THE CONCLUDING WORD

To whatever creed, colour, caste, religion or faith you may belong, the atomic bomb will not discern and burn all alike white, yellow, dark or brown. All human beings are an equal prey of nuclear energy and all have a common cause against this greatest of all enemies of mankind. If it was the question of death only, the case would have been quite different. You could easily make bonfire of this world. But it is not so. It means a painful existence also More painful than any human Mind can imagine. You have all to see with your own eyes your next generation of cancer-ridden, dull-eyed, pitiable monsters. And above all else the shame to which the sons of Adam would be put before the devil who had shown great displeasure at the creation of a lowly anthropoid of mould and had refused the explicit command of the Creator to bow before Adam, and had thus incurred the wrath of God. You may think at this present time of sceptic thoughts, such things as fantastic but you shall realize their truth in due course perhaps soon, when you wake up from your deep slumber.

Let the scientist remember that the first detonation of an atomic bomb in a war shall prove the first and the last fatal blow to science, and their philosophy such as we have quoted in this book have prepared the way to Atomic warfare. Let, again the scientist not forget his honest role regarding the matters of science as in the past, and let him tell the whole world plainly and selflessly that the nuclear energy due to its inherent ionizing radiations is a danger, deadly and inevitable to the existence of humanity, and let him picture a world of cancer-ridden, impotent and miserable monsters to his fellow human-beings who have come to place at rest in him. Let the scientists clear their conscience by telling the innocent humanity, that the nuclear energy is dangerous whether used in the name of peace or war. Otherwise, O scientists ! you will rightly deserve the epithets far more worse than which the victimized Christian community had coined for the tyrannical priests, and indeed signs are that your atrocities shall prove of a nature far worse than those of the papal origin, nay, but your cruelty will far exceed all the cruelty of all sorts of felons in the whole history of mankind, united. The advantages of power which the nuclear energy may bring to human kind are a mere triviality against the harms which are inherent in the nature of this power. Or contradict my word, honestly but pray do not fall into the superfluous categorization of permissible doses and lethal doses. Every nucleon shot into the heart of an atom is lethal eventually. You will never succeed despite your strenuous efforts in finding any means to neutralize the ill effects of atomic fission. And O, political leaders of nations! you cannot be assumed as ignorant or unaware of the hazards that are incident on nuclear energy. You very well know that in case of atomic warfare your country has no chance to escape her ruinous consequences. You have by now realized that the possession of atomic bombs can no longer be expected to create a wall of terror around your country against your foes, nor it is to remain for long a title of special prestige or a sign of exceptional power, but rather you will soon see in dismay that the non atomic people's as well as the atomic people, that is whole vast mankind will gradually develop a bitter hatred of nuclear energy in proportion to their fast increasing knowledge of the injurious effects thereof in time of peace and a hail of retaliative atom bomb in case of war. Why not then realize the grim truth in time and be saved. Do you people feel no compassion for your people and indeed poor miserable and worry-ridden mankind of this materialistic age? Why not then live in peace and free from constant threat of nuclear war, and move towards the ultimate destination on the path of peace, love, sympathy and prosperity like good, fellow human-beings and fellow-sufferers of the afflictions of this life on earth, or are you sworn to destroy mankind and along with mankind your own people: nay, even yourselves and your own children. And do you not realize that no-no-atomic-war could be expected to be reliable. Or, is it very pleasant to take the flood of a whole world on your head. Will you sit for awhile alone and think.

I have to say a word to the religious leaders too. I know you are equally dependent on the tyrannical needs of life, but your peculiar duty towards humanity and your particular station demands a sacrifice of your desires more than anybody else. Will you not recognize then, the urgency of the situation and will not you prove true to the salt and worthy of special place you hold amongst humanity and will you not rise to the occasion, casting away petty little prejudices and other very small considerations, to adopt a pure, crystal clear faith, and a generous, sympathetic and cordial disposition, to work wisely and selflessly according to the demands of the occasion, in all love for him in whose name you work, and affection for his poor creatures who are being now dragged helplessly and whipped mercilessly by cruel circumstances towards a horrible doom, in utter darkness. That, perhaps humanity may be saved and with it the civilization which was once holding such esteem. Man, since the birth of humanity, has kept up an un-interrupted endeavor towards building a civilization through a path of sweat and tears, trial and turmoil, and ordeal, struggling incessantly generation after generation, century after century, rising step by step, age after age, till the fruit of such endless labour came to be inherited by the modern age. It was a most solemn duty of the denizens of the modern age to keep up the standard of that civilization which they had received as a solemn trust from pervious ages, nay, they were even expected to add something to the existing luster thereof and further bequeath it to future generations. But unfortunately despite their endeavors and genuine efforts at enlightenment, and indeed great strides in certain very important factors of civilization, there has appeared a darkness in certain other factors, so much so that the beauty of those bright spots that were the glory of this age, and the characteristic beauty of its civilization, were tainted, so that this fascinating civilization instead of giving peace and life, has come to constitute the most injurious hazards not only to the mind but also the body of the modern humanity. It has come to threaten, with unfailing certainty, the very existence of the human species, nay, every species that now exist on earth. Yet the strangest thing that could be noticed despite their knowledge of these facts, is that there is not a soul who ever stirs or even speaks a word. They all go towards the burning hell, dumb, deaf and blind, spell-bound.

Now, to chalk out a process to avoid the atomic hell is not such difficult, if men do sincerely want to avoid this danger. Enkindle the extinguished torch of faith. Develop fear of God and the remembrance of the day of judgment in heaven. It is all something but natural to man. Let the wealth be deposed from its Godhead ,and let it be brought down to its proper place, as means and necessity in order to better the life which is in heaven, the eternal life. Let every affair of the world be subjected to the thought of the other world. There is peace, contentment and joy in it. Let men enjoy the feast of this world but only to prepare for the service of God and humanity. Knowledge, power, wealth, science and the world are nothing in themselves. It is their use and the intent behind it that matters. Achieve progress in science but not to destroy but to build. Know that this life is only transient, a short journey. You can never become immortal. Cast away this maddening greed and dwell serene. Let this world be a garden of peace, and not a hell ablaze. Turn your science to a better use, that is to a peaceful use. Let your science turn this abode into a garden of peace, plenty and prosperity, and let not science ever set your house on fire. And know that the rule regarding the use and intent which applies to power, as well as science, knowledge and wealth does not apply to nuclear power, the atomic power as you call it. It is the only exception from the rule. It stands beyond the bounds of the reconcilement, whether used for peace or for war. It is for ever dangerous. It is never at peace with the environment. It has only one face and that is of death. Its generation means destruction, inevitably. Let the habit of back-biting and slander, and complete engrossment in the accumulation of riches, that is excessive greed, and the deification of wealth be abjured, that the atomic power be dissolved in the rays of a sun and caused to disappear like the mist. And let man's life be balanced between matter and mind, material and spiritual, wealth and contentment, this world and the other world. Eat, that you be able to serve God and fellow human-beings. Wear that you may be protected from Cold and heat. Acquire wealth that you spend it on those more needy. Be generous, hospitable, soft-spoken and truthful, but stand against evil manfully. Judge not men on the basis of blood, colour or substance but let men be judged on personal merit. The fear of God and love of good, being the criterion of judgment. Let the sense of equality prevail among you, and let there be strict economic and social justice. Know that it is this economic and social injustice that is the source of hundred and more troubles and is responsible for most of the human misery today and always. Never forget, that extremely bad times are ahead for humanity. Let now the senseless, over-dazed and dizzy race of drunken dupes of wealth, get a little sober and think, and look up towards the horizons, and see carefully, what's ahead. Now if you have looked up and seen the dread spectacle, then sit back to think once for all, that the verdict of the time is that, "Let mankind either ban the nuclear power or else prepare to die a most ignominious death following a most miserable existence". And also, that the nuclear power will never be banished unless the banishment of those characteristics which were responsible for the emergence of nuclear power is affected. Awake therefore and dissolve not the creed built in the heart of things before a twinkling atomy. This was said by Wordsworth, and you will find it prefixed to" God and the atom" of Ronald Knox, who knocks in his book, on the hearts of men, but will they open the door of their heart:-
“To let a breeze in their heart of hearts "

It is surprising to see the Christians so deeply involved in so gross a materialism, while the essence of Christian, religion is a negation of slander and back-biting, renunciation of the world, and a strong hatred of wealth.

There remains a point, which might have every now and then risen in many minds during their perusal of this work, namely, that men having those particular characteristics which have been given out by the Quran as the cause of the emergence of atom bomb, might with justice be subjected to atomic conflagration, but what of those others, innocent of these qualities who also will see the same doom with those guilty. Why should they be punished for that they have not done. The answer to this very genuine question is, firstly that there might not be found in the whole world of today many who might fully be regarded as innocent of those qualities. The wind has blown throughout the world. But, if there be some, or many such souls, and it is wished there be many because they are the hope of man's future on earth, then they will share the punishment along with those guilty, because of their reticence and their silence and their cowardly or insensible compromise with the circumstances. Let them rise against the hazard, and do whatever is possible for them to do, in order to avert the danger. According to Islamic ideology they are to be deemed as partners in the guilt, if they do not exert to the best of their power, might, and influence against the danger. But, if despite their genuine endeavours they fail and become the victims of a conflagration brought on them by the guilt of others, then of course they will be recompensed in the next world by Almighty Allah. The situation however in the world today is that not one among millions might happen to know anything about the reality of nuclear energy or the effects of its radiations, although the somber clouds of atomic calamity scowl on the horizon of unwary mankind to consume them any moment, and a voice against the dangers of nuclear energy is still to be heard. There appeared one such voice once, the voice of Late Bertrand Russell, and an alarm was sounded fairly loud, but the essence of his experience reflects from a sentence which now lies before me:-

"Since Adam and Eve at ate the apple man has never abstained from his follies, what-ever he was capable of, and the end is:-THE ATOMIC EXPLOSION".

Chapter 12:

THE CONCLUDING WORD