namely, a slanderous nature, completely materialistic tendencies, excessive love of accumulating wealth, and unabounding faith therein in the wealth, and in the factor of its continuance eternally. The inconsistencies which most unfortunately happen to be a particular trait of this modern age of ours. This Baconian age of materialism.

(b) The abnormal intensity of the temperatures developed in Nuclear Processes, and unusually vast magnitudes of the atomic fire, and the incredibly large extent of its devastation, when judged against the ordinary types of fire, would with much plausibility be attributed to the name of Allah, the great. Indeed these characteristics of the atomic fire are of such calibre as justly cause human imagination to reel, so much so that if they had not actually been witnessed by humanity, it would have been hard for anyone to believe. Just imagine a temperature of 1500 degrees at white heat, which turns clay into molten slag flowing like a liquid, and then try to imagine a temperature of a million degrees C. The thing is perhaps just beyond human imagination. It only could be remembered as a mathematical computation. But the story does not come to an end with a mere million. For, whereas the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima developed a temperature of a million degrees, the Nominal High Yield atomic bomb develops temperatures of the order of tens of millions of degrees. And further in triggering the Hydrogen bomb, the so called, Hell Bomb, the temperatures are developed, which are of the order of hundreds of millions of degrees. Such temperatures certainly are not of an earthly nature but are to be supposed as related to such heavenly bodies as are meant for burning, e.g. the sun and the stars. It is in the heart of the sun or the stars that such temperatures are likely to be found. The fires therefore of the solar or steller nature to be found on this humble earth, would seem something unnatural. Such fires could neither be controlled for peaceful purposes, nor could be contained in any container on earth. We simply do not find any container on earth which could possibly hold fires having such terribly intense temperatures as would evaporate all matter to gaseous state. It seems quite plausible therefore, to attribute such a fire to the name of Allah.

(c) The unbelievable magnitude.

Barely a couple of pounds of Uranium-235 produces energy equivalent to 20 thousand tons of ordinary chemical TNT. A thousand kilograms that is, a metric ton of Uranium-235 would liberate energy equivalent to 20 million tons of TNT. This last is energy of the order of large-scale natural phenomena such as hurricanes and earthquakes. To create such natural phenomena as hurricanes and earthquakes was in pre-nuclear age considered as an act of nature and not of man. So it certainly is not without some real possibility, if such a fire is attributed to the name of Allah.

(d) Huge Energy Produced by Thermonuclear Bomb.

The explosive energy produced by a single 15 mega ton (15 million tons) thermonuclear (Hydrogen) bomb far exceeds all the explosive energy produced during the whole history of mankind collectively.

(e) Destruction of Heat-Flash and Blast.

The heat-flash and blast of a single 20 megaton thermonuclear bomb destroys the largest cities, whereas the radio-active fallout of a nominal high yield atomic bomb devastates areas equal to States. An area only a little less than five hundredth part of the area of the whole surface of the earth. To wit, that 500 such bombs symmetrically detonated on the surface of the earth would obliterate every sign of life from earth after a painful existence for a while.

(f) Nuclear Energy Destroyer as a Weapon and its Lethal Actions.

Nuclear Energy is not only destructive as a weapon of war, but in a way, it is also lethal if restricted to peaceful purposes due to its inherent and inseparable atomic radiation. These radiations may bring about a death quick enough, or they may allow their victim a painful existence some-where in a cancer hospital for some time and then put him to a lingering and painful death.

(iii) The Quran says, “Nuclear fire is a fire which leaps up over the harts”.

This is the point which presents very interesting study and must therefore be read with attention. For, the fires generally are supposed to burn the body, but a fire which leaps up over the heart without having first burnt the body, sounds a bit strange.

(a) The Heat – Flash.

The heat-flash, that is the initial radiation which appears on detonation of the atomic bomb, with a dazzle brighter than that of the sun, and travelling with the speed of light, that is 186,000 miles per second, and lasting for about two seconds, in the case of nominal atomic bomb and 20 seconds in the case of mega ton bomb, strikes the exposed persons within its effective range, and burns their skins to dark or brown, killing within a zone (near the site of detonation) instantaneously, and leaving those outside this zone, with painful burns of various degrees. Now we know that persons, who have got their skins burnt in some accident, do not essentially die on the spot. They may be saved by proper treatment. We also know that this heat-flash does not penetrate beneath the skin of its victim, neither of those who may survive its effect, nor of those whom it has killed on the spot. It does not penetrate beneath the skin of its victims because of its extremely short duration. The question arises, how it then kills some of its victims on the spot, if it has not penetrated into their body, which remains un-impaired. The answer is that its Heat through the lungs of its victim enters the breast, and what with its heat, and what with its accompanying thunder, and what its shock, which is indeed unbearably terrible, it affects the heart and chokes it to instantaneous death. Thus it is that the nuclear fire leaps up over the hearts, and without first burning the body, kills its victim by affecting the heart, which expires due to exceeding unbearable agony and terror. There are other fires, colossal and devastating, that are caused by the atomic explosion. They burn men's bodies to charcoal and kill. But these fires are not a part of the original body of the atomic explosion and are only caused afterwards, through convection due to the tremendous heat radiated by the explosion initially in the form of heat-flash.

(b) Nucleus.

It is not by mere coincidence that the scientist has given the name of nucleus to a certain part of the atom. The nucleus means, the central core, the heart, and the nucleus of the atom indeed is the heart of atom. The scientist calls and orthodoxically the nucleus as heart.

(c) The nuclear energy generation processes.

When we look into the processes of nuclear energy generation, we find the same formula that is, of the leaping up of the fire over the hearts on work. How? Now let us first have a view of the fission process of energy generation. We see a neutron, for example, to assail the (nucleus) of the atom and knock out two neutrons. These knocked out neutrons as if in a retaliative mood further strike at the hearts (Nuclei) of other atoms and knock out two neutrons each. The knocked out neutrons in continued succession keep on knocking two neutrons each, in turn till the whole of the fissile mass becomes red hot through anger due to the disturbance of the hearts of the atoms. Finally the cup of the patience of enraged mass overflows and it explodes itself with terrible violence. So we have seen how the nuclear energy is generated in the hearts, and how the neutrons have attached the hearts of the atoms. Thus it means that nuclear energy not only has the tendency of leaping up over the hearts after it has been generated, but it also is generated in a similar process that of leaping up over the hearts. The same process can be seen on work in the fusion process of nuclear energy generation. In this case, simply two atoms of lighter nuclei are taken, and the heart (Nucleus) of one atom is forcibly crushed into the heart (Nucleus) of the other atom; the hearts break and the heat (energy) is given out.

(d) The Term Thermonuclear.

It will be learned with no mild surprise that the Quran has only and exactly translated the term Thermonuclear- as is applied by the scientist himself --when it (the Quran) says, that the nuclear energy is a fire which leaps up over the hearts. How is it? It is thus! The word thermo means “of heat”, that is fire. The word Nuclear is the adjective of Nucleus which means heart. Thus the word Nuclear means something connected with heart. The complete term that is thermonuclear would then mean, a fire which is related to the heart. The scientist has coined this term with amazing aptness and has indeed said exactly what the Quran has said in this respect. The scientist says a fire related to the heart. The Quran says a fire which appears over the hearts. Such an act of anticipation on the part of the Quran would seem nothing short of a marvel. We proof the view of the Quran by merely uttering the term nuclear. Indeed.

(e) Nuclear Radiations leap up over the hearts.

The nuclear Radiations, Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays and neutrons are nicknamed by the scientists as bone-seekers because these radiations' tendency that of reaching the bones through the blood stream. There they attack the bone marrow. Now the function of the bone marrow is to generate the blood. They render the bone marrow incapable of generating blood. They attack the blood and destroy its red as well as white corpuscles, depriving it of its nourishing qualities, and rendering it rather a source of torment to the heart due to its poisoned state. Now, the relation of the bone-marrow and the blood, and further the relation of blood and the heart is well known. The attack of the radiations therefore is being directed towards the heart. The next attractive target of these radiations happens to be all the blood forming organs of the body. The connection of these organs with the blood and through the blood with heart also is well known. Again the symptoms of radiation sickness are leukemia, a disease of blood, hemorrhages, that is blood leaking, also a disease of the blood, fever; also connected with blood, nausea and, vomiting also linked with the heart. The radiations by attacking the blood-forming organs, in truth play something of a war strategy with the heart. They besiege it and stop its blood supplies, by destroying the existing quantities, and preventing the replenishment by destroying the blood producing capacities of blood farming organs, till at last the heart succumbs to disease and starvation and expires in acute agony. Further, it is now known, that'll the multi-cellular organisms with more perfected heart and lungs and more elaborately developed circulatory and respiratory systems are far more prone to the effects of radiations than all the unicellular organisms with less perfect heart and lungs and less elaborated circulatory and respiratory systems. This proves a decisive affinity of radiations for the heart and all that is directly connected with it. It has also been discovered that in the absence of oxygen the action of radiations is noticeably retarded. Now the connection of oxygen with the heart, in virtue of its role as the purifier of blood in the lungs is a fact of common knowledge. Lastly the recent researches on the effects of radiations have revealed, that, brain, nerves and muscles are the least sensible parts of the body to the effects of radiations. This again would establish the fact of radiations' greater relative affinity for the heart and all that is more directly connected with it. Again radiations attack the nuclei (Hearts) of atoms in inanimate matter and cause transmutation of atoms, while in the living body they attack. The cell nuclei and break the chromosomes thereof.

(f) The raging fires of discontent.

Last but not the least is the fires of discontent, frustration and anxiety which today is furiously raging in every heart without exception, throughout the whole vast world. This fire, although it has in every age, era and epoch, pestered and tormented poor human heart, yet in this particular, modern age of atomism, due partly to the peculiar set up of this exclusively materialistic age, and partly due to the absence of faith and moral and spiritual values, it has assumed alarming proportions. To the problems of the necessities of life are to be added the dread of atom bombs, and even more than the atom bombs that of nuclear radiations. Worst even is the plight of those to whose lot have fallen more thorns but little fruit or flower of modern science and its progress. It is not without some aptness, if the first cry emitted by the newborn baby at its birth be interpreted as saying:-

“Alas for me! What shall I do to save my body? How Shall I ever exist, to solve the painful riddle of material necessities in a world poisoned by radiations”.

While first cry of a baby born in some pre-modern age, could have been interpreted as saying:-

“Alas for me! What shall I do to save my soul in a world full of snares, and pitfalls? Oh, how shall I be able to go safely back to my home in heaven, whence I came”?

The intensity of such tormenting worries about one's material existence in the absence of spiritual relief, patience, moral fortitude and faith, has made the life of human-beings extremely miserable both in the east and the west. So crushing is the pressure and so fast increasing is the tempo that sooner or later, a stage may arrive that men in acute frustration might prefer death to this life. Then perhaps they may hail the flashing dazzle of the atomic bomb as a surer redeemer of man from all this formidable host of miseries and unbearable agonies of a painful existence. They perhaps may prefer a sudden end through atomic blast to a lingering death which their existence actually would be. Perhaps no pen on earth could describe, and no imagination could truly portray the life of humanity, surrounded by atomic plants, and plagued by atomic radiations. In the future age of full-fledged atomic-energy-for-peace. A race of wretched monsters and haggard apparitions, dreading their own shadows and mistaking their own cry for a smile and a smile for a cry. Thinking themselves as smiling but crying, and taking themselves as crying but actually smiling. If that be the plight, a Darwin's perception is not needed to know, that they must be most unfit for survival, and further the impulse of a Freud may not be required to realize that such a race would certainly prefer an atomic holocaust, to their tormenting anxiety, the faster the end the better.

So fast is the process of the change of human mind these days, moving, a change for the worse indeed, that a man going to bed in an attitude quite normal and serene, with perhaps a thought or two of pity and sympathy in his heart, but to your horror you will see him, all of a sudden starts out of his bed, panting, with a fury boiling in his breast, his eyes blood-shot with wrath, cursing violently himself and everyone, and showering abuse, in a hysterical manner for having done any good to any one in the past, or having done any act of kindness, and swearing never to do any such thing to anyone whosoever, from that very moment onward. Lull him to sleep, and then await for yet another surprise. In the midst of his sleep he shall start out of his bed again, and swearing bitterest vows to snatch everything from everyone in the world. Ay, the first thing tomorrow morning, by the early sunrise. Just lull him to sleep and perhaps the scared sun will never again arise, in his world. We are living in a world, in which neither there is joy of wealth left, nor there is patience for poverty found, but both joy and patience have joined with worry in mourning. Every emotion has joined every other emotion and all have been fused into one that is worry. Tears, sighs, hearty laughter have all disappeared. Mind today is a barren desert, with nothing but worry blowing in every direction over the seething fumes. Judging from this fast changing attitude of man, it is not at all difficult to realize, that a time may not be very far, when too real misfortune of mankind, man blinded by an uncontrollable fit of rage, in some unavoidable situation may cast the destiny of this wretched humanity into the atomic hell. The most solemn pleaders of peace and unbreakable treaties may at such a moment prove a singed hair and crumble to dust, hurling a race headlong into a blazing hell from which there is no coming back. But Alas for us! Brother human-beings! Would this be the end? I wish it had been so, a complete end, the whole life on earth having gone to a perfect sleep, after a short spell of terror. A storm of shrieks, and then a complete silence. No one to mourn, no one to be mourned. No one to cry. No one to be cried for. This world, to be the abode of silence. Terror silenced into muteness for ever. But is it so? Is it going to be the end of all misery? No. It is not so. The atomic holocaust is not going to be the final remedy. The death is not going to prevail completely. Man shall survive the atomic conflagration. Man to taste the fruits of his scientific deeds further still. Man to see a hell within a hell in a hellish world. The result of his greed, power, wisdom, genius, and ambition. Man tasting the extremes of pain, and agony through by festering ulcers, paining cancers, leprous wounds. Man stinking like a skunk, and covered with swarms of pastering flies. Buzzing and biting swarms of flies licking the puss all over. Man unable to get food and unable to search or procure something to eat. Shivering with cold but having neither clothing, nor even a match-stick to stir fire and warm himself. Man having the saddest thoughts of his past, his past glory, a nightmare, a frightful dream. Burnt and charred skeletons of the symbols of his past glory, his great achievements, the caterpillar, and the aircraft, spread all over, as reminders of a dreadful past, telling a silent tale of shame and folly. Man, stark naked, and man's mind stark mad, a mind shattered into pieces. State of man, inexpressible, state of man's mind unspeakably miserable, and strange. Man neither raving in madness, nor crying in sorrow. The word gloom, no indeed no word could express man's state. What happened? How, where, and why? Neither death, nor even life. Man to forget the notion of death, and the thought of life. What is death, what is life? What we were, what we are. What are we, what is this? What are these dark images? What, are these sparkling ones, what is this that moves, what is that does not move? Blurred. Everything blurred in a post atomic war ruin.

And now imagine, if this be the state of a post atomic war humanity. But the real state we are not able to express. Nay, even if all the great pens, and all the great minds of humanity that ever existed on this earth, join together to express the state of a post atomic-war humanity, would not be able to describe a shred. The thing itself is just beyond expression.

And of course equally beyond expression is the pigheadedness and obstinacy of this present folly-ridden self-conceited and ill-starred generation of ours. What if I cry my throat sore, nay, if all the well-meaning individuals throughout the present mankind join in a chorus to cry their throats sore, who is going to head their exertion. This knowledge-drunk and power-eaten generation of dark-hearted, brain ridden computers of a wretched humanity will never stop, until it has found the bottom of the affair, but let us now stop that we may talk here to this group of a picture of misery, these men here, of a post-atomic era sitting in a group, as survivals of the atomic-war. No, they are not in a mood to talk. They just look at us, and stare and they turn their eyes away from us, in disgust. Look, here comes a man, one of them. He seems to be a bit more loquacious. Hey, man, here, all hail! How now, what, have you to say. What are your impressions about all this? No. This man in his face has more of a wild surprise, than any desire to talk. Hey, man, we said, what your impression about all this is. Gentlemen, why you ask me. This whole world, these haggard faces and all here is an impression in itself. Are you blind? Can you not see? Or do you joke. No, man, we certainly are not in a mood to joke, but pray tell us your impression. Right, then, if you ask my impressions, then listen. My impressions are, that every princely unprincipled priest, that had a share in making Christianity a dread, be skinned alive, before my very eyes, that I may hear his shrieks. And my impression is, that every man who had a hand in the revival of atomism at the expense of faith, should be brought right here before me and skinned alive, with this very blunt knife which I have in my hand, and then cast before my eyes into fire, here in this smouldering debris, that I may smell the stench of his burning flesh and fat. And my impressions is that all those that have been responsible for the worldly greed, and despondency, negligence, and insensibility of the Muslim community, be brought, I say right here, and the Quran be brought along with them, and a passage found in the Quran in which the atomic hell has been described. Then a hell on that very pattern, to the minutest detail be prepared, and then, let every one of those lovers of this world, they that had failed in doing their duty, their duty towards mankind by withholding the light of the Quran, neither abiding by it themselves, nor giving it to any one else, be brought right here, that I might see with mine own eyes, the truth of that scripture, come true: The scripture, meant to oppose atomic-war and to save mankind from every conflagration and to lead the caravan of humanity to their destination in peace and prosperity. I have seen the leaves of that very book being consumed by the leaping flames of the atomic-fire as were devoured the bodies of its followers. And my impression is that every dared scientist who made the atomic bomb, and every devilish politician who aided and abetted the enterprise, should be brought right here now and right before my eyes be speared to death and flung into this endless sea of seething fumes. And that helpless man: Gabriel, in whose inanimate hands the greatest of prophetic warnings remained unpublished, let his back be bared and mercilessly lashed till he breathed his last, amidst a raging tempest of jeering hovels. These are my impressions, Gentlemen, and now, please, we will be grateful to you to the deep most nucleus of our heart if you could guide us to some way, that we could put this painful existence of ours, to and end. O benign death, O beneficent death, we call you, pray be so kind as to pay so much as a visit to these sooty shambles here, and relieve us from this torture for ever, for ever.

It may, however, be erroneous to assume, that the maladies of greed, discontent and distress, were of only recent origin, and that they did not exist in any pre-modern age. Complete contentment of freedom from greed or distress never were the lot of man, since the appearance of humanity on earth. This earth has never been an abode of unmixed bliss. The love of wealth and the world were ingrained in the very nature of man. The worry of material needs and the thought of luxury and enjoyment has always pester human mind. Pain and fear have always been his companions of man. Thousands of years ago, when this earth was scantily populated, and large tracts of land, pastures, meadows and jungles lay vacant, even unobserved, the worry of material needs and a sense of scarcity and the distinction of poverty and opulence did exist amongst mankind. There was no problem of population. Rather the increase in population was aimed at. There was no dearth of land, rather, men to plough the land were wanting, and of course, peace and security to make harvesting possible. But the difference between the modern and any pre modern age is that whereas in every pre-modern age has existed in some form or the other, a philosophy of anti- materialistic nature, a philosophy which constantly kept reminding men of the transitory nature and perfidy of this life, as against the eternal life hereafter; a philosophy to prefer spiritual to material, celestial to terrestrial, a denunciatory philosophy of self-abnegation, preferring always, mind to matter and soul to body, the other world to this world, in order to soften the severity of man's natural greed and excessive desire of worldly things and power; the modern age has plunged itself into the materialism completely and exclusively, casting away every consideration, of death, of other world, of the day of judgment, of mind, sprit, morality and all, headlong into the pursuit of material necessities of this material world. There is no thought whatsoever of the transient, unreliable and perfidious nature of this world, or its snares and its pitfalls or of the last judgment of Allah on the day of resurrection which simply is denied and hence not dreaded. The standards of success and failure culminate in death and nothing whatsoever thereafter. Man therefore has become daring in sin and perfidy. There, nothing exists to have some salutary effect to bring much needed relief from the constant drudgery of a purely materialistic type of life. There nothing exists to alleviate the pains and sorrows of a materialistic mind, except the remedies of a material nature, remedies, which instead of affecting the desired relief, further accentuate the malady and thus, aggreviate the matter, and made the things worse. It is just as to add fuel in order to put fire out. The men of pre-modern ages, due to that particular philosophy of world hatred, and belief in the transitory nature of this life, and hope in the life to come, bore hardships, calamities and vicissitudes of life with patience, and as they say, philosophically. A few more, days, and all this would come to an end, they would think, and another life, after this is over, awaits. A life worthy of greater consideration, than this temporary stay, here on this earth. They ventured at great sacrifices due to their hope in the reward in a better and reliable world. They did everything with a sort of a submissive eagerness, and devout acquiescence, and thus achieved a mitigation of pain and misery. We shudder at the thought of the atrocities perpetuated by those who appeared in those long past simple times as tyrants, those clever hypocrites, who played upon the simplicity, and superstition of the ignorant people, and sold falsity in the guise of sainthood. But they, who had suffered on their hands, perhaps had less to complain, partly because: besides the false pretenders of sainthood, there always existed at least some genuine saints and partly because they thought all that happened was merely transitory and therefore of not much importance. But what about our modern world. The false saints of the past have appeared in modern apparel, same history is being repeated. At least the crafty priest of the past, did not create for his victims something like atomic hell. He did not at least fill the world with atomic radiations. This lurking death, unseen, untouched, untasted, unheard and unsmelt. And this raging hell of discontent was not so. It never raged with such fury in the past ages, despite the horrific, tyranny of both of the famine and the epidemic, and of the priest and the prince, and of tyrannical needs and necessities of life in addition. Now reform and not complete annihilation of that philosophy of the past was the need of the hour. Let men search for a philosophy which could strike up a balance between extremes. Let, the spiritual balance the material. Otherwise the load thus unbalanced would take humanity down to the bottom of the sea of miseries. Let this be done, or let men be prepared to live in a world replete with fiery scorpions and stinging snakes, and die a death at which the heavens even may shudder. But alas, the existing conditions would not allow this. Complete eradication of this Baconian culture is now the sole remedy.

Man today is raving mad after the material world, material progress, material comfort, material safeguards, material remedies in a braying hell of materialism. A hell raging with an unprecedented fervour. Men are, by virtue of the modern system compelled to go headlong into the material pursuits. They have prepared chains for themselves, and have themselves bound themselves in them, those chains, and are being dragged on to the hell, by a sort of a willing helplessness. No body can stay out. Any one stopping to look behind, would be crushed under the feet of the dragging column of humanity. Everything seems to have left the human mind, except indeed, a worry about food, about clothes, about abode, and about every material necessity of life. History fails to produce any past age in which men were so hard pressed by the necessities of life. Yet the question is, that have they, despite all these unusual, and whole-sale exertions in the search of worldly necessities, achieved their object? An object for which they have forsaken faith, and have severed themselves from their God, and forgotten everything about death and, all that is thereafter. An object for which they have broken their ties with the past, have subjected their future to imminent risks and dangers: risks and dangers unprecedented in the whole history of human adventure, and have sacrificed their very hope in the life in heaven. The answer, after having summed up everything, is unfortunately: No. After a few pleasant whirls and inebriating swirls on the wheel of the material progress, at a time when men of Macaulay's intellect had nothing but unending praises for bacon, the trumpeter of the modern age, and an able advocate of atomism, the speed of the wheel gradually increased to such alarming proportions that a tormenting dizziness seized the whirling heads of swirling humanity, till their eye-balls started out of sockets, as a result of extreme effort to keep hold of the flying wheel, and, now, we, still hungry, and we still wanting clothes, medicines and all, see before us the horror of atomic monster, with its flaming eyes and poisonous breath, ready to devour us all, in response to our request for food and garment. Food to fill our hungry belly, and garment to conceal our shame, medicine to cure our ills, and fees for our school going children. Alas for us! When I recall to my mind, the state of character of men of God in these parts of the world only about half a century ago, those men, seem to me angels, or at least human -beings in comparison with the prying wolves, and cunning foxen of today, the panting, prowling, ravaging, ransacking wolves, in packs, sans thought, sans regard, sans peace and sans humanity, pity, mercy, charity.

Mankind, in its all pre-modern history shunned, hated, and quelled the advancement of science. Right from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to every sensible philosopher of pre-modern age, there has not been one who has not detested the appearance of science. The advance of science and the thought of material progress on the lines of science have never in the past human history been to the liking of mankind. The things as they stand today at least, furnish a proof of the better judgment of those ignorant people of the past. It is only once in all the human history, that is in this modern age, that science had a chance to display its worth, that today it has all the field solely to itself, but unfortunately, that which the ancient people had dreaded in science has come true. Men indeed, have so plunged, themselves in the material world that it would seem as if they were irrevocably and for ever lost in it. The ability which was needed to keep the things in balance has not been shown. The leaders of science and the scientific world have thought of faith as an enemy, and therefore directed all their endeavours towards annihilating the same, little realizing, that faith was something indispensible to man. And thus the things have reached a stage where we can see then today with horror. Yet the things are not past cure. There is still, one and only one chance, provided that the blindness of humanity does not prevail to the end, to the dreadful end.

Greed is the order of the day. The higher the products pile up, the keener and the stronger becomes the sense of poverty and the pangs of hunger and indeed and paradoxically enough the fear of poverty, and the dread of bankruptcy. And this is the natural, logical, philosophical effect of a civilization alienated from faith and purely materialistic. They who have severed themselves from the hope of heaven will turn mad for the world. And thus, the poor is poor, but the millionaire is poorer, and the multi-millionaire poorer still, and all fearing the change more then death. The wealth has become a disease a goddess, and everything. It is a very peculiar age. But if they do not pause to think and reform, the most suitable, punishment is the atomic hell.

There is darkness, darkness and darkness around. All that light, the light of Adam, the light of Noah, the light of Abraham, the light of Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, has disappeared behind the illusive veil of modern knowledge, a knowledge which constitutes a basket of bread and on dilated, unappeasable belly, wrapped up in a dark, lusty, selfish, miserable and squeamish brain. A gastric knowledge comprising gastric philosophy, a gastric thought, gastric attention, gastric considerations, in a gastric world. Its maladies are gastric, its remedies also gastric. Its joys, its sorrows, its worries and delights, its smiles, grins, frowns and its every-thing is gastric. Its problems, including that of population are one and all of a gastric nature, and so are the keys, clues and solutions, of a nature basically gastric. And is not the Hydrogen bomb, a scientific remedy of the problem of population, of a gastric? Smell and hue? If not Hydrogen gas of a gastric origin? And is not the problem of population basically gastric? And gastric is the light of this age of lights, and so is its darkness of a gastric nature. Its problems gastro-enteric, its leaders gastronomes, its science gastronomy and hence its philosophy ought to bear the name of "Gastronomism". In gastronomy it has its origin and in gastronomism it shall be dissolved ultimately just as salt is dissolved in water.

Yet there is still a chance of light in this blinding darkness. I said: yes, there is still a chance, if the torch of faith is once again lit. Recall to your dazed and dizzied mind the part which the Christian training played in the past to bring about the success of renaissance of the west and the subsequent scientific progress, without that training, despite the tyrannical priest and the corrupted church, despite the dark superstition and fanatic bigotry, the modern scientific enterprise could never have been achieved. Indeed all the pre-requisites of their success, the spirit of contemplative research, honesty of purpose, faculty of concentration, sense of clean business, patience, perseverance, humility, sympathy, cooperative attitude, acquiescence, in mutual coordination, a charitable disposition, humane considerations and several other traits were bestowed on the people of the west by their religion and were imagined in their mind during their past ecclesiastical training for many centuries. Without these qualities, their success in their great enterprise would not have been only dubious but definitely uncertain. And do they not see, that their movement after having reached a certain pinnacle at a dizzying height is now going to strumble to the ground for no other reason than that they had excluded faith from their affair, and that the reminiscent features bestowed of their past faith had gradually dwindled and disappeared. Let now this modern culture with its progress evaporate before the sun of faith.

A minute scrutiny reveals some shining features of modern civilization, so much so that its destruction despite such good qualities would appear as a tragedy, though indispensible in the interest of this mankind itself. It has thirst for knowledge and an aptitude for discerning the truth regardless of all the weight of authority to the contrary. A scientific method and rational attitude as against the legend and myth. A sense of human liberty and basic human rights. A clean sense of business and most scrupulous honesty in trade and transaction. A sense of cleanliness, order, justice, sympathy and punctuality, a constant endeavour to bring about physical comfort and material welfare, and a perpetual campaign against poverty, disease and ignorance. A remarkable quality of patience, perseverance and fortitude and a heart-felt desire for peace, plenty, progress and prosperity. All these are very commendable desires and worthy ambitions, and humane considerations, but an exceptionally great and rare virtue is their exercise of sagacity to judge a thing, and weight it and readily accept the same if found sound and correct, even if not to their inner liking. No less remarkable are their trends against disposition and tyranny, and their sense of human equality, equity and democracy, though there be except ness every where. But all this has been wrecked by the erroneous basis of the whole thing. A good ship indeed. But sailing in a wrong, different direction.

But alas! This beautiful civilization is now going. No power beneath this sky can rescue it from utter annihilation unless indeed the basic flaws and consequent corruptions are removed in time. Namely the habit of slander, back-biting and the resultant mistrust and distrust, wholesale engrossment in material pursuits and accumulation of wealth in an atmosphere completely devoid of moral and spiritual values, and besides that wealth worship. It is needless to say, that if these faults are cleared, men shall become sober and serene, and the veils of darkness shall automatically be removed from their eyes, and then the thoughts of nuclear power will be cast away and forgotten, and men will have a greater consideration of their next life in heaven and the day of judgment, and thus nuclear energy and its formidable offspring, the atom bomb will disappear leaving mankind in eternal peace and safety. Atomic power which at present is being looked upon as a boom will then appear as abomination and monstrosity unbearable. And there will be know economico-industrial set up of this Baconian culture to torment.

(IV) Lo! (It is) a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns.

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 to twenty seconds, and is the only original body of atomic explosion besides energy and the atomic radiations. It begins within a fraction of a second on detonation and after only two seconds or twenty 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 initial atomic radiations complete their process within ten seconds to one minute. That is, the process of the atomic explosion begins within a fraction of a second and is complete within a minute. 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, or one minute. No but the trap is laid and 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 there could 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 i.e hospital of radiation-sickness.

(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 on 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 may be within an 80 miles’ radius, just imagine a hollow, transparent, cylindrical column of 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. O! 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, nor emergency door.

But our picture of the edifice is not yet complete. It has not been fully described. Also an earth wide edifice has also been built up. 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 by the current of air. This layer of fallout keeps on circulating circulating around the earth for ten years. Now please keeping this double storeyed edifice within the 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 the bomb assessment group to assess the damages, nor the civil defence officials, to give their opinions about the readiness of nation will be there.

To this is to be added the following piece of information in order to understand the international closing-in-on-the 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”.

(Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell, 1959 Page # 23)

“General Gavin replied:

Current planning estimates ran on the order of several hundred million deaths. That would be either way depending on which way the wind blew. If the wind blew to the south-east they would be mostly in the USSR, although they would extend into the Japanese and perhaps down into the Philippine area. If the wind blew the other way they would extend well back into Western Europe”.

(Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell, 1959 Page # 23 From Google)

And thus it would mean that no one, friend or foe or neutral would deem himself safe from the deadly radiological hazard. No matter 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. Radio-biology offers numerous outstanding points of this “closing in on them” Characteristic of Radiations.

(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 rises upwards dragging behind it a column of fission products, vaporized 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 remember aright, one such column we have described previously in 8-IV-C, 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.

Besides this the world of Radio-Activity could be viewed as a world of columns. The tiny little particles taking little jumps could be regarded as rising in lofty columns when judged in comparison to their actual sizes. A foot-ball rising in the same ratio to its size, as an Alpha particle rising to a height of 4 C.M. in comparison to its own size, then the foot-ball would disappear in outer space. And just imagine the column of Cosmic rays. How dreadfully fascinating. This point I think has not been viewed from this angle by this scientist. It might be interesting.

(9) HOTAMA

The view of atomic hell enjoyed.

Now that we have brought our discussion of Al-Hotama to an end, and have displayed a corroboration by practical facts of the phenomenon of Nuclear explosion, so that the whole thing has received a scientific treatment as was promised by us in the very outset, and has borne a countenance aptly to be recognized by the scientist, let us proceed to celebrate this greatest ever achievement of human mind, this deadliest harbinger of death and destruction, namely the "atom bomb" and enjoy for awhile its awe-inspiring flourish with pride and grief.

And now, please, close your eyes, and imagine your self to be sitting on Mount Everest, the loftiest peak of the tallest mountain on earth. The whole earth is before your eyes. But you are shivering with cold. Yes, indeed there is much cold over there. But see the marvel of imagination, the like of which has not hither to been discovered by the scientist. And it is a marvel. This human mind, and its faculty of imagining. The lofty peak which Sir John Hunt was only able to conquer after great hardships amongst torturous hosts of blood-sucking leeches and amidst blizzards, and indeed loss of human life, you can feel under your very feet and can touch the pole of that flag which Colonel Hunt had planted there as a sign of his victory. And indeed the great atomists have had to subject themselves to risks and hazards even greater in order to conquer the loftiest pinnacle of mount atomism and there revive the giant atumbum that lay dormant in his cave: “the nuclear energy” snorting, and cage him to be brought to the earth as a wonderful piece of exhibition.

We can just sit and close our eyes and imagine a real display of unusual feats of our giant atumbumb, without in any way taking so much trouble as to travel to the mosquito infested BIKINI ATOLLS or, Marshal Islands in peace-less and much disturbed pacific ocean. Now please see the imaginary display of nuclear phenomenon and then send your report that the world may read. In the mean time we will occupy ourselves with some writing.

Thank you, Sir, we have received your valuable report and we reproduce the same that others may read.

Following is the text of the report:-

“Wise leaders of all the nations that occupy any part of this earth of God, arrived at an agreement unanimously, about the instantaneous destruction of mankind, which they honestly believed to have out-grown its size and become far too old and overpopulated. It was right time they reiterated these wise leaders that some new species had a chance to appear and grow. They also agreed, unanimously too, to a suggestion made by a very system-loving member of that grand assembly of nations of the world called U.N.O. that this highly merciful act, that of the destruction of this miserable humanity could take place in accordance with some preplanned and well organized system. The points of this very ingenious proposal were, “firstly that the humanity should be accorded the honour of being despatched with atom bombs of the choicest kind. Secondly, that the atomic bombs should on a pre-agreed time and point be planted in exact symmetry all over the face of the earth, without depriving any part whatsoever of this privilege, and thirdly that the bombs be exploded on the zero hour, previously agreed to by all the members on most democratic basis. The exact time of explosion be well advertised, lest some one due to ignorance remain in some underground cell and miss the unique favour of the first dazzle of the great heat-flash”.

It was further rumoured, that the scheme caused a great commotion in the low animal world, but it was decided to ignore completely the objections of so low creatures as stupid beasts. 10,000, twenty mega-ton bombs were at once offered by more illustrious powers. Three awards were soon, announced for the powers that had donated the greatest member of the Choicest atom bombs very kindly, and were offered atomic wreaths of exquisite beauty for their graves. The bombs were then transported to the appointed places by air, in a manner unusually swift and in exact contrariety to the general tradition of the wriggling U.N.O. Soon the bombs were planted with great ceremony in their proper places like trees of the legendary Garden of Eden. Engineers solemnly awaiting the Zero hour, which at last arrived.

The much eagerly awaited hour arrived at last. Anxious humanity rushed out of their homes with shouts of joy and Hurrahs. The bombs were detonated, simultaneously, all. The earth shook, mountains trembled, the remotest heavens echoed the gurgling thunders and you saw to your amazement 10,000 colossal columns majestically rising in perfect symmetry and with perfect majesty over the entire face of the earth. Over-awed by the enchanting grandeour of the spectacle as if in a dream, and in order to have a better view of the whole scenery, you pressed the button and with the speed of light reached the Mars along with your observatory and all. There sitting on the planet Mars you beheld through your telescope, in quite an ecstatic mood, the bewitching scene of beautifully rising columns, and their spectacular Mushrooms, and their charming colours, and you thought that perhaps a world of grandest palaces was in creation for the souls of all the deceased Emperors, Kings, and lordly Princes of the past, or else that the earth perhaps was being transformed into a universal amphitheatre for the inerplanery boxing bouts or tiger-man fights or inter-stellar centenary oratorical competitions and cultural shows. It seemed all wonderful. Columns developing mushroom tops, mushrooms dilating and uniting with mushrooms like lofty clouds, of various colours and multifarious hues. Then to your real inward joy and admiration you saw the commencement of the upper story. The heads of columns shot upwards and reaching a height of twenty miles, there, their tops began to melt and spread in glistening sheets of mercuric shades. The sheets gradually spreading and joining together to form the roof of the upper storey in a spherical form, but visible to you the half of it only in the form of a hemisphere. O, how beautiful is the scene thou spectator on the Mars. How very fascinating, how very enchanting. But pray condensed to descend a bit lower and come down to earth. The dazzling lights that thou seest, in these princely chambers are the burning pyres of human beings. These majestic edifices which thou thinketh to be the Royal palaces are huge, eighty miles across and ten miles high inverted cauldrons, containing fires mingled with human bodies, millions of them, men, women and children. Sparkling in your view is not the grand assemblage of royal palaces, nor even some grand amphitheatre, it is only the Hotama. The atomic hell ablaze, and ready to devour a race of back-biters and slanderers, greedily engaged in gathering wealth of the world, and adoring it to the degree of worship.

Yet an emphi-theatre it is in a way. An emphi-theatre raised at the Gaza of modernity by the modern Philistines, on columns of greed, and designed and constructed by modern science. On these columns, brethren, stands leaning the great atomic Samson, with his hands around these massy pillars, watching for the occasion, this Atomic Samson to say to these philistine lords of modern times- who have put the Nuclear Samson to a display of his strength to peaceful purposes –“Hitherto Lords, what your command imposed for peaceful enjoyment, I have performed working your Nuclear Reactors, power houses and mighty ships, as reason was obeying , not without horror or delight beheld. Now, if on my own accord, such other trial I mean to show you of my strength, yet great as with amaze shall strike all who behold”. This uttered, straining all his nerves, he would bow as with the force of the wind and waters spent where mountains tremble. Those massy pillars with horrible convulsions to and fro, he would tug, he would shake, till down they would come and draw the whole sky-high and sky-wide roof after them with a burst of deafening, thunder, upon the heads of all those who sat beneath. The Presidents, Prime Ministers, Scientists, Philosophers, Priests and Doctors of the whole world, along with the whole world of earth's denizens, turning the world into “A dungeon horrible on all sides round, as a huge furnace flamed, but from those flames no light but rather darkness visible, to discover the sights of woe, regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes, that comes to all, but rather an endless torture still urges in fiery deluge fed with every burning sphere unconsumed”.

And if you think it to be Royal Palace, then it is like the palace which a widowed

Queen of ancient Egypt had built on the bank of Nile in remote antiquity to avenge herself

on the unweary murderers of her husband. There she invited them to a feast, and going out of the hall on some pretext closed the door behind, and opened the water duct, which she had pre-arranged. Water rushing into the hall drowned then one and all, and the hall turned into their graves. In the same way the lady Nature may also avenge herself on those who had murdered her laws and principles, but with fire and not water.

(10) Science today holds a complete sway over all mankind. The body as well as the mind of humanity are in its grip. So strong is its hold on human thought these days, and so deeply set are its roots in the economic fabric of the world of today that it could not be uprooted without at the same time completely upsetting the whole economic structure of the world. Yet on the other hand, the unprecedented havoc which the science itself is going to play with mankind, sooner or later, perhaps sooner, is a calamity of a nature far worse that amounts to complete destruction of one to all of the ill-fated race. It has already prepared its hell, the atomic hell, a hell of the worst kind, and it is now in the process of accumulating its fuel and awaiting some pretext for enkindling the fire. It is a hell in which men will at once perish, but the survivors may have no joy to live in a world which has witnessed the atomic hell. Poor wretched lepers these survivors, will have a reason to envy the doom of those who perished in that hell, and got rid of existence. But ask, science, and it will tell you the facts and will absolve herself from all guilt, and instead will throw all the blame on your head, and quite justly so. It is not the science, but it is you that have been guilty of systematically misapplying, and ill-applying it. Science is but a slave. She is there to obey your commands. You set out to conquer the realm of Nature for the material well-being of mankind in general. But you completely forget, the sentimental side of the affair, so that material gain and material gain only remained the whole purpose and the sole purpose of your research and your practical application of science. The providence, for your neglect of faith and your complete discard of moral and spiritual values, and complete disregard of resurrection and the day of judgement looked askance at you, and your excessive greed was favoured by your illuck and misfortune, and such channels were by chance opened for you, that within a period of only half century, that is from 1895- through the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen to 1942 - to Fermi's successful achievement of fission chain reaction - you found your ultimate goal, the atomic hell before you. You adopted wealth as your deity and you forsook God, the giver of wealth. But your wealth only made the construction of the costly, destructive affair: that is “atom bomb”: possible for you. If you will sit down and think for a while coolly, you perhaps will realize the truth of these facts.

So utterly disappointed was Late Bertrand Russell, the well-known English Philosopher, that the Pamphlet of golden hue which he sent to me in response to my outcry about the impending atomic danger that approached a slumbering humanity, contained only one sentence, namely:-

“Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, Man has never abstained from his follies, whatever he was capable of, and the end is "this sentence was completed by an exquisitely beautiful photograph of atomic explosion”.

This pamphlet contained some very interesting caricatures to constitute the history of mankind. Firstly, Adam and Eve were shown, holding one half of the apple each and there the serpent was seen lurking with its forked tongue above them. Then two towers were shown, on which stood men in a pose of confrontations equipped with arms and weapons of diverse kinds, and below them was shown a man made into a donkey and another man riding him. And in the end was of course seen fixed, the picture of atomic explosion. Was then the sage right in his surmise? Is this world going to end by the atom bomb? Was then the unfortunate humanity really destined to perish through atomic conflagration? Was the thing finally settled, and was there no hope left? Was, the disease past all cure, or was there any hope of a remedy? Such were the questions that arose in my mind. Bertrand Russel was indeed quite correct in his surmise, but thanks to my discovery of Quran’s prophecy about the atomic hell, that I was rescued from a death of disappointment in the future of this mankind.

After a lot of thinking I said to myself. Well, the humanity might have been doomed to atomic hell. I do not know. Nor it is in my power to stop them from jumping into the pyre, if they would so chose. But the thing which surely is in my power is, to set up a hue and cry. To cry my throat sore, till no more crying is possible; like the bereaved parents of Lucy Gray in Wordsworth's poem. But when all hope is lost in the last perilous footprint of Lucy in the treacherous snow, to show that the poor child was lost for ever, and the cruel hand of inevitable death has ultimately closed mine eyes, then, no doubt, it is quite perceptible, that a species which inspite of certain knowledge would not abstain from the folly of swallowing arsenious pills of deadly poison like uranium-235 would die. Alas for me! How could they be expected to heed a warning of anyone; but ours is to cry, to cry our throat sore, till we can cry no more, Just a duty of a fellow human being towards fellow human beings, till death parts us for ever. Though it, this crying might not be as easy as it may seem. They may say, they would but use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and escape its harms, but something alike was said by the infidel son of Noah, when he in response to the entreaties of his father to embark the boat had said, "I will hide myself to the top of these mountains to escape the flood". But that day no mountain top nor any other safeguard could be of any avail against the wrath of God. They also may talk of safeguards against atomic radiations. But what safeguard is there to prove 100 percent effective against the radiations. Even if there be but one percent hazard present, then is not that one percent eventually fatal to humanity. What more could be said, in this respect, you greedy seekers of wealth and power, come, either forsake this deadly bane of cancers and better let mankind be starved to death, if no Nuclear Power means starvation, or else be prepared for the painful end. You will never be left to long enjoy the fruits of Nuclear energy. It is for an exceedingly short spell of power that you risk the existence of a miserable race. Nay but the greed for wealth, has blinded you that you fail to se thundering monster greeting at few steps from your door. Now pray see seek the light of faith, and sober your maddening passions. Balance your life, that contentment may come, and open your dazed eyes to the grimmest of facts, which you now but faintly perceive. Balance your life between spiritual and material. Cast away this venom of Nuclear Energy from science, and put science to the service of humanity. Make your conquest of nature subject to the will of God. Put your trust in humanity and procure a sense of mutual sympathy. Live and let others live. Do not drag the world of God behind you into the atomic hell. Cast away from your mind, the thought that you will long enjoy the nuclear power. Rather you will soon find yourself under the hail of atomic bombs, but then any thought of repentance will not avail you more than naught. The rabble of this world, the poor and ignorant part of humanity, will soon learn of the havocs that this nuclear energy can play with them, and their reaction is a certainty. Then the atomic bombs will not be able to save you from their curse. The curse of poor, helpless people that are dragged right from the hell of poverty into the hell of atomism.

This life is much more than most people have come to think of it. It is not merely the question of existence. There also is the consideration of another life, eternal and everlasting in heaven, and basically dependent on this present life. Let men therefore put up an earnest endeavour for the betterment of that life after which there is no death. No exit. They who can destroy the world with atomic bombs, if they think, that this only is the life which we live and we die, and there is no more of it. They indeed are the victims of most terrible mistake. No but they shall see, with their own eyes, the Creator seated in his throne to question their deeds on earth, one to all, beginning to end. Moment to moment. Alas then! Alas for them! Poor lost souls, what shall they do to save themselves from the torture of eternal fire. I say, there might not be a resurrection, but suppose it did happen to be there. What then. Do they think, that their pleasures in this fleeting life, or the afflictions of the true believers, will make a whit of difference? Then. Nay, Nay, even, if the believers lived in troubles for Allah's sake against evil, and then suppose if the resurrection did not occur, will it make a jot of difference to them, that they had passed this transitory life of a few decades without ease. But this is not the reality. The believer is the happiest man on earth in that, His afflictions are transformed into inward joy. His hope is his greatest asset, whereas a non-believer and a septic can have no peace of mind, and though it may seem a paradox, yet a fact it is. A non-believer has no peace of mind, no contentment, no joy of heart, no hope in hereafter, even if living in palaces of gold in hanging gardens. Let someone have a peep into his inward mind to see hell full of wrinkling scorpions in the shapes of material luxuries. He has not known the joy of faith, which is the lot of a believer and a believer only. The worst news, however, that could possibly be told in this respect is that, they who qualified for the atomic hell (The atomic bombs and atomic radiations), even if they escaped this transient atomic hell, will be cast into the eternal atomic hell, the Hotama, because the causes of both as described by the Quran are the same. And no discrimination whatsoever is made between the believer and the disbeliever. And peace be with all of you brethren. Fellow human-beings! Believe me, a believer can create gardens, can turn this whole world into a garden of bliss, real material garden, with all these fruit-bearing trees without feeling any necessity for a recourse to hateful things like Nuclear energy, and living miraculously both within and without the garden.

(11) And now before we proceed, we may be liable to a charge of gross negligence, namely, willful concealment of facts for personal considerations, if we fail to declare on top of our voice and in extreme earnestness, that nuclear energy is destructive in itself, irrespective of its mode of use, whether for purposes peaceful and beneficial or whether for war and destruction. Its peaceful endowments are equally hazardous due to its pernicious radiations. Every Nucleon shot in the heart of an atom in order to generate nuclear energy whether for a powerhouse, or whether for an atomic bomb, is like a deadly shaft driven through the heart of man's peace and existence. And unfailing harbinger of a cancer-ridden world of imbecile, dull-headed, infirm and low browed monsters, every nuclear reactor or any other atomic plant, nay even so much as a single atomic fission is a constant source of anguish and suffering. No two things are more unlike each other than atomic energy and peace. If any two things cannot co-exist, they are nuclear energy and security. Let men, it is our earnest appeal, eat less and curtail material necessities, rather than resort to such a dangerous source of power as Nuclear energy is. You may not head my word now, but your children will be cursing your memory. It is not even impossible that you might yourself be cursing the day, the hour, and the moment when nuclear energy was discovered. If you will allow the generation of nuclear energy to continue, you will have to wipe your hands off your own generation. If humanity will not stop its generation after its hazards have been known, merely because it is an additional source of power, then humanity has indeed become mad and blind. To allow nuclear energy in the hope of artificial safeguards is just as good as to swallow poison with an implicit trust in the efficacy of an antidote. The world shall soon see, that despite strongest safeguards, cancer, leukemia, hemorrhages, unusual and unheard family troubles, unusual and grievous domestic afflictions, saddest disruptions of conjugal fidelity, and unusual spread of inherited and inheritable forms of loathsome monstrosities, will become the plague of humanity, clearly to be traced to the Atomic plants all over the world. Thoughtful people everywhere have read the tale of wives of certain employees of an atomic plant with concern. These wives, it was told, banished their husbands for fear of getting paralyzed or begetting monsters, following a rumour of a leakage of radiations from the atomic plant their husbands worked in. The name of the plant was given as Windcastel, at white haven England. Windcastel is no longer a Windcastele, and the white heaven has been tarnished to Black- hell due to the presence of an atomic plant in its vicinity. It is first page of a lesson which humanity has to learn, or will they take lesson only when the stage of study shall have elapsed. This story may at present be treated as a joke, but who knows, in time, the trail which these scared housewives have blazed, may assume a universal character, and the news papers would not be able to report every instance due to the unimaginable redundancy of cases and scarcity of space. Cruel might have been the deeds of vandals and hologs of the past, but unprportionally heinous is the cruelty of these kind hearted and civilized destroyers of humanity in this present age through invisible radiations.

Let us ask a few questions about atomic-energy-for-peace.

Question: - Is the atomic-energy-for-peace free from the greatest hazards?

The answer is No.

Question: - Is not the ionizing radiation inherent in the very nature of atomic energy?

The answer is yes.

Question: - Could not any one absorb more than the legal dose of radiation?

Yes most easily. He could.

Question: - Are the safe-guards used in atomic energy plants hundred percent sure?

No. No such surety.

Question: - Are the atomic-energy-for-peace and for war two different things?

No. They are the one and the same thing.

Question: - Is there any obstacle in the way of atomic war in case atomic-energy-for-peace is there?

No. There is no obstacle.

Let someone contradict these facts and then advocate the cause of atomic-energy-for-peace.

CHAPTER – 4

The early Commentators of the Quran and Al – Hotama.

We had in the outset promised that after producing scientific corroboration of this prophecy with the practical evidence of the Nuclear Phenomenon, the theological proof will be sought through the Commentaries of the earliest, the most authentic commentators and interpreters of the Quran, namely, the Sahabah, that is the companions (disciples) of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). We shall here produce the quotations mostly, that are of descriptive nature, for such only of the quotations as are of descriptive nature, serve our purpose in this place. We have quoted, from the most widely acknowledge sources as are listed below:-

i. Tanwir-al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas by Abu Tahir Muhammad Ibn Yaqub Al-Fayruz Aabadi Ash-Shafai Sahib-ul-Qamus.

ii. Al-Jalalain, Hazrat Imam Jalal-ud-Deen Asyuti.

iii. Tafsir-il-Kabir by Imam Fakhr-ud-Deen Razi.

iv. Tabri. Ali Jaffar Mohammad Ibn-e-Jarir Tabri.

v. Tafsir-ul-Quran -il-Azim by Imam Hafiz Imad-ud-Din Abul-Fida Ismail-bin Kaseer al Qureshi al Damashqi.

vi. The Quotations attributed to the person of Holy Prophet himself.

Note: All these commentators had in their mind the Hotama in the next eternal world. Hence no question of death of the agonized heart.

1. TANWIR-AL-MIQBAS MIN TAFSIR IBN ABBAS.

Quotation begins:-

Quran:-

(a) وَيْلٌ “Wail” (English translation is “woe”).

Commentator:-

“Implies extreme severity of torment. It also means a pit, a dungeon, a cell in hell. It also means a valley of puss and suppuration”. (Quotation ends.)

Now please see, if the torment and suffering brought by the atomic explosion to its victims be less severe, in any way, or of a different kind. Then see, if the effective range of an atomic explosion is not like a pit, a dungeon, or a cell in hell. To understand this point perfectly, please, bring to your view, a hollow cylindrical or semi-spherical range of atomic explosion. Is not it a pit, a dungeon, or a cell in Hell? Again see the symptoms of heat-flash burns caused by other raging fires (fires caused through convection after atomic explosion and consuming entire cities), and also the symptoms of radiation-sickness like leukemia, hemorrhages, nausea, vomiting etc., and bring these symptoms in view against the interpretation vis “A valley of puss and suppuration”, and then see, if the after-scene of an atomic explosion is not exactly a valley of puss and suppuration. Just imagine millions of ailing bodies, burnt and bleeding, secreting puss and exerting streams of contaminated blood, disgorging vomit.

(b) Quotation begins:-نَارُ اللهِ الْمُوْقَدَةُ

“Nar-ul-Lah-il-Muqadah” (English translation is “Fire of Allah kindled”). “It is fire which eats up the whole of the body, till it reacheth the heart”. (Quotation ends)

Now please recall to your mind the effects of ionizing radiations of the atomic explosion, and remember how these radiations gradually eat up the flesh of the whole body by stopping blood supplies of the body, and mounting eventually above the heart and killing it. But let this point be borne in mind that because these commentators had the next eternal world in view, when commenting on Hotama, therefore the heart in their commentaries must for ever live and suffer agony without the relief brought about by death. But our subject is the representation of the atomic hell on the transitory earth, therefore the victim here-of can succumb to the agony and die. Yet verily, they who will deserve shall be cast into the eternal Hotama in the next world: the heart there to suffer eternally, without experiencing death.

“Musadah Fi Amad-im-Mumaddadah (English translation is 'closed in on them in outstretched columns'). “Columns of fire having considerable depth”. Quotation ends(

(d) Quotation begins:-

“Homaza is a backbiter, while Lomaza is a slanderer to one's face”. (Quotation ends(

(2) Quotations from Al-Jalalain:-

(a) “Naru-ul-Lah-hil-Muqada” (English translation is “kindled fire of Allah”). “A fire which is never extinguished”. Quotation ends(

Now please recall to your mind that the atomic device once detonated can never be extinguished until it has completed its whole process, that of Heat Flash, blast, and radiation emission (ionizing radiations), as already mentioned in previous pages of this book, the process of atomic explosion takes but at the most ten to a hundred seconds for its completion. The other fires, which are started afterwards through convection may rage for a considerable time, but they are not the subject here, because they are not the original part of the atomic explosion. The thought of the worthy commentator however was fixed on the Hotama in the next eternal world, so that the Hotama there must remain ablaze continually forever. We were to be the unfortunate people to witness its representation on earth.

(b) Quotation begins:- اِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ فِیْ عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍ

“Innaha Alaihim Musadah-Fi-Amad-im Mumadd-adah”. (English translation is a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns) “The fire is going to be enkindled in cylindrical columns, the victims having been put therein, the cylinders are to be closed”.

(Quotation ends)

Now this is the exact picture of the atomic explosion. The victims are actually put in the 80 miles hollow cylinder which is afterwards closed by the mushroom lid. Such commentaries are simply wonderful.

(3) Quotations from Tafsir-il-Kabir, by Imam Fakhr-ud-Din Razi.

(a) “Al-Hotama”. “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”. (Quotation ends)

It is no hidden secret now that the atomic explosion, due both to its intensity of flame, and its blast pulverizes every thing to powder, within its effective range. The fire which crushes the bones is that of the atomic radiations, which are nicknamed by the scientist as bone-seekers, because they at first attack the bones and eat up the bone marrow, and render the bone-marrow incapable of producing blood, which is its primary function. Then they attack the blood and destroy its red and white corpuscles and render it incapable of giving nourishment to the body. The blood supply thus having been stopped, the flesh is eaten up and the victim is left a mere skeleton. Thus eventually they mount above the heart. These commentaries excite wonder.

Resemblance between the function of Back-biting and Hotama:-

(b) Quotation begins:-

“The back-biter eats (metaphorically) the flesh of the person whom he back-bites. The fire of Hotama also eats up the skin and the flesh of its victim”. (Quotation ends)

There is to be found a real correspondence between the particular evil and the punishment. Therein also is a point to provoke our thought and see, how appropriate is the link between the peculiar and particular characteristics of the people of this modern age, and the characteristics of the Nuclear Energy. A point in this commentary about the eating up of the skin by Al-hotama describes a very particular fact, that is, the heat-flash burns the skin and the festering skin is eaten up. A very peculiar character indeed of Heat-flash, to wit, “It never penetrates beneath the skin and burns the skin only”. These commentaries are simply wonderful.

“The fire enters at the sides, then it reaches the breast, and at last enters the heart”.

(Quotation ends)

It is a fact very well established now, that the Heat-flash of the atomic explosion of course with the terrible shock which strikes the heart. Atomic radiations to reach the inmost cavities of bones via the blood stream, and then work their way that send their effects through blood directly and also via all the blood-forming organs, ultimately to the heart.

It is well known, that the heat-flash of the atomic explosion strikes the body at the sides. The side which happens to be towards the coming heat-flash. Then it enters the breast through lungs and lastly affects the heart. The same way is adopted by the atomic radiations, which enters the blood stream through that side of the body which confronts them. Then through the blood they take their way towards the breast and the heart.

(d) Quotations begins:-

“The heart being an organ most sensitive of all the organs of the body is thus most sensitive to anguish. There is not one organ in the whole of the body which reacts to agony with such acute sensitivity. It even reacts to the least amount of anguish, with great sensitivity. Then imagine its plight if 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. For had it been consumed (by the fire) it must have died, (and hence become insensible to anguish). It rather would remain in a state which neither is death, nor is yet life. By the phrase. “A fire which mounts above the hearts”, is meant that it descends into the heart. The choice of heart for this punishment is made due to its great sensibility. Also, because it is this organ, that is, the heart which happens to be the seat of disbelief and other untowards and heretical views”. (Quotation ends)

“The heart despite the fire having completely overwhelmed it, is not burnt by fire”, says this great commentator. A fact which is most conspicuous in the action of heat-flash, that is the atomic fire, that although this heat flash has completely overwhelmed the heart, so much so, that it would kill it on the spot, yet it has not at all burnt it. Now the difference between the atomic hell of the next world and this present world is, that whereas in the next world there shall be no death for the heart, in this world it may die. Otherwise all the remaining peculiarities are identical. Please mark the method, of analysis undertaken by this worthy commentator. Mark his scientific and rational and philosophical approach, but the real greatness of his interpretation lay in the fact, that all his views emanated directly from the theological tradition and were exactly the reflection thereof, and in no way overlapping, exceeding, protruding or contradicting the original source.

(4) Quotation from Tabri:-

(a) Quotation begins:-

“Innaha Alaihim Musadah” (English translation is “It is fire closed in on them”). “There is going to be a man, in one of the departments of Hell, crying perpetually for a thousand years, O Benign Allah, O Merciful Allah. Allah (out of mercy) will command the angel Gabriel, go, and take my servant out of fire. Gabriel (in obedience to the commend 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 and open it, and take my servant out of it. The man would thus be taken out of fire like a shadowy (skeleton) and placed outside the paradise, till Allah would cause his hair, flesh and blood to reappear”. (Quotation ends)

It would mean, that the fire of hell had caused the hair of that man to fall, and that it had eaten up his flesh and that it had dried up the springs of his blood. All the three conditions are identical with the case that of atomic radiation-sickness. The Atomic radiations affect the hair of their victim, so much so, that a white patch of hair appeared amidst the jet black hair of a little girl affected by radiation in one of the neighboring Islands of the atomic explosion test site in Pacific Ocean. This particular patch of hair was the target of the attack of radiations and appeared like the white bull-eye. The flesh of the victims of radiations is eaten up and the springs of blood are dried up, as the experience has explicitly proved. Hair also of the victim fall away.

(b) Quotation begins:- اِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ فِیْ عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍ

“Innaha Alaihim Musadah fi Amadim Mummadah” (English translation is “It is fire closed in on them in outstretched columns”). “The victims are first to be put in the cylinders and the cylinders are then to be stretched upwards”. (Quotation ends)

Now, please call to your mind the actual scene that of detonation and the explosion, and the subsequent, gradual, upward trend of the explosion column. Prior to the detonation, the victims are put within the area that of the effective range of the explosion. Then the detonation takes place. Then the column is gradually drawn upwards to its maximum height, and the scene is complete.

“Amad-im-Mummaddah” (English translation is “The outstretched columns”). They are going to be columns of fire of vast extent. Qatadah (a close companion (disciple) of the Holy Prophet), is quoted to have said, “We (the companions of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), used to discuss Hotama and express the opinion that they are to be columns through which the victims were to be tortured with fire”. Quotation ends(

Now the experience shows that, the atomic explosions are columns and they are of fire, and are of vast extent, and that the victims are tortured through them by fire.

(5) Quotations from Tafsir-il-Quran-il-Azim by Ibn Khatir.

Quotations begins:- عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍ

“Amad-im-Mumaddadah” (English translation is “Outstretched columns”). “Some said, these columns are to be of iron, the others were of the opinion that they were to be of fire”. (Quotation ends)

Now, the majority have been on the latter side that is these columns were to be of fire. But the former opinion, regarding the iron structure of the columns could well be applied to other bombs, of the conventional type. They are columns of iron, filled with fire in the form of dynamite, etc. Incendiary bombs provide even a still more closer resemblance.

(6) The Quotations attributed to the person of Holy Prophet himself:-

Quotation begins:-

(a) “Allah shall appoint over 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 overtight that neither relief could enter therein, nor agony could find exit from within”. (Quotation ends) (Is quoted by Jalalain)

It seems hard to find another description of atomic explosion, with all its various characteristics and constituents more exactly than this description. The atomic explosion is exactly a cover of fire. It resembles a cauldron of fire inverted. The rays of ionizing radiations, that is Alpha, Beta, gamma rays and Neutrons, are best described as nails of fire and they pierce through the body of their victims and pin them down so that they cannot escape from the field, until the process of the atomic phenomenon is complete. These stretching upward of the columns of atomic explosion we have more than once explained and by now, in the light of practical experience, the fact remains no longer a mystery to the whole vast mankind over the earth.

(b) Quotation begins:-

“The angel gets hold of the victim and placing him over the knee, breaks him like a wooden stick, and then casts him into the fire”. (Quotation ends)

This placing of the culprit on the knee by the angel and breaking him like a stick of wood may be referred to blast effect of the atomic bomb. To understand the thing perfectly we first must understand the method of destruction by the blast. The first effect of a blast wave on a structure is that of gigantic hammer blow. When the shock front of the blast wave reaches the rear end of the structure, it is completely surrounded by the wave, and the effect of the blast pressure is to squeeze or crush the structure: Let this process be carefully understood in order to corroborate it by the process that of “Placing on the knee and breaking it like a stick of wood”. The shock wave would place a structure between its two knees and then squeeze or crush the structure to pieces. The duration of the blast of a nominal atom bomb is of the order of one second, more than a hundred times what it is for conventional bomb, while the positive pressure phase for a 20 megaton bomb is about 10 seconds. Now what will this monster not do with structure in so long duration and so strong a blast? It is interesting to observe that the blast of a smaller bomb of nominal size will not break the back bone of man, man's body being remarkably resistant to damage by blast wave in air, but larger atom bombs by mere blast of say a peak pressure of the order of 200/250 LB/in2 would cause general bodily damage of serious kind. Hemorrhage is caused in the lungs and at other places where tissue has an internal boundary surface with an air or gas cavity, and ear drums burst. Man copiously bleeds through throat and nose, and bleeds within, because the whole body internally has been crushed and broken. Yet, the angels are not to be confused and confounded with the laws of nature. Angels are a separate, species of rational, thinking beings, whereas the laws of nature and natural forces are in themselves mute, and working only under the control and command of the Creator, without freewill to think or act.

CHAPTER – 5

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE DOOMED TO ATOMIC HELL.

From the field of Science we now deviate to enter the field of Philosophy in order to discuss the characteristics, attributed by the Quran to those atomic hell-bound people: the characteristics responsible for the resultant emergence of atomic hell, and which having guided the basic motives behind the scientific discoveries and inventions, and having led them onto such paths as culminated consequently in their natural destination: that is the atomic hell. The Quran elaborated these characteristics in the beginning of the text of its prophecy, but we have purposely deferred the same to this place, at the end of our discussion of the Nuclear phenomena, in order that, let the reader first be acquainted with all the necessary details of the actual phenomena, that perhaps he might be well able to understand the nature of such characteristics as had been responsible for the emergence of such dire consequences, and had engendered so universally ignominious a ruin of all mankind, and which in the absence of these horrors might merely seem ordinary matters of routine.

The emergence of Nuclear Energy and the subsequent appearance of its crowning glory, its golden fruit, and the atomic bomb should not be taken as something "accidental" or the product of mere “blind chance”. There happens to be nothing of haphazard nature in it throughout. Rather a conspicuous process, continual and consequential, is to be traced, in its gradual progress, from its beginning to its end. The only two points which may be found to present an appearance of blind chance or hazard, throughout the twenty five century long history of Atomism are, firstly the accidental discovery of X-rays by the German Physicist Roentgen in 1895. And secondly, the French physicist Becquerel's haphazard choice of Uranium Nitrate, (as the substance of investigation - by a single good fortune, as some-one elated with its subsequent success might tell) while seeking a possible connection between phosphorescence and X-rays and which led unexpectedly in 1896 to the discovery of Radio-activity. But was this all the result of a chance-play. The Philosopher, who would give out the creation of the earth as accidental, and this life as the product of blind play of chance, might say so also regarding the two-chance-like instances also mentioned above. But we see in this case, the element of chance no more involved than chance guidance of a hawk's flight towards a pigeon or a spying dog's direction toward the hideout of a thief. Why not, we ask, were Mr. Roentgen or Mr. Becquerel led by the chance to something else which did not possess the pernicious attributes which the Nuclear Energy did intrinsically possess, for, that would have meant complete negation of our theory regarding the basic connection between the three untoward requisite characteristics prevailing amongst humanity and the atomic hell. The atomic bomb, no doubt is the fruit of the tree of atomism which Democritus planted in 500 B.C. or we could say, it is the egg of the hen of Atomism which Dalton reared in 19th century A.D. The whole history of this egg from the first conception to the actual laying and breeding could with utmost accuracy and indeed with much amusement be traced in the research and discoveries of the atomists from Dalton to Oppenheimer. So long as, atomism, after its first appearance 2500 years ago, the conditions remained uncongenial to atomism, it remained quelled and suppressed, but when in time, centuries later, the circumstances changed and the conditions became suitable to its growth, it flourished, and blossomed, and fruited. As long as faith remained the dominating power in human affairs, atomism had no chance, but as the power of faith flattered, and corruption entered religion and the materialism got hold of the human mind, so that the accumulation of wealth, in an atmosphere of wealth-worship, and back-biting and slander against faith became the universal vogue, atomism assumed utmost popularity and led the whole vast field of affairs, to a logical end.

The three characteristics responsible for the production of atomic hell as enumerated by the Quran in this prophecy, rather warning and which if reformed, the danger of atomic conflagration could possibly be averted, are as follows:-

i. The Quran says:- وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ

“Woe unto every slandering traducer”.

The accusation implies, a calumnious temperament given to slander and back-biting. This temperament in modern times is not only apparent in Men's general character individually and collectively. This indeed is the age of back-biting and slanderous propaganda. But a very queer study is offered, when particularly its modernized activity against faith is subjected to our view. This field offers a very interesting as well as instructive study, and which unfortunately has received not the attention it actually deserved. In this work, we will try to do some justice to it. Quite a new thing, and so perhaps may be found of some interest, particularly because, it has been judged in the light of the Quran and against a philosophy which has hitherto not been shown anywhere in this particular way.

ii. The Quran further says:- الَّذِىْ جَمَعَ مَالًا وَّعَدَّدَهٗ

“Who heapeth up the wealth (of this world), and arrangeth it”.

This implies a complete absorption, in the material affairs of a material world, without any consideration of the spiritual side, or the next world in heaven. This again is the distinctive feature of this age of continuous progress.

(i) And Quran further says:- يَحْسَبُ اَنَّ مَالَهٗۤ اَخْلَدَهٗ

“He thinketh that his wealth shall render him immortal”.

It indicates the tendency of excessive and undue confidence in the potency of wealth, amounting to a faith in it, a faith in its ability to bestow immortality on its possessors. A quality indeed attributable only to God, and God only. Such a belief implied a denial of resurrection which could only be possible after death, and therefore unthinkable in case if men existed in a state of immortality and hence the denial of God's final judgment and so also the life in heaven. Only see the faith of the modern age in the eternal continuity of the progress.

Now the habit of back-biting and slander invariably would produce mutual mistrust and distrust among men both individually and collectively. Whole-sale engrossment in the accumulation of wealth and in the affairs of the world leaves neither mind nor time for the remembrance of either God or the other world. Complete faith in Omnipotence of wealth is tantamount to a complete disregard of God: the giver of wealth, for, men, like the legendary caron consider their wealth as the result of their own ability. Again a notion, that of immortality, achieved through wealth within this transitory world as stated above implied a denial of the resurrection, judgment, the next life in heaven and all.

All these different qualities and characteristics and all these various traits, we are so very sorry to observe, exist in such enormous, rather in such alarming proportions in this present modern age of ours, and they have come to manifest themselves in colours so very conspicuous in comparison with all the ages of the past, that they would perhaps with quite a plausibility be characterized as the distinctive features of this present age. And how so very regrettable would have seemed this state of affairs to men themselves, if the fact would come to their own knowledge, namely that, but for these three peculiar characteristics which the Quran has enumerated as the cause of the emergence of atomic hell, the atomic hell could not have been created. Firstly, because, and we know of sure- that the people of America were never so callous-minded, so merciless, or so completely devoid of human considerations as to build-up such a monstrosity as atomic bomb, had they not been guided by the fear that Germany was possibly already engaged in the field, and if it succeeded, the consequences would be catastrophic for the allies. Nor is it possible that they would have built up the monster of a still greater calibre in the form of Hydrogen or hell bomb, had they not been prompted by the incontrovertible evidence that the Soviet had detonated a fission device and thus they would lose the contest. Nor do we believe, that Russians would have manufactured so grisly a terror as the atomic bomb, merely to destroy fellow-human-beings, had they not seen the two, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To break the monopoly of the U.S.A. in nuclear field they thought it something as essential. All this is the work of mistrust and distrust. And these twins happen to be the offspring’s of lady back-biting and Mr. Slander esquires. Secondly, that but for the colossal scientific and industrial set up and the unbelievably vast accumulations of American wealth, so costly a demon as the atomic bomb could not possibly have been manufactured. All the wealth of the Emperors of a pre-modern generation united could not perhaps have sufficed to build up a single atomic bomb. Thirdly, that, it is, due merely to their faith in death-checking attributes of wealth that the present day human race is embracing the death-like nuclear energy with the confidence of a snake-charmer despite their knowledge of its certain fatality. In fact these three characteristics which have been given out by the Quran as the cause of the nuclear energy, have, like an inebriating drug made modern mankind blind to the mortal effects of nuclear power, and they shall remain so as long as these characteristics persist. Then either they shall cast them away and will avert the hazard, or, they shall in the same state of drunkenness plunge themselves into the flames of atomic hell. And unfortunately the crux of the matter is, that, to advice them today or give them warnings of atomic danger is like giving advice against drunkenness to a man who happens to be in a state of drunkenness. A danger sign, with a skull and bones on a road corner means nothing to a motor driver raving in a sate of drunkenness, and singing delarara, ra, ho, hiccoo, hic.

This habit of back-biting and slander in our modern propagandistical age is no hidden secret. Every body is engaged in back-biting every body. Everyone is slandering everyone. Only that the practice has assumed a form of modern sophisticated art and has become a part of our culture. And in the guise of this well-developed art, individual is engaged against individual, nation against nation, sect against sect, creed against creed, cult against cult, back-biting and slandering, and the main motive behind all this is exclusively the worldly greed, and worldly gain. What Mark Twain and what Oscar Wilde could sketch this habit. Shakespears, Miltons, and Dantes would stand aghast with wonder, flabbergasted, benumbed, and stupefied at such a strange practice of morbid stupidity of a knowledgeable race.

It is with due regret, that we observe, that science itself has also been involved and has been made the instrument of back-biting. We are not here to sum up the extent of the guilt of the tyrannical church (as the writers themselves reflect), nor we are to tempted to attempt an assessment of the justification of the retaliative tendencies of the votaries of science against the church at the time of the renaissance of the West and the birth of modern science. The topic being very delicate, and one warranting fuller treatment and extremely cautious approach; and one which is out of our scope in this present work. We will only content ourselves by saying, that this science-religion conflict, whatever its causes, has been an extremely sad affair for the whole mankind. Leaving all irrelevant discussions out at present, we will skip to a place where with some unusual abruptness, we will now begin to say, that somehow, from Galileo's astronomy to Darwin's Biology, and from Newton's Gravity to Einstein's relativity, there has not been a discovery in the whole field of modern science that did not emerge as the subject of a science-religion controversy and a serious conflict. Later on a school amidst the scientists arose, who made it their business, to deny the doctrines of faith on the dint of the ascertained facts or hypotheses or propositions thereof. The predisposition of mind is seem to play very decisive role in this philosophy in question. It however has provided us with a type of a philosophy which can be termed as the most typical of modern back-biting and slander, because, this is the back-biting against faith, and it has been employed on the grounds of modern science. The merit of such philosophy shall be put to test at a proper place later on in this book. We have no mind here as we have said, to give our judgment in this science-church conflict, but so much only we shall say, that the votaries of science, at a time when they had found themselves able, and were in a position to do so, they ought to have put up an endeavour with a gusto equal to their gusto in science, to make a thorough research in religion and thereby ought to have conducted a reform in it instead of striving to strangle it to death in order to get rid of this supposed embarrassment. Their science in the absence of the controlling authority of faith consequently came to play a havoc with their own and with all of the remaining humanity's lives. Material progress, they have indeed made to an unusual degree, but alas! To what end.

CHAPTER – 6

ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH AND WEALTH WORSHIP.

The qualities number two and three of those atomic-hell-bound according to the Quran are: systematic accumulation of wealth and wealth worship. Now none need borrow the judgment of either Bacon or Macaulay to realize that this quality that of engrossment in the accumulation of wealth, and indeed in alarming proportions, is the basic characteristic of this modern age, this age of outstanding and all-pervading materialism. A strange fact which can delude no body is that the very existence of anyone in this age is only possible if he has wealth. This queer trait is due to a particular set-up of social and economic system of a materialistic age. This necessarily has resulted in the appearance of bonds, insurance, banks, saving certificates, pass books, saving accounts and scores of other methods of recording the wealth both on individual and collective basis. If by a miracle some one of some pre-modern age were raised from his grave, he would find no words to express his surprise to see so very many modes of recording and accumulating the wealth in an atmosphere of panic for wealth-accumulation universally.

Baconian Slogan, that is, “To the conquest of the realm of nature” has actually turned out to be, “on to the accumulation of wealth through wealth-worship by the mankind in general”. Wealth as the heart, wealth as the soul, wealth as the body, wealth as the deity, wealth as the Goddess, yes, but alas! A false heart, a false soul, a false body, a false deity and a false Goddess. Mankind dived into the desert of wealth, closing its eyes from everything else, till at last it has appeared as a picture of misery panting in anxiety, with tongues lolling and eyes starting out of sockets. The more they accumulate, the more hungry they feel for accumulation, posing as a character peculiar to Dante’s Divine Comedy. So overwhelming is their thirst for wealth that for its sake, men all over the world are recklessly engaged in enkindling atomic furnaces to burn themselves, their children, their near ones and dear ones. They are even prepared to consume the whole mankind in atomic kilns. They need wealth and they must get it anyhow, anyway. This is the order of this materialistic set up. Some people, indeed very few, in ancient times are said to have destroyed their children, for fear of poverty. Their mention even today saddens the hearts. One actually shudders to hear such a story. This modern age is going to destroy every child on earth in atomic kilns to gain wealth today, not of course for fear of poverty only, but generally for acquiring more wealth, this humanity of our times, this civilized generation of human history, is fast preparing to hurl their children in millions and along with their own children, the children of all mankind into burning fires, and blazing kilns alive. The denizens of this modern age, enlightened, knowledgeable and civilized, but far worse than the ignorant, barbaric and rustic savages of the past at whose very mention we proudly sneer, scoff and frown in utter contempt. The worshippers of wealth, the adorers of riches, this deluded race of today who think that they shall for ever progress, and their bank-balance will forever swell, and they will never die, forgetting the fuel which they add to the huge explosive pyres, in truck-loads continually and wanting but a slip to fall into the flames. It is a mad generation of meniacs, burning in the flames of mutual hatred, envy and selfishness to a degree which well justifies their ruin by raining atom bombs and hails of atomic missiles, plaguing radiations, I will the hope of God's mercy entreat them to avail the only chance which is now left for them and now let them think at least for the sake of their children, if at all a little parental affection is still left in their hardened hearts and stony bosoms. Or else let these wise people feel the earth beneath their feet sinking into the burning hell below. The bewitching sorceress, the Goddess of wealth is sitting most conspicuously in her shrine within every human heart. Never once in the history of mankind, did the whole humanity assume such unity of sentiment, as they have in the adoration of wealth these days. Not even one God ever achieved such universal popularity as this goddess of wealth has. Death, other world, bliss of poverty has been suppressed by the thought of wealth, though death has not been conquered, by wealth. It shall never be. It may come any moment and it certainly shall come. If death remains unconquered, then, who could avert the final judgment and thence the other world?

Remember, that unless the three characteristics pointed out by the Quran are not annihilated, and the extinguished torch of faith is not re-enkindled and God isn't reinstated in his place, no power on earth, no treaties, entreaties, no wishful thinking, no policies of balanced war-strengths can save mankind from the dreadful doom, that is, terrible nuclear hell. The wealth then but enhance the destruction. The forgotten gate of death will be opened and death will rush out in torrents, but Alas! To what advantage, then Alas! When the destinies have been spun and the die is finally cast. Will you not pay heed then to the advice of your inner conscience, or are you certainly doomed! You wealth-diggers, wealth accumulators and wealth worshippers.

Now hear O miserable soul! The cry of the new born child and interpret what is it that it says. It says O! How I am going to cope with these problems of tyrannical necessities of life. O thou poor little babe that art worried about necessities of life, pray open thine innocent eyes and see thy benign parents and the parents of millions of the little ones like thee all over the world, dancing around their goddess of wealth, and adding all the while, fuel to the world-wide kiln, and if thou couldst see the furious tongues of flames emerging like fiery tongues of fiery snakes impatiently to devour all the babes like you and the elders along with them. And who will throw you in it but your parents themselves with their own hands and will jump themselves along with you into the depths of the burning hell of atomism. Yes! And alas! I wish I could make you understand that which I say to you, O, innocent little babe. It's wealth, it's wealth that has made this hell possible. Let at least there be now an economic system based on the sentiment of equality, equity and generosity that perhaps the burning pains of human heart be mollified a little, for, most of the troubles of mankind today could well be traced to economic disparity and greed for more, never-ending more.

And indeed, in their belief, in never-ending cycle of their material progress, their ever-linking five yearly plans, to infinity, could be traced their notion of immortality. Without any fear of death, loss or failure they move on their path of ever-developing economy.

It is just as the Quran says:-

يَحْسَبُ اَنَّ مَالَهٗۤ اَخْلَدَهٗ وہ یہ گمان کرتا ہے کہ اس کی دولت اسے ہمیشہ زندہ رکھے گی۔

“He thinks that his riches will keep him alive forever.” (Al-Humazah, 104 : 3)

“He thinketh that he shall for ever remain rich and wealthy.”

But blessed be the word of the Quran, it further says:-

كَلَّا لَيُنْۘبَذَنَّ فِي الْحُطَمَةِ ہرگز نہیں! وہ ضرور حطمہ (یعنی چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) میں پھینک دیا جائے گا۔

“By no means! He will certainly be cast into al-Hutama (the crushing up Fire).”

(Al-Humazah, 104 : 4)

“Nay, but he shall be cast into Al-Hotama. (Along with his riches)”.

Let them therefore pause for a while and reflect, that perhaps they may be saved. Perhaps they may escape the atomic doom, a dreadful aspect indeed.

Quran and the Accumulation of Wealth.

وَلاَ يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِيْنَ يَبْخَلُوْنَ بِمَاۤ اٰتٰہُمُ اللهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهٖ هُوَ خَيْرًا لَّهُمْطبَلْ هُوَ شَرٌّ لَّهُمْطسَيُطَوَّقُوْنَ مَا بَخِلُوْا بِهٖ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِطوَلِلهِ مِيْرَاثُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِطوَاللهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُوْنَ خَبِيْرٌ

اور جو لوگ اس (مال و دولت) میں سے دینے میں بخل کرتے ہیں جو اللّٰہ نے انہیں اپنے فضل سے عطا کیا ہے وہ ہرگز اس بخل کو اپنے حق میں بہتر خیال نہ کریں، بلکہ یہ ان کے حق میں برا ہے، عنقریب روزِ قیامت انہیں (گلے میں) اس مال کا طوق پہنایا جائے گا جس میں وہ بخل کرتے رہے ہوں گے، اور اللّٰہ ہی آسمانوں اور زمین کا وارث ہے (یعنی جیسے اب مالک ہے ایسے ہی تمہارے سب کے مر جانے کے بعد بھی وہی مالک رہے گا)، اور اللّٰہ تمہارے سب کاموں سے آگاہ ہے۔

“And those who are niggardly in giving away (from the wealth) which Allah has bestowed upon them out of His bounty must never consider this miserliness of any benefit to themselves; it is rather injurious to them. Soon on the Day of Resurrection, this wealth they are niggardly about will be put around (their necks) like a neck-fetter. To Allah belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth (i.e., He will remain the Owner of the universe after your death in the same way as He owns it today). And Allah is well aware of all your deeds.” (Āl-i-‘Imrān, 3 : 180)

(a) “Let not those who hoard up that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of His bounty think it is better for them. Nay, it is worse for them. That which they hoard will be their collar, on the Day of Resurrection. Allah's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is informed of what ye do”. (Quran 3 : 180)

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤا اِنَّ كَثِيْرًا مِّنَ الْاَحْبَارِ وَالرُّهْبَانِ لَيَاْكُلُوْنَ اَمْوَالَ النَّاسِ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَيَصُدُّوْنَ عَنْ سَبِيْلِ اللهِطوَالَّذِيْنَ يَكْنِزُوْنَ الذَّهَبَ وَالْفِضَّةَ وَلَا يُنْفِقُوْنَهَافِيْ سَبِيْلِ اللهِلافَبَشِّرْهُمْ بِعَذَابٍ اَلِيْمٍ

اے ایمان والو! بیشک (اہلِ کتاب کے) اکثر علماء اور درویش، لوگوں کے مال ناحق (طریقے سے) کھاتے ہیں اور اللّٰہ کی راہ سے روکتے ہیں (یعنی لوگوں کے مال سے اپنی تجوریاں بھرتے ہیں اور دینِ حق کی تقویت و اشاعت پر خرچ کئے جانے سے روکتے ہیں)، اور جو لوگ سونا اور چاندی کا ذخیرہ کرتے ہیں اور اسے اللّٰہ کی راہ میں خرچ نہیں کرتے تو انہیں دردناک عذاب کی خبر سنا دیں۔

O believers! Indeed, the majority of the priests and monks (of the People of the Book) devour the wealth of people through unfair (means) and hinder from the path of Allah (i.e., fill their safes with people’s money, and hinder it from being spent for the publicity and promotion of the true Din [Religion]). And those who hoard silver and gold and do not spend it in the cause of Allah, warn them of a grievous torment. (At-Tawbah, 9: 34)

يَّوْمَ يُحْمٰى عَلَيْهَافِيْ نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ فَتُكْوٰى بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ وَجُنُوْبُهُمْ وَظُهُوْرُهُمْطهٰـذَا مَا كَنَزْتُمْ لِاَنْفُسِكُمْ فَذُوْقُوْا مَاكُنْتُمْ تَكْنِزُوْنَ جس دن اس (سونے، چاندی اور مال) پر دوزخ کی آگ میں تاپ دی جائے گی پھر اس (تپے ہوئے مال) سے ان کی پیشانیاں اور ان کے پہلو اور ان کی پیٹھیں داغی جائیں گی، (اور ان سے کہا جائے گا) کہ یہ وہی (مال) ہے جو تم نے اپنی جانوں (کے مفاد) کے لئے جمع کیا تھا سو تم (اس مال کا) مزہ چکھو جسے تم جمع کرتے رہے تھے۔

The Day when this (gold, silver and wealth) will be heated in the Fire of Hell, their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded with this (heated material, and it will be said to them:) ‘This is the same (wealth) that you treasured for (the benefit of) your souls. So taste (this wealth) which you had been amassing.’ (At-Tawbah, 9 : 35)

(b) “They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah, unto them give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom. On the day when it will (all) be heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads and their flanks and their backs will be branded therewith (and it will be said unto them): Here is that which ye hoarded for yourselves. Now taste of what ye used to hoard”. (Quran 9 : 34-35)

Quran's Interpreter.

Now please read this above quoted sign of the Quran and see if you find any justification for the opinion of those who might accuse Islam of materialistic trends. Yet there is not much wonder in their opinion, but the wonder actually is excited by the enormousness of the properties owned by some of those who claim to be the followers of Islam and the Quran. The Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him) is said to have given in charity the only two gold coins in his house hold at the moment of his death, saying, “Mohammed would not like to meet his Lord in a state that two gold coins be in his possession”.

Quran's Interpreter.

Usury the greatest abomination in the sight of the Quran:-

اَلَّذِيْنَ يَاْكُلُوْنَ الرِّبٰوا لَا يَقُوْمُوْنَ اِلَّا كَمَا يَقُوْمُ الَّذِیْ يَتَخَبَّطُهُ الشَّيْطٰنُ مِنَ الْمَسِّطذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّهُمْ قَالُوْۤااِنَّمَاالْبَيْعُ مِثْلُ الرِّبٰوام وَاَحَلَّ اللهُ الْبَيْعَ وَحَرَّمَ الرِّبٰواطفَمَنْ جَآءَهٗ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِّنْ رَّبِّهٖ فَانْتَہٰى فَلَهٗ مَا سَلَفَطوَاَمْرُهٗۤ اِلَى اللهِطوَمَنْ عَادَ فَاُولٰٓـئِكَ اَصْحٰبُ النَّارِجهُمْ فِيْهَا خٰلِدُوْنَ جو لوگ سُود کھاتے ہیں وہ (روزِ قیامت) کھڑے نہیں ہو سکیں گے مگر جیسے وہ شخص کھڑا ہوتا ہے جسے شیطان (آسیب) نے چھو کر بدحواس کر دیا ہو، یہ اس لئے کہ وہ کہتے تھے کہ تجارت (خرید و فروخت) بھی تو سود کی مانند ہے، حالانکہ اللّٰہ نے تجارت (سوداگری) کو حلال فرمایا ہے اور سود کو حرام کیا ہے، پس جس کے پاس اس کے رب کی جانب سے نصیحت پہنچی سو وہ (سود سے) باز آگیا تو جو پہلے گزر چکا وہ اسی کا ہے، اور اس کا معاملہ اللّٰہ کے سپرد ہے، اور جس نے پھر بھی لیا سو ایسے لوگ جہنمی ہیں، وہ اس میں ہمیشہ رہیں گے۔

“Those who live on usury will not be able to stand (on the Day of Judgment), but like the one whom Satan has made insane with his touch (i.e., damnation). This is because they used to say that trade (i.e., buying and selling) is similar to usury, whereas Allah has declared trade (i.e., buying and selling) lawful and usury unlawful. So, if someone refrains (from usury) on receiving admonition from his Lord, then he can keep whatever he took in the past and his case is with Allah. But those who continued with usury (despite the admonition) would be the inmates of Hell. They will abide there permanently.”

(Al-Baqarah, 2 : 275)

(c) “Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he ariseth whom the devil hath prostrated by (his) touch”. (Quran 2 : 275)

Quran's Interpreter.

But when men forget about faith, their success in progress might be easy and full.

پھر جب انہوں نے اس نصیحت کو فراموش کردیا جو ان سے کی گئی تھی تو ہم نے (انہیں اپنے انجام تک پہنچانے کے لیے) ان پر ہر چیز (کی فراوانی) کے دروازے کھول دیئے، یہاں تک کہ جب وہ ان چیزوں (کی لذتوں اور راحتوں) سے خوب خوش ہو (کر مدہوش ہو) گئے جو انہیں دی گئی تھیں تو ہم نے اچانک انہیں (عذاب میں) پکڑ لیا تو اس وقت وہ مایوس ہوکر رہ گئے۔

“But when they forgot that Reminder which was urged upon them, We opened up for them the gates (to abundance) of everything (to take them to their end) until when they luxuriated (in ecstasy of sensual delights and sensuous gratification) with all that was provided for them, We seized them all of a sudden (with torment) and they were struck with despair.” (Al-An‘ām, 6 : 44)

(d) “Then, when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, we opened unto them the gates of all things till, even as they were rejoicing in that which they were given, we seized them unawares, and lo! They were dumb-founded”. (Quran 6 : 44)

And wealth worship:-

وَاعْبُدُوااللهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوْا بِهٖ شَيْئًا وَّبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ اِحْسَانًا وَّبِذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْيَتٰمٰى وَالْمَسٰكِيْنِ وَالْجَارِ ذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْجَارِ الْجُنُبِ وَالصَّاحِبِ بِالْجَنْۘبِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيْلِلاوَمَا مَلَكَتْ اَيْمَانُكُمْطاِنَّ اللهَ لَا يُحِبُّ مَنْ كَانَ مُخْتَالًا فَخُوْرَنِا اور تم اللّٰہ کی عبادت کرو اور اس کے ساتھ کسی کو شریک نہ ٹھہراؤ اور ماں باپ کے ساتھ بھلائی کرو اور رشتہ داروں اور یتیموں اور محتاجوں (سے) اور نزدیکی ہمسائے اور اجنبی پڑوسی اور ہم مجلس اور مسافر (سے)، اور جن کے تم مالک ہو چکے ہو، (ان سے نیکی کیا کرو)، بیشک اللّٰہ اس شخص کو پسند نہیں کرتا جو تکبرّ کرنے والا (مغرور) فخر کرنے والا (خود بین) ہو ۔

“And worship Allah and do not set up any partners with Him. And treat the parents with moral excellence and (do good to) relatives, orphans, the needy, the close as well as unacquainted neighbours, and your fellows and the wayfarers and those whom you possess. Surely, Allah does not like the one who is arrogant (i.e., self-conceited) and boastful (i.e., egoist).” (An-Nisā’, 4 : 36)

(a) “Serve Allah. Ascribe no thing as partner unto Him”. (Quran 4 : 36)

Quran's interpreter.

Worship not wealth but giver of wealth:-

وَمِنْ اٰيٰتِهِ الَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُطلَا تَسْجُدُوْا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوْا لِلهِ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَهُنَّ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ اِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُوْنَ اور رات اور دن اور سورج اور چاند اُس کی نشانیوں میں سے ہیں، نہ سورج کو سجدہ کیا کرو اور نہ ہی چاند کو، اور سجدہ صرف اللّٰہ کے لئے کیا کرو جس نے اِن (سب) کو پیدا فرمایا ہے اگر تم اسی کی بندگی کرتے ہو۔

“And of His signs are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. So prostrate yourselves neither before the sun nor before the moon. But fall down in prostration only before Allah, Who has created them (all), if He is the One Whom you worship.”

(Fussilat, 41 : 37)

(b) “Adore not the sun, nor the moon; but adore Allah Who created them”.

(Quran 41 : 37)

AND:-

اور لوگوں میں بعض ایسے بھی ہیں جو اللّٰہ کے غیروں کو اللّٰہ کا شریک ٹھہراتے ہیں اور ان سے اللّٰہ ہ سے محبت“ جیسی محبت کرتے ہیں، اور جو لوگ ایمان والے ہیں وہ (ہر ایک سے بڑھ کر) اللّٰہ سے بہت ہی زیادہ محبت کرتے ہیں، اور اگر یہ ظالم لوگ اس وقت کو دیکھ لیں جب (اُخروی) عذاب ان کی آنکھوں کے سامنے ہوگا (توجان لیں) کہ ساری قوتوں کا مالک اللّٰہ ہے اور بیشک اللّٰہ سخت عذاب دینے والا ہے۔

“And there are some amongst the people who take others besides Allah as His partners and love them as it is Allah’s due alone. But those who believe love Allah the most (far more intensely than anyone else). And if these wrongdoers happen to see that time when the torment (of the Last Day) will be before their eyes (then they will become aware) that the Master of all the forces is Allah. And certainly Allah is severe in punishment.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 165)

(c) “Yet of mankind are some who take unto themselves (objects of worship which they set as) rivals to Allah, loving them with a love like (that which is the due) of Allah (only)”.

(Quran 2 : 165)

AND:-

اور لوگوں میں بعض ایسے بھی ہیں جو اللّٰہ کے غیروں کو اللّٰہ کا شریک ٹھہراتے ہیں اور ان سے” اللّٰہ سے محبت“ جیسی محبت کرتے ہیں، اور جو لوگ ایمان والے ہیں وہ (ہر ایک سے بڑھ کر) اللّٰہ سے بہت ہی زیادہ محبت کرتے ہیں، اور اگر یہ ظالم لوگ اس وقت کو دیکھ لیں جب (اُخروی) عذاب ان کی آنکھوں کے سامنے ہوگا (توجان لیں) کہ ساری قوتوں کا مالک اللّٰہ ہے اور بیشک اللّٰہ سخت عذاب دینے والا ہے۔

“Those who believe are stauncher in their love for Allah----Oh, that those who do evil had but known (on the day) when they behold the doom, that power belongeth wholly to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment”. (Quran 2 : 165)

Unfortunately the doom of the lovers of wealth now is in sight in the form of horrible atomic hell which is prepared by the wealth, nor could wealth avert it. It only could enhance its enkindling.

CHAPTER – 7

The Quran Extinguishes the Fire of Atomic Hell-A Scientific and Philosophic Summary of The Prophecy.

As a miracle undeniable by scientist, Einstein or Sir James Jean--- and the philosopher , Russell or Freud’s warning , a challenge, a key to man’s future destiny, the sole method of averting the atomic ruin, a design of Noah’s Ark in this nuclear, fiery deluge, and the only irrefutable proof of the Quran’s divine original, I declare this prophetic warning of the Quran to the world, indeed my own discovery by the grace of Al-mighty Allah along with its 3000 page English explanation.

Herein this modern Baconian atomismistic progress is given out, as the cause of the appearance of the manifestations of the atomic hell, e.g. the atomic bombs and atomic radiations etc. But the worst aspect of the whole affair is the identity between the causes of the appearance of this transient atomic hell and the eternal atomic hell, the Hotama of the next world. Those deserving might escape this transient atomic hell, but none among the deserving shall escape the eternal Hotama. Dreadful aspect. And know that this transient atomic hell is the representation of the Hotama of the next world.

The Characterization of the cause of the appearance of the atomic hell that is this modern Baconian atomismistic progress by the Quran:-

i. The Quran says: “backbiter, defamer”. This is the age of atomism. Atomism, both ancient Greek as well as this modern Baconian is a kind of doctrinal slander against faith. Its doctrine and its purpose has imparted a slanderous temper to the modern critical rationalism. The result is an intellectualized type of slander, nicknamed as propaganda. This is an age of slander, every way slander.

ii. The Quran says “He amasseth wealth (of this world) and arrangeth it (against the future”).

No better description of this modern, continuous, ever-increasing, systematic, organized, infinite and universal process of wealth-accumulation, and its systematic arrangement for future, could be expected.

iii. The Quran says. “He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal”. Mark man’s faith in the continued eternity of this modern progress and see man’s solicitude about the durability of the worldly works, as if he thinks, he has for ever to live in this world.

iv. The Quran says, “Nay, for verily he shall be cast into the atomic hell”. The slandering wealth-accumulator’s notion of eternity is denied. The logical and scientific consequence of the process has now appeared in the form of atomic hell to deny his notion and to destroy both him and his accumulated wealth.

The cause of the appearance of atomic hell having been explained now read the description of the result that is the atomic phenomenon by the Quran.

The Characterization of Atomic Phenomenon by the Quran.

“Otama! And what could teach thee what Al-Otama is? It is fire of Allah enkindled which leaps up onto the hearts. It is (a fire) closed in on them in outstretched columns”.

(Quran - Al-Homaza -104)

The "O" of Otama is stressed by “H” in the Quran. We will discuss now point by point:-

The Quran says, “Otama”. Otama is a pure Arabic word derived from the root-verb Atama or Hatama, which means “to break something into pieces” or “to shatter” it. “Otama” or “Hotama” is a descriptive noun and means “a breaker” or crusher. That the Quran should call a fire by the name of breaker could at once call to the mind of the scientist the German term “BREMSSTRAHLUNG” which literally meant “breaking radiation” and was applauded as highly descriptive by the atomists when first coined by the Germans for continuous spectrum of rays, Not only this, but it has to be observed that the characteristic of breaking or crushing is one of these particular characteristics of the atomic phenomenon which distinguish it from all the rest of the phenomenon, chemical and electrical. Mark the atomic energy appearing by breaking the binding of the atomic nucleus. Atomic and only the atomic energy, is generated in this manner and none other. Not only this, but further, the atomic phenomenon may be regarded as the absolute crusher, since it’s breaking and crushing is of a nature absolute. Atoms once crushed could not be reconstructed by any method of synthesis. Nucleus once disintegrated could not be rearranged in its original form by any means or method. So completely absolute is the crushing involved in the atomic actions and reactions that the destruction of both the basic building block of the universe that is atom and the basic unit of life that is the cell is embraced. This again is a characteristic which distinguishes the atomic phenomenon from all the rest. Not only has this, but further the atomic radiations that are inherent in the very nature of the atomic phenomenon, showed the identical trait of breaking and crushing. In inanimate matter they break the atomic nuclei and cause transmutations of atoms by changing the form of the nuclei. In living bodies, they attack the cell nucleus and break the chromosomes thereof.

The Heat Flash of the atomic bomb explosion falls with a crushing impact like lightning on the body and kills the heart of its victim with the shock. The blast of the atomic bomb is terrible crusher of structures, while the radiations of the atomic bomb explosion carry out the process of crushing in the usual way. The first two features may be observed in the conventional bombs also. But what is the crushing wrought by the conventional bombs to that wrought by the atomic bomb.

This trait, that of breaking and crushing on the part of atomic phenomenon may be observed with conspicuity in all the standard text books of atomic physics that may be found replete with terms like “bombarding, crushing, smashing, hitting, breaking” etc. in the description of the actions and reactions of atomic phenomenon. Likewise the standard text books of Radiobiology may be found replete with phrases like "target concept, direct action, indirect action, snapping the cable with a bullet, breaking the chromosomes" and sentences like “radiation hit the cells like sledge hammer and crush them”, while describing the actions and reactions of radiations. To this may be added the words of Rutherford that expressed his astonishment at the crushing trait of the atomic particles. After his famous experiment in which he had bombarded the gold foil with alpha particle, he wrote in his diary, “It was incredible as if you fired a 15 inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. It was the most incredible moment that ever happened to me in my life”.

Lastly back to the question of the phonetic and functional identity existing between the word “atomic” and Quran's “Otamic”. The former being coined or adopted by the scientist and the latter by the Quran. Atom no longer means something indestructible, while Otama of the Quran means a destroyer, yet both are expressive of the act of breaking. Do mark the sound of the two words: It appears to be one word. Is this then a mere coincidence? No. The exact characterization of the atomic phenomenon by the Quran excludes the possibility. Rather it appears that he who coined the term Otama, had before his eyes, indeed supernaturally penetrating eyes, the entire theme of atomic phenomenon and all the future ages. The term Otama being neither Greek nor English enhances the wonder at being so similar term as atomic even in the Arabic tongue. What other name could be given to this fact if not a miracle?

The Quran says, “Otama is fire of Allah enkindled”. This point involves no complexity. Atomic phenomenon produces Energy. Energy produces heat. Heat produces fire. The association of fire with atomic bombs and radiations is a well known fact. But why Allah would associate this particular fire with his own name is the question. The colossal magnitude of atomic fire as well as of its problem might be the consideration. Also if this mankind is consumed eventually by the flames of the atomic bombs or the effects of radiations, then rightly this fire may be regarded as the retribution and wrath of Allah enkindled. This is a fact which takes the mind of every thoughtful man to the causes and the effects of this great problem. Will this mankind be able to avoid the atomic war for ever, will it be able to guard itself from the hazards that are apparently incident on the existence of the factor of atomic radiation, and are the questions that demand the attention of every man that is endowed with the faculty of thought.

The Quran says, “Otama is a fire which leaps up onto the hearts”. Here then is a characteristic of the atomic phenomenon which may be regarded as one most distinctively characteristic and the one, that distinguishes the atomic phenomenon from every other. But this point of the Quran’s proved by merely calling the atomic phenomenon by its characteristic name that of “The Nuclear Phenomenon”. The nuclear phenomenon is called as nuclear because its actions appear in the nucleus (heart) of the atom. That, in no other phenomenon, chemical and electrical, the actions take place in the nucleus of the atom is well known. The nucleus therein in all non-atomic phenomena remains untouched to the end. But how the point of leaping up onto the hearts is proved is the question. The Quran has used the word “Hearts”. While the scientists have used the word “Nucleus”. But the scientist himself uses the word “Heart” for the nucleus. The Heart with nucleus thus is a synonym. The Quran has not spoken amiss. That the scientist frequently and most aptly uses the word heart to signify the nucleus may be found in the standard textbooks on atomic physics. Two of the scores of examples will suffice:-

(a) “Each fast particle comes from the break-up of the very heart of the single atom (the nucleus) of the radioactive material”.

(Vide Physics: Physical Science study Committee--second edition----D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts, July 1965 page 130)

(b) “How many nuclear heart-beats are in the life-time of a radioactive nucleus which lasts only billionth of a second”? (Ibid. Page 21. Short Problems)

Edward Teller spoke in the year 1939, of taking energy from the heart of the atom. The entire action of the atomic that is: the nuclear phenomenon is within the nuclei of the atoms. The fission as well as the fusion process both takes place within the nuclei of the atoms of the fissile and fusile material. The best spectacle however, of the leaping up onto the hearts (that is the nuclei), and the best proof of the word of the Quran may be seen in the case of the “Thermonuclear action”, wherein the heat produced in the inner fission device is being directed onto the hearts, that is the nuclei of the outer fusile material. Remarkable in itself is the term “Thermo-nuclear” in its purport. It clearly means “a fire which leaps up onto the nuclei that is the hearts”.

The atomic radiations not only show the nuclear characteristics by having their actions within the nuclei, whether in inanimate matter or whether in the living body, but further by showing a particular attraction for the heart or whatever in the body is related to the heart. They present the point of the Quran touching the heart in a manner as quaintly suggestive as deserved the notice of scientist. Radiations affect the coordination of the function at a level where it is beyond the control of the brain. That is nearer to the heart of life itself, bone-marrow and all the blood-forming organs are more sensitive to the effects of radiations than the brain, the nerves and the muscles. Mark the blood relation of Bone-marrow and Blood-forming organs with the heart. Multi-cellular organisms are more sensitive to radiation than the Uni-cellular. This fact may be attributed to the better development of the Circulatory and Respiratory System of the Multi-cellular organism. The blood relation of the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems with the heart is known. The action of radiations is retarded in the absence of oxygen and again the blood relation of oxygen with heart is known. Heat-flash of the atomic bomb kills its victim through shock to the heart. Mark the factor of blood relation in all these above-mentioned instances.

The Quran says “Otama is a fire closed in on them”. The atomic phenomenon shows encompassing characteristic distinctly. The fallout enclosures of the local and global kind, the tenacity of the bone-seeking radio-active materials, the appearance of cancer six to thirty years after the actual exposure to radiation, the appearance of the effects of radiation on the cell in anaphase inspite of the attack of radiation on the cell in its resting stage, the encompassment of the whole body by radiation inspite of the irradiation of one organ only, the survival of the lethally irradiated frogs for many months instead of dying in the usual time interval of three to six week if kept in a dormant state at a low temperature just above Freezing Point, conditional to the appearance of radiation symptoms as soon as the frogs are warmed up and then the occurrence of their death in the usual time interval that of three to six weeks, and Alexander Haddow's suggestion that the Cancer-producing action of the Cancer-producing substances might be the result of prolonged interference with normal growth, and the encompassment of mankind to generations by radiation, even to the point of extinction through long term Radio-genetic effects, and thereafter the encompassment of the earth by radiation for millions of years due to the widespread Radioactive substances, and also the encompassment of earth by radiation in the age of full-fledged atomic-energy-for-peace, are some of the facts that indicate the distinct encompassing features of the atomic phenomenon.

The Quran says, “Outstretched columns”. Besides the symbolically distinctive feature of the outstretched column associated with the atomic bomb explosion, the world of Radio-activity may be seen as a world of columns. The 4 centimeter rise of an Alpha Particle if seen in comparison to its tiny size with the height it has assumed may be regarded as to have constituted a column. A foot-ball rising to a height in similar proportion to its diameter would disappear in the outer space. The Cosmic Rays may be regarded to have risen in columns whose dizzying heights might cause the mind to reel.

The Quran says, “What could teach thee what Al-Hotama is”? Judging from the complexity of the nuclear science, the same question may be put to the nuclear scientist and the answer would invariably be “Nothing”. The terribleness of the atomic phenomenon is besides, of a kind quite unique.

CHAPTER – 8

HOW TO AVERT THE ATOMIC DANGER IN THE LIGHT OF THE QURAN.

Blame neither a nation nor any individual for the appearance of this odious doom: the atomic bomb, but rather curse that particular set up, which, through natural causes eventually brought about the inevitable: this resultant form of a lengthy, logical process, this all-consuming and unrelenting conflagration of nuclear giants, O, how amiable, how sophisticated a name, this Nuclear energy, yet so rude in action, so savage in deed, an apt retribution for so soft-spoken a generation, so far removed from pity, mercy, lenity or pathos, seemingly dulcet but actually morose as if duped into the act of dance-macabre. I could but write this book, and have poured the blood of my heart, into it, but will they listen, will they pay some heed, will they pause to consider, in a world of dizzied minds, and nodding heads and rolling eyes, all engrossed in thoughts of wealth, more wealth, whole wealth, nothing but wealth.

It is justly said, that to him who devotes his life to science, nothing could give more pleasure than making discoveries, but his cup of joy is full only when the results of his studies find practical application. But we are so very sorry to be obliged to add, to this undeniable truth, that whoever be so unlucky as to have been engaged in making discoveries in nuclear science, anything, that would fill his cup if he would outlive the practical application of his discoveries, it could not have been other than sorrow and regret. And the applause he would receive for his remarkable services, would be the shrieks of burning victims and heart-rending cries of miserable people suffering from painful cancers, and lying in -some inhospitable hospital.

This tiger of atomism has now been let loose but who will put it back into the cage. A tiger, they say, was once caught in a trap. He tried to get out but in vain. He rolled and bit with rage and grief. A poor simple Brahmin passed by and the tiger cried, “Let me out of this cage! O pious one”. “Nay, my friend”, replied the Brahmin mildly. “You would probably eat me if I did”. “Nay, trust me that shall I not”, said the tiger. “On the contrary I shall be forever grateful and serve you as a slave”.

Now when the tiger sighed and wept bitterly, the pious Brahmin's heart softened, and at last he consented to open the door of the cage. Out propped the tiger and seeing the poor man, cried, “What a fool you are? What is to prevent my eating you now, for after being cooped up so long, I am just terribly hungry”? In vain the Brahmin pleaded for his life. The most he could get was a promise to allied by the decision of first animal he chose to question as to the justice of the tiger's action.

As he went on his way the Brahmin met a jackal who called out, “Why? What's the matter Mr. Brahmin? You look as miserable as fish out of water”. And the Brahmin told him all that had taken place. “How very confusing”, said the jackal -when the story had been told --- “Would you mind telling me over again, for everything has gone so mixed up”. The Brahmin told him all over again, but the jackal shook his head as if he were still unable to understand. “It is very odd”, said he sadly, “but the tale seems to go in at one ear and out at the other, I will go to the place where it all happened. And then perhaps I will be able to give a judgment”. So they returned to the cage, by the side of which the tiger was still awaiting for the Brahmin and sharpening his teeth and claws. “You have been a long time”, growled the savage beast, “but let us begin our dinner”. “Our dinner” thought the wretched Brahmin as his knees knocked together with fright, what unhappy way of speaking. “Give me five minutes my Lord”, he pleaded, “In order that I may explain matter to the jackal here, who is somewhat slow in his wits”. The tiger consented and the Brahman told the whole story again not missing a single detail and spinning as long a yarn as possible. “Oh my poor brain”, cried the jackal, wringing its paws. Let me see how did it all begin, “You were in the cage and the tiger came walking by”. “Pooh”, interrupted the tiger! “What a fool you are. I was in the cage”. “Oh, Of course”, cried the jackal pretending to tremble with fright. “Yes, I was in the cage--No I was not ---dear ----dear”. Where are my wits? Let me see. The tiger was in the Brahmin and the cage came walking by. No, that's not it either. Well, do not mind me but begin your dinner for I shall never understand. “Yes, you shall”, returned the tiger in a rage at the jackal's stupidity. “I will make you understand. Look here! I was in the cage. Do you understand”? “Yes please my Lord, how did you get in”? “How, why, in the usual way of course, O, dear me, my head is going to whirl again. Please do not be angry my Lord but what is the usual way”? At this, the tiger lost all patience and jumped into the cage and cried, “This way”, now do you understand how this was? “Perfectly”, grinned the jackal as he cleverly shut the door. “And if you'll permit me to say so, I think the matters will remain a as they were”. Now we were told this story to end here. But the things developed further. A fierce quarrel broke out among the Beasts of the jungle. The weaker party approached the caged tiger in hope of getting help from the mighty king of the beasts, and after some conversation, they opened the cage on their own accord without even the sulky tiger having asked for it. So out propped the wretched beast. And it is said, that the first thing which he did was to tear these envoys of the beasts and devour them up, flesh and bone. The remaining beasts of the jungle became his prey soon after. The truth of this story may one day be realized by the humanity, rather, the survivors of the atomic conflagration amongst humanity, and there some aged grand pa may relate it to little monstrous brood around him.

Nixon’s and Breznief’s are endeavouring hard to keep this atomic tiger caged, just as Einenhovers and Khursheves have done before them and so will their successors in future times. But will they, inspite of their genuine attempts and discreet efforts, be able to jackal this furious monster into its cage forever, while the devil moves free to dab the wall with syrupy finger everywhere. Even if they succeed for a while in their endeavour, who will stop the emission of the venomous rays which the atomic tiger perpetually breaths inside the cage or outside.

And put this savage beast into its cage, and thus make the world safe from its fangs and its claws (atom bombs), how are they going to insure safety from the glare of its glazing eyes (atomic radiations), they however will have to beware of the devil, the great sower of the seeds of seduction among poor humans. A clever fiend who has but to dab a wall with his syrupy finger in order to start a serious broil. A man once complained to him and remonstrated with him for his seduction. The resourceful fiend beckoned him to follow him and walk on to the shop of the sweet-meet maker. There he just dipped his little finger in the syrup and slowly entering the shop dubbed a wall with his syrupy finger and retired to a corner and sat there dozing. Presently flies gathered around the dab. A lizard from somewhere propped up behind the flies. The cat of the confectioner soon crouched behind the lizard. There came a customer and along with him came his big burly dog. Then like a flash the lizard swooped on the flies. The cat pounced on the lizard. The dog jumped on the cat. The owner of the cat threw his ladle on the dog. The owner of the dog struck the owner of the cat with his club on the head, and left him a dead man. The devil just slinked out of the room and accused his complaint saying “Look! I have done no more than making a little dab on the wall with my syrup finger, and the rest all is done by man themselves. Why then to blame me for all that. Is it possible then for human leaders to exercise caution for ever against such a fiend?

My view is that no man has ever loved pain for its own sake, nor has any one shunned pleasure for its own sake. It may seem a paradox, yet in truth it may not be so. Love of pleasure, and dislike of pain is inherent in man’s nature. Man either seeks present pleasure to avoid present pain, or he avoids present pleasure and suffers present pain with a hope to attain greater pleasure in future. Yet there might be exceptions as exceptions are everywhere and of every kind. Pain happens to be of many sorts. Absolute pain e.g. toothache is liked by no one for its own sake. The pain emanating from the sense of loss, is equally disliked by the victim. Yet there happen to be kinds of pain tempered with some pleasant thought, e.g. pain of love. A theme very popular amongst poets. This sort of pain may be tormenting, yet it is not without attraction. The subject even if unknowingly, likes the torment. Yet there might be exceptions. There is possibility of man’s becoming almost in sensible either to pain or pleasure or booth, but our discussion here is only about the generality of men, and we have no mind to produce an exhaustive study of the subject from physiological point of view. The main thing however, is the attitude adopted by men towards pain and pleasure. Man may seek and enjoy pleasure avoiding all pain. He may bear pain and shun pleasure. He may even seek pain and abhor pleasure. The man in the first example is the man of the hour, the passing wind. Man in the other two examples has in his mind a desire for peace of mind or a hope in a better future bringing greater or real pleasure. This is his method to gain pleasure. Thus they sacrifice their present pleasure, and bear pain willingly. They may again be divided in two kinds. They might desire pleasure in this very life, or they may desire pleasure in the other world, or in both the worlds.

Human mind reveals itself through its history poised on a pivot and gyrating constantly either with the desire of pleasure before it and the abhorrence of pain behind it, or otherwise that is, the abhorrence of pain moving before it and the desire of pleasure moving behind it. The former instance is that of seeking pleasure and voiding pain, while the latter is, that of shunning pleasure and moving away from it towards pain. Yet there appear to other sorts of minds. They gyrate like an aeroplane and have propellers. These propellers have one end made of pain and the other that of pleasure thus these minds have pain and pleasure balanced in a way. It sounds strange, yet it is like that. But one of these aeroplanes has its propeller in front while the other has its rear. The former is being drawn forward, but the latter is being dragged backwards. The former is the example of a balanced life based on the thought of the other world, where as the latter is the example of a life though balanced yet based on the thought of this present world purely with no thought or consideration what-so-ever of the next world. And this one word, thought, makes so much difference. Now in which category would you like to put the present humanity? Remember, however, that there are rare minds, who do not worship Allah either for fear of Hell or for the bliss of Paradise. They worship Allah merely for the sake of his love, purely his love. Serious thought of eternity against transitoriness of things has often pervaded the greatest human minds throughout the long history of mankind. In order to seek eternity of pleasure, such minds have sacrificed the transitory pleasures and have chosen to bear the pains, transitory pains patiently. Bliss, permanent, unmixed and eternal, was their goal. The temporary pleasures of this temporary world were considered by them as a source of eternal pains eventually. While on the contrary, they deemed temporary pains of this temporary world as a source of eternal pleasures eventually, just as excess in food and drink resulted in gastric troubles, and a daylong passed was rewarded with added pleasantness in the evening feast. Thus a constant reminder of the evils of worldly greed was for ever present to sober the excessive desire of worldly things, and a sort of moderate behavior was generally achieved. The death, and the perfidious nature of this life was for ever present before the eye of their mind. A philosophy of this kind was thought in every temple, masjid, Monastery, hermitage, nursery or cavern throughout the world as far as the recorded history of man can take us back into the antiquity. The mind was to be preferred to matter, the soul was to deserve more consideration than the body. This world was thought of as a deceitful provision as against the eternal life in heaven. Calamities and vicissitudes were to be borne with patience. Humanity moved on the path of morality and spiritualism, gradually progressing, till these qualities reached a point which seemed something like a zenith. Then a decline began. Faith began to abuse. Falsity began to appear in the garb of truth, and the devil emerged in the guise of a saint. Selfish motives expelled the light of sincerity. Abominable superstition and empty ritual took the form of faith and darkness prevailed everywhere. The cleverer sort played upon the superstition of ignorant masses. The situation worsened gradually, till it could worsen no more. The very name of religion struck a terror in the mind of the people. Then came a balanced religion. All taint of superstition and (undesirable part of the) superstitious dread was removed. Matter and mind, body and soul, this world and the other world allotted their proper places. The things assumed a happy appearance once more. This state of affairs persisted for countries. But at last things worsened and another phase appeared. Faith came to be suspected as a mere hoax. The whole atmosphere became so overcast with doubt, mistrust and suspicion that man/s eyes saw nothing but prepentious attitudes, feigned piety, concealed falsehood, cloaked ignorance, pretexed tyranny everywhere and every way. Faith came to be considered as an obstacle in their way to the feast of nature. A mere superstition. A foul play, and a wall against their path and a word of reproach. The thoughts of mercy, charity and moral fortitude waned, and dwindled also the hope in heaven. A dispute which had emerged with the appearance of mankind, between mind and matter. And had always been decided in favour of mind, started afresh and terminated in complete victory of matter over the mind, of body over the soul and this world over the next world. Faith was considered as a cumbersome burden, and the conquest of the realm of nature was assumed with some thought of faith in the beginning, but gradually the materialism excluded the faith from the thoughts and reigned supreme. Thus life was once again unbalanced, though this time not toward spiritualism but towards materialism the consequences of unbalanced could not therefore be escaped and mankind found itself standing on the brink of atomic hell ready to be plunged in it any moment. A balanced life now, once again is the dire necessity of the world, if this dreadful doom is to be averted. The balance now implies necessarily complete eradication of materialism, science, progress.

History of human mind reveals a constant struggle between an inherent love of pleasure and abhorrence of pain. But a serious thought of eternity against transitoriness of things has often pervaded the greatest human minds throughout the long history of mankind. In order to seek eternity of pleasure, such minds have scarified the transitory pleasures and have chosen to bear the pains, transitory pains patiently. Bliss, permanent, unmixed and eternal, was their goal. The temporary pleasures of this temporary world were considered by them as a source of eternal pains eventually. While on the contrary, they deemed temporary pains of this temporary world as a source of eternal pleasure eventually, just as excess in food and drink resulted in gastric troubles, and a day long fast was rewarded with added pleasantness in the evening feast. Thus a constant reminder of the evils for worldly greed was forever present to sober the excessive desire of worldly things, and a sort of a moderate behavior was generally achieved. The death and the perfidious nature of this life was forever present before the eye of their mind. A philosophy of this kind was taught in every temple, mosque, monastery, hermitage, nursery or cavern throughout the world as far as the recorded history of man can take us back into the antiquity. The mind was to be preferred to matter, the soul was to deserve more consideration than the body. This world was thought of as a deceitful provision as against the eternal life in heaven. Calamities and vicissitudes were to be borne with patience. Humanity moved on the path of morality and spiritualism, gradually progressing, till these qualities reached a point which seemed something like a zenith. Then a decline began. Faith began to be abused. Falsity began to appear in the garb of truth, and the devil enraged in the guise of a saint. Selfish motives expelled the light of sincerity. The cleverer sort played upon the superstition of ignorant masses. The situation worsened gradually, till it could worsen no more. The very name of religion struck a terror in the mind of people. Then came a balanced religion. All taint of superstition and (undesirable part of the) superstitious dread was removed. Matter and mind, body and soul, this world and the other world were allotted their proper places. The things assumed a happy appearance once more. This state of affairs persisted for a long time. But at last things worsened and another phase appeared. Faith came to be suspected as a mere hoax. The whole atmosphere became so overcast with doubt, mistrust and suspicion that man's eyes saw nothing but pretentious attitudes, feigned piety, concealed falsehood, cloaked ignorance, pretexed tyranny, everywhere and everyway. Faith came to be considered as an obstacle in their way to the feast of nature. A mere superstition. A foul play, and a wall against their path to progress, faith became a word of reproach. The thoughts of mercy, charity and moral fortitude waned, and dwindled also the hope in heaven. A dispute which had emerged with the appearance of mankind, between mind and matter, and had always been decided in favour of mind, started a fresh and terminated in complete victory of matter over the mind, of body over the soul and this world over the next world. Faith was considered as a cumbersome burden, and the conquest of the realm of nature was assumed although with some little thought of faith in the beginning, but gradually the materialism excluded the faith from the thoughts and reigned supreme. Thus life was once again unbalanced, though this time not towards spiritualism but towards materialism. The consequences of unbalances could not therefore be escaped and mankind found itself standing on the brink of atomic hell ready to be plunged in it any moment. A balanced life now, once again is the dire necessity of the world, if this dreadful doom is to be averted.

An essential compromise between these old adversaries, mind and matter is the need of the hour, since none of these could be discarded, and both are indispensable to man. Yet they have different places and ought to be justly placed. The mind is to be the leader, but it is to be led by faith in turn. The body is to be fed and prepared for good works. In that case sleep and rest also shall be deemed as part of work, since these prepare the body for further work. And every act of kindness shall be deemed as charity. To smile in the face of an afflicted brother, or to lead a blind person on to his way are to be considered equally works of charity. A constant struggle is to be put against evil, evil of every kind ranging from the accumulation of dirt to an act of felony, fraud or tyranny. Let justice, equity and equality be the rule, and let universal fraternity and brotherhood prevail. Let men be judged by worth and not by substance and let every deed reflect the thought of the Day of Judgment. Honourable in the judgment of God is he who fears God more and leads a life of piety. This life is but transient and this world is but a temporary abode. Man's real home is in heaven, whence he came. Those who have made this earth their permanent abode, they have subjected themselves to serious consequences. Their progress has provided a deceit and their light no light but a darkness visible to discover sights of woe, regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes. This modern Baconian materialism and its particular progress has no place anywhere.

Humanity today needs a faith of a balanced kind. A life balanced between the mind and matter, body and soul, material and spiritual, terrestrial and celestial, this world and the other world. So that mind and not matter shall lead; matter being but a servant of mind. The soul and not the body shall lead, the body being but a servant of soul. The other world and not this world shall lead, this world being but a sowing field, and life a season for sowing that shall be reaped in the other world. And all being led by faith. Faith in Allah and his angels, his scriptures, his apostles and in resurrection. Let body be allowed food and apparel and other reasonable necessities of life, on condition that it serves the cause of good against evil. Let men live in society and work their way to the paradisical bliss of heaven, under the sovereignty of one common God over this globe under the canopy of heaven. Let wealth be deposed from its usruped God-head and brought to its real place that of necessity and let this be spent on good works and needy people. Let religion be generalized and brought within the reach of every one. Let everyone be allowed the necessities of life, but let not the spirit of self-abnegation and self sacrifice be allowed to die out, and let the feelings of spiritual values be the basic consideration always. Let men live within this world and within the society, yet attached only outwardly but inwardly detached and attached to God and the next world. Let men live like soldiers by day and like hermits by night, leading an unprejudiced life. Let them be moderate in everything and let them avoid extremities of every kind. An average mark only, since too lofty ideals are for a few select and are fraught with great dangers. This modern Baconian system of progress, however, has no place in this world.

Let the acquirement of knowledgeable made compulsory but at the same time let it be made subservient to faith, or else it may turn extremely dangerous. Our modern knowledge is one such example, and needs this treatment. It has in the absence of faith enkindled a hell of a kind unknown to the ancient people of ignorant ages of the past. It has assumed the form of blood curdling terror a grisly, a fright with fiery tongues, and flaming breath, which consumes human-beings to a distance of hundreds of miles, and is called the Demon Atumbumb. A religion with such features which we have described can bring peace and contentment to the distressed humanity and can avert the atomic danger naturally. A danger which now is in the sight of the people.

An Amulet to Ward off the Atomic Evil.

In the next chapter we will present a code formulated from the Quran, and we will call this code, an amulet to ward off the atomic evil form mankind, and scare away the giant atumbum. This code if adopted, and this amulet if worn by humanity, every apparition, ghost, vampire, and which: of greed; of felony, of injustice, of tyranny: and indeed every other evil spirit shall be exorcised out of this modern race. Complete destruction of such evils as dirt, disease, poverty and ignorance also is guaranteed, besides a revival of an atmosphere of mutual goodwill, sympathy, trust and a sense of a universal brotherhood that come in the wake. Millions of hearts all over the world, throbbing together in perfect unison, in a sweet harmony and affable concord, in a world full of love and sympathy resulting from a transformation of hearts so strange that, hearts filled with hatred and distrust today and desiring destruction of at least half the world of God by a rain of atomic bombs and deadly missiles, would feel tomorrow a tinge of mercy, and revival of hope and charitable sentiments. This gloomy earth, and these scowling skies would smile once more on a panic-stricken human race.

And lastly let no one suffer himself to be deluded into a belief that, after the atomic bomb: has made its appearance in the world, either caution or prudence on the part of ill-fated mankind, amidst a world of unforeseen and unpredictable circumstances, unavoidable vicissitudes, and thousands of undercurrents insidiously converging towards infinite points of probable collisions, might possibly succeed in retaining a hold on this most perfidious of all monsters to the last, nay, not even for a very long duration, unless indeed, the basic causes of the emergence of atomic bomb as stated by the Quran are removed. And no doubt when a single atomic bomb, has once been detonated and dropped on any human habitation, any hope of existence either of civilization or humanity, or health, amidst the retaliative cannonade of atomic bombs, ought to be considered as futile.

The name of atomic bomb, is indeed terrible. The very mention of its name strikes terror in the heart of poor helpless humanity. No less worse is another facet of nuclear energy, a fact which I must have repeated a hundred times in this work, and which I would never feel tired of repeating-- as long as I live and breathe, quite unmindful of the charge of unnecessary repetition, namely, the lethal effect of the inherent and inescapable ionizing radiations of nuclear energy, whether nuclear energy be generated for war purpose or whether it be generated for peace purposes. It will of course be with a guilty conscience if I skip this unusually important reality, without declaring it at the top of my voice to the whole of human species, particularly, when I observe with heartfelt grief, a general tendency on the part of the responsible guides of humanity, a tendency which may move any sincere-hearted person to genuine indignation, a tendency that of under-estimating and under-toning the radiological hazard of atomic radiations, on the plea of the necessity of much needed power from nuclear energy. I honestly believe, that there isn't one individual in this whole vast world of Allah who might not prefer to see his innocent children half hungry or barefooted rather than exposing them to radiations and seeing them lepers or cancer-ridden monsters: their miserable plight cutting at the very heartstrings of wretched parents, who would but helpless by sigh and curse the day when this epidemical blight was discovered, Alas! For poor, ill-fated, ill-starred and ill-advised humanity. It is my honest opinion that the people should be shown the real picture.

Now, if faith be prescribed as a remedy for humanity's ills today, and the divine scriptures are to be referred to in search of the treatment, then the Quran certainly occupies a place of honour amongst these celestial guides of human race. And if a patient can condescend to receive the treatment, from a doctor in whose particular faith he does not believe, why then anyone who does not believe in a scripture should refuse to benefit by the guidance which such a scripture may effectually offer, without obligation. Why a thirsty man should refuse to drink from a spring, just because the spring did not happen to exist within the territory of the county of his birth. During my life long study of scriptures, I have found this book, this Quran to contain a great advice. If in the past ages of simple problems it has guided the humanity and has furnished them with satisfactory answers to their simple problems, it has the necessary light to guide the present day humanity and can provide answers to their complex problems. How often I have watched with amazement the very signs (verses) of this book, which in antiquity had provided answers to simple and straight forward questions particular to those simple ages, acquiring transformation in some unknown, mysterious way, to provide, very direct, very appropriate answers to typically modern problems of an extremely complex nature, and particularly characteristic of modern environment, and the creation of these modern circumstances, and bearing the stamp of the modern complexity. With what amazement I found the signs (verses) adopting modern appearance, and converging from different directions to a particular objective like flocks of paradise birds in flight, where they would first identify themselves with the point of discussion, its object and subject, by an apt allusion, or an appropriate hint, or a suggestive reflection, and then discussing the actual problem, in a few well judged words, in a brief succint manner, yet clear and astonishingly comprehensive in detail, and assessing the essence of the actual truth; would finally depart with some weighty aphorism or a piece of heart-touching advice. The clouds suddenly appear in the sky, there is lightning and thunder, then the rain pours in buckets, leaving the azure sky brightened clear. The details are sometime described with such exact minuteness and with so exact a bearing on the problem, and indeed with such unmistakable identify with the problem in question, that it seems as if the sign had been revealed against a question put to an oracle for reply.

A Light-House with Seventy Candles:

The codified amulet which we now present from the Quran, can with some aptness be likened to a celestial, seven sided Beacon of light, with seventy candles. The light-house moulded into a brilliant crown to outshine the dazzle of the orient sun, and to quell the blinding dazzle, the deafening thunder, and stunning blast of the thermonuclear destroyer of this world of Allah. The scientist it seems will never be able to invent a neutralizer of atomic bomb. The politicians it seems will never be able to guarantee a no-atomic-war pact for ever. But the amulet prepared by the Quran is without any doubt a sure redeemer of humanity from the clutches of this atomic monster. It is the Quran that has predicted the danger of atomic conflagration, and it is the Quran itself that has prescribed the remedy of this unparalleled danger to the mankind at large; and it is definitely by applying the method which the Quran has shown that this disaster can be averted. It is not only the nuclear dread that will be annihilated if this code presented by the Quran is abided by, but surely the long-lost joy, peace and contentment of mankind will return once more in a distressed world. Let not therefore the present day sailors of the whirling boat of humanity refuse the light offered by the Quran in so dark a night and so enraged an ocean. That perhaps the boat may safely emerge from this perilous situation, and move onward on its voyage to its destination, in peace and in safety.

The sides of the Beacon are as follows:-

Side No. 1: The face of the beacon. It bears an inscription relating to the guidance and Mercy of Allah that is the Quran.

Side No. 2: Is about this world.

Side No. 3: Is about the other world.

Side No. 4: This life a trial.

Side No. 5: Reasonable necessities of life allowed to a reasonable extent, and on condition.

Side No. 6: Principles of Economics of the Quran.

Side No. 7: Faith.

By adopting this code, the habits of slander and back-biting exclusive engrossment in the accumulation of wealth and wealth worship will vanish, and along with them will vanish the threat of atom bomb as well as the nuclear energy. The signs which we have quoted are not a haphazard selection. But rather every sign has a direct and exact bearing on the modern age and its modern problems. Space and time does not permit us to give explanations, let therefore the reader himself try to find the peculiarities of this nature.

The Spirit of the amulet.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَّنْ يَّقُوْلُ رَبَّنَاۤ اٰتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَّفِي الْاٰخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَّقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ

اور انہی میں سے ایسے بھی ہیں جو عرض کرتے ہیں: اے ہمارے پروردگار ! ہمیں دنیا میں (بھی) بھلائی عطا فرما اور آخرت میں (بھی) بھلائی سے نواز اور ہمیں دوزخ کے عذاب سے محفوظ رکھ۔

And there are others of them who submit: “O our Lord, grant us excellence in this world, and excellence in the Hereafter (as well), and save us from the torment of Hell.”

(Al-Baqarah, 2 : 201)

“Our Lord! Give unto us in this world that which is good and in the next world that which is good, and guard us from the doom of fire.” (Quran 2 : 201)

The outer inscription of the Beacon.

اَللهُ نُوْرُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِطمَثَلُ نُوْرِهٖ كَمِشْكٰوةٍ فِيْهَامِصْبَاحٌطاَلْمِصْبَاحُ فِيْ زُجَاجَةٍطاَلزُّجَاجَةُ كَاَنَّهَاكَوْكَبٌ دُرِّیُّ يُّوْقَدُ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ مُّبٰرَكَةٍ زَيْتُوْنَةٍ لَّا شَرْقِيَّةٍ وَّلَا غَرْبِيَّةٍلايَّكَادُ زَيْتُهَا يُضِیْٓءُ وَلَوْ لَمْ تَمْسَسْهُ نَارٌطنُوْرٌعَلٰى نُوْرٍطيَهْدِی اللهُ لِنُوْرِهٖ مَنْ يَّشَآءُطوَيَضْرِبُ اللهُ ا لْاَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِطوَاللهُ بِكُلِّ شَیْءٍ عَلِيْمٌ اللّٰہ آسمانوں اور زمین کا نور ہے۔ اس کے نور کی مثال (جو نورِ محمدیﷺ کی شکل میں دنیا میں روشن ہے) اُس طاق (نما سینۂ اَقدس) جیسی ہے جس میں چراغِ (نبوت روشن) ہے؛ (وہ) چراغ (قلبِ محمدی ﷺ کے) فانوس میں رکھا ہے۔ (یہ) فانوس (نورِ الٰہی کے پَرتو سے اس قدر منور ہے) گویا ایک درخشندہ ستارہ ہے (یہ چراغِ نبوت) جو زیتون کے مبارک درخت سے (یعنی عالم قدس کے بابرکت رابطہ وحی سے یا انبیاء و رُسل ہی کے مبارک شجرۂ نبوت سے) روشن ہوا ہے نہ (فقط) شرقی ہے اور نہ غربی (بلکہ اپنے فیضِ نور کی وسعت میں عالم گیر ہے)۔ ایسا معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ اس کا تیل (خود ہی) چمک رہا ہے اگرچہ ابھی اسے (وحیِ ربّانی اور معجزاتِ آسمانی کی) آگ نے چھوا بھی نہیں۔ (وہ) نور کے اوپر نور ہے (یعنی نورِ وجود پر نورِ نبوت گویا وہ ذاتﷺ دوہرے نور کا پیکر ہے)۔ اللّٰہ جسے چاہتا ہے اپنے نور (کی معرفت) تک پہنچا دیتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ لوگوں (کی ہدایت) کے لیے مثالیں بیان فرماتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ ہر چیز سے خوب آگاہ ہے٭

“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His Light (which is glowing in the world in the form of Muhammad’s Light [blessings and peace be upon him]) is as a niche-like (sacred breast) wherein is glowing the lamp (of Prophethood), the lamp contained in a crystal globe (the radiant heart of the Prophet Muhammad [blessings and peace be upon him]). This globe is (as dazzlingly bright owing to reflection of Allah’s Light) as a glittering star. (This lamp of Prophethood) is lit with the sacred olive tree (i.e., either due to the blissful communication of divine Revelation from the Realm of divinity, or owing to the blissful genealogical tree of the Prophets and the Messengers). It is neither (merely) eastern nor western (rather universal and cosmic in its generously infinite luminosity. The likeness of this lamp of Prophethood is as if) its oil (i.e., Light, due to its genuine and inherent potential capability) is glowing, though no fire (or the radiation of celestial miracles and divine Revelation) has even touched it yet. (So it) is Light upon Light (i.e., the Light of Prophethood upon the Light of the Holy Essence, denoting a Self-Embodying double Light). Allah takes to (the gnosis of) His Light whom He wills. And Allah explains similitudes for (the guidance of) people and Allah is Well Aware of everything. *”

(An-Nūr, 24 : 35)

“Allah is the Light of heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein a lamp is. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light, Allah guideth unto His light whom He will. And Allah speaketh to mankind in allegories, for Allah is Knower of all things”. (Quran 24 : 35)

On the top of the Beacon rotates the sign in the form of a beam of light.

اِنَّ هٰـذَاالْقُرْاٰنَ يَهْدِیْ لِلَّتِیْ هِیَ اَقْوَمُ وَيُبَشِّرُ الْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ الَّذِيْنَ يَعْمَلُوْنَ الصّٰلِحٰتِ اَنَّ لَهُمْ اَجْرًا كَبِيْرًا بیشک یہ قرآن اس (منزل) کی طرف رہنمائی کرتا ہے جو سب سے درست ہے اور ان مومنوں کو جو نیک عمل کرتے ہیں اس بات کی خوشخبری سناتا ہے کہ ان کے لئے بڑا اجر ہے۔

“Indeed, this Qur’an leads to that (destination) which is most right, and gives this good news to those believers who do righteous works, that for them is a mighty reward,”

(Al-Isrā’, 17 : 9)

“Lo! This Quran guideth unto that which is straightest.” (Quran 17 : 09)

Side No.1. The face of the Beacon.

Candle No. 1

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالنَّاسُ قَدْ جَآءَتْكُمْ مَّوْعِظَةٌ مِّنْ رَّبِّكُمْ وَشِفَآءٌ لِّمَا فِي الصُّدُوْرِ وَهُدًى وَّرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ اے لوگو! بیشک تمہارے پاس تمہارے رب کی طرف سے نصیحت اور ان (بیماریوں) کی شفاء آگئی ہے جو سینوں میں (پوشیدہ) ہیں اور ہدایت اور اہلِ ایمان کے لئے رحمت (بھی)۔

“O mankind! Surely, there has come to you an admonition from your Lord, and a cure for all those (diseases) which are (hidden) in the breasts. And it is guidance and mercy (too) for those who are blessed with faith.” (Yūnus, 10 : 57)

قُلْ بِفَضْلِ اللهِ وَبِرَحْمَتِهٖ فَبِذٰلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُوْاطهُوَ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا يَجْمَعُوْنَ فرما دیجئے: (یہ سب کچھ) اللّٰہ کے فضل اور اس کی رحمت کے باعث ہے (جو بعثتِ محمدی ﷺ کے ذریعے تم پر ہوا ہے) پس مسلمانوں کو چاہئے کہ اس پر خوشیاں منائیں، یہ اس (سارے مال و دولت) سے کہیں بہتر ہے جسے وہ جمع کرتے ہیں۔

Say: “(All this) is due to the bounty and mercy of Allah (bestowed upon you through raising

Muhammad [blessings and peace be upon him] as the exalted Messenger). So the Muslims should rejoice over it. This is far better than (all that affluence and wealth) that they amass.” (Yūnus, 10 : 58)

“O Mankind! There hath come unto you an exhortation from your Lord, a balm for that which is in the breasts, a guidance and a mercy for believers-Say: In the bounty of Allah and in His mercy: Therein let them rejoice. It is better than what they hoard.”

(Quran 10 : 58)

Side No.2: This world.

Candle No. 2

اِعْلَمُوْاۤ اَنَّمَا الْحَيٰوةُ الدُّنْيَالَعِبٌ وَّلَهْوٌ وَّزِيْنَةٌ وَّتَفَاخُرٌم بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌ فِي الْاَمْوَالِ وَالْاَوْلَادِطكَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ اَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهٗ ثُمَّ يَهِيْجُ فَتَرٰهُ مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ يَكُوْنُ حُطَامًاطوَفِي الْاٰخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدِيْدٌلاوَّمَغْفِرَةٌ مِّنَ اللهِ وَرِضْوَانٌطوَمَا الْحَيٰوةُ الدُّنْيَاۤ اِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُوْرِ جان لو کہ دنیا کی زندگی محض کھیل اور تماشا ہے اور ظاہری آرائش ہے اور آپس میں فخر اور خود ستائی ہے اور ایک دوسرے پر مال و اولاد میں زیادتی کی طلب ہے، اس کی مثال بارش کی سی ہے کہ جس کی پیداوار کسانوں کو بھلی لگتی ہے پھر وہ خشک ہو جاتی ہے پھر تم اسے پک کر زرد ہوتا دیکھتے ہو پھر وہ ریزہ ریزہ ہو جاتی ہے، اور آخرت میں (نافرمانوں کے لئے) سخت عذاب ہے اور (فرمانبرداروں کے لئے) اللّٰہ کی جانب سے مغفرت اور عظیم خوشنودی ہے، اور دنیا کی زندگی دھوکے کی پونجی کے سوا کچھ نہیں ہے۔

“ Know that the life of the world is nothing but a sport and pastime, and superficial beauty, and mutual boasting and self-praise, and ambition to excel in wealth and children over one another. Its similitude is rain whose produce pleases the farmers. Then it dries up. Then you see it turning yellow and then it becomes bits of stubble. And there is severe torment (for the disobedient) in the Hereafter, and forgiveness and great pleasure from Allah (for the obedient). And the life of the world is nothing but belongings that deceive.”

(Al-Hadīd, 57 : 20)

“Know that the life of this world is only play and idle talk and pageantry, and boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is pleasing to the husbandman, but afterwards it drieth up, and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becometh straw. And in the Hereafter there is grievous punishment, and (also) forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure, whereas the life is but matter of illusion.” (Quran 57 : 20)

Candle No. 3

زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوٰتِ مِنَ النِّسَآءِ وَالْبَنِيْنَ وَالْقَنَاطِيْرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ وَالْاَنْعَامِ وَالْحَرْثِطذٰلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاجوَاللهُ عِنْدَهٗ حُسْنُ الْمَاٰبِ

لوگوں کے لئے ان خواہشات کی محبت (خوب) آراستہ کر دی گئی ہے (جن میں) عورتیں اور اولاد اور سونے اور چاندی کے جمع کئے ہوئے خزانے اور نشان کئے ہوئے خوبصورت گھوڑے اور مویشی اور کھیتی (شامل ہیں)، یہ (سب) دنیوی زندگی کا سامان ہے، اور اللّٰہ کے پاس بہتر ٹھکانا ہے۔

“(Excessively) attractive has been made, for the people, the love of lusts (that) include women, children, and hoarded treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses and cattle and crops. (All) this is the provision of the worldly life and with Allah is the best abode.”

(Āl-i-‘Imrān, 3 : 14)

“Beautified for mankind is the love of joys (that come) from women and offspring, and stored-up heaps of Gold and Silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.”

(Quran 3 : 14)

Candle No. 4

مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيْدُ ثَوَابَ الدُّنْيَا فَعِنْدَ اللهِ ثَوَابُ الدُّنْيَا وَالْاٰخِرَةِطوَكَانَ اللهُ سَمِيْۘعًا بَصِيْرًا جو کوئی دنیا کا انعام چاہتا ہے تو اللّٰہ کے پاس دنیا و آخرت (دونوں) کاانعام ہے، اور اللّٰہ خوب سننے والا خوب دیکھنے والا ہے۔

“Whoever desires the reward of the world, then with Allah is the reward of (both) the world and the Hereafter and Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.” (An-Nisā’, 4 : 134)

“Whoso desireth the reward of the world (let him know that) with Allah is the reward of the world and the Hereafter.” (Quran 4 : 134)

Candle No. 5

مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيْدُ حَرْثَ الْاٰخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهٗ فِيْ حَرْثِهٖجوَمَنْ كَانَ يُرِيْدُ حَرْثَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِهٖ مِنْهَالاوَمَا لَهٗ فِي الْاٰخِرَةِ مِنْ نَّصِيْبٍ جو شخص آخرت کی کھیتی چاہتا ہے ہم اُس کے لئے اُس کی کھیتی میں مزید اضافہ فرما دیتے ہیں اور جو شخص دنیا کی کھیتی کا طالب ہوتا ہے (تو) ہم اُس کو اس میں سے کچھ عطا کر دیتے ہیں، پھر اُس کے لئے آخرت میں کچھ حصہ نہیں رہتا۔

“He who seeks the harvest of the Hereafter, We grant him further increase in his harvest. And he who desires the harvest of this world, we give him some of it, but in the Hereafter there does not remain any share for him.” (Ash-Shūrā, 42 : 20)

“Whoso desireth the harvest of the Hereafter, we give him increase in its harvest. And whoso desireth the harvest of the world, we give him thereof, and he hath no portion in the Hereafter.” (Quran 42 : 20)

Candle No. 6

مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيْدُ الْحَيٰوةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِيْنَتَهَا نُوَفِّ اِلَيْهِمْ اَعْمَالَہُمْ فِيْهَا وَهُمْ فِيْهَا لَا يُبْخَسُوْنَ جو لوگ (فقط) دنیوی زندگی اور اس کی زینت (و آرائش) کے طالب ہیں ہم ان کے اعمال کا پورا پورا بدلہ اسی دنیا میں دے دیتے ہیں اور انہیں اس (دنیا کے صلہ) میں کوئی کمی نہیں دی جاتی۔

“Those who lust after the worldly life (only) with its beauty (and embellishment), we pay them back in full for their works here in this world, and their (worldly recompense) is not diminished in the least.” (Hūd, 11 : 15)

اُوْلٰٓـئِكَ الَّذِيْنَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْاٰخِرَةِ اِلَّا النَّارُ وَحَبِطَ مَاصَنَعُوْا فِيْهَا وَبٰطِلٌ مَّاكَانُوْا يَعْمَلُوْنَ یہ وہ لوگ ہیں جن کے لئے آخرت میں کچھ (حصہ) نہیں سوائے آتشِ (دوزخ) کے، اور وہ سب (اَعمال اپنے اُخروی اَجر کے حساب سے) اکارت ہوگئے جو انہوں نے دنیا میں انجام دیئے تھے اور وہ (سب کچھ) باطل و بے کار ہوگیا جو وہ کرتے رہے تھے (کیونکہ ان کا حساب پورے اجر کے ساتھ دنیا میں ہی چکا دیا گیا ہے اور آخرت کے لئے کچھ نہیں بچا)۔

“They are the people for whom there is no (share) in the Hereafter except the Fire (of Hell). And (as for reward in the Hereafter) all (the works) they did in the world have come to nothing, and (all that) they used to do is null and void (because their account is cleared by paying them in full measure in the life of the world, and nothing remains in their balance for the Hereafter).” (Hūd, 11 : 16)

“Whoso desireth the life of the world and its pomp, we shall repay them their deeds therein, and therein they will not be wronged. Those are they for whom is naught in the hereafter save the fire. (All) that they contrive here is vain and (all) that they are wont to do is fruitless.” (Quran 11 : 15-16)

Quran's Interpreter.

Please read the above quoted sign with care. It exactly describes the state of modern materialistic age. They have moved on the path of material progress and they have been well rewarded in their struggle, but because they forgot resurrection and the next world in heaven, they have found themselves face to face with a raging fire that of atomic hell even in this world and the same is their lot in the world which is thereafter. Particularly interesting are the two terms used in the above quoted sign, namely the “contrivance” and the “fruits”. These are the two very same terms which are the essence of the Baconian Philosophy, and frequently used in bacon's writings, namely, contriving the methods of experimentation and seeking the fruit. Hence this philosophy of Bacon is aptly known as the philosophy of utility and fruit. Bacon himself had at least had feigned balance his philosophy between the material and the spiritual, but quite naturally his followers soon discarded the spiritual side and totally inclined towards the immediate material gains, with the result that the fruit was tainted. First few bites were indeed sweet enough, first few whiffs quite inebriating, first few swings exhilarating. But then a taint of sourcness spread throughout. The sweet taste of the fruit vanished. Inebriation changed into fever and dizziness, the pleasant glide of the swing assumed frightfuly impetuous whirl. Heart-burning spread like epidemic. Discontent and frustration increased in exact proportion to the increase in the fruit, and so the Quran says with much appropriateness.

Candle No. 7

اُولٰٓـئِكَ الَّذِيْنَ اشْتَرَوُاالْحَيٰوةَ الدُّنْيَا بِالْاٰخِرَةِزفَلَايُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمُ الْعَذَابُ وَلاَ هُمْ يُنْصَرُوْنَ یہی وہ لوگ ہیں جنہوں نے آخرت کے بدلے میں دنیا کی زندگی خرید لی ہے، پس نہ ان پر سے عذاب ہلکا کیا جائے گا اور نہ ہی ان کو مدد دی جائے گی۔

“It is they who have purchased the worldly life for the Hereafter. So neither will their torment be lessened, nor will they be helped.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 86)

“Such are those who buy the life of the world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment will not be lightened, neither will they have support.” (Quran 2 : 86)

Candle No. 8 (And they will never be satisfied).

لَهٗ دَعْوَةُ الْحَقِّطوَالَّذِيْنَ يَدْعُوْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِهٖ لَا يَسْتَجِيْبُوْنَ لَهُمْ بِشَیْءٍ اِلَّا كَبَاسِطِ كَفَّيْهِ اِلَى الْمَآءِ لِيَبْلُغَ فَاهُ وَمَاهُوَ بِبَالِغِهٖطوَمَا دُعَآءُ الْكٰفِرِيْنَ اِلَّا فِيْ ضَلٰلٍ اسی کے لئے حق (یعنی توحید) کی دعوت ہے، اور وہ (کافر) لوگ جو اس کے سوا (معبودانِ باطلہ یعنی بتوں) کی عبادت کرتے ہیں، وہ انہیں کسی چیز کا جواب بھی نہیں دے سکتے۔ ان کی مثال تو صرف اس شخص جیسی ہے جو اپنی دونوں ہتھیلیاں پانی کی طرف پھیلائے (بیٹھا) ہو کہ پانی (خود) اس کے منہ تک پہنچ جائے اور (یوں تو) وہ (پانی) اس تک پہنچنے والا نہیں، اور (اسی طرح) کافروں کا (بتوں کی عبادت اور ان سے) دعا کرنا گمراہی میں بھٹکنے کے سوا کچھ نہیں۔

“Calling towards the truth (i.e., the Oneness of Allah) is for Him alone. And those (false gods—idols) they (disbelievers) worship besides Him cannot give them any answer at all. Their example is like the one who (sits) stretching both his palms towards water so that it may reach his mouth (itself), but it (the water) reaches not (like this). And (in like manner) the praying of disbelievers (to idols and their idol-worship) is but a distraction.”

(Ar-Ra‘d, 13 : 14)

“Those unto whom they pray beside Allah respond to them not at all, save as (is the response to) one who stretcheth forth his hands towards water (asking) that it may come unto his mouth; and it will never reach it.” (Quran 13 : 14)

Candle No. 9 (They will be punished with wealth).

وَلَا تُعْجِبْكَ اَمْوَالُہُمْ وَاَوْلَادُهُمْطاِنَّمَا يُرِيْدُ اللهُ اَنْ يُّعَذِّبَهُمْ بِهَا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَتَزْهَقَ اَنْفُسُهُمْ وَهُمْ كٰفِرُوْنَ اور ان کے مال اور ان کی اولاد آپ کو تعجب میں نہ ڈالیں۔ اللّٰہ فقط یہ چاہتا ہے کہ ان چیزوں کے ذریعے انہیں دنیا میں (بھی) عذاب دے اور ان کی جانیں اس حال میں نکلیں کہ وہ کافر (ہی) ہوں۔

“Let not their riches and their progeny make you wonder. Allah wants only to torment them in this world (too) by means of these things, and that their souls may depart whilst they are (still) disbelievers.” (At-Tawbah, 9 : 85)

“So let not their riches nor do their children please thee. Allah thereby intendeth but to punish them in the life of the world and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers”. (Quran 9 : 85)

Candle No. 10

فَلَمَّا نَسُوْا مَا ذُكِّرُوْا بِهٖ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ اَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَیْءٍطحَتّٰۤی اِذَا فَرِحُوْا بِمَاۤ اُ وْتُوْۤا اَخَذْنٰهُمْ بَغْتَةً فَاِذَاهُمْ مُّبْلِسُوْنَ پھر جب انہوں نے اس نصیحت کو فراموش کردیا جو ان سے کی گئی تھی تو ہم نے (انہیں اپنے انجام تک پہنچانے کے لیے) ان پر ہر چیز (کی فراوانی) کے دروازے کھول دیئے، یہاں تک کہ جب وہ ان چیزوں (کی لذتوں اور راحتوں) سے خوب خوش ہو (کر مدہوش ہو) گئے جو انہیں دی گئی تھیں تو ہم نے اچانک انہیں (عذاب میں) پکڑ لیا تو اس وقت وہ مایوس ہوکر رہ گئے۔

“Then, when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, we opened unto them the gates of all things till, even as the they were rejoicing in that which they were given, we seized them unawares, and Lo! They were dumb founded.” (Quran 6 : 44)

Note: This actually is the case of the modern age of progress and atomic hell.

Candle No. 11

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِطوَاِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ اُجُوْرَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِطفَمَنْ زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَاُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَطوَمَا الْحَيٰوةُ الدُّنْيَا اِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُوْرِ ہر جان موت کا مزہ چکھنے والی ہے، اور تمہارے اجر پورے کے پورے تو قیامت کے دن ہی دئیے جائیں گے، پس جو کوئی دوزخ سے بچا لیا گیا اور جنت میں داخل کیا گیا وہ واقعۃً کامیاب ہو گیا، اور دنیا کی زندگی دھوکے کے مال کے سوا کچھ بھی نہیں۔

“Every soul is going to taste death. And your full recompense will be paid back only on the Day of Resurrection. So, whoever will be saved from Hell and admitted to Paradise will be truly successful. And the worldly life is nothing but illusory wealth.”

(Āl-i-‘Imrān, 3 : 185)

“Every soul will taste of death. And you will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have fairly earned. Whoso is removed from the Fire and is made to enter Paradise, he indeed is triumphant. The life of this world is but comfort of illusion.” (Quran 3 : 185)

Side No.3 of the Beacon

The Other World.

Candle No. 12 (And on the Day of Judgement).

وَلَقَدْ جِئْتُمُوْنَا فُرَادٰى كَمَا خَلَقْنٰكُمْ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَّتَرَكْتُمْ مَّا خَوَّلْنٰكُمْ وَرَآءَ ظُهُوْرِكُمْجوَمَا نَرٰى مَعَكُمْ شُفَعَآءَكُمُ الَّذِيْنَ زَعَمْتُمْ اَنَّهُمْ فِيْكُمْ شُرَكٰٓوءُاطلَقَدْ تَّقَطَّعَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْكُمْ مَّا كُنْتُمْ تَزْعُمُوْنَ

اور بیشک تم (روزِ قیامت) ہمارے پاس اسی طرح تنہا آؤ گے جیسے ہم نے تمہیں پہلی مرتبہ (تنہا) پیدا کیا تھا اور (اموال و اولاد میں سے) جو کچھ ہم نے تمہیں دے رکھا تھا وہ سب اپنی پیٹھ پیچھے چھوڑ آؤ گے، اور ہم تمہارے ساتھ تمہارے ان سفارشیوں کو نہیں دیکھیں گے جن کی نسبت تم (یہ) گمان کرتے تھے کہ وہ تمہارے (معاملات) میں ہمارے شریک ہیں۔ بیشک (آج) تمہارا باہمی تعلق (و اعتماد) منقطع ہوگیا اور وہ (سب) دعوے جو تم کیا کرتے تھے تم سے جاتے رہے۔

“And verily, (on the Day of Resurrection) you will come to us all alone as we created you (all alone) the first time, and you will leave all that behind you which we have bestowed on you (of wealth and children). And we shall not see your intercessors accompanying you whom you have assumed to be our partners in your affairs. Surely, (Today) your mutual relation (and confidence) has broken off, and (all) the claims that you used to make have become void.” (Al-An‘ām, 6 : 94)

“Now have ye come unto us solitary as we did create you at the first, and ye have left behind you all that we bestowed upon you, and we behold not with you those your intercessors, of whom ye claimed that they possessed a share in you? Now is the bond between you severed, and that which ye presumed hath failed you.” (Quran 6 : 94)

Candle No. 13

وَقِيْلَ لِلَّذِيْنَ اتَّقَوْا مَاذَاۤ اَنْزَلَ رَبُّكُمْطقَالُوْا خَيْرًاطلِلَّذِيْنَ اَحْسَنُوْا فِيْ هٰذِهِ الدُّنْيَاحَسَنَةٌطوَلَدَارُ الْاٰخِرَةِ خَيْرٌطوَلَنِعْمَ دَارُ الْمُتَّقِيْنَ اور پرہیزگار لوگوں سے کہا جائے کہ تمہارے رب نے کیا نازل فرمایا ہے؟ وہ کہتے ہیں: (دنیا و آخرت کی) بھلائی (اتاری ہے)، ان لوگوں کے لئے جو نیکی کرتے رہے اس دنیا میں (بھی) بھلائی ہے، اور آخرت کا گھر تو ضرور ہی بہتر ہے، اور پرہیزگاروں کا گھر کیا ہی خوب ہے۔

“And (when) the Godfearing are asked: ‘What has your Lord sent down?’ they say: ‘All good (for here and the Hereafter has been sent down).’ There is good for those who do good in this world (too), and certainly the abode of the Hereafter is even better. And how excellent is the abode of those who are Godfearing!” (An-Nahl, 16 : 30)

“The abode of the hereafter is better, for those who ward off (evil).” (Quran 16 : 30)

Candle No. 14

فَاَمَّاالْاِنْسَانُ اِذَا مَاابْتَلٰهُ رَبُّهٗ فَاَكْرَمَهٗ وَنَعَّمَهٗ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّیْۤ اَكْرَمَنِ مگر انسان (ایسا ہے) کہ جب اس کا رب اسے (راحت و آسائش دے کر) آزماتا ہے اور اسے عزت سے نوازتا ہے اور اسے نعمتیں بخشتا ہے تو وہ کہتا ہے: میرے رب نے مجھ پر کرم فرمایا۔

“But as for man, when his Lord tests him (by providing him pleasure and comfort) and honours him and gives him bounties,” he says: “My Lord has honoured me.”

(Al-Fajr, 89 : 15)

وَاَمَّاۤ اِذَا مَاابْتَلٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهٗ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّیْۤ اَهَانَنِ لیکن جب وہ اسے (تکلیف و مصیبت دے کر) آزماتا ہے اور اس پر اس کا رزق تنگ کرتا ہے تو وہ کہتا ہے: میرے رب نے مجھے ذلیل کر دیا۔

“But when He tries him (by afflicting him with pain and discomfort) and limits his means of sustenance,” he says: ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’ (Al-Fajr, 89 : 16)

كَلَّا بَلْ لَّا تُكْرِمُوْنَ الْيَتِيْمَ یہ بات نہیں بلکہ (حقیقت یہ ہے کہ عزت اور مال و دولت کے ملنے پر) تم یتیموں کی قدر و اِکرام نہیں کرتے۔

“No indeed! But (the truth is that after you gain honour and good fortune), you do not give honour and care to orphans.” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 17)

وَلَا تَحٰٓضُّوْنَ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِيْنِ اور نہ ہی تم مسکینوں (یعنی غریبوں اور محتاجوں) کو کھانا کھلانے کی (معاشرے میں) ایک دوسرے کو ترغیب دیتے ہو۔

“Nor do you inspire one another (in society) to promote the feeding of the destitute (i.e., the poor and the needy).” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 18)

وَتَاْكُلُوْنَ التُّرَاثَ اَكْلًا لَّمًّا اور وراثت کا سارا مال سمیٹ کر (خود ہی) کھا جاتے ہو (اس میں سے افلاس زدہ لوگوں کا حق نہیں نکالتے)۔

“And you lay hand on the inherited wealth and devour it (yourselves and do not pay the poverty-stricken their due).” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 19)

وَّتُحِبُّوْنَ الْمَالَ حُبًّاجَمًّا اور تم مال و دولت سے حد درجہ محبت رکھتے ہو۔

“And you love wealth and riches inordinately.” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 20)

كَلَّاۤ اِذَا دُكَّتِ الْاَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا یقیناً جب زمین پاش پاش کر کے ریزہ ریزہ کر دی جائے گی۔

“Assuredly, when the earth will be cleft asunder and crushed to dust particles,”

(Al-Fajr, 89 : 21)

وَّجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا اور آپ کا رب جلوہ فرما ہوگا اور فرشتے قطار در قطار (اس کے حضور) حاضر ہوں گے۔

“And your Lord will unveil His Light and the angels will appear (before His presence) rank upon rank,” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 22)

وَجِایْٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍمبِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَّتَذَكَّرُ الْاِنْسَانُ وَاَنّٰى لَهُ الذِّكْرٰى اور اس دن دوزخ پیش کی جائے گی، اس دن انسان کو سمجھ آجائے گی مگر (اب) اسے نصیحت کہاں (فائدہ مند) ہوگی۔

“And that Day, Hell will be brought forth. On that Day man will come to understand, but how will admonition (avail him then)?” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 23)

يَقُوْلُ يٰلَيْتَنِیْ قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِیْ وہ کہے گا: اے کاش! میں نے اپنی (اس اصل) زندگی کے لئے (کچھ) آگے بھیج دیا ہوتا (جو آج میرے کام آتا)۔

He will say: “Would that I had sent (something) ahead of me for my (real) life (which would have helped me Today)!” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 24)

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهٗۤ اَحَدٌ

سو اس دن نہ اس کے عذاب کی طرح کوئی عذاب دے سکے گا۔

“But that Day no one will be able to torment like His torment,” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 25)

وَّلَا يُوْثِقُ وَثَاقَهٗۤ اَحَدٌ اور نہ اس کے جکڑنے کی طرح کوئی جکڑ سکے گا۔

“And no one will be able to bind as He binds.” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 26)

يٰۤا يَّتُهَاالنَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ اے اطمینان پا جانے والے نفس۔

“O contented (pleased) self!” (Al-Fajr, 89: 27)

ارْجِعِیْۤ اِلٰى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً

تو اپنے رب کی طرف اس حال میں لوٹ آکہ تو اس کی رضا کا طالب بھی ہو اور اس کی رضا کا مطلوب بھی (گویا اس کی رضا تیری مطلوب ہو اور تیری رضا اس کی مطلوب)۔

“Return to your Lord in such a state that you are both the aspirant to, and the aspired of, His pleasure (i.e., you seek His pleasure and He seeks yours).” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 28)

فَادْخُلِیْ فِيْ عِبٰدِیْ پس تو میرے (کامل) بندوں میں شامل ہو جا۔

“So join my (perfect) servants.” (Al-Fajr, 89 : 29)

وَادْخُلِیْ جَنَّتِیْ اور میری جنتِ (قربت و دیدار) میں داخل ہو جا۔

“And enter My Paradise (of nearness and sight).” (Al-Fajr, 89: 30)

“As for man, whenever his Lord trieth him by honouring him, and is gracious unto him, he saith: My Lord honoureth me: But whenever He trieth him by straitening his means of life, he saith: My Lord despiseth me. Nay, but ye (for your part) honour not the orphan. And urge not on the feeding of the poor, and ye devour heritage with devouring greed, and love wealth with abounding love. May, but when the earth is ground to atoms, grinding, grinding, and thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank, and hell is brought near that day; on that day, ,man will remember, but how will the remembrance (then avail him) ? He will say: Ah, would that I had sent before me (some provision) for my life! None punsisheth as He will punish on that day! None bindeth has He then will bind. But Ah! Thou soul at peace! Return unto thy Lord, content in His good pleasure! Enter thou among my bondsmen! Enter thou my garden.” (Quran 89 : 15 to 30)

Side No. 4 of the beacon.

This life a Trial.

Candle No. 15

الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيٰوةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ اَيُّكُمْ اَحْسَنُ عَمَلًاطوَهُوَ الْعَزِيْزُ الْغَفُوْرُ

جس نے موت اور زندگی کو (اِس لئے) پیدا فرمایا کہ وہ تمہیں آزمائے کہ تم میں سے کون عمل کے لحاظ سے بہتر ہے، اور وہ غالب ہے بڑا بخشنے والا ہے۔

“He who has created death and life (so that) He may test you as to which of you is best in conduct. And He is Almighty, Most Forgiving;” (Al-Mulk, 67 : 2)

“God hath created life and death, that He may try you, which of you is best in conduct.” (Quran 67 : 2)

Candle No. 16

وَهُوَ الَّذِیْ جَعَلَكُمْ خَلٰٓئِفَ الْاَرْضِ وَرَفَعَ بَعْضَكُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجٰتٍ لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِيْ مَاۤ اٰتٰكُمْطاِنَّ رَبَّكَ سَرِيْعُ الْعِقَابِ صلے ز وَاِنَّهٗ لَغَفُوْرٌ رَّحِيْمٌ اور وہی ہے جس نے تم کو زمین میں نائب بنایا اور تم میں

سے بعض کو بعض پر درجات میں بلند کیا تاکہ وہ ان (چیزوں) میں تمہیں آزمائے جو اس نے تمہیں (امانتاً) عطا کر رکھی ہیں۔ بیشک آپ کا رب (عذاب کے حق داروں کو) جلد سزا دینے والا ہے اور بیشک وہ (مغفرت کے امیدواروں کو) بڑا بخشنے والا اور بے حد رحم فرمانے والا ہے۔

“And He is the One Who has made you vicegerents in the earth, and exalted some of you over others in ranks, so that He may test you by means of (things) which He has bestowed upon you (as a trust). Surely, your Lord is swift in awarding punishment (to those who deserve it), but He is indeed Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful (towards the aspirants to forgiveness).” (Al-An‘ām, 6 : 165)

“He it is who hath placed you as viceroys of the earth and hath exalted some of you in rank above others, that He may try you by (the test of) that which He hath given you.”

(Quran 6 : 165)

Candle No. 17

اِنَّاجَعَلْنَا مَاعَلَى الْاَرْضِ زِيْنَةً لَّهَا لِنَبْلُوَهُمْ اَيُّہُمْ اَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً اور بیشک ہم نے اُن تمام چیزوں کو جو زمین پر ہیں اس کے لئے باعثِ زینت (و آرائش) بنایا تاکہ ہم ان لوگوں کو (جو زمین کے باسی ہیں) آزمائیں کہ ان میں سے بہ اِعتبارِ عمل کون بہتر ہے۔

“And indeed, we have made whatever is on earth a means of its beauty (and adornment) so that we test (the inhabitants of the earth) as to who is better in deeds.”

(Al-Kahf, 18 : 7)

“Lo! We have placed all that is in the earth as an ornament thereof that we may try them: which of them is best in conduct.” (Quran 18 : 7)

Candle No. 18

وَاَنْزَلْنَاۤ اِلَيْكَ الْكِتٰبَ بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقًالِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ الْكِتٰبِ وَمُهَيْمِنًاعَلَيْهِ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَہُمْ بِمَاۤ اَنْزَلَ اللهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ اَهْوَآءَهُمْ عَمَّا جَآءَكَ مِنَ الْحَقِّطلِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ شِرْعَةً وَّمِنْهَاجًاطوَلَوْ شَآءَ اللهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ اُمَّةً وَّاحِدَةً وَّلٰـكِنْ لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِيْ مَآ اٰتٰكُمْ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرٰتِطاِلَى اللهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيْعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَاكُنْتُمْ فِيْهِ تَخْتَلِفُوْنَ اور (اے نبیِ مکرّم ﷺ!) ہم نے آپ کی طرف سچائی کے ساتھ کتاب نازل فرمائی ہے جو اپنے سے پہلے کی کتابوں کی تصدیق کرنے والی ہے اور اس (کے اصل احکام و مضامین) پر نگہبان ہے، پس آپ ان کے درمیان ان (احکام) کے مطابق فیصلہ فرمائیں جو اللّٰہ نے نازل فرمائے ہیں اور آپ ان کی خواہشات کی پیروی نہ کریں، اس حق سے دور ہو کر جو آپ کے پاس آچکا ہے۔ ہم نے تم میں سے ہر ایک کے لیے الگ شریعت اور کشادہ راہِ عمل بنائی ہے۔ اور اگر اللّٰہ چاہتا تو تم سب کو (ایک شریعت پر متفق) ایک ہی امّت بنا دیتا لیکن وہ تمہیں ان (الگ الگ احکام) میں آزمانا چاہتا ہے جو اس نے تمہیں (تمہارے حسبِ حال) دیے ہیں، سو تم نیکیوں میں جلدی کرو۔ اللّٰہ ہی کی طرف تم سب کو پلٹنا ہے، پھر وہ تمہیں ان (سب باتوں میں حق و باطل) سے آگاہ فرما دے گا جن میں تم اختلاف کرتے رہتے تھے۔

“And, (O Most Esteemed Messenger,) we have revealed the Book to you (also) with the truth which confirms the Book that preceded it and stands as a guardian over (the actual commands and contents contained in) it. So judge between them according to these (commandments) which Allah has revealed. And do not follow their desires turning away from the truth that has come to you. We have designed for each one of you a discrete law and an all-embracing way of life. Had Allah so willed, He would have made you all one Umma ([Community] agreeing to the same law). But He wants to test you in these (separately given sets of commandments) which He has given you (suiting your respective life situations). So, make haste in doing pious works. To Allah have you all to return. He will then enlighten you on (the truth and falsehood in all the matters in) which you used to disagree.” (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 48)

“Lo! Had Allah willed He could have made you one community? But that He may try you by that which He hath given you (He hath made you as ye are).” (Quran 5 : 48)

Candle No. 19

وَمَاخَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْاِنْسَ اِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوْنِ اور میں نے جنّات اور انسانوں کو صرف اسی لئے پیدا کیا کہ وہ میری بندگی اختیار کریں۔

“And I created the jinn and human beings solely to adopt my servitude.”

(Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 56)

“I created the Jinn and Mankind only that they might worship me.” (Quran 51 : 56)

Candle No. 20

وَلَوْلَاۤ اَنْ يَّكُوْنَ النَّاسُ اُمَّةً وَّاحِدَةً لَّجَعَلْنَا لِمَنْ يَّكْفُرُ بِالرَّحْمٰنِ لِبُيُوْتِہِمْ سُقُفًا مِّنْ فَضَّةٍ وَّمَعَارِجَ عَلَيْہَا يَظْهَرُوْنَ اور اگر یہ نہ ہوتا کہ سب لوگ (کفر پر جمع ہو کر) ایک ہی ملّت بن جائیں گے تو ہم (خدائے) رحمان کے ساتھ کفر کرنے والے تمام لوگوں کے گھروں کی چھتیں (بھی) چاندی کی کر دیتے اور سیڑھیاں (بھی) جن پر وہ چڑھتے ہیں۔

“And had it not been that mankind (converging on disbelief) would have become one

community, we would have made, for those who disbelieve in the Most Kind (Lord), silver roofs for their houses and silver staircases by which they ascend,” (Az-Zukhruf, 43 : 33)

وَلِبُيُوْتِهِمْ اَبْوَابًاوَّسُرُرًاعَلَيْهَا يَتَّكِؤُْنَ اور (اسی طرح) اُن کے گھروں کے دروازے (بھی چاندی کے کر دیتے) اور تخت (بھی) جن پر وہ مسند لگاتے ہیں۔

“And likewise, (silver) doors of their houses and the couches (too) on which they recline,”

(Az-Zukhruf, 43 : 34)

وَزُخْرُفًاطوَاِنْ كُلُّ ذٰلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَاعُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاطوَالْاٰخِرَةُ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُتَّقِيْنَ اور (چاندی کے اوپر) سونے اور جواہرات کی آرائش بھی (کر دیتے)، اور یہ سب کچھ دنیوی زندگی کی عارضی اور حقیر متاع ہے، اور آخرت (کا حُسن و زیبائش) آپ کے رب کے پاس ہے (جو) صرف پرہیزگاروں کے لئے ہے۔

“And (embellish) ornamentation of gold and jewels (over this silver work). But all that is the temporary and worthless possession of the life of this world. And (the beauty and ornamentation of) the Hereafter is with your Lord (which is) only for the pious.”

(Az-Zukhruf, 43 : 35)

“And were it not that mankind would have become one community, (through love of riches), we might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) to mount, and for their houses doors (of silver) and couches of silver whereon to recline, and ornaments of gold. Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world. And the hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil”. (Quran 43 : 33 to 35)

Candle No. 21

اِنَّمَاۤ اَمْوَالُكُمْ وَاَوْلَادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌطوَاللهُ عِنْدَهٗۤ اَجْرٌ عَظِيْمٌ تمہارے مال اور تمہاری اولاد محض آزمائش ہی ہیں، اور اللّٰہ کی بارگاہ میں بہت بڑا اجر ہے۔

“Your riches and your children are merely a trial. And there is a mighty reward in the presence of Allah.” (At-Taghābun, 64 : 15)

“Your wealth and your children are only a temptation, whereas Allah! With Him is an immense reward.” (Quran 64 : 15)

Candle No. 22

قُلْ اِنَّ رَبِّیْ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَنْ يَّشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ وَلٰكِنَّ اَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُوْنَ فرما دیجئے: میرا رب جس کے لئے چاہتا ہے رِزق کشادہ فرما دیتا ہے اور (جس کے لئے چاہتا ہے) تنگ کر دیتا ہے لیکن اکثر لوگ نہیں جانتے۔

Say: “Surely, my Lord releases sustenance in abundance for whom He wills and restrains (for whom He wills) but most people do not know.” (Saba’, 34 : 36)

وَمَاۤ اَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَاۤ اَوْلَادُكُمْ بِالَّتِیْ تُقَرِّبُكُمْ عِنْدَنَا زُلْفٰۤی اِلَّا مَنْ اٰمَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًاز فَاُولٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ جَزَآءُ الضِّعْفِ بِمَا عَمِلُوْا وَهُمْ فِي الْغُرُفٰتِ اٰمِنُوْنَ اور نہ تمہارے مال اس قابل ہیں اور نہ تمہاری اولاد کہ تمہیں ہمارے حضور قرب اور نزدیکی دلا سکیں مگر جو ایمان لایا اور اس نے نیک عمل کئے، پس ایسے ہی لوگوں کے لئے دوگنا اجر ہے ان کے عمل کے بدلے میں اور وہ (جنت کے) بالاخانوں میں امن و امان سے ہوں گے۔

“And it is not your wealth or your children that can bring you nearness and intimacy in our presence. But whoever believes and does good works, it is they for whom the reward is twofold for their works. And they will live in peace in lofty mansions (of Paradise).”

(Saba’, 34 : 37)

“Say: Lo! My Lord enlargeth the provision for whom He will and narroweth it (for whom He will). But most of mankind know not. And it is not your wealth nor your children that will bring you near unto us, but he who believeth and doeth good (he draweth near).”

(Quran 34 36-37)

Candle No. 23

يٰۤاَ يُّهَاالنَّاسُ اِنَّا خَلَقْنٰكُمْ مِّنْ ذَكَرٍ وَّاُنْثٰى وَجَعَلْنٰكُمْ شُعُوْبًاوَّقَبَآِئِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوْاطاِنَّ اَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللهِ اَتْقٰكُمْطاِنَّ اللهَ عَلِيْمٌ خَبِيْرٌ اے لوگو! ہم نے تمہیں مرد اور عورت سے پیدا فرمایا اور ہم نے تمہیں (بڑی بڑی) قوموں اور قبیلوں میں (تقسیم) کیا تاکہ تم ایک دوسرے کو پہچان سکو۔ بیشک اللّٰہ کے نزدیک تم میں زیادہ باعزت وہ ہے جو تم میں زیادہ پرہیزگارہو، بیشک اللّٰہ خوب جاننے والا خوب خبر رکھنے والا ہے۔

“O people! We created you from a male and a female, and (divided) you into (large) peoples and tribes, so that you might recognize one another. Surely, the most honourable amongst you in the sight of Allah is he who fears Allah the most. Certainly, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.” (Al-Hujurāt, 49 : 13)

“O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye might know one another. Lo! The noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.” (Quran 49 : 13)

Candle No. 24

اَللهُ نُوْرُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِطمَثَلُ نُوْرِهٖ كَمِشْكٰوةٍ فِيْهَامِصْبَاحٌطاَلْمِصْبَاحُ فِيْ زُجَاجَةٍطاَلزُّجَاجَةُ كَاَنَّهَاكَوْكَبٌ دُرِّیٌّ يُّوْقَدُ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ مُّبٰرَكَةٍ زَيْتُوْنَةٍ لَّا شَرْقِيَّةٍ وَّلَا غَرْبِيَّةٍلايَّكَادُ زَيْتُهَايُضِیْٓءُ وَلَوْ لَمْ تَمْسَسْهُ نَارٌطنُوْرٌعَلٰى نُوْرٍطيَهْدِی اللهُ لِنُوْرِهٖ مَنْ يَّشَآءُطوَيَضْرِبُ اللهُ الْاَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِطوَاللهُ بِكُلِّ شَیْءٍ عَلِيْمٌ اللّٰہ آسمانوں اور زمین کا نور ہے۔ اس کے نور کی مثال (جو نورِ محمدی ﷺ کی شکل میں دنیا میں روشن ہے) اُس طاق (نما سینۂ اَقدس) جیسی ہے جس میں چراغِ (نبوت روشن) ہے؛ (وہ) چراغ (قلبِ محمدی ﷺ کے) فانوس میں رکھا ہے۔ (یہ) فانوس (نورِ الٰہی کے پَرتو سے اس قدر منور ہے) گویا ایک درخشندہ ستارہ ہے (یہ چراغِ نبوت) جو زیتون کے مبارک درخت سے (یعنی عالم قدس کے بابرکت رابطہ وحی سے یا انبیاء و رُسل ہی کے مبارک شجرۂ نبوت سے) روشن ہوا ہے نہ (فقط) شرقی ہے اور نہ غربی (بلکہ اپنے فیضِ نور کی وسعت میں عالم گیر ہے)۔ ایسا معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ اس کا تیل (خود ہی) چمک رہا ہے اگرچہ ابھی اسے (وحیِ ربّانی اور معجزاتِ آسمانی کی) آگ نے چھوا بھی نہیں۔ (وہ) نور کے اوپر نور ہے (یعنی نورِ وجود پر نورِ نبوت گویا وہ ذات ﷺ دوہرے نور کا پیکر ہے)۔ اللّٰہ جسے چاہتا ہے اپنے نور (کی معرفت) تک پہنچا دیتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ لوگوں (کی ہدایت) کے لیے مثالیں بیان فرماتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ ہر چیز سے خوب آگاہ ہے٭

(An-Nūr, 24 : 35)

فِيْ بُيُوْتٍ اَذِنَ اللهُ اَنْ تُرْفَعَ وَيُذْكَرَ فِيْهَا اسْمُهٗلايُسَبِّحُ لَهٗ فِيْهَابِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْاٰصَالِ (اللّٰہ کا یہ نور) ایسے گھروں (مساجد اور مراکز) میں (میسر آتا ہے) جن (کی قدر و منزلت) کے بلند کئے جانے اور جن میں اللّٰہ کے نام کا ذکر کئے جانے کا حکم اللّٰہ نے دیا ہے (یہ وہ گھر ہیں کہ اللّٰہ والے) ان میں صبح و شام اس کی تسبیح کرتے ہیں۔

“(This Light of Allah illumines) such houses (mosques and centres) as Allah has ordained to exalt (i.e., enhance their esteem and honour) and remember His Name therein. (These are the houses) in which (Allah’s servants) glorify Him morning and evening.”

(An-Nūr, 24 : 36)

رِجَالٌلالَّا تُلْهِيْهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَّلَا بَيْعٌ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِ وَاِقَامِ الصَّلٰوةِ وَاِيْتَآءِالزَّكٰوةِ يَخَافُوْنَ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيْهِ الْقُلُوْبُ وَالْاَبْصَارُ (اللّٰہ کے اس نور کے حامل) وہی مردانِ (خدا) ہیں جنہیں تجارت اور خرید و فروخت نہ اللّٰہ کی یاد سے غافل کرتی ہے اور نہ نماز قائم کرنے سے اور نہ زکوٰۃ ادا کرنے سے (بلکہ دنیوی فرائض کی ادائیگی کے دوران بھی) وہ (ہمہ وقت) اس دن سے ڈرتے رہتے ہیں جس میں (خوف کے باعث) دل اور آنکھیں (سب) الٹ پلٹ ہو جائیں گی۔

“(Blessed with this Light) are those servants (of Allah) whom neither trade nor sale diverts from the remembrance of Allah and from establishing Prayer and paying Zakat (the Alms-due. Even whilst performing their worldly duties) they keep fearing the Day when hearts and eyes will (all) overturn (with terror),” (An-Nūr, 24 : 37)

“(The lamp of the light of God is found) in houses which Allah hath allowed to be exalted and that His name shall be remembered therein. Therein do offer praise to Him at morn and evening men whom neither merchandise nor sale beguileth from remembrance of Allah and constancy in prayer and paying to the poor their due: who fear a day when hearts and eye-balls will be overturned”. (Quran 24 : 37)

Candle No. 25

يٰۤاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْالَا تُلْهِكُمْ اَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَاۤ اَوْلَادُكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِجوَمَنْ يَّفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ فَاُولٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْخٰسِرُوْنَ اے ایمان والو! تمہارے مال اور تمہاری اولاد (کہیں) تمہیں اللّٰہ کی یاد سے ہی غافل نہ کر دیں، اور جو شخص ایسا کرے گا تو وہی لوگ نقصان اٹھانے والے ہیں۔

“O believers! Let not your wealth and your children make you neglectful of the very remembrance of Allah. And whoever does so, it is they who are the losers.”

(Al-Munāfiqūn, 63 : 9)

“O Ye who believe! Let not your wealth nor do your children distract you from remembrance of Allah. Those who do so, they are the losers.” (Quran 63 : 9)

Candle No. 26

وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَّتَّخِذُ مِنْ دُوْنِ اللهِ اَنْدَادًا يُّحِبُّوْنَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللهِطوَالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤا اَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِّلّٰہِطوَلَوْ يَرَى الَّذِيْنَ ظَلَمُوْۤااِذْ يَرَوْنَ الْعَذَابَلااَنَّ الْقُوَّةَ لِلهِ جَمِيْعاًلاوَّاَنَّ اللهَ شَدِيْدُ الْعَذَابِ اور لوگوں میں بعض ایسے بھی ہیں جو اللّٰہ کے غیروں کو اللّٰہ کا شریک ٹھہراتے ہیں اور ان سے” اللّٰہ سے محبت“ جیسی محبت کرتے ہیں، اور جو لوگ ایمان والے ہیں وہ (ہر ایک سے بڑھ کر) اللّٰہ سے بہت ہی زیادہ محبت کرتے ہیں، اور اگر یہ ظالم لوگ اس وقت کو دیکھ لیں جب (اُخروی) عذاب ان کی آنکھوں کے سامنے ہوگا (توجان لیں) کہ ساری قوتوں کا مالک اللّٰہ ہے اور بیشک اللّٰہ سخت عذاب دینے والا ہے۔

“Yet of mankind are some who take unto themselves (objects of worship which they set as) rivals to Allah, loving them with a love like (that which is the due) of Allah only.”

(Quran 2 : 165)

Note: That of the objects which could be said to have been set as the rival of Allah could be cited as, wealth, which in these days is adored with the adoration due only to Allah. Next is science.

Candle No. 27

اللهُ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَنْ يَّشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهٖ وَيَقْدِرُ لَهٗطاِنَّ اللهَ بِكُلِّ شَیْءٍعَلِيْمٌ اللّٰہ اپنے بندوں میں سے جس کے لئے چاہتا ہے رزق کشادہ فرما دیتا ہے، اور جس کے لئے (چاہتا ہے) تنگ کر دیتا ہے، بیشک اللّٰہ ہر چیز کو خوب جاننے والا ہے۔

“Allah increases sustenance for whom He pleases of His servants and restrains for whom He wills. Surely, Allah knows everything full well.” (Al-‘Ankabūt, 29 : 62)

“Allah enlargeth the provision for whom He will of His servants and straiteneth it (for whom He will).” (Quran 29 : 62)

AND:-

وَلَوْ بَسَطَ اللهُ الرِّزْقَ لِعِبَادِهٖ لَبَغَوْا فِي الْاَرْضِ وَلٰكِنْ يُّنَزِّلُ بِقَدَرٍ مَّا يَشَآءُطاِنَّهٗ بِعِبَادِهٖ خَبِيْرٌ م بَصِيْرٌ اور اگر اللّٰہ اپنے تمام بندوں کے لئے روزی کشادہ فرما دے تو وہ ضرور زمین میں سرکشی کرنے لگیں لیکن وہ (ضروریات کے) اندازے کے ساتھ جتنی چاہتا ہے اتارتا ہے، بیشک وہ اپنے بندوں (کی ضرورتوں) سے خبردار ہے خوب دیکھنے والا ہے۔

“And if Allah were to expand sustenance for all His servants abundantly, they would surely transgress and revolt in the earth. But He sends it down as He pleases according to the measure (of needs). Surely, He is Best Aware of His servants’ (needs), All-Seeing.”

(Ash-Shūrā, 42 : 27)

“And if Allah were to enlarge the provision for His servants they would surely rebel in the earth, but He sendeth down by measure as He willeth. Lo! He is informed, a Seer of His bondmen.” (Quran 42 : 27)

Candle No. 28

وَاَنْزَلْنَاۤ اِلَيْكَ الْكِتٰبَ بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقًالِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ الْكِتٰبِ وَمُهَيْمِنًاعَلَيْهِ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَہُمْ بِمَاۤ اَنْزَلَ اللهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ اَهْوَآءَهُمْ عَمَّا جَآءَكَ مِنَ الْحَقِّطلِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ شِرْعَةً وَّمِنْهَاجًاطوَلَوْ شَآءَ اللهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ اُمَّةً وَّاحِدَةً وَّلٰـكِنْ لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِيْ مَآ اٰتٰكُمْ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرٰتِطاِلَى اللهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيْعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَاكُنْتُمْ فِيْهِ تَخْتَلِفُوْنَ اور (اے نبیِ مکرّم ﷺ!) ہم نے آپ کی طرف سچائی کے ساتھ کتاب نازل فرمائی ہے جو اپنے سے پہلے کی کتابوں کی تصدیق کرنے والی ہے اور اس (کے اصل احکام و مضامین) پر نگہبان ہے، پس آپ ان کے درمیان ان (احکام) کے مطابق فیصلہ فرمائیں جو اللّٰہ نے نازل فرمائے ہیں اور آپ ان کی خواہشات کی پیروی نہ کریں، اس حق سے دور ہو کر جو آپ کے پاس آچکا ہے۔ ہم نے تم میں سے ہر ایک کے لیے الگ شریعت اور کشادہ راہِ عمل بنائی ہے۔ اور اگر اللّٰہ چاہتا تو تم سب کو (ایک شریعت پر متفق) ایک ہی امّت بنا دیتا لیکن وہ تمہیں ان (الگ الگ احکام) میں آزمانا چاہتا ہے جو اس نے تمہیں (تمہارے حسبِ حال) دیے ہیں، سو تم نیکیوں میں جلدی کرو۔ اللہ ہی کی طرف تم سب کو پلٹنا ہے، پھر وہ تمہیں ان (سب باتوں میں حق و باطل) سے آگاہ فرما دے گا جن میں تم اختلاف کرتے رہتے تھے۔

“Vie one with another in good works. Unto Allah ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ.” (Quran 5 : 48)

Candle No. 29

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجٰتٌ مِّمَّا عَمِلُوْاطوَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُوْنَ اور ہر ایک کے لئے ان کے اعمال کے لحاظ سے درجات (مقرر) ہیں، اور آپ کا رب ان کاموں سے بے خبر نہیں جو وہ انجام دیتے ہیں۔

“And there are ranks (determined) for all according to their works, and your Lord is not unaware (of the works) they do.” (Al-An‘ām, 6 : 132)

“For all there will be ranks from what they did. Thy Lord is not unaware of what they do”.

(Quran 6 : 132)

Side No. 5

Note. Reasonable necessities of life allowed by the Quran, to a reasonable extent, but on conditions.

Candle No. 30

وَاِذِ اسْتَسْقٰی مُوْسٰى لِقَوْمِهٖ فَقُلْنَااضْرِبْ بِّعَصَاكَ الْحَجَرَطفَانْفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًاطقَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ اُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَہُمْطكُلُوْا وَاشْرَبُوْا مِنْ رِّزْقِ اللهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْاَرْضِ مُفْسِدِيْنَ اور (وہ وقت بھی یا دکرو) جب موسیٰ نے اپنی قوم کے لئے پانی مانگا تو ہم نے فرمایا: اپنا عصا اس پتھر پر مارو، پھر اس (پتھر) سے بارہ چشمے پھوٹ پڑے، واقعۃً ہر گروہ نے اپنا اپنا گھاٹ پہچان لیا، (ہم نے فرمایا:) اللّٰہ کے (عطا کردہ) رزق میں سے کھاؤ اور پیو لیکن زمین میں فساد انگیزی نہ کرتے پھرو۔

“And (recall) when Musa (Moses) prayed for water for his people. We directed: ‘Strike that rock with your stick.’ Then twelve springs gushed out of that (rock). Verily, each clan identified their respective drinking place. (We said :) ‘Eat and drink of the sustenance (given) by Allah, but do not seek to do mischief in the land.’ ” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 60)

“Eat and drink of that which Allah hath provided and do not act corruptly, making mischief in the earth.” (Quran 2 : 60)

Candle No. 31

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالنَّاسُ كُلُوْامِمَّا فِي الْاَرْضِ حَلٰلًا طَيِّبًا وَّلَا تَتَّبِعُوْا خُطُوٰتِ الشَّيْطٰنِطاِنَّهٗ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِيْنٌ اے لوگو! زمین کی چیزوں میں سے جو حلال اور پاکیزہ ہے کھاؤ، اور شیطان کے راستوں پر نہ

چلو، بیشک وہ تمہارا کھلا دشمن ہے۔

“O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and pure in the earth. And do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. Verily, he is your declared enemy.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 168)

“O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and wholesome in the earth, and follow not the footsteps of Devil. Lo! He is an open enemy for you.” (Quran 2 : 168)

Candle No. 32

وَكُلُوْامِمَّارَزَقَكُمُ اللهُ حَلٰلًا طَيِّبًاصوَّاتَّقُوا اللهَ الَّذِیْۤ اَنْتُمْ بِهٖ مُؤْمِنُوْنَ اور جو حلال پاکیزہ رزق اللّٰہ نے تمہیں عطا فرمایا ہے اس میں سے کھایا کرو اور اللّٰہ سے ڈرتے رہو جس پر تم ایمان رکھتے ہو۔

“And eat of the pure and lawful things Allah has provided for you and always fear Allah in whom you believe”. (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 88)

“Eat of that which Allah hath bestowed on you as lawful and good, and keep your duty to Allah in whom ye are believers.” (Quran 5 : 88)

Candle No. 33

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْالَا تُحَرِّمُوْاطَيِّبٰتِ مَاۤ اَحَلَّ اللهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَعْتَدُوْاطاِنَّ اللهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُعْتَدِيْنَ اے ایمان والو! جو پاکیزہ چیزیں اللّٰہ نے تمہارے لئے حلال کی ہیں انہیں (اپنے اوپر) حرام مت ٹھہراؤ اور نہ (ہی) حد سے بڑھو، بیشک اللّٰہ حد سے تجاوز کرنے والوں کو پسند نہیں فرماتا۔

“O believers! Do not make (for yourselves) unlawful those pure things which Allah has made lawful for you and do not exceed limits either. Indeed, Allah does not like those who transgress the prescribed bounds.” (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 87)

“O ye who believe! Forbid not the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, and transgress not. Lo! Allah loveth not transgressors.” (Quran 5 : 87)

Candle No. 34

اِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْـزِيْرِ وَمَاۤ اُهِلَّ بِهٖ لِغَيْرِ اللهِجفَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَّلَا عَادٍ فَلَاۤ اِثْمَ عَلَيْهِطاِنَّ اللهَ غَفُوْرٌ رَّحِيْمٌ اس نے تم پر صرف مُردار اور خون اور سؤر کا گوشت اور وہ جانور جس پر ذبح کے وقت غیر اللّٰہ کا نام پکارا گیا ہو حرام کیا ہے، پھر جو شخص سخت مجبور ہو جائے نہ تو نافرمانی کرنے والا ہو اور نہ حد سے بڑھنے والا تو اس پر (زندگی بچانے کی حد تک کھا لینے میں) کوئی گناہ نہیں، بیشک اللّٰہ نہایت بخشنے والا مہربان ہے۔

“He has made unlawful for you only the dead animals and blood and the flesh of swine and the animal over which, whilst sacrificing, the name of someone other than Allah has been invoked. But he who is forced by necessity and is neither disobedient nor transgressing will not incur any sin on himself (if he eats that much which is required to survive). Allah is, indeed, Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 173)

“He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swine flesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 2 : 173)

Candle No. 35

فَكُلُوْامِمَّا ذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ بِاٰيٰتِهٖ مُؤْمِنِيْنَ سو تم اس (ذبیحہ) سے کھایا کرو جس پر (ذبح کے وقت) اللّٰہ کا نام لیا گیا ہو اگر تم اس کی آیتوں پر ایمان رکھنے والے ہو۔

“So always eat of that (slaughtered animal) over which the Name of Allah has been pronounced (at the time of slaughter) if you believe in His Revelations. (Al-An‘ām, 6: 118)

“Eat of that over which the name of Allah hath been mentioned, if ye are believers in His revelations.” (Quran 6 : 118)

Candle No. 36

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤااِنَّمَاالْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْاَنْصَابُ وَالْاَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطٰنِ فَاجْتَنِبُوْهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُوْنَ اے ایمان والو! بیشک شراب اور جُوا اور (عبادت کے لئے) نصب کئے گئے بُت اور (قسمت معلوم کرنے کے لئے) فال کے تیر (سب) ناپاک شیطانی کام ہیں۔ سو تم ان سے (کلیتاً) پرہیز کرو تاکہ تم فلاح پا جاؤ۔

“O believers! Wine and gambling and idols mounted (for worship) and divining arrows (for seeking luck—all) are filthy works of Satan. So turn away from them

(completely) so that you may prosper.” (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 90)

اِنَّمَايُرِيْدُ الشَّيْطٰنُ اَنْ يُّوْقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَآءَ فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ وَيَصُدَّكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلٰوةِجفَہَلْ اَنْتُمْ مُّنْتَهُوْنَ شیطان یہی چاہتا ہے کہ شراب اور جوئے کے ذریعے تمہارے درمیان عداوت اور کینہ ڈلوا دے اور تمہیں اللّٰہ کے ذکر سے اور نماز سے روک دے۔ کیا تم (ان شرانگیز باتوں سے) باز آؤ گے۔

“Satan seeks only to breed enmity and spite amongst you by means of wine and gambling, and hinder you from remembering Allah and observing Prayer. Will you abstain (from these evil-generating temptations)?” (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 91)

“O ye who believe! Strong drinks and game of chance and idols and divining arrows are only an infamy of Satan's handiwork. Leave it aside in order that ye may succeed. Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance, and to turn you from remembrance of Allah, and from (His) worship. Will ye then have done?” (Quran 5 : 90-91)

Candle No. 37

وَمَا مِنْ دَآبَّةٍ فِي الْاَرْضِ اِلَّا عَلَى اللهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَاوَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَاطكُلٌّ فِيْ كِتٰبٍ مُّبِيْنٍ اور زمین میں کوئی چلنے پھرنے والا (جاندار) نہیں ہے مگر (یہ کہ) اس کا رزق اللّٰہ (کے ذمۂ کرم) پر ہے اور وہ اس کے ٹھہرنے کی جگہ کو اور اس کے امانت رکھے جانے کی جگہ کو (بھی) جانتا ہے، ہر بات کتابِ روشن (لوحِ محفوظ) میں (درج) ہے۔

“And there is no moving creature (living being) on the earth but (that) its sustenance is (a bountiful obligation) upon Allah. And He knows its resting-place and (also) the place where it is to be entrusted. Everything is (recorded) in the enlightening Book (the Protected Tablet [al-Lawh al-Mahfuz]).” (Hūd, 11 : 6)

“There is not a beast in the earth but the sustenance thereof dependeth on Allah. He knoweth its habitation and its repository. All is in a clear record.” (Quran 11 : 6)

Candle No. 38

يٰبَنِیْۤ اٰدَمَ خُذُوْا زِيْنَتَكُمْ عِنْدَكُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ وَّكُلُوْاوَاشْرَبُوْاوَلَا تُسْرِفُوْاجاِنَّهٗ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِيْنَ اے اولادِ آدم! تم ہر نماز کے وقت اپنا لباسِ زینت (پہن) لیا کرو اور کھاؤ اور پیو اور حد سے زیادہ خرچ نہ کرو کہ بیشک وہ بے جا خرچ کرنے والوں کو پسند نہیں فرماتا۔

“O Children of Adam! Dress up decently every time you offer Prayer. And eat and drink, but do not spend extravagantly because certainly He does not like the extravagant.”

(Al-A‘RAF, 7 : 31)

“O Children of Adam! Look to your adornment at every place of worship, and eat and drink, but be not prodigal. Lo! He loveth not the prodigals.” (Quran 7 : 31)

Candle No. 39

قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِيْنَةَ اللهِ الَّتِیْۤ اَخْرَجَ لِعِبَادِهٖ وَالطَّيِّبٰتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِطقُلْ هِیَ لِلَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا فِي الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاخَالِصَةً يَّوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِطكَذٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْاٰيٰتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَّعْلَمُوْن فرما دیجئے: اللّٰہ کی اس زینت (و آرائش) کو کس نے حرام کیا ہے جو اس نے اپنے بندوں کے لئے پیدا فرمائی ہے اور کھانے کی پاک ستھری چیزوں کو (بھی کس نے حرام کیا ہے)؟ فرما دیجئے: یہ (سب نعمتیں جو) اہلِ ایمان کی دنیا کی زندگی میں (بالعموم روا) ہیں قیامت کے دن بالخصوص (انہی کے لئے) ہوں گی۔ اس طرح ہم جاننے والوں کے لئے آیتیں تفصیل سے بیان کرتے ہیں۔

Say: ‘Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah that He has produced for His servants and the good things from (His) provision?’ Say: ‘These are (permissible) for the believers in the life of this world, and on the Day of Resurrection, would be exclusively for them.’ This is how we make the messages clear for a people who understand.

(Al-A‘rāf, 7 : 32)

قُلْ اِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّیَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْہَا وَمَا بَطَنَ وَالْاِثْمَ وَالْبَغْیَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَاَنْ تُشْرِكُوْابِاللهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهٖ سُلْطٰنًا وَّاَنْ تَقُوْلُوْا عَلَى اللهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ فرما دیجئے کہ میرے ربّ نے (تو) صرف بے حیائی کی باتوں کو حرام کیا ہے جو ان میں سے ظاہر ہوں اور جو پوشیدہ ہوں (سب کو) اور گناہ کو اور ناحق زیادتی کو اور اس بات کو کہ تم اللّٰہ کا شریک ٹھہراؤ جس کی اس نے کوئی سند نہیں اتاری اور (مزید) یہ کہ تم اللّٰہ (کی ذات) پر ایسی باتیں کہو جو تم خود بھی نہیں جانتے۔

Say: ‘My Lord has declared unlawful only (all) the indecent acts which become known and which remain hidden, and sins and unjust excesses, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not sent down any authority, and (in addition) saying such things about (the Essence of) Allah that you do not know yourselves.’

(Al-A‘rāf, 7 : 33)

“Say: Who hath forbidden the adornment of Allah which He hath brought forth for his bondmen and the good things of His providing? Say: Such on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for those who believed during the life of the world. Thus do we detail our revelations for people who have knowledge? Say: My Lord forbiddeth only indecencies, such of them as are apparent, and such as are within, and sin and wrongful oppression, and that ye associate with Allah that for which no warrant hath been revealed, and that ye tell concerning Allah that which ye know not.” (Quran 7 : 32-33)

Candle No. 40

اَللهُ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضَ وَاَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَاَخْرَجَ بِهٖ مِنَ الثَّمَرٰتِ رِزْقًا لَّكُمْجوَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ لِتَجْرِیَ فِي الْبَحْرِ بِاَمْرِهٖجوَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْاَنْهٰرَ اللّٰہ وہ ہے جس نے آسمانوں اور زمین کو پیدا فرمایا اور آسمان کی جانب سے پانی اتارا پھر اس پانی کے ذریعہ سے تمہارے رزق کے طور پر پھل پیدا کئے، اور اس نے تمہارے لئے کشتیوں کو مسخر کر دیا تاکہ اس کے حکم سے سمندر میں چلتی رہیں اور اس نے تمہارے لئے دریاؤں کو (بھی) مسخر کر دیا۔

“Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and poured down water from the sky and then by means of this water produced fruits for you as provision. And He has made vessels subservient to you so that they may sail in the sea by Allah’s command, and He has (also) put rivers under your control.” (Ibrāhīm, 14 : 32)

وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ دَآئِبَيْنَجوَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الَّيْلَ وَالنَّہَارَ اور اس نے تمہارے فائدہ کے لئے سورج اور چاند کو (باقاعدہ ایک نظام کا) مطیع بنا دیا جو ہمیشہ (اپنے اپنے مدار میں) گردش کرتے رہتے ہیں، اور تمہارے (نظامِ حیات کے) لئے رات اور دن کو بھی (ایک نظام کے) تابع کر دیا۔

“And for your benefit, He has subjected the sun and the moon (to a regular system); they keep rotating (in their respective orbits). And He has also subdued the night and the day (to a system) for your (system of life).” (Ibrāhīm, 14 : 33)

وَاٰتٰكُمْ مِّنْ كُلِّ مَا سَاَلْتُمُوْهُطوَاِنْ تَعُدُّوْا نِعْمَتَ اللهِ لَا تُحْصُوْهَاطاِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ لَظَلُوْمٌ كَفَّارٌ اور اس نے تمہیں ہر وہ چیز عطا فرما دی جو تم نے اس سے مانگی، اور اگر تم اللّٰہ کی نعمتوں کو شمار کرنا چاہو (تو) پورا شمار نہ کر سکو گے، بیشک انسان بڑا ہی ظالم بڑا ہی ناشکرگزار ہے۔

“And He has given you everything that you asked Him for, and if you seek to number the favours of Allah, you will not be able to count them all. Indeed, man is highly unjust and extremely ungrateful.” (Ibrāhīm, 14 : 34)

“Allah is He who created the heavens and the earth, and causeth the water to descend from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you, and maketh the ships to be of service unto you, that they may run upon the sea at His command, and hath made of service unto you the rivers; And maketh the sun and the moon, constant in their courses, to be of service unto you, and hath made of service unto you the night and the day. And He giveth you of all ye ask of Him. And if ye would count the bounty of Allah, ye cannot reckon it. Lo! Man is verily a wrong-doer, an ingrate.” (Quran 14 : 32 to 34)

Candle No. 41

ثُمَّ قَفَّيْنَا عَلٰۤى اٰثَارِهِمْ بِرُسُلِنَا وَقَفَّيْنَا بِعِيْسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ وَاٰتَيْنٰهُ الْاِنْجِيْلَ وَجَعَلْنَا فِيْ قُلُوْبِ الَّذِيْنَ اتَّبَعُوْهُ رَاْفَةً وَّرَحْمَةًطوَرَهْبَانِيَّةَنِابْتَدَعُوْهَا مَاكَتَبْنٰهَا عَلَيْهِمْ اِلَّاابْتِغَآءَ رِضْوَانِ اللهِ فَمَا رَعَوْهَاحَقَّ رِعَايَتِهَاجفَاٰتَيْنَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰؔمَنُوْامِنْہُمْ اَجْرَهُمْج وَكَثِيْرٌ مِّنْہُمْ فٰسِقُوْنَ پھر ہم نے ان رسولوں کے نقوشِ قدم پر (دوسرے) رسولوں کو بھیجا اور ہم نے ان کے پیچھے عیسٰی ابنِ مریم (علیہما السلام) کو بھیجا اور ہم نے انہیں انجیل عطا کی اور ہم نے اُن لوگوں کے دلوں میں جو اُن کی (یعنی عیسٰی کی صحیح) پیروی کر رہے تھے شفقت اور رحمت پیدا کر دی۔ اور رہبانیت (یعنی عبادتِ الٰہی کے لئے ترکِ دنیا اور لذّتوں سے کنارہ کشی) کی بدعت انہوں نے خود ایجاد کر لی تھی، اسے ہم نے اُن پر فرض نہیں کیا تھا، مگر (انہوں نے رہبانیت کی یہ بدعت) محض اللّٰہ کی رضا حاصل کرنے کے لئے (شروع کی تھی) پھر اس کی عملی نگہداشت کا جو حق تھا وہ اس کی ویسی نگہداشت نہ کرسکے (یعنی اسے اسی جذبہ اور پابندی سے جاری نہ رکھ سکی)، سو ہم نے اُن لوگوں کو جو ان میں سے ایمان لائے (اور بدعتِ رہبانیت کو رضائے الٰہی کے لئے جاری رکھے ہوئے) تھے، اُن کا اجر و ثواب عطا کر دیا اور ان میں سے اکثر لوگ (جو اس کے تارک ہوگئے اور بدل گئے) بہت نافرمان ہیں۔

“Then in the footsteps of these Messengers, We sent (other) Messengers and we sent ‘Isa, the son of Maryam (Jesus, the son of Mary) after them and gave him the Injil (the Gospel). And we created kindness and mercy in the hearts of those who were (the true) followers (of ‘Isa [Jesus]). And they themselves invented the innovation of monasticism. We did not prescribe it for them. But they (introduced this innovation of monasticism) merely to seek Allah’s pleasure. Then they could not practically keep and maintain that check which was its due (i.e., could not continue its spirit and discipline). So we paid those of them who believed (and continued the innovation of monasticism to seek the pleasure of Allah) their reward. And most of them (who left it and changed their ways) are disobedient.” (Al-Hadīd, 57 : 27)

“We gave unto (Jesus) the Gospel, and placed compassion and Mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. But Monasticism they invented -- We ordained it not for them -- only seeking Allah's pleasure, and they observed it not with right observance. So we gave those of them who believe their reward.” (Quran 57 : 27)

Side No. 6

Quran's economic principles.

Candle No. 42

Say: “Surely, my Lord releases sustenance in abundance for whom He wills and restrains (for whom He wills) but most people do not know.” (Saba’, 34 : 36)

“My Lord, enlargeth the provision for whom He will and narroweth it for whom He will.”

(Quran 34 : 36)

AND:-

اِنَّ اللهَ يَاْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْاِحْسَانِ وَاِيْتَآئِ ذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَيَنْهٰى عَنِ الْفَحْشَآءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَالْبَغْیجيَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُوْنَ بیشک اللّٰہ (ہر ایک کے ساتھ) عدل اور احسان کا حکم فرماتا ہے اور قرابت داروں کو دیتے رہنے کا اور بے حیائی اور برے کاموں اور سرکشی و نافرمانی سے منع فرماتا ہے، وہ تمہیں نصیحت فرماتا ہے تاکہ تم خوب یاد رکھو۔

“Indeed, Allah enjoins justice and benevolence (towards everyone), and giving away to the kindred, and forbids indecency, evil deeds, defiance and disobedience. He admonishes you so that you may remember with concern”. (An-Nahl, 16 : 90)

“Lo! Allah enjoineth Justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness. He exorteth you in order that ye may take heed.”

(Quran 16 : 90)

Candle No. 43

يٰۤايُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْالَا تَاْكُلُوْا اَمْوَالَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِ اِلَّاۤ اَنْ تَكُوْنَ تِجَارَةً عَنْ تَرَاضٍ مِّنْكُمْقفوَلَا تَقْتُلُوْاۤ اَنْفُسَكُمْطاِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيْمًا اے ایمان والو! تم ایک دوسرے کا مال آپس میں ناحق طریقے سے نہ کھاؤ سوائے اس کے کہ تمہاری باہمی رضا مندی سے کوئی تجارت ہو، اور اپنی جانوں کو مت ہلاک کرو، بیشک اللّٰہ تم پر مہربان ہے۔

“O believers! Do not devour one another’s wealth unlawfully amongst yourselves unless it is a trade by your mutual agreement and do not kill yourselves. Surely, Allah is Kind to you.” (An-Nisā’, 4 : 29)

“O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.” (Quran 4 : 29)

Candle No. 44

وَهُوَ الَّذِیْۤ اَنْشَاَجَنّٰتٍ مَّعْرُوْشٰتٍ وَّغَيْرَ مَعْرُوْشٰتٍ وَّالنَّخْلَ وَالزَّرْعَ مُخْتَلِفًا اُكُلُهٗ وَالزَّيْتُوْنَ وَالرُّمَّانَ مُتَشَابِهًاوَّغَيْرَ مُتَشَابِهٍطكُلُوْا مِنْ ثَمَرِهٖۤ اِذَاۤ اَثْمَرَ وَاٰتُوْاحَقَّهٗ يَوْمَ حَصَادِهٖ وَلَا تُسْرِفُوْاطاِنَّهٗ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِيْنَ اور وہی ہے جس نے برداشتہ اور غیر برداشتہ (یعنی بیلوں کے ذریعے اوپر چڑھائے گئے اور بغیر اوپر چڑھائے گئے) باغات پیدا فرمائے اور کھجور (کے درخت) اور زراعت جس کے پھل گوناگوں ہیں اور زیتون اور انار (جو شکل میں) ایک دوسرے سے ملتے جلتے ہیں اور (ذائقہ میں) جداگانہ ہیں (بھی پیدا کئے)۔ جب (یہ درخت) پھل لائیں تو تم ان کے پھل کھایا (بھی) کرو اور اس (کھیتی اور پھل) کے کٹنے کے دن اس کا (اللّٰہ کی طرف سے مقرر کردہ) حق (بھی) ادا کر دیا کرو اور فضول خرچی نہ کیا کرو، بیشک وہ بے جا خرچ کرنے والوں کو پسند نہیں کرتا۔

“And He is the One who has produced trellised and untrellised gardens (i.e., plants climbing up with supports and those not climbing up) and (also created) date (palms) and vegetation with a wide variety of fruits and olive and pomegranates (that) resemble (in shape) but differ (in taste). When (these trees) bear fruit, eat of their fruits, and (also) give away its due (as appointed by Allah) on the day of harvest (of the crop and the fruit), and do not spend wastefully. Surely, He does not like those who spend extravagantly.”

(Al-An‘ām, 6 : 141)

“Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal.” (Quran 6 : 141)

Candle No. 45

وَاَقِيْمُواْالصَّلٰوةَ وَاٰتُواالزَّكٰوةَ وَارْكَعُوْا مَعَ الرَّاكِعِيْنَ اور نماز قائم رکھو اور زکوٰۃ دیا کرو اور رکوع کرنے والوں کے ساتھ (مل کر) رکوع کیا کرو۔

“And establish Prayer and pay Zakat (the Alms-due) regularly and kneel down (together) with those who kneel down”. (Al-Baqarah, 2: 43)

“Establish worship, pay the poor due, and bow your heads with those who bow (in worship).” (Quran 2 : 43)

Candle No. 46

Note: Following is the Key-note of the Islamic Economic System

يَسْئَلُوْنَكَ عَنِ الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِطقُلْ فِيْهِمَاۤ اِثْمٌ كَبِيْرٌوَّمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِزوَاِثْمُهُمَآ اَكْبَرُ مِنْ نَّفْعِهِمَاطوَيَسْئَلُوْنَكَ مَاذَا يُنْفِقُوْنَ قُلِ الْعَفْوَطكَذٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللهُ لَكُمُ الْاٰيٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَفَكَّرُوْنَ آپ سے شراب اور جوئے کی نسبت سوال کرتے ہیں، فرما دیں: ان دونوں میں بڑا گناہ ہے اور لوگوں کے لئے کچھ (دنیوی) فائدے بھی ہیں مگر ان دونوں کا گناہ ان کے نفع سے بڑھ کر ہے، اور آپ سے یہ بھی پوچھتے ہیں کہ کیا کچھ خرچ کریں؟ فرما دیں: جو ضرورت سے زائد ہے (خرچ کر دو)، اسی طرح اللّٰہ تمہارے لئے (اپنے) احکام کھول کر بیان فرماتا ہے تاکہ تم غور و فکر کرو۔

“They ask you about alcohol (i.e., intoxicants) and gambling. Say: ‘Major sin lies in both of them and also some (worldly) profit for the people, but their sin is greater than their profit.’ And they also ask you about what they should spend. Say: ‘(Spend) whatever is surplus to your needs.’ Thus does Allah make His commandments clear to you so that you may meditate?” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 219)

“They will ask thee what they shall bestow (in alms): answer what ye have to spare. Thus Allah showeth (his) signs unto you that peradventure ye might seriously think of this present world, and the next.” (Quran 2 : 219)

Note. That is, prefer the next world, and spend most in the name of Allah, and the same will be paid to you in that eternal life.

Candle No. 47

Note. Following is the fundament of the Islamic socio-economic system.

مَاۤ اَفَآءَ اللهُ عَلٰى رَسُوْلِهٖ مِنْ اَهْلِ الْقُرٰى فَلِلّٰهِ وَلِلرَّسُوْلِ وَلِذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْيَتٰمٰى وَالْمَسٰكِيْنِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيْلِلاكَیْ لَا يَكُوْنَ دُوْلَةًمبَيْنَ الْاَغْنِيَآءِ مِنْكُمْطوَمَاۤ اٰتٰكُمُ الرَّسُوْلُ فَخُذُوْهُجوَمَا نَهٰكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُوْاجوَاتَّقُوا اللهَطاِنَّ اللهَ شَدِيْدُ الْعِقَابِ جو (اَموالِ فَے) اللّٰہ نے (قُرَیظہ، نَضِیر، فِدَک، خَیبر، عُرَینہ سمیت دیگر بغیر جنگ کے مفتوحہ) بستیوں والوں سے (نکال کر) اپنے رسول ﷺ پر لوٹائے ہیں وہ اللّٰہ اور اس کے رسول ﷺ کے لئے ہیں اور رسول ﷺ کےقرابت داروں (یعنی بنو ہاشم اور بنو عبد المطّلب) کے لئے اور (معاشرے کے عام) یتیموں اور محتاجوں اور مسافروں کے لئے ہیں، (یہ نظامِ تقسیم اس لئے ہے) تاکہ (سارا مال صرف) تمہارے مال داروں کے درمیان ہی نہ گردش کرتا رہے (بلکہ معاشرے کے تمام طبقات میں گردش کرے)۔ اور جو کچھ رسول ﷺ تمہیں عطا فرمائیں سو اُسے لے لیا کرو اور جس سے تمہیں منع فرمائیں سو (اُس سے) رُک جایا کرو، اور اللّٰہ سے ڈرتے رہو (یعنی رسول ﷺ کی تقسیم و عطا پر کبھی زبانِ طعن نہ کھولو)، بیشک اللّٰہ سخت عذاب دینے والا ہے۔

“And whatever (materials of fay—spoils) Allah restored to His Messenger ([blessings and peace be upon him] taking out) from the people of (the towns captured without war in addition to those of Qurayza, Nadir, Fadak, Khaybar and ‘Urayna) belong to Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) and (the Messenger’s) near relatives (i.e., Banu Hashim and Banu ‘Abd al-Muttalib) and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer (of society at large. This distribution system is to ensure) that (the whole wealth) may not circulate (only) amongst the rich of you (but should circulate amongst all the classes of society). And whatever the Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) gives you, take that and whatever he forbids you, abstain (from that) and keep fearing Allah (i.e., never scoff at the Messenger’s distribution and award). Surely, Allah is Severe to punish.” (Al-Hashr, 59 : 7)

“Less (the riches) be (for ever divided) in a circle among such of you as are rich.”

(Quran 59 : 7)

Note. The Quran enjoins a reasonable division of wealth. A few excessively rich and others extremely poor, is not the ideal of the Quran. A reasonable equality in this matter is sought.

Candle No. 48

مَثَلُ الَّذِيْنَ يُنفِقُوْنَ اَمْوَالَهُمْ فِيْ سَبِيْلِ اللهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ اَۘنْبَتَتْ سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِيْ كُلِّ سُنْۘبُلَةٍ مِّائَةُ حَبَّةٍطوَاللهُ يُضٰعِفُ لِمَنْ يَّشَآءُطوَاللهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيْمٌ جو لوگ اللّٰہ کی راہ میں اپنے مال خرچ کرتے ہیں ان کی مثال (اس) دانے کی سی ہے جس سے سات بالیاں اگیں (اور پھر) ہر بالی میں سو دانے ہوں (یعنی سات سو گنا اجر پاتے ہیں)، اور اللّٰہ جس کے لئے چاہتا ہے (اس سے بھی) اضافہ فرما دیتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ بڑی وسعت والا خوب جاننے والا ہے۔

“The example of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah is like (that) grain out of which seven ears shoot forth. (And then) each ear bears a hundred grains (i.e., they are rewarded seven hundred times). And Allah multiplies (still more) for whom He likes. And Allah is Infinite, All-Knowing.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 261)

“The likeness of those who spend their wealth in Allah's way is as the likeness of a grain which growth seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains. Allah giveth increase manifold to whom He will. Allah is All-Embracing, All knowing.” (Quran 2 : 261)

Candle No. 49

Note. Following is the basis of Islamic Economic System. Allah is the real owner and inheritor.

وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِيْنَ يَبْخَلُوْنَ بِمَاۤ اٰتٰہُمُ اللهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهٖ هُوَ خَيْرًا لَّهُمْطبَلْ هُوَ شَرٌّ لَّهُمْطسَيُطَوَّقُوْنَ مَابَخِلُوْا بِهٖ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِطوَلِلهِ مِيْرَاثُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِطوَاللهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُوْنَ خَبِيْرٌ اور جو لوگ اس (مال و دولت) میں سے دینے میں بخل کرتے ہیں جو اللّٰہ نے انہیں اپنے فضل سے عطا کیا ہے وہ ہرگز اس بخل کو اپنے حق میں بہتر خیال نہ کریں، بلکہ یہ ان کے حق میں برا ہے، عنقریب روزِ قیامت انہیں (گلے میں) اس مال کا طوق پہنایا جائے گا جس میں وہ بخل کرتے رہے ہوں گے، اور اللّٰہ ہی آسمانوں اور زمین کا وارث ہے (یعنی جیسے اب مالک ہے ایسے ہی تمہارے سب کے مر جانے کے بعد بھی وہی مالک رہے گا)، اور اللّٰہ تمہارے سب کاموں سے آگاہ ہے۔

“Let not those who hoard up that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of His bounty think that it is better for them. Nay, it is worse for them. That which they hoard will be their collar on the day of resurrection. Allah's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is informed of what ye do.” (Quran 3 : 180)

Candle No. 50

يُرِيْدُ اللهُ اَنْ يُّخَفِّفَ عَنْكُمْجوَخُلِقَ الْاِنْسَانُ ضَعِيْفًا اللّٰہ چاہتا ہے کہ تم سے بوجھ ہلکا کر دے، اور اِنسان کمزور پیدا کیا گیا ہے۔

“Allah intends to lighten your burden. And man has been created weak (and infirm).”

(An-Nisā’, 4 : 28)

“(Men's) souls are naturally inclined towards covetness.” (Quran 4 : 28)

Candle No. 51

وَالَّذِيْنَ تَبَوَّؤُالدَّارَ وَالْاِيْمَانَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ يُحِبُّوْنَ مَنْ هَاجَرَ اِلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يَجِدُوْنَ فِيْ صُدُوْرِهِمْ حَاجَةً مِّمَّۤااُوْتُوْا وَيُؤْثِرُوْنَ عَلٰۤى اَنْفُسِهِمْ وَلَوْكَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌقف ط وَمَنْ يُّوْقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهٖ فَاُولٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُوْنَ (یہ مال اُن انصار کے لئے بھی ہے) جنہوں نے اُن (مہاجرین) سے پہلے ہی شہرِ (مدینہ) اور ایمان کو گھر بنا لیا تھا۔ یہ لوگ اُن سے محبت کرتے ہیں جو اِن کی طرف ہجرت کر کے آئے ہیں۔ اور یہ اپنے سینوں میں اُس (مال) کی نسبت کوئی طلب (یا تنگی) نہیں پاتے جو اُن (مہاجرین) کو دیا جاتا ہے اور اپنی جانوں پر انہیں ترجیح دیتے ہیں اگرچہ خود اِنہیں شدید حاجت ہی ہو، اور جو شخص اپنے نفس کے بُخل سے بچا لیا گیا پس وہی لوگ ہی بامراد و کامیاب ہیں۔

“(These spoils are for those Ansar [Supporters] as well) who had taken the city (of Medina) and the faith as their home before (the Emigrants came). They love those who have come to them as Emigrants, and do not feel any need (or niggardly feeling) in their hearts pertaining to that (wealth) which is given to the Emigrants, and prefer them to themselves, even though they may themselves be in dire need. And he who is saved from the miserliness of his (ill-commanding) self, it is they who are successful and victorious.”

(Al-Hashr, 59 : 9)

“And whoso is preserved from the covetness of his own soul, those surely shall prosper.”

(Quran 59 : 9)

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هٰۤاَنْتُمْ هٰۤؤُلَآءِ تُدْعَوْنَ لِتُنْفِقُوْا فِيْ سَبِيْلِ اللهِجفَمِنْكُمْ مَّنْ يَّبْخَلُجوَمَنْ يَّبْخَلْ فَاِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَنْ نَّفْسِهٖطوَاللهُ الْغَنِیُّ وَاَنْتُمُ الْفُقَرَآءُجوَاِنْ تَتَوَلَّوْا يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًاغَيْرَكُمْلاثُمَّ لَا يَكُوْنُوْۤااَمْثَالَكُمْ یاد رکھو! تم وہ لوگ ہو جنہیں اللّٰہ کی راہ میں خرچ کرنے کے لئے بلایا جاتا ہے تو تم میں سے بعض ایسے بھی ہیں جو بُخل کرتے ہیں، اور جو کوئی بھی بُخل کرتا ہے وہ محض اپنی جان ہی سے بخل کرتا ہے، اور اللّٰہ بے نیاز ہے اور تم (سب) محتاج ہو، اور اگر تم (حکمِ الٰہی سے) رُوگردانی کرو گے تو وہ تمہاری جگہ بدل کر دوسری قوم کو لے آئے گا پھر وہ تمہارے جیسے نہ ہوں گے۔

“Remember! You are those who are called to spend in the way of Allah. Then there are some of you who act miserly. And whoever acts miserly does it only against himself. And Allah is Independent and you (all) are dependent. And if you turn away from the command of Allah, He will replace you with another people who will not be like you.”

(Muhammad, 47 : 38)

“Whoever shall be niggardly, shall be niggardly towards his own soul: For God wanteth nothing, but ye are needy”. (Quran 47 : 38)

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يَمْحَقُ اللهُ الرِّبٰواوَيُرْبِی الصَّدَقٰتِطوَاللهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ كَفَّارٍاَثِيْمٍ اور اللّٰہ سود کو مٹاتا ہے (یعنی سودی مال سے برکت کو ختم کرتا ہے) اور صدقات کو بڑھاتا ہے (یعنی صدقہ کے ذریعے مال کی برکت کو زیادہ کرتا ہے)، اور اللّٰہ کسی بھی ناسپاس نافرمان کو پسند نہیں کرتا۔

“Allah eliminates usury (i.e., deprives usurious profits of prosperous growth) and multiplies alms gifts (i.e., increases blessings of clean wealth manifold through charity donations). And Allah does not like anyone who is ungrateful and disobedient.”

(Al-Baqarah, 2 : 276)

“Allah hath blighted usury and made alms-giving fruitful. Allah loveth not the impious and guilty.” (Quran 2 : 276)

Candle No. 54

وَكَاَيِّنْ مِّنْ دَآبَّةٍ لَّا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَاق صلےاَللهُ يَرْزُقُهَا وَاِيَّاكُمْصلے زوَهُوَ السَّمِيْعُ الْعَلِيْمُ اور کتنے ہی جانور ہیں جو اپنی روزی (اپنے ساتھ) نہیں اٹھائے پھرتے، اللّٰہ انہیں بھی رزق عطا کرتا ہے اور تمہیں بھی، اور وہ خوب سننے والا جاننے والا ہے۔

“And many an animal there is that does not carry its sustenance (with it)! Allah provides for them and for you too. And He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.” (Al-‘Ankabūt, 29 : 60)

“And how many an animal there is that beareth not its own provision! Allah provideth for it and for you.” (Quran 29 : 60)

Candle No. 55

يَّوْمَ يُحْمٰى عَلَيْهَا فِيْ نَارِجَهَنَّمَ فَتُكْوٰى بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ وَجُنُوْبُهُمْ وَظُهُوْرُهُمْطهٰـذَا مَا كَنَزْتُمْ لِاَنْفُسِكُمْ فَذُوْقُوْا مَاكُنْتُمْ تَكْنِزُوْنَ جس دن اس (سونے، چاندی اور مال) پر دوزخ کی آگ میں تاپ دی جائے گی پھر اس (تپے ہوئے مال) سے ان کی پیشانیاں اور ان کے پہلو اور ان کی پیٹھیں داغی جائیں گی، (اور ان سے کہا جائے گا) کہ یہ وہی (مال) ہے جو تم نے اپنی جانوں (کے مفاد) کے لئے جمع کیا تھا سو تم (اس مال کا) مزہ چکھو جسے تم جمع کرتے رہے تھے۔

“The Day when this (gold, silver and wealth) will be heated in the Fire of Hell, their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded with this (heated material, and it will be said to them:) ‘This is the same (wealth) that you treasured for (the benefit of) your souls. So taste (this wealth) which you had been amassing.” (At-Tawbah, 9 : 35)

“They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah, unto them give tidings of a painful doom, On the day when it (all) will be heated on the fire of hell, and their foreheads and their flanks and their backs will be branded therewith (and it will be said unto them): Here is that which ye hoarded for yourselves. Now taste of what ye used to hoard.” (Quran 9 : 35)

Candle No. 56

اِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا لَوْ اَنَّ لَهُمْ مَّا فِي الْاَرْضِ جَمِيْعًاوَّمِثْلَهٗ مَعَهٗ لِيَفْتَدُوْا بِهٖ مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِ الْقِيٰمَةِ مَا تُقُبِّلَ مِنْهُمْجوَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ اَلِيْمٌ بیشک جو لوگ کفر کے مرتکب ہو رہے ہیں اگر ان کے پاس وہ سب کچھ (مال و متاع اور خزانہ موجود) ہو جو روئے زمین میں ہے بلکہ اس کے ساتھ اتنا اور (بھی) تاکہ وہ روزِ قیامت کے عذاب سے (نجات کے لئے) اسے فدیہ (یعنی اپنی جان کے بدلہ) میں دے دیں تو (وہ سب کچھ بھی) ان سے قبول نہیں کیا جائے گا، اور ان کے لئے درد ناک عذاب ہے۔

“Assuredly, those who disbelieve, if they possess all (the riches and treasures) that exist in the earth, and even with it as much more, so that they may offer it as ransom (i.e., a recompense for their souls to redeem themselves) from the torment of the Day of Resurrection, (all that too) will not be accepted from them and there is a torturous punishment for them.” (Al-Mā’idah, 5 : 36)

“As for those who disbelieve, Lo! If all that is in the earth were their's, and as much again therewith, to ransom them from the doom of the day of resurrection, it would not be accepted from them. Their's will be a painful doom.” (Quran 5 : 36)

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اِنَّ الْمُتَّقِيْنَ فِيْ جَنّٰتٍ وَّعُيُوْنٍ بیشک پرہیزگار باغوں اور چشموں میں (لطف اندوز ہوتے) ہوں گے۔

“Surely, the pious will be (rejoicing) in gardens and springs,” (Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 15)

اٰخِذِيْنَ مَاۤاٰتٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْطاِنَّهُمْ كَانُوْا قَبْلَ ذٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِيْنَ اُن نعمتوں کو (کیف و سرور) سے لیتے ہوں گے جو اُن کا رب انہیں (لطف و کرم سے) دیتا ہوگا، بیشک یہ وہ لوگ ہیں جو اس سے قبل (کی زندگی میں) صاحبانِ احسان تھے۔

“Receiving those blessings (in ecstatic delight) which their Lord will be giving them (with munificence and benevolence). Surely, it is they who were people of spiritual excellence (in their life) before this.” (Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 16)

كَانُوْا قَلِيْلًا مِّنَ الَّيْلِ مَايَهْجَعُوْنَ وہ راتوں کو تھوڑی سی دیر سویا کرتے تھے۔

“They used to sleep at night only for a short while.” (Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 17)

وَبِالْاَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُوْنَ اور رات کے پچھلے پہروں میں (اٹھ اٹھ کر) مغفرت طلب کرتے تھے۔

“And used to (get up and) seek forgiveness in the later part of the night.”

(Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 18)

وَفِيْۤ اَمْوَالِہِمْ حَقٌّ لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَالْمَحْرُوْمِ اور اُن کے اموال میں سائل اور محروم (سب حاجت مندوں) کا حق مقرر تھا۔

“And in their wealth was appointed a due share for the beggars and the destitute (i.e., all the needy).” (Adh-Dhāriyāt, 51 : 19)

“Lo! Those who keep from evil will dwell amid gardens and water--springs, taking that which their Lord giveth them; for Lo! Aforetime they were doers of good; they used to sleep but little of the night, and ere the dawning of each day would seek forgiveness. And in their wealth the beggar and the outcast had due share.” (Quran 51 : 15 to 19)

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(Al-Baqarah, 2 : 275)

“Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he ariseth whom the devil hath prostrated by (his) touch. That is because they say: trade is just like usury; whereas Allah permitteth trading and forbiddeth usury. He unto whom an admonition from his Lords cometh, and (he) refraineth (in obedience thereto), he shall keep (the profits of) that which is past, and his affair (henceforth) is with Allah. As for him who returneth (to usury) -- Such are rightful owners of the fire. They will abide therein.” (Quran 2 : 275)

Candle No. 59

يٰۤايُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوااتَّقُوااللهَ وَذَرُوْا مَا بَقِیَ مِنَ الرِّبٰۤوااِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُّؤْمِنِيْنَ اے ایمان والو! اللّٰہ سے ڈرو اور جو کچھ بھی سود میں سے باقی رہ گیا ہے چھوڑ دو اگر تم (صدقِ دل سے) ایمان رکھتے ہو۔

“O believers! Fear Allah and write off whatever balance remains of usury if you are believers (true to the core of your hearts).” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 278)

فَاِنْ لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوْا فَاْذَنُوْابِحَرْبٍ مِّنَ اللهِ وَرَسُوْلِهٖجوَاِنْ تُبْتُمْ فَلَكُمْ رُءُوْسُ اَمْوَالِكُمْجلَا تَظْلِمُوْنَ وَلَا تُظْلَمُوْنَ پھر اگر تم نے ایسا نہ کیا تو اللّٰہ اور اس کے رسول ﷺ کی طرف سے اعلان جنگ پر خبردار ہو جاؤ، اور اگر تم توبہ کر لو تو تمہارے لیے تمہارے اصل مال (جائز) ہیں، (اِس صورت میں) نہ تم خود ظلم کرو گے اور نہ تم پر ظلم کیا جائے گا۔

“But if you do not do so, then be warned of the declaration of war from Allah and His Holy Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him). And if you repent, then your principal amounts are (lawfully) yours. (In this case) you will neither do any wrong, nor be wronged. (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 279)

“One who believe! Observe your duty to Allah, and give up what remaineth (due to you) from usury, if ye are (in truth) believers. And if ye do not, then be warned of war (against you) from Allah and His messenger. And if ye repent, then ye have your principal (without interest). Wrong not, and ye shall not be wronged.” (Quran 2 : 278-279)

Candle No. 60

(Al-Baqarah, 2 : 276)

“Allah hath blighted usury and made alms -giving fruitful.” (Quran 2 : 276)

AND:-

فَاِذَاقُضِيَتِ الصَّلٰوةُ فَانْتَشِرُوْا فِي الْاَرْضِ وَابْتَغُوْا مِنْ فَضْلِ اللهِ وَاذْكُرُوااللهَ كَثِيْرًا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُوْنَ پھر جب نماز ادا ہوچکے تو زمین میں منتشر ہو جاؤ اور (پھر) اللّٰہ کا فضل (یعنی رزق) تلاش کرنے لگو اور اللّٰہ کو کثرت سے یاد کیا کرو تاکہ تم فلاح پاؤ۔

“Then after the Prayer is offered, disperse in the land and (then) look for Allah’s bounty (i.e., sustenance). And remember Allah much so that you may attain to prosperity.”

(Al-Jumu‘ah, 62 : 10)

“And when the prayer is ended, then disperse in the land, and seek of Allah’s bounty, and remember Allah much, that ye may be successful.” (Quran 62 : 10)

Candle No. 61

وَمَاۤاٰتَيْتُمْ مِّنْ رِّبًا لِّيَرْبُوَٱفِيْۤ اَمْوَالِ النَّاسِ فَلَا يَرْبُوْاعِنْدَ اللهِجوَمَاۤاٰتَيْتُمْ مِّنْ زَكٰوةٍ تُرِيْدُوْنَ وَجْهَ اللهِ فَاُولٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْمُضْعِفُوْنَ اور جو مال تم سود پر دیتے ہو تاکہ (تمہارا اثاثہ) لوگوں کے مال میں مل کر بڑھتا رہے تو وہ اللّٰہ کے نزدیک نہیں بڑھے گا اور جو مال تم زکوٰۃ (و خیرات) میں دیتے ہو (فقط) اللّٰہ کی رضا چاہتے ہوئے تو وہی لوگ (اپنا مال عند اللّٰہ ) کثرت سے بڑھانے والے ہیں۔

“And the money that you lend as usury so that (your wealth) may increase through mingling with other people’s money will not increase with Allah, but the money that you give as Zakat ([the obligatory Alms-due] and charity donations), seeking (solely) Allah’s pleasure—so it is they who multiply (their money with Allah) manifold.” (Ar-Rūm, 30 : 39)

“That which ye give in usury in order that it may increase on (other) people's property, hath no increase with Allah; but that which ye give in charity, seeking Allah's countenance, hath increase manifold.” (Quran 30 : 39)

Candle No. 62

وَاَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِیَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِشِمَالِهٖ فَيَقُوْلُ يٰلَيْتَنِیْ لَمْ اُوْتَ كِتٰبِيَهْ اور وہ شخص جس کا نامۂ اَعمال اس کے بائیں ہاتھ میں دیا جائے گا تو وہ کہے گا: ہائے کاش! مجھے میرا نامۂ اَعمال نہ دیا گیا ہوتا۔

“And as for him who will be given his record in his left hand, he will say: ‘Would that I had not been given my record!” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 25)

وَلَمْ اَدْرِمَاحِسَابِيَهْ اور میں نہ جانتا کہ میرا حساب کیا ہے۔

“And would that I had not known about my account!” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 26)

يٰلَيْتَہَاكَانَتِ الْقَاضِيَةَ ہائے کاش! وُہی (موت) کام تمام کر چکی ہوتی۔

“Alas! Would that (death) had settled my affair once and for all!” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 27)

مَاۤاَغْنٰی عَنِّیْ مَالِيَهْ (آج) میرا مال مجھ سے (عذاب کو) کچھ بھی دور نہ کر سکا۔

“Today my wealth has not been able to keep (the torment) away from me even a little.”

(Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 28)

هَلَكَ عَنِّی سُلْطٰنِيَهْ مجھ سے میری قوت و سلطنت (بھی) جاتی رہی۔

“My power and domain have (also) gone from me.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 29)

خُذُوْهُ فَغُلُّوْهُ (حکم ہوگا:) اسے پکڑ لو اور اسے طوق پہنا دو۔

(It will be commanded :) “Seize him and put him in neck-fetter.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 30)

ثُمَّ الْجَحِيْمَ صَلُّوْهُ پھر اسے دوزخ میں جھونک دو۔

“Then cast him into Hell.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 31)

ثُمَّ فِيْ سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُوْنَ ذِرَاعًا فَاسْلُكُوْهُ پھر ایک زنجیر میں جس کی لمبائی ستر گز ہے اسے جکڑ دو۔

“Then bind him tightly in a seventy yard long chain.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 32)

اِنَّهٗ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ الْعَظِيْمِ بے شک یہ بڑی عظمت والے اللّٰہ پر ایمان نہیں رکھتا تھا۔

“Verily, he did not believe in Allah, the Lord of Majesty.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 33)

وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِيْنِ اور نہ محتاج کو کھانا کھلانے پر رغبت دلاتا تھا۔

“Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 34)

فَلَيْسَ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ هٰهُنَاحَمِيْمٌ سو آج کے دن نہ اس کا کوئی گرم جوش دوست ہے۔

“So Today he does not have any warm friend.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 35)

وَّلَا طَعَامٌ اِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِيْنٍ اور نہ پیپ کے سوا (اُس کے لئے) کوئی کھانا ہے۔

“Nor has he anything to eat except filthy pus,” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 36)

لَّا يَاْكُلُهٗۤ اِلَّاالْخَاطِئُوْنَ جسے گنہگاروں کے سوا کوئی نہ کھائے گا۔

“That no one will eat except the sinners.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 37)

“But as for him who is given his record (on the day of resurrection) in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book, and knew not what my reckoning! Oh, would that it had been death! My wealth hath not availed me, my power hath gone from me. (It would be said): take him and fetter him, and then expose him to hell-fire, and then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits. Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous, and urged not on the feeding of the wretched, therefor hath he no lover here this day, nor any food save filth, which none but sinners eat”. (Quran 69 : 25 to 37)

AND:-

فَاَمَّا مَنْ اُوْتِیَ كِتٰبَهٗ بِيَمِيْنِهٖ فَيَقُوْلُ هَآؤُمُ اقْرَءُوْا كِتٰبِيَهْ سو وہ شخص جس کا نامۂ اَعمال اس کے دائیں ہاتھ میں دیا جائے گا تو وہ (خوشی سے) کہے گا: آؤ میرا نامۂ اَعمال پڑھ لو۔

“So the one who will be given his record in the right hand will say (pleased): ‘Come and read my record.” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 19)

اِنِّیْ ظَنَنْتُ اَنِّیْ مُلٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ میں تو یقین رکھتا تھا کہ میں اپنے حساب کو (آسان) پانے والا ہوں۔

“I firmly believed that I would find my account (easy).” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 20)

فَهُوَ فِيْ عِيْشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ سو وہ پسندیدہ زندگی بسر کرے گا۔

“So he will live a pleasant life,” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 21)

فِيْ جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ بلند و بالا جنت میں۔

“In an elevated lofty Paradise,” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 22)

قُطُوْفُهَادَانِيَةٌ جس کے خوشے (پھلوں کی کثرت کے باعث) جھکے ہوئے ہوں گے۔

“The clusters of its fruits hanging low (due to abundance).” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 23)

كُلُوْاوَاشْرَبُوْاهَنِیْٓئًۘا بِمَاۤ اَسْلَفْتُمْ فِي الْاَيَّامِ الْخَالِيَةِ (اُن سے کہا جائے گا:) خوب لطف اندوزی کے ساتھ کھاؤ اور پیو اُن (اَعمال) کے بدلے جو تم گزشتہ (زندگی کے) اَیام میں آگے بھیج چکے تھے۔

(It will be said to them :) “Eat and drink rejoicing, in recompense of (your deeds) that you had sent forward during the days of your past (life).” (Al-Hāqqah, 69 : 24)

“Then as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take read my book! Surely I knew I have to meet my reckoning. Then he will be in blissful state in a high garden. Whereof the clusters are in easy reach. (and it will be said unto those therein): Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.”

(Quran 69 : 19 to 24)

Side No. 7

Faith:-

Candle No. 63

يٰۤاَيُّهَاالنَّاسُ اعْبُدُوْا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَكُمْ وَالَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُوْنَ اے لوگو! اپنے رب کی عبادت کرو جس نے تمہیں پیدا کیا اور ان لوگوں کو (بھی) جو تم سے پیشتر تھے تاکہ تم پرہیزگار بن جاؤ۔

“O people! Worship your Lord, Who created you and (also) those who were before you, so that you become Godwary.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 21)

الَّذِیْ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْاَرْضَ فِرَاشًاوَّالسَّمَآءَ بِنَآءًصوَّاَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَاَخْرَجَ بِهٖ مِنَ الثَّمَرٰتِ رِزْقًالَّكُمْجفَلَا تَجْعَلُوْالِلهِ اَنْدَادًا وَّاَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُوْنَ جس نے تمہارے لئے زمین کو فرش اور آسمان کو عمارت بنایا اور آسمانوں کی طرف سے پانی برسایا پھر اس کے ذریعے تمہارے کھانے کے لئے (انواع و اقسام کے) پھل پیدا کئے، پس تم اللّٰہ کے لئے شریک نہ ٹھہراؤ حالانکہ تم (حقیقتِ حال) جانتے ہو۔

“(He is the One) Who spread out the earth for you as a floor, and erected the sky as a mansion, and showered water from the sky and brought forth with that (a variety of) fruits for your nourishment. So, do not set up equals with Allah whilst you know (the truth of the matter).” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 22)

وَاِنْ كُنْتُمْ فِيْ رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلٰى عَبْدِنَا فَاْتُوْابِسُوْرَةٍ مِّنْ مِّثْلِهٖصوَادْعُوْاشُهَدَآءَكُمْ مِّنْ دُوْنِ اللهِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صٰدِقِيْنَ اور اگر تم اس (کلام) کے بارے میں شک میں مبتلا ہو جو ہم نے اپنے (برگزیدہ) بندے ﷺ پر نازل کیا ہے تو اس جیسی کوئی ایک سورت ہی بنا لاؤ، اور (اس کام کے لئے بیشک) اللّٰہ کے سوا اپنے (سب) حمائتیوں کو بلا لو اگر تم (اپنے شک اور انکار میں) سچے ہو۔

“And if you are in doubt about this (Book) which we have revealed to our (exalted) servant, then produce only one chapter like this. And (for this task) you may call upon (all) your helpers apart from Allah if you are true (in your doubt and denial).” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 23)

فَاِنْ لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوْا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوْا فَاتَّقُواالنَّارَالَّتِیْ وَقُوْدُهَاالنَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ اُعِدَّتْ لِلْكٰفِرِيْنَ پھر اگر تم ایسا نہ کر سکو اور ہرگز نہ کر سکو گے تو اس آگ سے بچو جس کا ایندھن آدمی (یعنی کافر) اور پتھر (یعنی ان کے بت) ہیں، جو کافروں کے لئے تیار کی گئی ہے۔

“But if you fail to do it—and you shall never be able to do it—then guard yourselves against the Fire whose fuel is human beings (the disbelievers) and stones (their idols), prepared for disbelievers.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 24)

“O mankind Worship your Lord, Who hath created you and those before you, so that ye may ward off (evil). Who hath appointed the earth a resting- place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah, when ye know (better). And if ye are in doubt concerning that which we reveal unto our slave, then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witnesses beside Allah if ye are truthful. And if ye do it not -and ye can never do it- then guard yourselves against the fire prepared for disbelieves, whose fuel is of men and stones.” (Quran 2 : 21 to 24)

Candle No. 64

بَلٰىقمَنْ اَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهٗ لِلهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ فَلَہٗۤ اَجْرُهٗ عِنْدَ رَبِّهٖصوَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُوْنَ ہاں، جس نے اپنا چہرہ اللّٰہ کے لئے جھکا دیا (یعنی خود کو اللّٰہ کے سپرد کر دیا) اور وہ صاحبِ اِحسان ہو گیا تو اس کے لئے اس کا اجر اس کے رب کے ہاں ہے اور ایسے لوگوں پر نہ کوئی خوف ہو گا اورنہ وہ رنجیدہ ہوں گے۔

“Yes, of course, he who submits his face to Allah (i.e., consigns himself to Allah) and becomes a man of excellence in piety will find his reward with his Lord. Such people will neither fear anything nor grieve.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 112)

“Whoever believeth in Allah and the last day and doth right-surely their reward is with their Lord, and there shall be no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve”.

(Quran 2 112)

AND:-

وَالْعَصْرِ زمانہ کی قَسم (جس کی گردش انسانی حالات پر گواہ ہے)۔ یا: نماز عصر کی قسم (کہ وہ سب نمازوں کا وسط ہے)۔ یا: وقت عصر کی قسم (جب دن بھر چمکنے والا سورج خود ڈوبنے کا منظر پیش کرتا ہے)۔ یا: زمانۂ بعثت مصطفیٰ ﷺ کی قَسم (جو سارے زمانوں کا ماحصل اور مقصود ہے(۔

“By the passing time (whose rotation bears witness to the affairs of mankind). Or By the Prayer of declining day (‘Asr, for this Prayer is the middle of all Prayers). Or By the declining time of the day, (when the sun, after shining for the whole day, presents the sight of its setting). Or By the holy era of the Prophethood of Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him), the sole objective and the most coveted achievement of all ages historic as well as pre-historic, and of all times to come.” (Al-‘Asr, 103 : 1)

اِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ لَفِیْ خُسْرٍ بیشک انسان خسارے میں ہے (کہ وہ عمرِ عزیز گنوا رہا ہے)۔

“Indeed, man is at a loss (for he is losing his valuable lifetime),” (Al-‘Asr, 103 : 2)

اِلَّا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْاوَعَمِلُواالصّٰلِحٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ سوائے ان لوگوں کے جو ایمان لے آئے اور نیک عمل کرتے رہے اور (معاشرے میں) ایک دوسرے کو حق کی تلقین کرتے رہے اور (تبلیغِ حق کے نتیجے میں پیش آمدہ مصائب و آلام میں) باہم صبر کی تاکید کرتے رہے۔

“Except for those who believe and do good deeds and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to patience (in the face of hardships and afflictions that are faced whilst preaching the Din [Religion] of truth).” (Al-‘Asr, 103 : 3)

“By the age, Lo! Man is in a state of loss. Save those who believe and do good works and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.”

(Quran 103 1 to 3)

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وَاعْبُدُوااللهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوْابِهٖ شَيْئًا وَّبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ اِحْسَانًاوَّبِذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْيَتٰمٰى وَالْمَسٰكِيْنِ وَالْجَارِ ذِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْجَارِ الْجُنُبِ وَالصَّاحِبِ بِالْجَۘنْبِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيْلِلاوَمَا مَلَكَتْ اَيْمَانُكُمْطاِنَّ اللهَ لَا يُحِبُّ مَنْ كَانَ مُخْتَالًا فَخُوْرَنِا اور تم اللّٰہ کی عبادت کرو اور اس کے ساتھ کسی کو شریک نہ ٹھہراؤ اور ماں باپ کے ساتھ بھلائی کرو اور رشتہ داروں اور یتیموں اور محتاجوں (سے) اور نزدیکی ہمسائے اور اجنبی پڑوسی اور ہم مجلس اور مسافر (سے)، اور جن کے تم مالک ہو چکے ہو، (ان سے نیکی کیا کرو)، بیشک اللّٰہ اس شخص کو پسند نہیں کرتا جو تکبرّ کرنے والا (مغرور) فخر کرنے والا (خود بین) ہو

“And serve Allah. Ascribe nothing as partner unto Him. (Show) kindness unto parents, and unto near kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and unto the neighbour who is of kin (unto you) and the neighbour who is not of kin, and the fellow traveller and the wayfarer”. (Quran 4 : 36)

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يٰۤاَيُّهَاالَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤااٰمِنُوْابِاللهِ وَرَسُوْلِهٖ وَالْكِتٰبِ الَّذِیْ نَزَّلَ عَلٰى رَسُوْلِهٖ وَالْكِتٰبِ الَّذِیْۤ اَنْزَلَ مِنْ قَبْلُطوَمَنْ يَّكْفُرْ بِاللهِ وَمَلٰٓئِكَتِهٖ وَكُتُبِهٖ وَرُسُلِهٖ وَالْيَوْمِ الْاٰخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلٰۘلًا بَعِيْدًا اے ایمان والو! تم اللّٰہ پر اور اس کے رسول ﷺ پر اور اس کتاب پر جو اس نے اپنے رسول ﷺ پر نازل فرمائی ہے اور اس کتاب پر جو اس نے (اس سے) پہلے اتاری تھی ایمان لاؤ، اور جو کوئی اللّٰہ کا اور اس کے فرشتوں کا اور اس کی کتابوں کا اور اس کے رسولوں کا اور آخرت کے دن کا انکار کرے تو بیشک وہ دور دراز کی گمراہی میں بھٹک گیا۔

“O believers! Put faith in Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) and in the Book which He has revealed to His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) and the Book that He revealed before (it). And he who denies Allah, His angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Last Day has surely strayed far away.” (An-Nisā’, 4 : 136)

“O ye who believe! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray.” (Quran 4 : 136)

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Note. Sincerity be the motto, and the motive.

لَّيْسَ الْبِرَّ اَنْ تُوَلُّوْاوُجُوْهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلٰـكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ اٰمَنَ بِاللهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْاٰخِرِوَالْمَلٰٓئِكَةِ وَالْكِتٰبِ وَالنَّبِيّٖنَجوَاٰتَى الْمَالَ عَلٰى حُبِّهٖ ذَوِی الْقُرْبٰى وَالْيَتٰمٰى وَالْمَسٰكِيْنَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيْلِلاوَالسَّآئِلِيْنَ وَفِي الرِّقَابِجوَاَقَامَ الصَّلٰوةَ وَاٰتَى الزَّكٰوةَجوَالْمُوْفُوْنَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ اِذَا عَاهَدُوْاجوَالصّٰبِرِيْنَ فِي الْبَاْسَآءِ وَالضَّرَّآءِ وَحِيْنَ الْبَاْسِطاُولٰٓـئِكَ الَّذِيْنَ صَدَقُوْاطوَاُولٰٓـئِكَ هُمُ الْمُتَّقُوْنَ

نیکی صرف یہی نہیں کہ تم اپنے منہ مشرق اور مغرب کی طرف پھیر لو بلکہ اصل نیکی تو یہ ہے کہ کوئی شخص اللّٰہ ہ پر اور قیامت کے دن پر اور فرشتوں پر اور (اللّٰہ کی) کتاب پر اور پیغمبروں پر ایمان لائے، اور اللّٰہ کی محبت میں (اپنا) مال قرابت داروں پر اور یتیموں پر اور محتاجوں پر اور مسافروں پر اور مانگنے والوں پر اور (غلاموں کی) گردنوں (کو آزاد کرانے) میں خرچ کرے، اور نماز قائم کرے اور زکوٰۃ دے اور جب کوئی وعدہ کریں تو اپنا وعدہ پورا کرنے والے ہوں، اور سختی (تنگدستی) میں اور مصیبت (بیماری) میں اور جنگ کی شدّت (جہاد) کے وقت صبر کرنے والے ہوں، یہی لوگ سچے ہیں اور یہی پرہیزگار ہیں۔

“Righteousness is not merely that you turn your faces to the east or the west. But true righteousness is that a person believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book (revealed by Allah) and the Messengers. Driven by love for Allah, he spends (his) wealth on the kindred, the orphans, the needy, the wayfarers and those who ask and in (liberating slaves’) necks, and establishes Prayer and pays Zakat (the Alms-due). And when they make a promise, they fulfil it and are steadfast in hardship (i.e., poverty) and suffering (i.e., ailment) and at the time of fierce fighting (i.e., jihad). It is these who are truthful and it is these who are righteous.” (Al-Baqarah, 2 : 177)

“It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who beleiveth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scriptures and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk, and to orphans and the need needy and the way farer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the God-fearing”. (Quran 2 : 177)

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قُلْ بِفَضْلِ اللهِ وَبِرَحْمَتِهٖ فَبِذٰلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُوْاطهُوَخَيْرٌ مِّمَّايَجْمَعُوْنَ فرما دیجئے: (یہ سب کچھ) اللّٰہ کے فضل اور اس کی رحمت کے باعث ہے (جو بعثتِ محمدی ﷺ ذریعے تم پر ہوا ہے) پس مسلمانوں کو چاہئے کہ اس پر خوشیاں منائیں، یہ اس (سارے مال و دولت) سے کہیں بہتر ہے جسے وہ جمع کرتے ہیں۔

Say: “(All this) is due to the bounty and mercy of Allah (bestowed upon you through raising Muhammad [blessings and peace be upon him] as the exalted Messenger). So the Muslims should rejoice over it. This is far better than (all that affluence and wealth) that they amass.” (Yūnus, 10 : 58)

Say: “In the bounty of Allah and in His Mercy: therein let them rejoice. It is better than what they hoard.” (Quran 10 58)

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اَلَاۤ اِنَّ اَوْلِيَآءَاللهِ لَاخَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَاهُمْ يَحْزَنُوْنَ خبردار! بیشک اولیاء اللّٰہ پر نہ کوئی خوف ہے اورنہ وہ رنجیدہ و غمگین ہوں گے۔

“Beware! Verily, the friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve.”

(Yūnus, 10 : 62)

الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْاوَكَانُوْايَتَّقُوْنَ (وہ) ایسے لوگ ہیں جو ایمان لائے اور (ہمیشہ) تقوٰی شعار رہے۔

“(They) are the people who believe and (always) remain Godfearing, committed to piety.”

(Yūnus, 10 : 63)

لَهُمُ الْبُشْرٰى فِي الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاوَفِي الْاٰخِرَةِطلَا تَبْدِيْلَ لِكَلِمٰتِ اللهِطذٰلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُالْعَظِيْمُ ان کے لئے دنیا کی زندگی میں (بھی عزت و مقبولیت کی) بشارت ہے اور آخرت میں (بھی مغفرت و شفاعت کی/ یا دنیا میں بھی نیک خوابوں کی صورت میں پاکیزہ روحانی مشاہدات ہیں اور آخرت میں بھی حُسنِ مطلق کے جلوے اور دیدار)، اللّٰہ کے فرمان بدلا نہیں کرتے، یہی وہ عظیم کامیابی ہے۔

“There is for them the good news (of honour and recognition) in the life of the world, and (also of forgiveness and intercession) in the Hereafter. (Or there are blessed spiritual visions in this world in the form of pious dreams, and in the Hereafter in the shape of effulgent disclosures of Allah’s absolute beauty and sight.) The commands of Allah never change. That is the colossal achievement.” (Yūnus, 10 : 64)

“Lo! Verily the friends of Allah are (those) on whom fear (cometh) not, nor do they grieve. Those who believe and keep their duty (to Allah). Theirs are good tidings in the life of the world and in the Hereafter- There is no changing the words of Allah- that is the supreme triumph”. (Quran 10 : 64)

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اِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا لَنْ تُغْنِیَ عَنْهُمْ اَمْوَالُهُمْ وَلَاۤ اَوْلَادُهُمْ مِّنَ اللهِ شَيْئًاطوَاُولٰٓـئِكَ هُمْ وَقُوْدُ النَّارِ بیشک جنہوں نے کفر کیا نہ ان کے مال انہیں اللّٰہ (کے عذاب) سے کچھ بھی بچا سکیں گے اور نہ ان کی اولاد، اور وہی لوگ دوزخ کا ایندھن ہیں۔

“Indeed, those who reject faith, neither their wealth nor their children shall be able to save them anyway from (the torment of) Allah. It is they who are the fuel of Hell.”

(Āl-i-‘Imrān, 3 : 10)

“(On the day of resurrection) neither the riches nor the progeny of those who disbelieve will aught avail them with Allah. They will be fuel for fire.”

(Quran 3 : 10)

AND:-

وَاَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهٖ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوٰى اور جو شخص اپنے رب کے حضور کھڑا ہونے سے ڈرتا رہا اور اُس نے (اپنے) نفس کو (بری) خواہشات و شہوات سے باز رکھا۔

“But as for him who feared standing in the presence of his Lord and forbade (his ill-commanding) self its appetites and lusts,” (An-Nāzi‘āt, 79 : 40)

فَاِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِیَ الْمَاْوٰى تو بیشک جنت ہی (اُس کا) ٹھکانا ہوگا۔

“Paradise will surely be (his) abode.” (An-Nāzi‘āt, 79 : 41)

“But as for him who feareth to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust, Lo! The gardens will be his home.” (Quran 79 : 40-41)

And above the Beacon in heaven is written in red flashing lights:-

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ نِ الَّذِىْ جَمَعَ مَالًا وَّعَدَّدَهٗ يَحْسَبُ اَنَّ مَالَهٗۤ اَخْلَدَهٗ كَلَّا لَيُنْۘبَذَنَّ فِی الْحُطَمَةِ وَمَآ اَدْرٰكَ مَاالْحُطَمَةُ نَارُ اللهِ الْمُوْقَدَةُ الَّتِىْ تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْاَفْئِدَۃِ اِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِمْ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ فِیْ عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍ ہر اُس شخص کے لئے ہلاکت ہے جو (روبرو) طعنہ زنی کرنے والا ہے (اور پسِ پشت) عیب جوئی کرنے والا ہے۔(خرابی و تباہی ہے اُس شخص کے لئے) جس نے مال جمع کیا اور اُسے گن گن کر رکھتا ہے۔وہ یہ گمان کرتا ہے کہ اُس کی دولت اُسے ہمیشہ زندہ رکھے گی۔ ہرگز نہیں! وہ ضرور حطمہ (یعنی چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) میں پھینک دیا جائے گا۔ اور آپ کیا سمجھے ہیں کہ حطمہ (چورا چورا کر دینے والی آگ) کیا ہے۔ (یہ) اللّٰہ کی بھڑکائی ہوئی آگ ہے۔ جو دلوں پر (اپنی اذیت کے ساتھ) چڑھ جائے گی۔ بیشک وہ (آگ) اُن لوگوں پر ہر طرف سے بند کر دی جائے گی۔ (بھڑکتے شعلوں کے) لمبے لمبے ستونوں میں (اور اُن لوگوں کے لئے کوئی راہِ فرار نہ رہے گی)۔ (۱۰۴۔الھمزۃ۔9-1)

AND:-

“Woe to 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, what Al-Hotama is? It is kindled fire of Allah which leapeth up over the hearts. It is (a fire) closed in on them in outstretched columns.” (Quran-104- Al-Homaza)

CHAPTER – 9

THE CONCLUDING WORD.

To whatever creed, colour, caste, religion or faith you may belong, the atomic bomb will not discern and burn all alike white, yellow, dark or brown. All human beings are an equal prey of nuclear energy and all have a common cause against this greatest of all enemies of mankind. If it was the question of death only, the case would have been quite different. You could easily make bonfire of this world. But it is not so. It means a painful existence also more painful than any human Mind can imagine. You have all to see with your own eyes your next generation of cancer-ridden, dull-eyed, pitiable monsters. And above all else the shame to which the sons of Adam would be put before the devil who had shown great displeasure at the creation of a lowly anthropoid of mould and had refused the explicit command of the Creator to bow before Adam, and had thus incurred the wrath of God. You may think at this present time such thoughts as fantastic but you shall realize their truth in due course perhaps soon, when you wake up from your deep slumber.

Let the scientist remember that the first detonation of an atomic bomb in a war shall prove the first and the last fatal blow to science, and their philosophy that have quoted in this book have prepared the way to Atomic warfare. Let, again the scientist not forget his honest role regarding the matters of science as in the past, and let him tell the whole world plainly and selflessly that the nuclear energy due to its inherent ionizing radiations is a danger, very deadly and inevitable to the existence of humanity, and let him picture a world of cancer-ridden, impotent and miserable monsters to his fellow human-beings who have come to place at rest in him. Let the scientists clear their conscience by telling the innocent humanity, that the nuclear energy is dangerous whether used in the name of peace or war. Otherwise, O scientists! You will rightly deserve the epithets far more worse than which the victimized Christian community had coined for the tyrannical priests, and indeed signs are that your atrocities shall prove of a nature far worse than those of the papal origin. Indeed your cruelty will far exceed all the cruelty of all sorts of felons in the whole history of mankind, united. The advantages of power which the nuclear energy may bring to human kind are a mere triviality against the harms which are inherent in the nature of this power. You cannot contradict my word honestly, but pray do not fall into the superfluous categorization of permissible doses and lethal doses. Every nucleon shot into the heart of an atom is lethal eventually. You will never succeed despite your strenuous efforts in finding any means to neutralize the ill effects of atomic fission. And O, political leaders of nations! You cannot be assumed as ignorant now or unaware of the hazards that are incident on nuclear energy. You very well know that in case of atomic warfare your country has no chance to escape her ruinous consequences. You have by now realized that the possession of atomic bombs can no longer be expected to create a wall of terror around your country against your foes, nor it is to remain for long a title of special prestige or a sign of exceptional power, but rather you will soon see in dismay that the non atomic people's as well as the atomic people, that is the whole vast mankind will gradually develop a bitter hatred of nuclear energy in proportion to their fast increasing knowledge of the injurious effects thereof in time of peace and under a hail of retaliative atom bombs in case of war. Why not then realize the grim truth in time and be saved. Do you people feel no compassion for your people and for this poor miserable and worry-ridden mankind of this materialistic age? Why not then live in peace and free from constant threat of nuclear war, and move towards the ultimate destination on the path of peace, love, sympathy and prosperity like good, fellow human-beings and fellow-sufferers of the afflictions of this life on earth, or are you sworn to destroy mankind and along with mankind your own people: nay, even yourselves and your own children. And do you not realize that no-no-atomic-war-pacts could be expected to be reliable. Or, is it very pleasant to take the flood of a whole world on your head. Will you sit for awhile alone and think.

I have to say a word to the religious leaders too. I know you are equally dependent on the tyrannical needs of life, but your peculiar duty towards humanity and your particular station demands a sacrifice of your desires more than anybody else. Will you not recognize then, the urgency of the situation and will not you prove true to the salt and worthy of special place you hold amongst humanity and will you not rise to the occasion, casting away petty little prejudices and other very small considerations, to adopt a pure, crystal clear faith, and a generous, sympathetic and cordial disposition, to work wisely and selflessly according to the demands of the occasion, in all love for him in whose name you work, and affection for his poor creatures who are being now dragged helplessly and whipped mercilessly by cruel circumstances toward a horrible doom, in utter darkness. That, perhaps humanity may be saved and with it the civilization which was once holding such esteem. Man, since the birth of humanity, has kept up an un-interrupted endeavor towards building a civilization through a path of sweat and tears, trial and turmoil, and ordeal, struggling incessantly generation after generation, century after century, rising step by step, age after age, till the fruit of such endless labour came to be inherited by this modern age. It was a most solemn duty of the denizens of this modern age to keep up the standard of that civilization which they had received as a solemn trust from pervious ages, nay, they were even expected to add something to the existing luster thereof and further bequeath it to future generations. But unfortunately despite their endeavors and genuine efforts at enlightenment, and indeed great strides in certain very important factors of civilization, have been made, there has appeared a peculiar darkness in certain other factors, so much so that the beauty of those bright spots that were the glory of this age, and the characteristic beauty of its civilization, were tainted, so that this fascinating civilization instead of giving peace and life, has come to constitute the most injurious hazards not only to the mind but also the body of the modern humanity. It has come to threaten, with unfailing certainty, the very existence of the human species, nay, every species that now exist on earth. Yet the strangest thing that could be noticed despite their knowledge of these facts, is that there is not a soul who ever stirs or even speaks a word against these hazards either for selfish ends or selfishness. They all go towards the burning hell, dumb, deaf and blind, spell-bound. And remember, the final decision will be made on science-religion conflict.

Now, to chalk out a process to avoid the atomic hell is not such difficult, if men do sincerely want to avoid this danger. Enkindle the extinguished torch of faith. Develop fear of God and the remembrance of the Day of Judgment in heaven. It is all something but natural to man. Let the wealth be deposed from its Godhead, and let it be brought down to its proper place, as mere means and necessity in order to better the life which is in heaven, the eternal life. Let every affair of the world be subjected to the thought of the other world. There is peace, contentment and joy in it. Let men enjoy the feast of this world but only to prepare for the service of God and humanity. Knowledge, power, wealth, science and the world are nothing in themselves. It is their use and the intent behind it all that matters. Know that this life is only transient, a short journey. You can never become immortal. Cast away this maddening greed and dwell serene. Let this world be a garden of peace, and not a hell ablaze. Turn your science to a better use that is to a peaceful use. Let your science turn this abode into a garden of peace, plenty and prosperity, and let not science ever set your house on fire. If it is possible in this present setup, which it is not. And know that the rule regarding the use and intent which applies to power, as well as science, knowledge and wealth does not apply to nuclear power, the atomic power as you call it. It is the exception from the rule. Methodologically speaking even from the present general standard of human thought. It stands beyond the bounds of the reconcilement, whether used for peace or for war. It is for ever dangerous. It is never at peace with the environment. It has only one face and that is of death. Its generation means destruction, inevitably. Let the habit of back-biting and slander, and complete engrossment in the accumulation of riches, that is excessive greed, and the deification of wealth be abjured, that is the atomic power be dissolved in the rays of faith and caused to disappear like the mist. And let man's life be balanced between matter and mind, material and spiritual, wealth and contentment, this world and the other world. Eat, that you be able to serve God and His religion. Wear that you may be protected from Cold and heat. Acquire wealth that you spend it on those more needy. Be generous, hospitable, soft-spoken and truthful, but stand against evil manfully. Judge not men on the basis of blood, colour or substance but let men be judged on personal merit. The fear of God and love of good, being the criterion of judgment. Let the sense of equality prevail among you, and let there be strict economic and social justice. Know that it is this economic and social injustice that is the source of hundred and more troubles and is responsible for most of the human misery today and always. Never forget, that extremely hard times are ahead for humanity. A terrible reverse is at hand. Let now the senseless, over-dazed and dizzy race of drunken dupes of wealth, get a little sober and think, and look up towards the horizons, and see carefully, what's ahead. Now if you have looked up and seen the dread spectacle, then sit back to think once for all, that the verdict of the time is that, “Let mankind either ban the nuclear power or else prepare to die a most ignominious death following a most miserable existence”. And also, that the nuclear power will never be banished unless the banishment of those evil which were responsible for the emergence of nuclear power is affected. Awake therefore and dissolve not the creed built in the heart of things before a twinkling atomy. This was said by Wordsworth, and you will find it prefixed to “God and the atom” of Ronald Knox, who knocks in his book, on the hearts of men, but will they open the door of their heart, and be saved both in this and the other world and “To let a breeze in their heart of hearts”.

It is surprising to see the Christians so deeply involved in so gross a materialism, while the essence of Christian, religion is a negation of slander and back-biting and a strong hatred of wealth. Poverty, charity, humility is the moto of their religion.

There remains a point, which might have every now and then risen in many minds during their perusal of this my work, namely, that men endowed with those particular characteristics which have been given out by the Quran as the cause of the emergency of atomic hell, might with justice be subjected to atomic conflagration, but what of those others, innocent of these qualities who also will see the same doom with those guilty. Why should they be punished for that they have not done. The answer to this very genuine question is, firstly that there might not be found in the whole world of today many who might fully be regarded as innocent of those qualities. The wind has blown throughout the world. But, if there be some, or many, such souls, and it is wished there be many because they are the hope of man's future on earth, then they will share the punishment along with those guilty, because of their reticence and their silence and their cowardly or insensible compromise with the circumstances. Let them rise against the hazard, and do whatever is possible for them to do, in order to avert the danger. According to Islamic ideology they are to be deemed as partners in the guilt, if they do not exert to the best of their power, might, and influence against the danger. But, if despite their genuine endeavours they fail and become the victims of a conflagration brought on them by the guilt of others, then of course they will be recompensed in the next world by Almighty Allah. And the atomic conflagration is not to be the theological dooms day. It is only the universal suicide by humanity. People kill people yet this universe goes on. The theological conflagration of the universe means the conflagration of the universe, and its time known only to Allah.

The situation however in the world today is that not one among millions might happen to know anything about the reality of nuclear energy or the effects of its radiations, although the somber clouds of atomic calamity scowl on the horizon of unwary mankind to consume it any moment, and a voice against the dangers of nuclear energy is still to be heard. There appeared one such voice once, the voice of Late Bertrand Russell, and an alarm was sounded fairly loud, but the essence of his experience reflects from a sentence which now lies before me, namely,

“Since Adam and Eve at ate the apple man has never abstained from his follies, what-ever he was capable of, and the end is”.

THE ATOMIC EXPLOSION.

The dreadful aspect, however, of the affair is that the guilty will be cast into the eternal

atomic hell (Hotama) of the next world, even if they have escaped the transient atomic hell of atomic bombs and atomic radiations, because the evils responsible for the punishment of Al-Hotama (The atomic hell) of the next eternal world as given by the Quran are the same as are of the appearance of this transient atomic hell. Beware therefore. You have been now told.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Irfan – ul – Quran by Minhaj-ul-Quran.

(Al-Baqarah, Āl-i-‘Imrān, An-Nisā’, Al-Mā’idah, Al-An‘ām, Al-A‘rāf, At-Tawbah, Yūnus, Hūd, Ar-Ra‘d, Ibrāhīm, An-Nahl, Al-Isrā’, Al-Kahf, An-Nūr, Ash-Shūrā, Al-‘Ankabūt, Ar-Rūm, Az-Zukhruf, Saba, Fussilat, Ad-Dukhān, Muhammad, Al-Hujurāt, Adh-Dhāriyāt, Al-Hadīd, Al-Hashr, Al-Jumu‘ah, Al-Munāfiqūn, At-Taghābun, Al-Mulk, Al-Hāqqah, An-Nāzi‘āt, Al-Fajr, Al-‘Asr, Al-Homaza) (Urdu & English Translation).

2. The Holly Bible. (Acts 17:18-34, )

3. The Mysterious Universe by Sir James Jeans.

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6. Gloucester in Shakespeare's "King Lear"

7. The Mysterious Universe -1930.

8. SCIENCE, H. J. Muller and the Geneva Conference.

I do not know when this book will be published, and it is possible, someone may in the meantime try to write on the topic in the light of my two articles, namely, “The Quran and the atomic hell.” published in the daily “Pakistan Times”, dated 20-02-1963; and “Atom bomb Ka Dhamaaka Azzab-e-Elahi hai” , published in the daily “Mashrique (Urdu) Lahore dated 05-07-1970”, and also several lectures delivered by me before various audiences. But let me warn such people that it is a most difficult and most delicate of all topics, and it is rightly to be feared that such writers despite best intentions may throw the whole thing into utter confusion resulting in irreparable losses to the topic and consequently the mankind itself. This work has to be scrutinized by the most competent judges all over the world, and it is destined to become the by-word throughout as the sole hope of a doomed humanity in which the Yousuf Gabriel is to figure of a martyr. And peace be with you all.

First ERUPTION of Gabriel’s Argument against the Atomic Hell

ALLAMA MUHAMMAD YOUSUF GABRIEL

(1917 – 2006)

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(Al-Baqarah, Āl-i-‘Imrān, An-Nisā’, Al-Mā’idah, Al-An‘ām, Al-A‘rāf, Al-Anfāl, At-Tawbah, Yūnus, Hūd, Ar-Ra‘d, Ibrāhīm, Al-Hijr, An-Nahl, Al-Isrā’, Al-Kahf, Maryam, Tāhā, Al-Ambiyā’, Al-Hajj, Al-Mu’minūn, An-Nūr, Al-Furqān, An-Naml, Al-Qasas, Al-‘Ankabūt, Ar-Rūm, Luqmān, As-Sajdah, Al-Ahzāb, Saba’, Fātir, Yāsīn, Sād, Az-Zumar, Ghāfir, Fussilat, Ash-Shūrā, Az-Zukhruf, Al-Jāthiyah, Al-Ahqāf, Muhammad, Al-Fath, Al-Hujurāt, Qāf, Adh-Dhāriyāt, An-NAJAM, Al-Qamar, Ar-Rahmān, Al-Wāqi‘ah, Al-Hadīd, Al-Mujādalah, Al-Hashr, As-Saff, Al-Jumu‘ah, Al-Munāfiqūn, Al-Mulk, Al-Hāqqah, Al-Qiyāmah, Al-Insān, An-Nāzi‘āt, Al-Fajr, Al-‘Asr, Al-Homaza, Al-Mā‘ūn)

((Urdu & English Translated).

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PART# 01

THE FIRST ERUPTION OF GABRIEL’S ARGUMENT AGAINST THE ATOMIC HELL

REMINISCENCES

CONTENTS (Part# 01)

Chapter- I

Nuclear Theory

Chapter-II

History of Atomism

Chapter-III

Hotama

Chapter-IV

Commentaries of the Sahabah on Hotama:-

Chapter-V

The Characteristics of those doomed to atomic hell

Chapter-VI

Accumulation of wealth and Wealth Worship

Chapter- VII

The Quran Extinguishes the fire of Atomic Hell. A Scientific and Philosophic Summary of the Prophecy.

Chapter-VIII

How to avert the atomic danger according to the Quran

Chapter-IX

The Concluding word

Summary of Part One (New)

PREFACE / INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER – 1

NUCLEAR (ATOMIC) THEORY

The Atom:-

Fission Process:-

Fusion Process:-

CHAPTER – 2

THE HISTORY OF ATOMISM

The Author of atomism:-

The early views of the atomists:-

The Atoms of Democritus and the Ideas of Plato:-

The greatest contemporary thinkers condemn atomism:-

The Epicurean adopts atomism as a symbol:-

Epicurean had no regard for the scientific aspect of atomism:-

Apostle Paul encounters the representatives of stoicks and Epicureans in Athens:-

The Apostle Paul in Athens and his interesting encounter with Epicu-reans and the stoicKs:-

Not the Epicureans but Stoics popular with Romans.

Atomism Revived.

Bacon's attempt in balancing atomism and spiritualism not successful eventually.

Dalton's researches in the field of Atomism.

Historic letter of Einstein to President Roosevelt of America.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy.

Hell-bomb is produced.

No one safe from the radiological hazard.

CHAPTER – 3HOTAMA.

The Prophecy of the Quran about Hotama.

The Warning about the Atomic Hell.

The causes of the appearance of Atomic Hell.

DETAIL OF HOTAMA

The Resemblance between Quran's "Hatama" and the "Atom" or the "Atomos" of the Scientist:-

The Quran exact but the Scientist is wrong.

(a) The Heat – Flash.

(b) Nucleus.

(c) The nuclear energy generation processes.

(d) The Term Thermonuclear.

(e) Nuclear Radiations leap up over the hearts.

(f) The raging fires of discontent.

(a) The Heat – Flash.

(c) Hotama a huge edifice of fire.

(9) HOTAMA

CHAPTER – 4

The early Commentators of the Quran and Al – Hotama.

CHAPTER – 5

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE DOOMED TO ATOMIC HELL.

CHAPTER – 6

ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH AND WEALTH WORSHIP.

CHAPTER – 8

HOW TO AVERT THE ATOMIC DANGER IN THE LIGHT OF THE QURAN.

CHAPTER – 9

THE CONCLUDING WORD.

THE ATOMIC EXPLOSION.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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HOTAMA.