(4)   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. 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.

(5)   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.

(6)   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.

(7)   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 discarded 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.

(8)        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.

(9)        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 Stoicks, 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)

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.

(10) 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.

            (11) 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.

            (12) 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.

            (13)  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 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 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.

(14)    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, 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 (Ist 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, while able men like Bacon took the lead, and atomism came into the view. Gradually and systematically it gained the field completely.

            (15) 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.

(16) 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.

            (17) 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.

            (18)    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. 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.

(19) 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 miles 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 a quite 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.

(20) 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 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 some 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 Ist November 1952, and while the science of destruction advanced by many leaps and many bounds, the earth sighed at so signal an achievement. On November 1-1952, 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 March 1-1954. The energy of the explosion being equivalent to about 15 megatons of TNT. In November 1955, the Russians had a thermonuclear explosion abut as powerful as the U.S.A test of March, 1954. Britain, France, China, India and Israel came in the wake 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.

(21) 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, may even 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. 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-III

HOTAMA

(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. (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)

       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 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 demands, the translation would be likened to the meat of a slaughtered body of a living oracle worth millions, when alive. 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.

(2)   The Warning about the Atomic Hell

       Let it be known, that it is a warning and not a decree pre-ordained. But a warning and therefore avertable and avoidable 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:-

(a)   " 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?"

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

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

(c)   The portrayal of the atomic explosion:-

       "It (fire) is closed in on them, in outstretched columns"

HOTAMA

(3)   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.

       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".

(4)        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, as well as the resemblance and disparity as regards meanings and 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 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, and which  we are always obliged, to write as H in a foreign language is actually far near to the ATUAMA in pronunciation, and not HATAMA. 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 miracular 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 is 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.

(5)   The Quran exact but the Scientist is wrong

       By saying that 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", with the same significance, 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 point 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 quality, 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 this misnomer 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". 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? After the discussion of the matter however it was --we do not know why or how, decided, to let the "atom" remain as it was. It may seem something extra-ordinarily strange to anyone acquainted with the hard-headed 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 condescended to call it. Why all this happened. Why the scientist did 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 is. 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 question to violate the very spirit of science, and of course, in vivid contradiction 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 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, it 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 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.

(6)   The Quran says:-

"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. A horror 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, but 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 amidst a world of huts of the poor. 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, not only of man but also of the heaven along with man. 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.

(7)   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. 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 various processes, The Quran has enumerated and explained all these characteristics of the nuclear energy with such dexterity and clearness that could be wonder and delight of an atomist.

(8)   The characterization of the nuclear phenomenon by the Quran

       (a)   It is a fire.

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

       (c)   It leaps up over the hearts.

       (d)   It is fire closed in on them.

       (e)   In outstretched columns.

       We will now bring 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 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 heart-flash, and besides this the ionizing radiations 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 inconsistencies on the part of human-beings. 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. The inconsistencies which most unfortunately happen to be a particular trait of this modern age of ours.

(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 humble earth, would seem something unnatural. Such fires could neither be controlled for peaceful purposes, nor could be contained in some 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 every 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 man. So it certainly is not without some real possibility, if such a fire is attributed to the name of Allah.

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

              (e) 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 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 radiations. 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, 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 those whom it has killed on the spot. It does not penetrate beneath the skin of its victims because of its extremely short duration, namely, two seconds or so. 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  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.

(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 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.

(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 the 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 organs, until at least the heart succumbs to 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 presence of oxygen the action of radiations is perceptibly enhanced, whereas in its absence their action is noticeably retarded. Now the connection of oxygen with the heart, in virtue of its role that of the purification 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.

(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. 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 tormenting anxiety, the faster the end the better.

       So fast is the process of the change of human mind these days, 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 sleep he shall start out of his bed again, and swearing bitterest vows to snatch everything from everyone in the world. Aye, 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 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 to real misfortune of mankind, man blinded by an uncontrollable fit of rage, in some unavoidable situation may cast the destiny of 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 is your impression about all this. 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 in 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 little 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 priest and the prince, and tyrannical needs and necessities of life in addition. Now reform and not complete annihilation of that philosophy of the past is 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.

       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, 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 a half century, ago, those men, seem to me angels, or at least human -beings in comparison with the prying wolves, and cunning foxen of today, penting, 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.

       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, grims, frowns are 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.

       A minute scrutiny reveals some shining features of modern civilization, so much so, that its destruction despite such good qualities would due merely to lack of faith and incorrigible hard - headedness of some of its guides and leaders, seem a real tragedy. 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 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 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.

(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 or so, and is the only original body of atomic explosion besides the atomic radiations. It begins within a fraction of a second on detonation and after only two 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 atomic radiations complete their process within ten seconds at most. That is, the process of the atomic explosion begins within a fraction of a second and is complete within ten seconds. 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. No, but 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 would 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.

(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 by 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 would be about 40 miles around, just imagine a hollow, transparent, cylindrical column 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, no emergency door.

       But our picture of the edifice is not yet complete. It has not been fully described. Further an earth wide edifice has also been built. 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. The layer which keeps on circulating around the earth for ten years. Now please keeping this double storeyed edifice into 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 would be the bomb assessment groups to asses the damages, nor the civil defence officials, to give their opinions about the readiness of nation.

       To this is to be added the following piece of information in order to understand the international closing-in-on-them 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". And thus it would mean that no one, friend or foe or neutral would deem himself safe from the deadly radiological hazard. No mater 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.

(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, vapourised 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 D-IV, 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.

(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 proudly.

       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 the mind, the like of which has not hitherto been discovered by the scientist. Yet it is a marvel. This human mind. The lofty peak which Sir John Hunt was only able to conquer after great hardships amongst torturous hosts of blood-sucking leeches  and amidst blinding 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 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 atumbumb that lay dormant in his cave: "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 we 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 and 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 now awaiting anxiously 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, and forming a complete spherical roof over the earth. A roof supported by massive pillars of fascinating hues and colours. Every column rising, and a grand palace, eighty miles across rising around it to the ultimate height of ten Miles, illuminated with dazzling lights, with various degrees and multifarious hues of illumination. 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, that are greedily engaged in gathering wealth of the world, and adoring it to the degree of worship.

       Yet an amphitheatre it is in a way. An amphitheatre 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 from outside, 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.

(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 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 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 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 - through 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 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 hings. So utterly disappointed was Late Bertrand Russell, the well-known English Philosopher, that the Pamphlet of golden hue which he sent me in response to my outcry about the impending atomic danger to 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 mood of confrontations equipped with arms and weapons of diverse kinds, and below them was shown a man made into a  horse with 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 with 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. 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 so 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 pleasure in this life, or the afflictions of the believers, will make a whit of difference. Nay, Nay, even, if the believer 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 him, that he 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 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. 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 coexist, 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 due to 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 heaven 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, that very soon, 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.

CHAPTER-IV

The early Commentators of the Quran and Al-Hotama

       We had in the outset promised that after producing scientific corroboration of this prophecy by 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-Il-Miqyas Min Tafsir Ibn Abbas by Tahir Mohammad Ibn Yaqub Al-Firoz Abadi Ash-Shafai Sahib-ul-Qamus.

(ii)     Tafsir-il-Kabir by Imam Fakhr-ud-Din Razi.

(iii)    Al-Jalalain.

(iv)    Tabri

(v)     Tafsir-Il-Quran -il-Azim by Imam Hafiz Imad-ud-Din Abul-Fida Ismail-Ibn Katheer al Qureshi al Damashqi.

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.       TAFSIR-IL-MIQYAS MIN TAFSIR IBN ABBAS

       (a) Quotation begins:-

       Quran:-

             "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:-

       "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.

(c)   Quotation begins:-

       "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 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 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 for ever. We were to be the unfortunate people to witness its representation on earth.

       (b) Quotation begins:-

            "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 Fakhrud - 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.

Therein is to be found a real correspondence between  the sin 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. These we have described in this book more than once, and perhaps the reader might have memorized them by now. 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.

(c) Quotation begins:-

      "The fire enters at the sides, then it reaches the breast, and at last enters the heart". Quotation ends.

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 via, the flesh. The choice of heart for this punishment is made due to its great sensibility. Also, that 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 yet 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, 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 will thus betaken out of fire and placed outside the paradise, till Allah will 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 radiations. 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.

(b)   Quotation begins:-

       "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.

(c)   Quotation begins:-

       "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 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 Kathir

       Quotations begins:-

       "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 even provide 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 the 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/in 2 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-V

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE DOOMED TO ATOMIC HELL.

(1)   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.

(2)   The emergence of Nuclear Energy and the subsequent appearance of its crowning glory, its golden fruit, 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 the beginning to its end. The only two points which may be found to present an appearance of blind chance or hazards, out through 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 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 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 towards the hideout of a thief. Why not, we ask, Mr. Roentgen or Mr. Becquerel were led by the chance to something which did not possess the pernicious attributes which the Nuclear Energy did 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 could with utmost accuracy and indeed 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 log as faith remained the dominating power in human affairs, atomism had no chance, but as the power of faith flattered, 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)    "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, 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" 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.

(iii)   And Quran further says, " 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 men existed in a state of immortality and hence the denial of God's final judgment and so also the life in heaven.

       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.

(3)   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 loose 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 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.

(4)   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 every one. 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.

       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.

(5)   The unscientific philosophy of the unscientific scientist           philosopher

       very interesting and very instructive in its own way, and indeed very amusing, is the philosophy which some of the scientist philosophers have evolved from the science by placing their own interpretations on ascertained facts and hypothesis thereof. In so doing they have in a very amusing manner made a general slaughter of religion, philosophy, logic, science and everything. But in spite of all this carnage, a great fact which they have brought to the knowledge of the general body of humanity, a fact generally unknown, is about the limitations of science and the present level of scientific knowledge. Which in fact is hopelessly low. Science is openly declared as unable at present time to give answer to the greatest questions which have so long haunted human mind. They, also, deserve our heart felt gratitude for having provided us with an unmistakably modern type of back-biting and slander, though in fact is only the modernized echo of the ancient doubt and disbelief.

(6)   The examples of the prevailing trends of that philosophy

       (i)  The science has discovered, that, this earth on which we live, is far too small, a mere microscopic fragment of a grain of sand in comparison with the incomparably great magnitude of the universe. This material insignificance of earth has led the unscientific scientist philosopher to infer, that the great architect of this grand universe could have no special interest in either this tiny earth or the puny life upon it. And since the kind of life we know on earth is suspected by him to exist on earth alone, its comparative insignificance would render it liable to be judged as a by-product only. Any probability therefore of design, purpose, resurrection, judgment or life in heaven could not be entertained. As far as purpose of man's existence is concerned, because science is unable to give some idea about it, man therefore has to be bewildered.

(ii)  The atoms have been discovered by science to exist in some particular arrangement in the living cell. And because a monkey blindly strumming on a typewriter for untold millions of years stood a chance to type off a Shakespeare sonnet, and, because the monkey stood a chance to type off a Shakespeare sonnet and because in the light of this example, atoms might happen to arrange themselves in a way in which they are arranged in a living cell, therefore POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC, life could be of accidental nature and the product of blind play of chance, and hence no probability of a design, order, purpose, control, resurrection, judgment or the other world.

(iii) It has been scientifically realized, as physical and astronomical principles have shown, that life must eventually cease to exist on earth. Science being unable to show the possibility of any revival of life after the entropy had attained its climax, therefore life were to be considered as for ever lost, with no possibility of a resurrection, and so on so forth. We frankly own ourselves quite at a loss to recognize the true merit of such a philosophy. Again, we might be utterly mistaken, but we think that a butcher is far more competent in his own art than this our philosopher is found labouring in the shambles of philosophy.

(7)   We now intend to quote the twelve pages from "The Mysterious Universe" of Sir James Jeans. Within these few pages the wonder-pen of Sir James has set all the most essential points of the philosophy of our unscientific scientist philosopher in an amazing array. In view of the style which Sir Jeans has adopted in stating the facts, there is every likelihood of a misunderstanding that the thought is his own, but it is not so, and we are again obliged to sound a warning that the words but not the thought belong to Sir Jeans.

       We intend to show the Quran's views against the views to be found in these twelve pages, with a belief that this comparison will be found interesting, particularly because there are instances of Quran's having based its point on the very same fact of science, on which the unscientific scientist philosopher has happened to base his, yet the two inferences emerge in diametrical opposition to each other. Another very interesting feature of the study is the presence of instances wherein the Quran has anticipated the thought and has at times forestalled the very words of Sir James Jean's writings quite miraculously. The Quran has claimed to contain every example, which claim, as it shall be seen, the Quran has amazingly brought to a proof.

(8)   The reader shall see in these pages, how the truths which science had discovered, and which could have served as aids to augment the light of faith have in the hands of a sceptic turned into layers of darkness in his endeavour to obscure the light of faith. How very often we have wished during this study, the presence of this unscientific scientist philosopher before us that we may tell him of the atrocities perpetuated by the tyrannical hierarches, cruel prelates, merciless Bishops, and inconsiderate Popes on Christendom, but would only ask him into what hellish corners of existence our benign scientist has driven the whole mankind today, and to what abominable end it is going to bring the whole world of God tomorrow. Indeed the flames which consumed one Bruno by the decision of the inquisition, were not worse than the flames of atomic hell into which the whole mankind is going to be driven by the scientist, nor was the souring whip, and torturing rack of the clergy after all worse, at least we may now think, than the piercing cancer-ridden rays of nuclear radiation. Neither did the faith in church imply anyway the birth of monsters in an ulcer-ridden humanity. How little this our philosopher has known in his zeal for apostasy that this philosophy dealt the last deadly blow to science itself. Because it is such apostatic philosophy that caused ill-application and misdirection of science to its atomic end, the end which will bring humanity to its end, and the end of science along with it. Only the devil can be happy with such philosophies, because they serve to bring about that kind of end to humanity, which he so much desires. it will be seen that this philosopher has done no more than echo the doubts of the ancient disbeliever, except that he has sought to prove the points on the basis of modern science, and in so doing he has marred the basis of science itself. He has committed a glaring blunder in denying whatever the science was unable to prove, literally realizing that present day science in the realm of knowledge blinked in wonderment, dumb and mute in the arms of Mother Nature. The absence of light of faith and that of fear of resurrection has turned science into a consuming hell. Yet there is a chance left. Will mankind therefore condescend to lend a thought to the matter, or will they allow the things as they may come. It is the eleventh hour; the net will be the zero hour. Pray watch for the first atomic bomb detonated, and say your last prayer, only if you will ever be allowed.              

CHAPTER-VI

THE TWELVE PAGES OF" THE MYSTERIOUS  UNIVERSE"

(1)   (a) " A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth, but the majority are so large that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave room to spare. Here and there we come upon a giant star large enough to contain millions of millions of earths. And the total number of stars in the universe is probably something like the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world. Such is the littleness of our home in space, when measured up against the total substance of the universe.

       This vast multitude of stars are wandering about in space. Some form groups and journey in company but the majority are solitary travellers. And they travel in a universe so spacious, that it is an event of almost unimaginable rarity for a star to come anywhere near to another star. For the most part each voyages in splended isolation, like a ship on an empty ocean. In a scale model in which the stars are ships, the average ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbour, whence it is easy to understand why a ship seldom finds another within hailing distance.

       We believe nevertheless, that some two thousand million years ago this rare event took place, and that a second star, wandering blindly through space, happened to come within hailing distance of the sun. Just as  the sun and moon raise tides on the earth, so this second star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they would be very different from the puny tides which the small mass of the moon raises in our oceans; a huge tidal wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, ultimately forming a mountain of prodigious height, which would rise ever higher and higher as  the cause of the disturbance came nearer and nearer. And, before the second star began to recede, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small fragments of itself, much as the crest of a wave throws off spray. These small fragments have been circulating around their parent sun ever since. They are the planets great and small of which our earth is one.

       The sun and other stars we see in the sky are all intensely hot --- for too hot for life to be able to obtain or retain a footing on them. So also no doubt were the ejected fragments when they were first thrown off. Gradually they cooled until now they have but little intrinsic heat left, their warmth being derived almost entirely from the radiation which the sun pours down on them. In course of time we know not how, when or why, one of these cooling fragments gave birth to life. It started in simple organisms whose vital capacities consisted little beyond reproduction and death. But from these humble beginnings emerged a stream of life which, advancing through ever greater and greater complexity, has culminated in beings whose lives are largely centered in their emotions and ambitions, their aesthetic appreciation, and religious in which their highest hopes and noblest aspirations lie enshrined.

       Although we cannot speak with any certainty, it seems most likely that humanity came into existence in some such way as this. Standing on our microscopic fragment of a grain of sand, we attempt to discover the nature and purpose of the universe which surrounds our home in space, and time. Our first impression is something akin to terror. We find the universe terrifying because of its vast meaningless distances, terrifying because of its inconceivably long vistas of time which dwarf human history to the twinkling of an eye, terrifying because of our extreme loneliness, and because of the material insignificance of our home in space --- a millionth part of a grain of sand out of all the sea sand in the world. But above all else we find the universe terrifying, because it appears to be indifferent to lifelike our own; emotion, ambition and achievement, art and religion all seem equally foreign to its plan. Perhaps indeed we ought to say it appears to be actually hostile to life like our own. For the most part, empty space is so cold that all life in it would be frozen, most of the matter in space is so hot as to make life on it impossible, space is traversed, and astronomical bodies continually bombarded by radiation of a variety of kinds, much of which is inimicable to, or even destructive of life.

       Into such a universe we have stumbled, if not exactly by mistake, at least as a result of what may properly be described as an accident. The use of such a word need not imply any surprise that our earth exists, for accidents will happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely  to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of millions of years, would be bound in time to write all the books in British Museum. If we examined the last page which a particular monkey had typed and found that it had chanced in its blind strumming, to type a Shakespeare's Sonnet, we should rightly regard the occurrence as a remarkable accident, but if we looked through all the millions of pages which the monkeys had turned off in untold millions of years, we might be sure of finding a Shakespeare Sonnet somewhere among them, the product of blind play of chance. In the same way, millions of millions of stars wandering blindly through space for millions of millions of years, are bound to meet with that special kind of accident which calls planetary system into being. Yet calculation shows that the number of these can at most be very small in comparison with the total number of stars in the sky, planetary systems must be exceedingly rare objects in space.

       This rarity of planetary systems is important, because so far as we can see, life of the kind we know on earth could only originate on planets like the earth. It needs suitable physical conditions for its appearance, the most important of which is a temperature at which substances can exist in the liquid state. The stars themselves are disqualified by being too hot. We may think of them as a vast collection of fires scattered throughout space, providing warmth in a climate which is at most some four degrees above absolute zero-- about 484 degrees of frost on our Fahrenheit scale-- and is, even lower in the vast stretches of space which lie out beyond the Milky Way. Away from the fires there is this unimaginable cold of hundreds of degrees of frost; close upto them there is a temperature of thousands of degrees, at which all solids melt, all liquids boil.

       Life can only exist inside a narrow temperate zone which surrounds each of these fires at a very definite distance. Outside these zones life would be frozen; inside, it would be shrivelled up. At a rough computation, these zones within which life is possible, all added together, constitute less than a thousand million millionth part of the whole of space. And even inside them, life must be of very rare occurrence for it is so unusual an accident for suns to throw off planets as our own sun has done, that probably only about one star in 100,000 has a planet revolving round it in the small zone in which life is possible.

       Just for this reason, it seems incredible that the universe, can have been designed primarily to produce life like our own; had it been so, surely we might have expected to find a better proportion between the magnitude of the mechanism and the amount of the product. At first glance at least, life seems to be an utterly unimportant by-product; we living things are somehow off the main line.

       We do not know whether suitable physical conditions are sufficient in themselves to produce life. One school of thought holds that as the earth gradually cooled, it was natural, and indeed almost inevitable, that life should come. Another holds that after one accident had brought the earth into being, a second was necessary to produce life. The material constituents of a living body are perfectly ordinary chemical atoms--- carbon such as we find in soot or lamp-black; hydrogen and oxygen, such as we find in water; Nitrogen, such as forms the greater part of the atmosphere; and so on. Every kind of atom necessary for life must have existed on the new-born earth. At intervals a group of atoms might happen to arrange themselves in the way in which they are arranged in the living cell---indeed, given sufficient time, they would be certain to do so, just as certain as  the six monkeys would be certain, given sufficient time, to type off a Shakespeare Sonnet. But would they then be a living cell? In other words, is a living cell merely a group of ordinary atoms arranged in some Non-ordinary way, or is it something more? Is it merely atoms or is it atoms plus life? Or, to put it in another way, could a sufficiently skillful chemist create life out of the necessary atoms, as a boy can create a machine out of "Meccano" and then make it go? We do not know the answer. When it comes it will give us some indication whether other worlds in space are inhabited like ours, and so must have the greatest influence on our interpretation of the meaning of life---it may well produce a greater revolution of thought than Galileo's Astronomy or Darwin's Biology.

       We do, however, know that while living matter consists of quite ordinary atoms, it consist in the main of atoms which have a special capacity for coagulating into extraordinary large bunches or "molecules".

       Most atoms do not possess this property. The atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen, for instance may combine to form molecules of Hydrogen, (H2 or H3) of Oxygen or Ozone (O2 or O3), of water (H2 O) , or of Hydrogen Peroxide (H2 or O2), but none of these compounds contains more than four atoms. The addition of Nitrogen does not greatly change the situation; the compounds of Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen all contain comparatively few atoms. But the further addition of Carbon completely Transforms the picture; the atoms of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon combine to form molecules containing hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of atoms. It is of such molecules that living bodies are mainly formed. Until a century ago it was commonly supposed that some "vital force" was necessary to produce these and other substances which entered into the composition of the living body. Then Wholer produced Urea [CO (NH2)2], which is a typical animal product, in his laboratory, by the ordinary processes of chemical synthesis, and other constituents of the living body followed in due course. Today one phenomenon after another which was at one time attributed to "vital force" is being traced to the action of the ordinary processes of Physics and Chemistry. Although the problem is still far from solution, it is becoming increasingly likely that what specially distinguishes the  matter of living bodies is the presence not of a "vital force" but of the quite common-place element Carbon, always in connection with other atoms with which it forms exceptionally large molecules.

       If this is so, life exists in the universe only because the Carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. perhaps Carbon is rather noteworthy chemically as forming a sort of transition between the metals and nonmetals, but so far nothing in the physical constitution of the Carbon atom is known to account for its very special capacity for binding other atoms together. The Carbon atom consists of six electrons revolving around the appropriate central nucleus, like six planets revolving around a central sun; it appears to differ from its two nearest neighbours in the table of chemical atoms, the atoms of Boron and Nitrogen, only in having one electron more than the former and one electron fewer than the latter. yet this slight difference must account in the last resort for all the difference between life and absence of life. No doubt the reason why the six electron atoms possess these remarkable properties resides somewhere in the ultimate laws of nature, but mathematical physics has not yet fathomed it.

       Other similar cases are known to Chemistry. Magnetic Phenomena appear in a tremendous degree in Iron and in a lesser degree in its neighbours, Nickel  and Cobalt. The atoms of these elements have 26,27 and 28 electrons respectively. The magnetic properties of all other atoms are almost negligible in comparison. Somehow, then, although again, mathematical physics has not yet unravelled how, magnetism depends on the peculiar properties of the 26, 27 and 28 electron atoms, especially the first. Radio-activity provides a third instance, being confined, with insignificant exceptions, to atoms having from 83 to 92 electrons; again we do not know why.

       Thus  Chemistry can only tell us to place life in the same category as magnetism and Radio-activity. The universe is built so as to operate according to certain laws. As a consequence of these laws, atoms having certain definite numbers of electrons, namely 6,26 to 28 and 83 to 92, have certain special properties, which show themselves in the phenomena of life, magnetism and Radio-activity respectively. An Omnipotent Creator, subject to no limitations whatever, would not have been restricted to the laws which prevail in the present universe; He might have elected to build the Universe to conform to anyone of innumerable other sets of Laws. If some other set of laws had been chosen, other special atoms might have had other special properties associated with them. We cannot say what, but it seems a priori unlikely that either Radio-activity or magnetism or life would have figured amongst them. chemistry suggests that, like magnetism and Radio-activity, life may merely be an accidental consequence, of the special set of laws by which the present universe is governed.

       Again the word " Accidental" may be challenged. For what if the Creator of the Universe selected one special set of laws just because they led to the appearance of life? What if this were his way of creating life? So long as we think of the Creator as a magnified man---like being, activated by feelings and interests like our own, the challenge cannot be met, except perhaps by the remark, that when a Creator has once been postulated, no argument can did much to what has already been assumed. If however we dismiss every trace of anthropomorphism from our minds there remains no reason for supposing that the present laws were specially selected in order to produce life. They are just as likely, for instance, to have been selected in order to produce magnetism or Radio-activity indeed more likely, since to all appearances physics plays an incomparably greater part in the universe than biology. Viewed from a strictly material stand-point, the utter insignificance of life would seem to go far towards dispelling any idea that it forms a special interest of the Great Architect of the universe.

       A trivial analogy may exhibit the situation in a clearer light. An un-imaginative sailor, accustomed to tying knots might think it would be impossible to cross the ocean if tying knots were impossible. Now the capacity for tying knots is limited to space of three dimensions, no knot can be tied in a space of 1,2,,4,5, or any other number of dimensions. From this fact our unimaginative sailor might reason that a beneficent Creator must have had sailors under his special patronage, and have chosen that space should have three dimensions in order that tying knots and crossing the ocean should be possibilities in the universe he had created --in brief, space was of three dimensions, so that there could be sailors. This and the argument outlined above seem to be much on a level, because life as a whole and the tying knots are pretty much on a level in that neither of them forms more than an utterly insignificant fraction of the total activity of the material universe.

       So much for the surprising manner in which so far as science can at present infirm us, we came into being. And our bewilderment is only increased when we attempt to pass from our origins to an understanding of the purpose of our existence or to foresee the destiny which fate has in store for our race.

       Life of the kind we know can only exist under suitable conditions of light and heat, we only exist ourselves because the earth receives exactly the right amount of radiation from the sun, upset the balance in either direction, of excess or defect, and life must disappear from the earth. And the essence of the situation is that the balance is very easily upset.

       Primitive man, living in the temperate zone of the earth, must have watched the ice-age. Descending on his home with something like terror; each year the glaciers came farther down into the valleys; each winter the sun seemed less able to provide the warmth needed for life. To him, as to us, the universe must have seemed hostile to life.

       We of these later days, living in the narrow temperate zone surrounding our sun and peering into the far future, see an ice-age of a different kind threatening us. Just as Tantalus standing in a lake so deep that he only just escaped drowning, was yet destined to die of thirst, so it is the tragedy of our race that it is probably destined to die of cold, while the greater part of the substance of the universe still remains too hot for life to obtain a footing. The sun, having no extraneous supply of heat, must necessarily emit ever less and less of its life-giving radiation, and as it does so, the temperate zone of space, within which alone life can exist, must close in around it. To remain a possible abode of life, our earth would need to move in ever nearer and nearer to the dying sun. Yet, science tells us that, so far from its moving inwards inexorable dynamical laws are even now driving it, ever farthest away from the sun into the outer cold and darkness. And, so far as we can see, they must continue to do so until life is frozen off the earth, unless indeed some celestial collision or cataclysm intervenes to destroy life even earlier by a more speedy death. This prospective fate is not peculiar to our earth, other suns must die like our own, and any life there may be on other planets must meet the same inglorious end.

       Physics tells the same story, as astronomy. For, independently of all astronomical considerations, the general physical principle known as the second law of thermodynamics predicts that there can be but one end, to the universe --a "Heat-death" in which the total energy of the universe is uniformly distributed, and all the substance of the universe is at the same temperature. This temperature is going to be so low as to make life impossible. It matters little by what particular road this final state is reached; all roads lead to Rome, and the end of the journey cannot be other than universal death.

       Is this then, all that life amounts to-to stumble, almost by mistake, into a universe which was clearly not designed for life, and which, to all appearances, is either totally indifferent or definitely hostile to it, to stay clinging on to a fragment of a grain of sand until we are frozen off, to strut our tiny hour on our tiny stage with the knowledge that our aspirations are all doomed to final frustration, and that our achievements must perish with our race, leaving the universe as though we had never been?

       Astronomy suggests the question, but it is, I think, mainly to physics that we must turn for an answer. For astronomy can tell us of the present arrangement of the universe, of the vastness and vacuity of space, and of our own insignificance therein, it can even tell us some-thing as to the nature of the changes produced by the passages of time, but we must probe deep into the fundamental nature of things before we can expect to find the answer to our question. And this is not the province of astronomy, rather we shall find that our quest takes us right into the heart of modern physical science".

       (The Mysterious Universe page 1 to 12)

PARADOX

A    PARADOX  

(b)   Now, the inability of a scientist in recognizing order, design and plan in the universe is nothing short of a paradox. Referring to the twelve pages last quoted some amazing facts have come to light. The unscientific scientist philosopher has shown after some real painstakings, the probability of life being the result of a mere chance play of atoms. We have read this with care, and have found, that there, could not be found a wonder greater than that, that a man whose whole mind be always and in  every way taxed with the questions of cause and effect, act and consequence, laws: natural, inexorable and scientific, plans, designs, plots and projects, propositions, theories, hypotheses and formulae: the man who would not stir a finger without the use of balance, and would not wink even without telescope; whose note-book be from end to end filled with equations and square roots; who could state no fact without the use of a language which consisted of words and terms such as rule, principle, law, concept, notion, perception and the like; even such a man should turn purblind  in the presence of glaring facts like design, plan, and order, that pervade the whole universe from one end to another, and he would further show bewilderment at the purpose of man's existence, or the destiny which fate had in store for human race, not realizing in his predisposed zeal, that by denying design and purpose he did actually negate the truth of science itself, the very science on the dint of whose discovered truths he sought to deny design and purpose; the science which pervaded his mind like the soul. Alas for us humans. The very person from whom we expected light and clues to our problems, and encouraging word in our afflictions, be seen to grope his own way stumbling along a darkened labyrinth of doubt and uncertainty, stumbling and moaning in pity-exciting tones and drifting astray towards ever darker corners and gloomier glides, while mankind hand-cuffed and fettered is being helplessly dragged towards a varying, honking, and hissing hell in its fury; ablazed with materialistic fires, fanned by a storm of greed.

(2)   Comparison between the trends of the two philosophies, that of the unscientific scientist philosopher and the Quran:-

       The philosophy as is to be found in the twelve pages has been read and its trends realized. The comparative philosophy of the Quran we will show later , but to acquaint the reader with the expected trends of relative philosophies we intend to give a brief idea now in comparison, in the following:-

(a)   Life insignificance to the unscientific scientist philosopher, therefore unworthy of either the creator's special interest, design purpose, or subsequent resurrection, judgment and the other world. But Quran whereas it recognizes the incomparable grandeur of the universe against tiny little earth and admits the insignificance of life. Yet, in view of the significance of the other world, presents this present life as important for its being the basis and the sowing field for the other world. and further, as a proof of creator's special interest in this present life, the Quran points to the whole universe engaged in the service thereof.

(b)   The unscientific scientist philosopher has considered earth as of accidental nature and life as the product of blind play of chance. But the Quran has denied out-right any such possibility and has assured of creator's prefect vigilance and complete control to the minutest detail throughout the creation.

(c)   The unscientific scientist philosopher has shown only bewilderment regarding the purpose of man's existence, whereas the Quran has explicitly given the purpose of their existence as the worship of Allah, and a trial, as to "who among them is to be best in conduct".

(d)   The unscientific scientist philosopher has considered the end of life as final without any probability of resurrection or revival, and has lamented the destruction of man's achievements with the end of life, but the Quran has given out resurrection as an inevitable variety, and the achievement of Men to accompany them onto the next world, for assessment and reward, in an everlasting world.

Note:-  The Quran could not have anything against the science proper. That is, the ascertained knowledge of the laws of nature as based on provable truths. But such a philosophy as this which the unscientific philosopher has produced, could in no way expect Quran's recognition.

(3)   This scientifically unscientific philosophy of the unscientific scientist philspher, a peculiar form of modern back-biting and slander:-

       This philosophy as has already been said, is no more than an echo of the ancient philosophy of the ancient disbeliever, but its particularity is in that it has sought to prove its points through modern science. It could be said about it, that it is a modernized type of back-biting and slander against faith and religion. Yet the strange fact that would emerge from the line of its argument is that, the scientific facts on which it has sought to base its argument against faith, could with equal perhaps greater plausibility be used in favour of faith. Another point which deserves greater notice and excites feelings of real admiration in our heart is the scientist's scrupulous honesty in matters of science and his really admirable discernment of various scientific values to a most minute degree of various shades. He evinces a very reliable knowledge of the existing state of every point of science to its highest limit hitherto achieved; its flaws, discrepancies, its merits, the degree of its reliability and its future possible trends and scopes, in contrariety to some non-scientist writers, who sometimes venture to treat purely a topic of science. The disposition of their mind, and the play for their emotions, and particularly insufficient knowledge and understanding of all the various corners of science, their pens are seen to play the pranks of a nature which are worth seeing, and rarely fail to excite either laughter or contempt or both. For example, whereas Sir James Jeans, while explaining his hypothesis about the separation of earth and other planets from the sun, has described the whole thing in a language which clearly shows the suggestive nature of his view, the non-scientist in repeating the very same thing would reproduce the same as a proved variety and a most ascertained fact of science. But the dazzle which the unscientific scientist philosopher hasn't been able to bear is that of faith. Like a bat who, though, extremely dexterous in the darkness of night is seen to be quite helpless during the day in the presence of sun's light. I, however, despite all my extreme philosophical differences, have entertained a real regard for the unscientific scientist philosopher due merely to his spotless honesty, immaculate conduct and creditable knowledge of science; yet, for his lack of faith I could not blame him, since faith is a gift of God, and no amount of knowledge could procure that quality in case it were not there. No teacher, or preacher, or sign can create faith if not given by God. But God's grace is affluent, and His Mercy Unabounding. He can give the gift of faith to anyone any moment. Springs have been found to gush forth from the heart of rocks, and most obstinate of infidels have been known to become leading among the faithful. If then by the Grace of the Beneficent and Merciful Allah, our present-time unscientific scientist philosopher would ever feel the inebriating dazzle of faith in his heart and the truth has dawned on him, surely he will prove a real asset to mankind due to his great knowledge of science and his honesty, and then he will be found to the joy of believing world to employ the same facts of science in favour of faith, design, purpose, order and divine government which now he is found to be citing against faith. The science, then, which at present has become a curse and a terror for humanity due to the absence of the light of faith, will become a bliss and a blessing, and will instead of preparing pyres for a miserable humanity, plant gardens in a world free of poverty, disease, ignorance, dirt and envy. A world which today despite its ever growing heaps of commodities, despite its dazzling shows of luxury, and despite its cars, cameras, radios, televisions, clinics, and cinemas , its aeroplanes , appolos, sea-ships and sky-scrappers is a frightful hovel of miseries, will become a place worth living, and struggling peacefully toward the destination, real destination: The Heaven.

       And now, in the next chapter we begin with the comparison between the two philosophies that is of the unscientific scientist philosopher and the Quran, in reference to the twelve pages. We have divided the whole thing into three main parts namely:-

  (i)             The unscientific philosophy of the unscientific scientist philosopher versus the Quran.

       (ii) The Terrified Scientist and the Quran.

       (iii)            Glimpses of Premonitory Vision of the Quran                                in reference to the twelve pages.

       But before we proceed, let us say, that Sir James Jeans have very skillfully depicted the present state of the modern science in an exact perspective, and further have shown, and very clearly, the inability of the present day science to furnish mankind with the answers to the questions of highest order.

CHAPTER-VII

TWELVE PAGES OF "THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE" AND THE QURAN, AND THE UNSCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENTIST PHILOSOPHER AGAINST QURAN'S PHILOSOPHY:-

(1)   Material insignificance of earth and life to imply (according to the scientist philosopher) absence of design, purpose, order and interest on the part of the Creator:-

(a)   Grandeur of the Universe against the tiny earth

       " A few stars are known", says the unscientific scientist philosopher, " which are hardly bigger than the earth, but the majority are so large that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave room to spare; here and there we come upon a giant star large enough to contain millions of millions of earths. And the total number of the stars in the universe is probably something like the total number of the grains of sand on all the seashores of the world. Such is the littleness of our home in space when measured up against the total substance of the universe".

                                    (The Mysterious Universe page 1)

And:-

The area in which life can exist too small

       "The stars themselves are disqualified (for the existence of life) by being too hot. We may think of them as a vast collection of fires scattered throughout space, providing warmth in a climate which is at most some four degrees above absolute zero-- about 484 degrees of frost on our Fahrenheit scale-- and is, even lower in the vast stretches of space which lie out beyond the Milky Way. Away from the fires there is this unimaginable cold of hundreds of degrees of frost; close upto them there is a temperature of thousands of degrees, at which all solids melt, all liquids boil.

       Life can only exist inside a narrow temperate zone which surrounds each of these fires at a very definite distance. Outside these zones life would be frozen; inside, it would be shrivelled up. At a rough computation, theses zones within which life is possible, all added together, constitute less than a thousand million millionth part of the whole of the space. And even inside them, life must be of very rare occurrence for it is so unusual an accident for suns to throw off planets as our own sun has done, that probably only about one star in 100,000 has a planet revolving round it in the small zone in which life is possible".

AND:-

Just for this reason

" Just for this reason it seems incredible that the universe can have been designed primarily to produce life like our own; had it been so, surely we might have expected to find a better proportion, between the magnitude of the mechanism and the amount of the product. At first glance at least, life seems to be an utterly unimportant by-product; we living things are somehow off the main line".

                                    (The Mysterious Universe page 4-5)

       Now, according to the Quran, the stars are not at all meant to be the habitations of life, they are there either to beautify the world or are signs for guiding men in darkness on land and in sea. The earth alone is meant to be the abode of life and it is according to the Quran well suited for this purpose and is large enough. The Quran's advice therefore against the misleading notion of the unscientific  philosopher is:-

       " O my bondmen who believe! Lo! My earth is spacious. Therefore serve Me only. Every soul will taste of death. Then Unto us ye will be returned. Those who believe and do good works, them verily we shall house in lofty dwellings of the Garden underneath which rivers flow. There they will dwell secure. How sweet the guerdon of the toilers, who persevere, and put their trust in their Lord!".

                                    (Quran 29 ,56 to 59- The meaning of the Glorious Koran", by M.M.Pickthall)

       Thus we see that lofty dwellings are to be expected in the next world by the righteous. This present world is but a temporary abode and is but a base for the trial. A complaint about smallness of earth or the smallness of the zones that could bear life is baseless. But please mark not only in this instance but thereafter, everywhere, how aptly the Quran furnishes the answer and how completely as if it did anticipate the question of the unscientific philosopher beforehand, or had prepared the answer like a living mind after the question was put to it. The Quran has claimed to contain every example and it is hoped that even within these few pages sufficient proofs would be found to justify the Quran's great claim.

(b)   This life contemptible alike in the sight of the Quran, but very important as the sowing season for the other world:-

       If this life is contemptible in the sight of the scientists, it also is contemptible in the sight of the Quran, and is so, exactly on the same grounds i.e. its triviality and its transitoriness. But whereas the scientist has cast it away as worthless, and has considered its end as the final end with no possibility of its revival and therefore of resurrection, judgment and the other world, the Quran declares this life as the sowing season of the crop of deeds to be reaped in the next world, and hence keeps constantly exhorting man to better deeds and warns of the dire consequences of misdeeds or negligence. Misdeeds beget a hell even in this present life, yet the next world is the real object while this present life is only a deceitful provision:-

The Quran's view is

       "Every soul will taste of death. And ye will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have fairly earned. Whoso is removed from the fire (of hell) and is made to enter paradise, he indeed is triumphant. The life of this world is but a deceitful provision".

                                                                              (Quran 3  185)

(c)   The garden as vast and spacious as the whole heaven for       the righteous:-

       This earth and the life upon it is congested, constricted and unpleasant, but let it be. This is not your permanent abode. And for the righteous, there is prepared a garden in the Heaven, as wide and spacious as the whole of the heaven and the earth. The Quran says:-

       "Race one with another for forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whereof the breadth is as the breadth of the heavens and the earth, which is in store for those who believe in Allah and His messengers".

                                                                        (Quran 57 21)

       Those who complain about the smallness of the earth and the insignificance of this life, and make it an issue for disbelief in design and purpose and their denial of resurrection, shall see that the place of unbelievers in the next world is going to be even more congested and more unpleasant, but the righteous shall have a far better abode to live.

 Quran says

       "And When they (the disbelievers) are flung into a narrow place thereof (in the hell), chained together, they pray for destruction there. Pray not that day for one destruction, but pray for many destructions! Say: Is that (doom) better or the Garden of Immortality which is promised unto those who ward off (evil)? It will be their reward and journey's end. Therein abiding (for ever), they have all that they desire. It is for thy Lord a promise that must be fulfilled".

                                                            (Quran 25  13 to 16)

(2)   CHANCE CREATION

       The earth according to our unscientific philosopher has appeared as the result of an accident, and the life to him is a product of blind play of chance. How could then, design, purpose, meaning or reason be assigned to such a creation, which is merely accidental and is a product of blind play of chance. It indeed is something wonderful to hear from a person  (who calls himself a scientist), such things as chance creation and accidental. The Quran however has based the creation, the whole of the creation, on a purpose and design under strict and uninterrupted vigilance of the Creator. A Creator showing ample interest even in the most insignificance of all the things is his world.

       BLIND PLAY OF CHANCE

(a)   The Unscientific Philosopher says

       " Into such a (terrifying) universe we have stumbled, if not exactly by mistake, at least as a result of what may properly be described as an accident. The use of such a word need not imply any surprise that our earth exists, for accidents will happen, and if the universe goes on for long enough, every conceivable accident is likely  to happen in time. It was, I think, Huxley who said that six monkeys set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of millions of years, would be bound in time to write all the books in British Museum. If we examined the last page which a particular monkey had typed and found that it had chanced in its blind strumming, to type a Shakespeare's Sonnet, we should rightly regard the occurrence as a remarkable accident, but if we looked through all the millions of pages which the monkeys had turned off in untold millions of years, we might be sure of finding a Shakespeare Sonnet somewhere among them, the product of blind play of chance. In the same way, millions of millions of stars wandering blindly through space for millions of millions of years, are bound to meet with that special kind of accident which calls planetary system into being. Yet calculation shows that the number of these can at most be very small in comparison with the total number of stars in the sky, planetary systems must be exceedingly rare objects in space".

                                    (The Mysterious Universe page 3-4)

(b)   The Scientist Philosopher doubtful himself of chance creation

       " We do not know whether suitable physical conditions are sufficient in themselves to produce life. One school of thought holds that as the earth gradually cooled, it was natural, and indeed almost inevitable, that life should come. Another holds that after one accident had brought the earth into being, a second was necessary to produce life. The material constituents of a living body are perfectly ordinary chemical atoms--- carbon such as we find in soot or lamp-black; hydrogen and oxygen, such as we find in water; Nitrogen, such as forms the greater part of the atmosphere; and so on. Every kind of atom necessary for life must have existed on the new-born earth. AT intervals a group of atoms might happen to arrange themselves in the way in which they are arranged in the living cell---indeed, given sufficient time, they would be certain to do so, just as certain as the six monkeys would be certain, given sufficient time, to type off a Shakespeare Sonnet. But would they then be a living cell? In other words, is a living cell merely a group of ordinary atoms arranged in some Non-ordinary way, or is it something more? Is it merely atoms or is it atoms plus life? Or, to put it in another way, could a sufficiently skillful chemist create life out of the necessary atoms, as a boy can create a machine out of "Meccano" and then make it go? We do not know the answer. When it comes it will give us some indication whether other worlds in space are inhabited like ours, and so must have the greatest influence on or interpretation of the meaning of life---it may well produce a greater revolution of thought than Galileo's Astronomy or Darwin's Biology".

                                     (The Mysterious Universe page 5-6).

(c)   The Birth of Earth, accidental according to the Scientist

       " We believe nevertheless, that some two thousand million years ago this rare event took place, and that a second star, wandering blindly through space, happened to come within hailing distance of the sun. Just as the sun and moon raise tides on the earth, so this second star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they would be very different from the puny tides which the small mass of the moon raises in our oceans; a huge tidal wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, ultimately forming a mountain of prodigious height, which would rise ever higher and higher as the cause of the disturbance came nearer and nearer. And, before the second star began to recede, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small fragments of itself, much as the crest of a wave throws off spray. These small fragments have been circulating around their parent sun ever since. They are the planets great and small of which our earth is one".

                        (The Mysterious Universe page 1-2).

(d)   No Possibility of accident or chance in the hands of God

       Please mark the tone in all these previous passages of the unscientific philosopher; the passages which are concerned with accidental nature of creation and the blind play of chance. The tone is that of uncertainty throughout and the whole stuff is of a nature hypothetical, conjectural, speculative and doubtful, and not at all in conformity with the spirit of hard-headed, matter of fact, and uncompromising science.

       The use of the word "Accident" in this particular context, that is an act of creation where the Creator himself and the laws of nature are concerned, cannot be allowed. We never thought, until our acquaintance with the unscientific philosopher, that it was in the dullness of human nature not to realize that there cannot be anything accidental about a natural phenomenon. The Creator can never be found dizzy, drunk, ignorant or helpless to allow an accident, even a possibility of an accident. The day of these natural laws showed signs of infirmity, the universe will certainly be disrupted. It is we mortal that are prone to be involved in accident, because of our frailties, because of our ignorance, lack of intelligence, and helplessness. Accident can never take place, unless some flaw appears somewhere, somehow. But how an accident can happen, where God is on the controls himself. While discussing therefore, natural phenomena or anything which is, in direct control of the Creator, the use of such a word as Accident is a fallacy, even blasphemy. Atom bomb may explode accidentally. But the accident has happened due to some fault or negligence. The rules and the laws which govern the explosion will never fail, or change their role. They simply know no accident. It will never be found that the pieces of the exploded bomb would turn into roses accidentally, or that instead of fire the dynamite would produce ice flakes. If, however, our unscientific philosopher means to exclude the design and purpose from the creation and in order to exclude the design and purpose he is obliged to exclude the presence of the creator, and it is for this purpose that he has taken all this trouble that of coining all these fanciful terms like Accidentals and blind chances, by-products and lack of proportions, so then he must know that he has failed and failed miserably in his attempt, that despite our deep regret we are  obliged to tell him so. The design and purpose stand on a far stronger footing to be dislodged by such trivialities. Accidents can happen in the hands of a cab-driver, but the keys of heavens and earth are not in the hands of a cab-driver, they are in the hands of an Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent Creator, and so says, the Quran, " His are the keys of the heavens and the earth, and they who disbelieve the revelations of Allah- such are they who are the loosers".                                                                           (Quran 39 , 63)

       And He is neither dizzy nor ignorant, to allow an accident; but He is the exceptional hearer and the seer. The Quran says:-

       "Lo! He, only He, is the Hearer, the Seer".

                                                                        (Quran 17 ,1)

       And He is neither so weak nor helpless as to be involved in an accident. The Quran says:-

       " Lo, thy Lord ! He is the Strong, the Mighty".

                                                                        (Quran 11 ,66)

And that:-

       "And With Him are the keys of the invisible. None but He knoweth them. And He knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it, not a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet or  dry but (it is noted) in a clear record".

                                                                        (Quran 6,59)

       The unscientific philosopher says,  "Millions of Millions of stars blindly wandering for millions of millions of years are bound to meet with an accident", but the Quran is of the opinion, that nothing happens without the will of the Creator, the stars cannot meet with an accident, until Allah willed it, but then it will not be called an accident, but an incident. It is to be wondered, why the unscientific philosopher should prefer the word Accident to incident so unreasonably.

       "It is not expedient that the sun should overtake the moon in her course, nor doth the night overstrip the day, the they float each in an orbit".

                                                                        (Quran 36 ,40)

       No chance business, but an unfailing administration of Allah: Quran says:-

       " He ordereth the course; He detaileth the revelations, that haply ye may be certain of the meeting with your Lord".

                                                                        (Quran 13  ,2)

       The Universe stands firm. No possibility of accident. If ever the universe shall fall, it shall fall by the Will of Creator. The Quran says:-

 " He holdeth back the heaven from falling on the earth unless by His leave".

                                                                        (Quran 22  ,65)

And that:-

       " Verily God sustaineth the heaven and the earth, lest they fail: and if they should fail, none could support the same besides Him".

                                                                        (Quran 35  ,41)

       Allah is always mindful of His Creation. No blind chance business. No question of accident. The Quran says:-

       " And we are never unmindful of our creation".

                                                                        (Quran 23  ,17)

       The Unscientific philosopher thought, that the atoms at times might happen to arrange themselves in the way in which hey are arranged in a living cell and become alive, without the knowledge or control of the Creator but the Quran holds a different view. It says:-

       " And not an atom's weight in the earth or in the sky escapeth your Lord, nor what is less than that or greater than that, but it is (written) in a clear, book".

                                                            (The Quran 10 ,61)

(3)   GALILEO'S ASTRONOMY:-

       Our unscientific philosopher has rightly remarked that Galileo's astronomy has affected a great revolution of thought. Indeed a revolution. A revolution not of thought only, but the revolution of mind also along with the revolution of earth. That is, the mind of man was at comparative rest when the earth was considered as stationary. But later, when it was believed that the earth was in rotation, mind of man also assumed rotation along with the earth. Since that day peace has left the mind, and the mind is in constant revolution. The discovery, of Galileo might mean much to the astronomers, but to the humanity in general he did no more than a topsyturvification of the former Ptolemic system. That is whereas ptolemy held the earth at rest by his right hand and moved the firmament with his left around the earth, Galileo after his life-long watching, held the sun stationary by his left hand and moved the earth around the sun by his right. This fact so trivial in itself, has indeed topsyturveyed the whole world. It caused a science-religion conflict so fierce as rent the heavens of humanity's mind. It has reversed the entire outlook of man. It has snatched away all the peace and rest from human mind. It is like a man walking on his hands, head down, legs up like an acrobat. The denizens of this earth who before the discovery of earth's motion had gone about their business with a confidence that the earth beneath their feet, was at rest and reliable; are now seen  in their hard endeavour to catch up with furiously racing earth, they being mercilessly tossed about; their bellies convulsed by the jerks and jumps , their hats flying backwards in the fierce back-rush of wind and they with their mouths wide open struggling to keep their balance, rising and falling alternately. And when we see this our condition, we are reminded of a verse of the Quran which reads:-

       "Is he, therefore, who goeth groveling upon his face, better directed than he who walketh upright in a straightway?".

                                                                        (Quran 67 ,22)

       It is amusing to observe Milton, in the midst of raging controversy about the rotation of earth, chanting his worthy verse and wonderful thought in so detached a manner:-

What if the sun,

Be center to the world, and other stars

By his attractive venture and their own

Incited, dance about him various rounds?

Their wandering course, now high, now low, now hid,

Progressive, retrogressive or standing still,

In six thou seest and what if seventh to these,

The Planet earth, so steadfast though she seem,

Insensibly three different motions move.

       (Paradise Lost Book VIII)

The Quran says also and astonishingly so:-

       "Say: Unto whom (belongeth) the earth and whosoever is therein, if ye have knowledge? They will say: Unto Allah. Say: Will ye not then remember? Say: Who is Lord of the Seven heavens, and Lord of the Tremendous Throne? They will say: Unto Allah (all that belongeth). Say: Will ye not then keep duty (unto him)? Say: In Whose hand is the dominion over all things and He protecteth, while against Him there is no protection, if ye have knowledge? They will say: Unto Allah (all that belongeth). Say: How then are ye bewitched?".

                                                            (Quran 23 , 84 to 89)

       Now whether the earth moved around the sun or the sun moved around the earth, or both moved around each other in a dance, or whether earth moved from West to East or East to West, what should all this mean to us mortals who have but to sojourn for a while in the earth and then leave it as strangers. The significance has to be attached to Him who owns all this. The real Master. And our ability, entity, genius and power be directed towards finding out the reality of Him who created all this that we see, touch, taste, hear and smell but fail to understand further the ultimate reality. And let the Creator be the object of our search, whether through his material works, the objects of our sense, or through the inner world of mind, for, that also is a world in itself, complete. Or else we die, all of us, and our boat sinks in atomic hell.

(4)   DARWIN'S BIOLOGY

       Our unscientific philosopher tells us rightly, that Galileo's astronomy and Darwin's biology created a revolution of thought. But even greater change in human outlook has been affected by Darwin's philosophy than Darwin's biology could ever have succeeded to affect. Not the biological facts, but the philosophical inferences as are implied by Darwin's theory of evolution that actually deserve our attention. Inspite of sincere and strong remonstrances of Darwin himself against the complaints of men about the serious damage which his philosophy was doing or was prone to do in time to faith, the fact remains, that the anti-religious movement which commenced with Galileo's astronomy, rightly or wrongly, found its culmination in Darwin's philosophy. By faith is not meant here a popal institution or a set of rituals, but faith in purpose, in Creator and in Creator's current vigilance and final judgment. Darwin's Biology is not the subject. Biology is a set of laws and rules. If at first incorrectly understood, it could in time find correction. And these are but rules and laws not of Darwin but of the Creator. Darwin's philosophy that is the philosophical inferences drawn by Darwin from those rules and laws is our subject. Darwin by imputing a base origin to man and indeed without a decisive proof, has done an irreparable wrong to already distressed mankind, by snatching away from them that pearl, that great power of mind, that mainstay of theirs against every mean temptation, and so, the so called human monkeys would do what the monkeys were by nature wont to. Indeed, a race of monkeys and not human-beings could be carried away by temptation and by folly to create atom bombs and hell bombs for the destruction of human species, or to play the ostrich and tolerate the presence of such a monstrosity as the nuclear power after it was clearly known to be a sure harbinger of an unfailing annihilation of the whole mankind and was further a symbol of a most painful existence of humanity on earth even in its mildest forms. It is with heartfelt sorrow, that one will observe in near future the Darwinian race of humans, one and all, sitting on the roof of the world, like herds of monkeys to your horror, hastily engaged in boring holes with fastest hammers and sharpest chisels amidst a din of constant titter and unending, unintelligible gibberish ratatat, manipulating hammer and chisel with such amazing dexterity as would have surprised Darwin since the monkeys of his time, as he himself has observed, lacked the ability of using hammer correctly. We are so very sorry to remark, but times are fast approaching when to Darwin's own horror the Darwinian race of anthropoids will be seen to drive the last nail in the coffin of humanity with a skill so unusual, as would touch Darwin's heart so deeply, that the gloomy spectacle would bring such excessive grief to his heart, that once dried out lachrymal glands of his petrified eyes would resume lackromose quality once more and tears would gush forth from his eyes copiously and he might easily weep to his heart content at the sad end of this miserable race.

       Whether Darwin's theory of evolution be correct or not, is not the question; so far it has been left without a decisive proof of any kind, and judging from the progress which hitherto has been made in that direction, it is not difficult for anyone to surmise that there exist no sings of a proof, and instead the talent of Darwin's disciples is on gradual decline, but Darwin's philosophy has two facets. It has biology and it has philosophy. It even has another facet that of psychology. Let no one therefore endeavour to conclude, due to insufficient knowledge that the Quran agrees with evolution. It is very deep waters that intervene between the two, and many may be doomed to drowning themselves therein without ever a hope of emerging alive. We have here neither space, nor it seems proper occasion to do justice to this extremely difficult and unusually delicate topic. But what we can clearly say here is, that so far as the philosophy of Darwin is concerned, the philosophy itself and its nefarious influence on humanity, no philosophy on earth could be more repulsive to the sense of the Quran than this philosophy of Darwin. Darwin's philosophy is the most grievous outrage upon faith in a false guise of science. The Quran therefore has lavished due amount of attention on Darwinian views. we may not here quote much, but will endavour to receive enlightenment on some salient features of the subject, by the Quran.

       The Quran has never meant human-beings to resemble monkeys. There happens to be radical difference between the nature of man and that of a monkey. The Quran has always referred to the race of monkeys with extreme contempt and unconcealed hatred. E.g. the Quran likens such men as opposed the truth and calumniated the believers on the basis of envy and mischief, to monkeys and pigs. The Quran says:-

       "Whom Allah hath cursed, him! Worse is he of worst sort. Allah hath turned some to apes and swine, and who serveth  idols. Such are in worse plight and further astray from the plain road".(Quran 5 ,60)

       There is no harm in either studying the natural science or contemplating the origin of man or of the universe. It is rather a desirable aspect. Desirable indeed it is, provided it helps to illuminate one's mind, for here are great lessons in it for the thinking mind. But the egregious folly which Darwin has committed, and consequently, incalculable wrong which he has done to wretched humanity, lay in the fact of his rash, indiscreet and imprudent act, that of depriving man's mind of a time-honoured and unfailing support, a most invaluable support psychologically a thought of noble origin, by imputing an abject and plebian origin to a human race. O! how ill-conceived a thought, how woeful a bane, how indelible an opprobrium, and how painful the story. Bitter anti-religious feelings resulting from a continued oppression by a tyrannical church-as the Christian writers in most lamenting tones forever tell-ran wild at the cruel site of Bruno's burning pyre, and were further fanned by the story of the forced recantations of poor, aged and haggard Galileo in Rome and culminated in convulsive pangs of Darwins evolutionary gastrics to a real misfortune of humanity, a poor miserable humanity shifted but from the hands of the inimical priest to the hands of even a more inimical community namely that of benign scientists who had in store for mankind even more grievous calamities than those experienced on the hands of priest, so much so that the atrocities perpetuated on Christianity by the servants of the Church were to be far out shadowed by the atrocities to be perpetuated by the avowed servants of the whole mankind, that is the kindly men of science, amongst whom Darwin stood most or at least one of the most outstanding, as the most illustrious killer of human mind. The accumulations of atrocities, eccentricities, excesses, tyrannies, and corruptions, both actual and fabled, of all the churches, temples, pagodas and synagogues united would vanish before the heat flash of a single atomic bomb, and if nothing is ever done to bring back faith to humanity, no prophetic genius of Cassandra is needed to foretell the miserable doom which awaits human species. But let us revert to our friend Darwin. Had Darwin been endowed with a little wisdom, he would never have pursued the matter so far back into other dark, so far back into the regions, where no scientific proof could be had to support the theory, and mere speculation were the only guide. Nay even if the evolution were a probable truth, we can say, without in any way giving much offence to the spirit of enquiry, that it was far better for Darwin to conceal  the fact from the eyes of humanity until proved in view of, that irreparable damage which the disclosure of such a fact was apt to do, in case man's origin were not truely and incorrigibly base. It were in the interest of mankind itself, that the ugly conjecture were prudently concealed. For, a lot of good is done to those and by those who think their origin to be noble. It would do any bastard himself ignorant of the stigma, not at all any good to tell him the fact of his base origin. A bastard by birth may turn into bastard by conduct after the grim fact has lighted on his mind and made it heavy with hatred. But if Darwin left adamant, then in true character of a scientist, he must have bound himself to fetch the proof, and then only ought to have spoken of his amusing tale of humanity's lost tail, we say, the Nuclear power is a truth. A truth well supported by proof If then tomorrow humanity is consumed by that truth, what good the discovery of such a truth did to humanity. They shall curse the day when such a truth as this was discovered. We will stake our knowledge of Darwin's philosophy and tell the whole innocent world, that Darwin and his disciples have most miserably failed to fetch a scientific proof of any kind whatsoever. It is all no more than a wretched day-dreaming of sick wandering mind. We ask with all the possible solemnity, "Is Darwin's theory of evolution a truth. Has it been proved. If so, how and where"? So nefarious a theory must never have been made public without first having found the proof of it. I believe I am vexing a little harsh, but, does a thing which brings such destruction, deserve softness. There might be some one who would perhaps be a little displeased at such a treatment of Darwin, but, I say, why those sympathizers of evolution do not exert to find a proof, a final, decisive proof of that theory, and raise Darwin to a place of respect. A few rotten fossils will not do it prove so formidable a leviathan as origin. Is there any hope of a theory finding a proof when the disciples of the Master would not be even able fully to understand, what their master did say. This, the disciples of Darwin do themselves confess. We do however believe that Darwin's philosophy has been proved in one way at least just as certainly as the atomic nuclear theory has displayed its proof in Hiroshima. And the proof of Darwin's Philosophy is most vividly manifest in the ruins of the Hiroshima of human mind, since that philosophy has paid its visit to this once flourishing city.

       And now, after this little diversion let us assume comparison of Darwin's philosophy with that of the Holy Quran. The example which presents a most typical contrast of the two philosophies that is of Darwin and the Quran, is that of a martyr. A martyr according to the Darwinian standards of survival is utterly unfit for survival and therefore a failure, since he was unable to live and he died. Whereas according to Quran's philosophy, martyr has proved to be something even more than those fittest for survival. He has attained immortality. The cycle of Darwin's philosophy would end within this material world but that of the Quran extends to the next world. But before we do that, let me say, that no man ever will know the origin, just as no man will ever be able to know the end of the world.

The Quran says:-

       “Think not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead. Nay, they are  living. With their Lord they have provision. Jubilant (are they) because of that which Allah hath be