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Book of Reality.
By
Javid Zafar Qureshi.
REALITY. Something that exists independently, of ideas concerning it, and from which all other things derive. It is called Haq in Quran.
Let us focus our minds on the Reality of US on Earth. What is going on here on Earth and around us. The Reality is that we are living in a Cyclic Universe in an Infinite Time, but having finite Space. This Cycle [of change] that is Nature, we call Evolution. Every thing in the Universe is Evolving in the same Cyclic pattern. This Universe is Evolving. Our Species is Evolving. Our Language is Evolving. The Life of each person is Evolving. Our species in distant Times was like any other Animal Species. But in discrete stages we evolved to our present Conscious Awareness, of Nature and of our present Environment. So our Reality can only be seen through Evolution. What defines Evolution.
EVOLUTION. A gradual Process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. An Act of Unfolding or Unrolling. Hence in the Process of Growth the Evolution of a Flower from a Bud; and in the process of Development; an Animal from an Egg.
This view of all things seen as dynamic changing patterns is nearer to Reality than seeing a static state. Time is the operator of the “shutter speed” of your “Mind’s eye”. You can break this illusion of the static world “Picture”, into a developing “Movie” having a story to tell. The Past and the Future will come to life, to change your understanding and hence your Relationship with Nature.
When ‘I’ view ‘me’ I find a great similarity with the view of a limited company owning a factory as a sole business venture. The Company is a legal entity and so is me. The company is sponsored by Directors Investing their Interest in it. So is Rabb as Zul Jalal wal Ikram, from the Ghaib as my owner is running me. The Directors start the Factory by first buying Land from other people, then start the civil works through purchases from the Market. Similarly Allah through my Taqdeer [Charter as in the case of Company] starts me as a fetus in the womb of my mother. Mother and Father are not me. So my ‘Civil works’ start in the womb. Soon my spare parts arrive, equivalent to the Machinery of the Factory. Then the Ruh [life force] as equivalent to Electricity is switched ON, and me identifying myself as a body starts pulsating. The Factory is switched On. I am born as me.
Soon ‘Inputs’ arrive and the factory starts producing ‘Outputs’. Similarly I view me processing events accosting me. Even now I do not realize that me owns nothing. I view me reacting to opportunities grabbing material gains. Soon three shifts start, and tremendous wealth passes through me. Economists talk of the speed of exchange of money through my hands as wealth. Still me does not realize that he is an Illusion. Because me does not own any thing as intrinsically as his, nor me has any say in what is presented to him, or in the Results of his actions [Profits]. That is beyond me in the Ghaib. Just as the company profit is in the domain of the Directors of the Company, and not in the Factory.
Along comes the recession. Company decides to Liquidate. They switch off the Electricity to the Factory. It stops functioning. Similarly one day the Ruh [life force] will return to Allah leaving this body [factory] stopped Dead. The Liquidators will bury me, and I will remain alone without me. Who am I? What is the Reality of I? I become a past Record of an Identity created in Time by the Order of Allah. Will I be resurrected into me again? For what purpose. What was the purpose in the first place? Because of Evolution, the first purpose can only be known when we know the second purpose.
Quran says that Insaan will travel through the Heavens in Stages. That is the Evolution of this Universe. The purpose then is to create many Is. Me is necessary to generate events accosting the I. I seems to be like a software under development. Of the material Allah is made of. Not Matter. This software needs to be tested by matter Me. Otherwise Design would have been enough. Allah says that He created all Creation so that He may be Appreciated. That will always be the Key Purpose. Every one wants to be appreciated at the highest level. So Allah is increasing the complexity of Man’s Civilisation through Evolution, expecting at every stage to be Appreciated by His Creation.
Looking at the Evolution of the Species we find Allah creating a New one after a very long time. But then He recreates them sexually in a rapid succession thus increasing their population. He gives the new species time to be tested. Finding any flaw, there is evidence of reversal of the evolution for that species. Similarly He produced many Nations out of our Species. Every new one was given “Power in Earth” over the older Nations. He brought increased wealth for them through increasing the complexity of their Civilisation. Thus forcing their Language to expand in Quality to match their New understanding of the Reality.
What happens to the old civilisations? They seem to exist today, at their last level of sophistication. To see the stone age civilisation one has only to go to the jungles of Brazil. Similarly with the Species. To see the first Creation 1,000. Million years old, the very Bacteria and Fungus you see today is the same. The Aryans, the Egyptians and the Jews are still existing with the same level of understanding of Reality, as at their past heights of their respective civilisations. They copy the modern dominant civilisation and language to cope with their economic issues, but they can not share the modern view of Reality. To live as an ancient group of people, they have turned their Religion into Culture. Their Ideals have turned into Idols, and the Idol’s Meanings have turned into Mantras. They take pride in this. They bring strong beliefs to fight against the Present view of Reality. Their Beliefs have become Fiction, without Reality during the course of Time. Hence the need of a Revival? How to Live with Justice with each other and God? As usual, Pray for a Divine intervention. Other wise it would have happened by now. In Quran Prophet Noah is quoted as saying, “when you know that you have been created in stages, then how can you deny Him”.
It is for no small reason that Allah tells Moses SS to teach the “Periods of Allah” to the People. One of this Periodicity is that of 600 yrs between each Prophet. Moses SS was thus the new Prophet ready to bring the Revival Period. That is exactly what happened. Allah took the Bani Israel out of Bondage, towards a better Civilisation during the coming years. This viewing of Time through Periodicity is nothing but Evolution. It tells us that as Allah is opening up new insights into Reality through Science, we have to update our view of Allah continuously. This to keep our Religion from turning into Fiction.
Allah says in Quran, “Travel through Earth to find the start of your Creation, thus Allah will repeat Next Creation”. [Ours, and or, next Adam]. S.29. A.20.
The above brings out many implications. Firstly that in future Science will unravel for us the starting date and the method of Creation during Time, of Us in Earth. The View of Allah that this knowledge will bring is mind boggling. Secondly it tells us that our End as a Species is at hand. The Time is up for Us, just as it was for the Dinosaurs. Few hundred years to go? This ought to bring a new view of Reality. We should be wondering about Us as to what is next.
Allah says in Quran, S.55. A.26-28. “Everything on the Face of Earth will Perish”. “But will abide the Face [Focus] of you Rabb [Evolver] who is Jalal [giver of bounty without measure] and Ikram [savior from destruction]”. “Then which of His Gifts will you deny”.
The above tells us that our Rabb is our Evolver. That He will continue to Evolve us even after our “Death” on this Earth. So this is what is Next for Us after our Deaths on this Earth.
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