If every single soul today living on this earth turns Shakespeare by some miracle, and they chafe themselves to death in their combined effort to describe the horrors of the atomic war, they will never be able to succeed in their enterprise. And if every one of these turns Dante to make a combined effort in portraying the atomic hell in their secular tragedy against the Divine Comedy of Dante they also will fail. Yet this present day world is full of misunderstandings, misconceptions and illusions regarding the atomic hell. Just as no man can see his own face, this present day mankind is quite unable to see the truth of their own making that is the atomic hell. The tragedy of this present mankind however, is a little different. They inspite of their knowledge of the facts do as if they knew it not. The atomic bomb, it is known to them that, it is not a weapon of defence, nor even it is a means of war, rather it is the means of complete annihilation of life on earth, though as yet they know not that it is the wrath of God enkindled against them; and they are busy in building their stockpiles afresh, or are engaged in improving their existing stockpiles. They take their stockpiles as a deterrent to atomic war, and here the doubt approvers in the quality of their understanding, for there could hardly be found another more evident delusion than this. Their behavior However, in this respect becomes a species of ostriches hypnotized by the influences of the impending doom they are by themselves busily bringing upon themselves.
A single atomic bomb consumes the largest city, killing its inhabitants, crushing its buildings to power, setting on fire all that is combustible therein and covering the whole area with radioactive substances. The megaton thermonuclear bomb lays waste areas equal to large states, causing the fruit of centuries-long toil and labor to disappear as if by a magic wand. The atomic bomb kills those exposed by its heat flash. It buries those in the buildings under those buildings. Those who would escape both these ordeals they are chased by the atomic radiations, and killed or left to live as cancer-ridden, miserable men envying the end of those who died in the event. The radio genetic effects appear in some future generation, changing men, animals and plants into miserable chimeras and making them extinct and rendering this earth uninhabitable for millions of years after that. The desire of building the atomic bombs despite the knowledge of all these hazards is certainly symptom of the suicidal tendency in sheer disappointment. And no doubt, the yearning for joining the atomic bomb builders club is the yearning for joining the universal club of atomic suicide.
God, the creator of this world, anticipated this avalanche of atomic fire, for he had this in His view fourteen years ago. It is fourteen centuries ago that God in the Quran placed His warning about the atomic hell, characterizing the nuclear phenomenon in terms that clearly distinguished and differentiated the characteristics of nuclear phenomenon from the chemical, electrical and gravitational in a most precise and indeed scientific manner. So exact is the characterization, and so comprehensive, that is the wonder and delight of a mind of the caliber of an Einstein, a Chadwick, a Fermi or a Rutherford. His prophecy of the Quran indeed is a miracle, and guidance and the only ay of hope for this present mankind in averting the danger of atomic conflagration. Both this discovery and the work on it which ranges over about fourteen hundred pages in two volumes as a series of atomic hell in my won. Indeed by the Grace of Almighty Allah, unshared. The work has employed nineteen years in the actual treatment of the subject, besides the prior nineteen years as the preparatory period. “2nd December, 1942, the day on which Enrico Fermi succeeded in realizing the slow neutron fission chain reaction in the squash court of Chicago’s stag field or near about was the date of some strange experience to me that set me on the track on the which I trotted unawares till in the year of 1961 my object, the prophecy of the Quran I glanced flashing before the eye of my mind. It was a sort of prepossession, and indeed it has been a heart-breaking- and blood-curdling ordeal of the first victim of the atomic hell since the year of 1942. And now in the year of 1979 I find myself finally prepared to take the test with this key to the destiny of mankind in my hand. Let this be, however, made clear that my treatment of the entire subject throughout has been based on science and philosophy, and nowhere an assertion has been made on the dint of the divine authority of the Quran. The topic being basically of scientific nature has to be treated on the basis of science. No consideration of any kind has been allowed to creep in to influence the trend of thought. It has been throughout, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Strange indeed are the works of the providence. If on the one hand a full world was engaged in the preparation or in aiding and abetting the preparation of the atomic hell, one lonely, obscure person. In some lonely hut, unacquainted with and away from the colleges and laboratories was preoccupied with the preparation of the extinguisher of the fire of the atomic hell, and the neutralizer of the atomic bomb , a work not considered as possible and in a line different from that of the scientist engaged in the nuclear field. And now this is the only hope of mankind. If this cannot save this mankind from the atomic disaster, no other power beneath this blue sky can.
The Quran in its warning against the atomic hell has not only treated the nuclear phenomenon, but has also characterized the Baconian design of modern atomism giving it out as the cause of the appearance of the atomic hell. The Quran has used the term Hotamic Hell which according to the interpreters of the Quran is a hell in the next world. But it is a hell of a peculiar kind as distinct from other types characteristically. The atomic hell of this temporal, transient world is the representation of the eternal Hotamic hell of the next eternal world, Justas fire is the representation of hell, and Garden is of the paradise of the next world. Not only the characteristics of the Hotamic hell as are given by the Quran and of the atomic hell are identical, but also the causes of the punishment in the Hotamic hell and theca uses of the appearance of the atomic hell of this world are the same.
The following is the prophecy of the Quran, rather the prophetic warning. You can call it the Islamic bomb.
“Woe to every backbiter, defamer, who amasseth wealth (of this world) and arrangeth it (against the future). He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal. Nay, for verily he will be cast into Al-Hotama. And what could teach thee what Al-Hotama is? It is fire of Allah enkindled which leaps up onto the hearts. It is (a fire) closed in on them in outstretched columns.” (Quran –CIV- al-Homaza)
Following is the characterization of the Hotama by the Quran, which no knowing nuclear scientist in the world can deny is the exact characterization of the atomic energy:-
The Quran has called it Hotama. Hotama means a crusher, a breaker so is the atomic energy a crusher, a breaker. The atomic energy is the binding energy of the atomic nucleus and is generated by breaking, crushing the binding of the nucleus of the atom. This is a characteristic of the atomic energy which is a distinguishing characteristic of the atomic energy, for; it distinguishes it from every other type of energy, chemical, electrical or gravitational. No other energy excepting the atomic energy is generated by merely breaking something or crushing. And because the atomic energy crushes the atom which is the basic building block of the universe, and so also the atomic radiation crushes the nucleus of the cell which is the basic unit of life, the atomic energy might deservedly be called as the absolute crusher.
The Quran says:-
“The fire of Hotama is one that leaps up onto the hearts”. And so does the atomic energy. The atomic particles leap up onto the nuclei of these atoms in the fission process of the generation of atomic energy and energy is generated. In the case of the fusion process the heat produced by the inner fission device is directed onto the fusile material, and the nuclei of the atoms of the fusile material are fused together in groups and the atomic energy is liberated. The Quran has used the word hearts whereas the scientist has used the word nuclei. These two words, that is the heart and the nucleus are synonymous and are used in the same meanings. The authority of the scientist himself in this respect is on our side. The scientists themselves call frequently the nucleus as heart, and the standard text books of atomic physics are replete with the examples in which the nucleus of the atom has been called as heart.” We will cite but two examples:-
“Each fast particle comes from the breakup of the very heart of a single atom … the nucleus…of the radioactive material”. (Vide Physics, physical science study committee… second edition. D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts. July 1965. Page 130)
“How many nuclear heart-beats are there in the life-time of a radio-active nucleus which lasts but billionth of a second” (Ibid: Page 21 .Short problems)
That the atomic energy is generated within the nuclei of the atoms is a distinguishing characterizes of the atomic energy, for no other kind of energy is generated within the nuclei. Every other type of energy, chemical, electrical, gravitational leaves the nuclei of the atoms untouched and intact. The term nuclear science at once decides the point.
The Quran says:-
“The fire of Hotama is closed in on them”. So has the atomic energy encompassing features. Out of numerous examples we will cite but two. Firstly that, whereas the radiations attack the cell in its resting stage, the effects of radiations appear only in the anaphase of the cell. Secondly that, the radiations mutate the genes of any one generation, while the effects of the radio genetic effects appear after the lapse of several generations, leaving the intervening generations without any apparent effect.”
The Quran says:-
“The fire of Hotama is a fire closed in on them in outstretched columns”. The outstretched column of the atomic bomb explosion is so evident that it has become a symbol of the atomic bomb.”
The Quran says:-
“What could teach thee what Al-Hotama is “? And indeed so complex, so bafflingly complex is the subject of nuclear science that the very same question could be put to any nuclear scientist, namely, “what could teach thee what the subject of nuclear sciences is?” And the answer will invariably be, nothing. ”
Turning to the philosophical side of the prophecy we find the characterization of the Baconian philosophy of modern atomism.
The Quran says:-
“Woe to every backbiter and defamer”. The habit of backbiting the doctrines of faith is the inherent characteristic of the ancient atheistic philosophy of atomism of Greek atomists. The habit of backbiting in the modern age of atomism has received an intellectual and sophisticated turn as is complained by the leading writers of this age in the west. The change of the meanings of the word propaganda from mere propagation to defamation in this modern age of atomism would furnish a sufficient proof for the unfortunate fact.”
The Quran says:-
“He amasseth wealth of this world and arrangeth it against the future”. There could hardly be found a more vivid description of the modern continuous, systematic, ever-increasing, and infinite progress which is based on Bacon’s design of modern atomism, i.e. the attainment of man’s dominion over nature for material utility through continuous, systematic and infinite research of science as the actual business of man on earth.”
The Quran says:-
“He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal”. This means that He is so deeply engrossed in the pursuit of the wealth of this world, and is so over solicitous about the durability and flourishing of the worldly material works as if he thinks he has forever to live in this world. This exactly is the case of the present day mankind, the follower of the Bacon’s design of modern atomism. So obvious is the fact of wealth accumulating tendencies of this age, and salacious is the man of today in the durability of the worldly works hat it hardly needs to expand many words in pointing thereto.”
But the Quran says:-
“Nay, for verily he will be cast into Al-Hotama”. That is His notion of forever living in this world and remaining forever rich will be broken by casting both him and his wealth into Hotama to be crushed and consumed. And now exactly the position is that the mankind today stands on the brink of being cast into the atomic hell, both he and his wealth, which it has been accumulating or centuries. There is no dreamy vision, nor indeed are the alarmist views, the inhabitants of Late Hiroshima and Nagasaki stand as very reliable witnesses. New York Moscow, London, Peking, Tokyo, Sydny, Jekartha, Delhi, Islamabad could not be considered exceptions if the mentality of this present-day mankind persists, and the stockpiles exist.”