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Two pre-anti-christs (this is not from an Islamic definition) are joining hands in marriage, Donald the vainglorious, bombastic, egotistic Trump and ‘Beebe’ the heartless liar Netanyahu of the intransigent and artificial, apartheid state called Israel. All that means is that history is headed for the coming of the ‘righteous king’ and the ‘vile pretender’ (who is the real Antichrist). This was prophesied by Muhammad (pbh) the leader of the prophets sent by the ONE GOD to warn and to guide mankind. The Palestinians are getting the ‘boot’ again. May ALLAH cause them to endure fools and idiots!
But this article is about science and religion. Every year, science brings forth amazing discoveries about the planet we live on and the universe we live in. People like Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein have added a little bit to our understanding of the ‘how things’ (probably) work. With each passing decade our understanding of this vast universe of ours increases such that man appears to be on the doorstep of an approach to some of the most long-kept secrets our universe contains.
Yes, the universe’s inner most secrets seem to be falling one by one into the lap of man, who under the theoretical branch of physics and other sciences are obtaining the most hidden secrets. Thanks to theoretical physics matching and merging the laws of quantum physics and covering up the weaknesses of Einsteinian physics, we can now nearly visualize the universe not as our ordinary three-dimensional universe but as a type of creation operating like a two-dimensional object which was before nearly impossible to perceive.
Such a universe would allow the User (Maker, Creator) to control and operate the universe, as we understand it, like a movie film on a projector, which is two-dimensional, and can be manipulated forward, backward or have it stand still.
What this MAY mean is that the universe is like a ‘toy or film’ completely being able to be assembled, patterned out, controlled or manipulated frontwards and backwards with the ending already programmed in, depending on the Desires of the Programmer.
Indeed! If the latest science ‘discovery’ is accurate, it has come forth with a definition of a PRE- PLANNED event made up of REPRODUCIBLE STAGES where TIME itself is sub-servient to the ONE WHO would have planned or developed it and the same ONE WHO directed it and WHO put it as a script with ‘just boarders’ so as to have it cooperate with HIS DESIRE or WISHES which would then equal ‘THE PLAN’.
Such knowledge goes some way in permitting scientists to ‘logically’ and perhaps for the first time to understand, in part only, some of the GREAT AND DYNAMIC NAMES OF ALLAH. Well, at least it pushes the boundaries concerning the dynamics of ALLAH to a more appreciative and higher degree.
It also adds fuel to the concept of ‘invisible records’ some people have claimed to be able to read* concerning past, present and future events.
“And all things have WE preserved on record.” Q (78: 29)
*These records, first mentioned by an earlier primitive religion (claimed by some as humanities first religion) are, as I have said before, colored by the human interpreter such that the knowledge coming out MAY be closely related to actual events but slightly off-key due to some perceptual weakness of the host. A high level ability of getting ‘complete accuracy’ would, in my opinion, be quite rare and thus should never be depended upon in an absolute way. Much better by far are the records (issues) found in the Glorious Quran which is the GUARANTEED WORD OF PERFECTION!
With these political and scientific ‘signs’ come the understanding of the ‘approach’ of the Hour which only THE ONE WHO set the Hour knows about.
So, say that it is just a sign of assurance that time, as we know it, as well as conditions of ‘normalcy’ will come to a close within a shorter rather than longer period of time from now.
Also, in the understanding comes certain knowledge where things become somewhat clearer concerning the past and present – up to a certain point. So let us discuss a really dicey issue where science can’t go because of its basic limitations but it can be ‘elevated’ to a basic belief found in ISLAM.
Right now, science as a field of study is extremely in the pro evolution of species camp found on Earth, including the evolution of man. Thus, the story of adam is basically a type of symbolic-imaginary tale of unreal proportions or so many would say.
However, the records tell quite a different tale even in showing evolution to be a general fact. Islam beats science hands down but there are places where man can’t go and must turn to a system that expects people to ‘just believe’. Islam is part of this but with a twist. It goes something like this:
Humans can excel in knowledge but are held to a certain level that no one can cross. In other words, humans can’t become angels or birds but must operate in their own closed system.
In Islam mankind is asked to elevate himself to a high level of existence within the human sphere by pursuing ‘beneficial knowledge’ while avoiding disrupting, hurtful knowledge.
One of the things to understand about the human race, and I will take this understanding from Dr. Zaghloul Al-najjar, a very knowledgeable scientist who has appeared on Huda TV and Peace TV, is that adam is believed to have been walking on Earth some 50,000 plus years ago.**
**This is a premise admittedly but one has to start somewhere and here is where to start.
In the belief in the ONE GOD and ONLY ONE GOD SYSTEM, I turn now to the use of both science and Islam (religion) to discuss what has been called ‘evolution’.
One of the many NAMES OF THE ONE GOD which are NAMES OF COMPREHENSIVE EXCELLENCE is the name Al-Baree which can be briefly taken as meaning THE MAKER, THE EVOLVER. And the root of Baree (Bara’a) implies ‘an evolutionary process’ that is in motion or evolving from previously created matter. Hence, we have in essence evolution.
For example, many scientists will tell you that the human body contains so and so elements that originated from the explosion of the stars. In other words, we are made up of star material that has been reformed and reshaped or fashioned in a great purposeful design with everything where it is supposed to be and in the condition it is supposed to be in. Hence, the great name of AL-Musawwir for ALLAH. Not only that but the planets and other objects come from these processes.
I am making the point here that we should not argue about evolution because if we can understand the ONE GOD’s other multifaceted NAMES, we will have a better understanding of how ‘things’ fit into the theory of evolution and how things don’t fit.
Islam declares that the ONE GOD had a PLAN, a MOST PERFECT PLAN and perhaps, as HE WILLS, we can see but the briefest glimpse of this PLAN.
Breaking down the super complex into its building blocks is not easy due to an astonishing amount of variables. However, these things become easier to manage with the proper thought put into trying to understand the Quran.
Life is like the water cycle and as it revolves (progresses in this cycle) it eventually repeats itself. Even though we can see this, the dynamics and movement of this cycle instead of being static in one place coordinates in its efforts under varied conditions. However, we can find a general knowledge from this cycle showing its general law of cause and effect.
Scientists, on the life of this world, see evolution and I agree…up to a point. Mankind has been on this Earth for millions of years in some form or shape. Religiously speaking that thought requires a belief in that ‘phase’ of man to be either obedient, or disobedient rewarded or dishonored, elevated or humiliated as a species. How we got to this point is by taking the ONE GOD’s WORD as factual and that HE is the TRUE WATCHER and COMPELLER over mankind dealing out rewards and punishments as HE describes through the holy records themselves.
In other words, man or what may have passed itself off as a man-thing is not drifting alone – unaccountable. Far from it is the case!
We can go to the very beginning now. Islam proclaims Jesus the son of Mary (pbh) a man. For sure, a most honorable and gracious man who happened to be the last prophet to the Children of Israel and as a man he had to eat his daily food or he would grow weak with hunger. In other words, and this is important, he is a normal man and a universal-type of symbol or sign for man though highly gifted and chosen.
Christ the son of Mary was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They both had to eat their (daily) food. See how ALLAH does make HIS SIGNS CLEAR to them; yet see in what ways they are DELUDED away from the truth! Q (5: 75)
Islam describes this man as a ‘Word’ and a Spirit from GOD. He is a Word for several reasons but what we are interested in is the fact that ALLAH declared ‘BE’ and he came into existence. And we, being of the human race, are like him in that we also are ‘words’ as we came into existence. We can only come into existence by GOD’s WILL or EXPRESSION OF COMMAND and therefore, ‘BE’ and we also became.
Verily, when HE intends a thing, HIS COMMAND is, “BE”, and it is {becomes}. Q (81: 82)
We share another thing with Jesus (pbh). He is a Spirit from GOD and we also are a Spirit from GOD. Of course he was born with one head, two eyes, etc. and we form that general pattern also.
Islam insists that we as humans were ‘collectively’ one nation, group or community. And that is why I have said that this ‘collective Spirit’ discussed in Genesis 1: 2 is about this one community of beings as ‘they’ moved together in the beginning as a unified group.
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis (1: 2).
However, we are limited by what we cannot fathom or understand. And this ‘spirit’ tag remains basically a mystery. It is a component of man but beyond that we are refused entry into the unknown.
So mankind, in one form shape or other, has a long history on and apparently ‘above’ Earth. We have a historical record, however, showing many ‘ventures’, trials or attempts to develop a ‘society’ of creatures (we can’t talk very coherently with the dead) who walked upright and made tools of some sort or other pre- 52,000 years ago.
But these attempts (and there were many) all ended in a dead end except one – us (Homo sapiens). This might favor evolution from some apish animal EXCEPT FOR ONE THING. That thing is the understanding and knowledge that can be gleaned from the Glorious Quran.
The human race as formatted today with the emphasis on human characteristics and achievements begins with adam – not as an experiment or a guess work project!
Behold! Your LORD said to the angels: “I am about to create man from sounding clay from mud molded into {a certain} shape:
“When I have fashioned {designed} him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of MY spirit all of you fall down in obeisance to him.” Q (15: 28-29)
No doubt that Adam is the first man or pattern but that might be so very long ago and of that timeline we have no certain knowledge. Why?
Adam had a perfect form that we ‘modern’ humans are patterned after. Those other toolmaking upright walking creatures, even if they made only a sharpened stick, ended up going extinct producing no heir.
But around 52,000 years ago we get an adam and by virtue of that name he becomes a line that will be chosen and accepted as compared to the other rejected ones (fossilized evidence already found).
And because the Quran (the ONE GOD’s WORD) gives a controlled chain of inheritance from this one’s life being – from him and his family to Noah (pbh) to the family of Imran to the believers who are not the Gog and Magog, they are the appointed ones for Paradise. Not just the bodies, but the souls contained within that appointed container or construct enter into life with an appointed form known by scientists as Homo sapiens. So even though the whole Earth was
not destroyed by ‘Noah’s Flood’ enough of what was alien to the adam-race was destroyed.
A lot of extra knowledge has been given which is not part of our discussion but provides an example of a type of reasoning used for the evolutionary, non-evolutionary example of mankind. In short:
We have the knowledge from Islam that the Gog and Magog are human beings. We have the knowledge from Islam that the Gog and Magog will be in the Hell-Fire and that out of 100% of mankind, they compromise 99% or 99 people out of 100 will equal the Gog and Magog. We also have the knowledge from Islam that the Gog and Magog time period for our future reference will come after the death of the Antichrist and before Jesus (pbh) starts his reign as a king of the Earth establishing Islam as the only acceptable belief pattern allowed to exist (and ALL will believe in Jesus before he dies as all humans must do).
And there is none of the people of the Book but must believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them {the ones who did not believe in Jesus as only a man and servant of the ONE TRUE GOD} Q (4: 159)
Now the question concerns the existence of a pattern (of belief and of physicality) to show the ‘pure’ human from the other things sometimes called the ‘pre-humans’ or those creatures who don’t fit into the Homo sapiens’ group.
With these ‘other specimens’ or the pre-human creatures, the form and the functional beauty is wrong and the missing one nation, one idea concept is also wrong. It is wrong for various reasons but the so-called stops and starts of the various forms and capacities of this creature called ‘primitive man’ does not show an ‘adam’ that we can relate to.
Anyway, Islam tells us that the ONE GOD is ‘relatively’ swift in punishment after determined or set chances and so we can only wonder about what the angels saw and why they were simply terrified and extremely puzzled as to why they should bow down to the ‘superior’ creature we call man.
We are not given specific particulars on this issue except in all probability of ‘patterns of arrogance gone wrong’. And the ONE GOD’s WRATH when people, groups, nations or individuals try to:
No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a Book before WE bring it into existence: That is truly easy for ALLAH:
In order that you may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favors bestowed upon you, for ALLAH does not love any vainglorious boaster,
Such persons are covetous and commend covetousness to men {to be like him or possess his traits}. And if any turn back (From ALLAH’s WAY), verily ALLAH is free of all needs, WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE. Q (57: 22-24)
According to one hadith: the ONE GOD declares, “Pride and Glory are MY GARMENTS and whoever claims them, I (will) torture him.” (Muslim)
Each holy Book has its own expressions. The Old Testament in Genesis talks of some type of ‘mixing’ or enjoyment with pre-adam-type creatures. This could be translated as some men had a ‘duty’ to perform but ‘sunk down’ to the level of ignorance and promptly forgot their purpose as they enjoyed forbidden activities.
The New Testament speaks, if one can see it, in the Gospel of John as some individuals actually possessing a good show of power and thinking that they were like gods. Even the Quran shows a man (one of the Pharos) who believed himself to be above the ‘LAW’.
What these thoughts may amount to are really corrupted individuals who became arrogant and haughty as if they actually mattered to any significance in the great scheme of things.
However, we still have the bones of a few proven fossils who walked upright and did so a few million years ago. In contrast, real humanity, according to Dr. najjar, would have started, let us say, 52,000 years or so ago. That is real humanity as we know it now! That is not just the looks but the ‘whole package’ including Faith as adam was the first prophet!
We also see from this record of uncovered bones a type of developmental process from these upright walkers. For the most part, the scientists can see advancements by certain increments in these bones as if a monkey-like thing was trying extremely hard to reach a perfectly acceptable form – after several or more millions of years of trying.
However, with the idea that adam ‘came forth around 52,000 years ago, we see that the so-called ancient race tried desperately but could not make it. Couldn’t make what? They couldn’t make the Homo sapiens stage with all that that entails including faith and prophethood including the various systems of faith (sects) that followed.
Into our ‘equation’ we have the knowledge and the fact that there are some mighty huge anomalies thrown up to mankind. Prophet Muhammed (pbh) has declared quite truthfully that there is a perfection in ALLAH’s created beings with no deformities. Is it then NOT strange to note deformities (for example, jelly fish children) being born? No it is not, because this is an example of man’s interference with the perfectly created world.
So we learn another important aspect from Islam. Yes, the Prophet (pbh) was telling the truth and the obvious spanner thrown into the perfect world is none other than the egotistical man who is the only ‘fool’ stupid enough to play at being a ‘god’.
It would also be preposterous to believe that THE DOMINANT (AL-Qahhar) THE ALL AWARE (AL-Khabeer) THE POWERFUL (AL-Qadir) AND THE EVERLASTING (AL-Baqee) could possibly be that Spirit that moved across the waters of Earth in wonder of the creation that was to be man’s eventual, temporary home. THE ONE GOD IS TOO GREAT FOR THAT!
When mankind gets to ponder on the ‘proper’, obtainable knowledge concerning his CREATOR LORD, he starts to understand that the Praise, Glory and Honor are all HIS and not owned or possessed by anyone or anything. It is up to HIM and HIM ALONE to elevate or to humiliate any and the word ‘any’ implies all and everything which means all and everything are HIS servants that do HIS bidding and bow down or submit as in their fate to HIM***
***Evil is there for a reason – HIS reason and HIS purpose to ‘cooperate’ in the function of HIS PLAN. The ONE GOD IS TOO GREAT to be running around ‘fixing things’. HE does NOT need to repair ‘PERFECT CREATIONAL PLANS’ to suit the time for HE IS TIME ITSELF in a certain way as Islam declares.
So, all of the negativity or the dross of contemptibleness does either willingly or unwillingly ‘bow down’ to HIS WILL as they ‘fit into’ a pattern or ‘highway’ already made for them – for how can THE ALL-KNOWING (AL-‘Alim) not know HIS own fashioned creations?
The complexity of dwelling upon the subject of evolution is very great. The basics are plain and simple. Yes, evolution exists as to fulfilling a DEVELOPMENTAL PLAN which, if one thinks about this, it becomes infinitely awesome and too big for the brain of man to comprehend except in small parts.
Combining science with revealed TRUTH would permit (only because that is one of the infinite patterns created by HIM WHO created us) the human to understand more about his CREATOR LORD and to Praise HIM more in awe and wonder of HIS ETERNAL BEING (GREATNESS IN ITSELF – AL-Qayyum).
It also forms a stark contrast between ugly and disgraceful thoughts of a god-type creature walking on the Earth in a limited capacity or the nonsense man threw up as to their primitive thoughts concerning a god-man.
And it also allows the courageous man or woman the ability to submit themselves to the enhanced belief of those who desire true salvation in a true system of belief (true religion – ISLAM) guided by a guaranteed BOOK kept pure and original the Quran. ****
****Some ‘reverts’ to Islam might declare that though they had a good belief concept previous to Islam, when they ‘evolved’ into Islam, their belief concept became much better enhanced, more spiritually uplifting and more purposeful and practical than their previous belief system.
That is the purpose of ‘knowledgeable investigation’ and the challenge laid down by the CREATOR LORD to investigate and ponder over HIS most beautiful designs. This furthers the Praise that we can offer up to HIM WHO is the MOST DESERVING of all Praise. *****
*****Everything has a balance and man must be realistic in his development. Realistic enough to be aware of seeking out reality BUT NOT INNOVATING a system of lies to be passed off as TRUTH. ******
******Innovation is qualified in hadith into two pathways:
- Bringing in some practice that is truly beneficial and uplifting and the rewards for this will be put upon (shared with) those who practice it with no decrease of benefits for the originator of that practice.
- The harmful innovation basically deals with practices or beliefs CONTRARY TO THE FIXED FORM OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OR BELIEFS given to Muhammad (pbh).
Setting up a committee to take care of the grounds around the Mosque once a week is a good practice while creating a new mandatory prayer time is an evil innovation.
I have seen and have heard of the ‘fudged’ results concerning evolution from both west and east, from the materialistic minded to the more spiritual set. From those who believed that dinosaurs walked with man and that the Earth was created just over 6,000 years ago to those who falsely point to the ‘Cambrian explosion’ age where life seemed to bloom into many so-called new forms – over a period of millions and millions and millions of years of course.
However, guided chiefly by the Quran and physical uncovered evidence, mankind can marvel at the ALL ENCOMPASING WISDOM AND PLAN of the CREATOR LORD. To the ‘materialistic’ people who have put the material world above the spiritual world, the unravelling of the practices of Jesus the Christ (pbh) can now be seen as a result of historical doings whereby people ‘forgot a good deal’ of their religion and kept parts that they couldn’t quite grasp. This thought has been consistent throughout these articles on this website.
From those, also, who call themselves Christians, WE did take a Covenant but they forgot a good part of the Message that was sent to them: so WE stirred up enmity and hatred between the one and the other to the Day of Judgment. And soon will ALLAH show them what it is they have done. Q (5: 14)
Considering the New Testament, we ended up with the presbyters and their gnostic writings but with a lot of their practical teachings being forgotten or ignored. This has resulted in practices and beliefs never sanctioned or believed in by Jesus (pbh) or the original Disciples.
The analogy to this is a steak meal. The steak is the main important ingredient and the seasoning is the flavor addition to make the steak taste better. The steak is the Iman (faith) while the seasoning is the flavor enhancer opening up awareness. What happened was that most of the steak was forgotten and the flavor enhancers were not.
Putting the flavor enhancers as the meal itself gives quite a strange taste and one with little nutritional balance or value. Therefore the ‘allegorical’ part of the religion grew while the practical part had a tendency to recede. And thus was born the errors of dogma causing a most wonderful man and obedient servant to the ONE GOD to be elevated to a position ‘not rightfully his’ or to create a legend built on falsehoods yielding nonsensical dogma.
I honestly can’t remember if I covered a small part of the ‘Spirit of truth’ being like Jesus (pbh) as mentioned in the Gospel of John. Jesus (pbh) was born pure as well as his mother. That is, Satan did not touch the baby but in his attempt to do so, he touched the placenta instead. In fact, all human beings are born with this touch represented by a small ‘blemish’ found in their heart.
But to be like him as a prophecy about the Spirit of truth would fall down if Muhammad (pbh) did not mirror this event. In more than one way he did mirror that event because adam, not Adam, had that drawback, if you will, and then Jesus (pbh) finally did not.
Muhammad (pbh) had that defect that every human has BUT when he was a small child, it was taken out by Gabriel as a special operation on his heart and this was witnessed by several of his small playmates. Hence, he also was made pure in this world by that operation by taking out that small stain found in the heart of the offspring of adam.
So we have, GOD WILLING, a further explanation of ‘he will be like me’ and this is talking about the Spirit of truth who came to teach man about the truth! It seems like he is also a ‘spirit’ being only a man and we come back again to the fact that of ‘that knowledge’ mankind is not permitted much.
If we rightfully believe that adam******* is the standard for the human being we have an extraordinary event of adam, by ALLAH’s WILL, leading the charge for the makings of salvation as, an example, the man who stands by the hotel door to let you in the building. The ‘doorman’ is NOT the owner of the hotel but an employee who is honored as a greeter to those rightfully able to gain access to the building. Hence, the confusion between OWNER and the honorable gate keeper as found in the manmade corruption of the ‘records’. This is represented in the parable of the bridesmaids and the bridegroom found in Matthew chapter 25.
“Then the kingdom of heaven {salvation} will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those bridesmaids got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
But the wise replied, ‘No! There will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. Later the other bridesmaids came also, saying, ‘lord, lord, open to us.’ But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’{To the faithful :} Therefore, keep awake {keep your faith true and strong} for you know neither the day nor the hour.
*******One thing that hadith records do show is that ‘original man’ who I call Adam and his offspring were about 42 feet in height and that ever since mankind has been growing shorter as well as living a lot less longer than the original pattern. There are NO historical recorded findings of this, however. Does that mean that this hadith is false? The answer is NO!
With the notion that man has been walking on this planet for millions and millions and millions of years, the findings of any ‘normal first timers’ would be astronomically low even supposing that their place of origin was directly on Earth in the first place.
And WE said: “O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Garden and eat of the bountiful things therein as (where and when) you will, but do NOT approach this tree or you will run into harm and transgression.
Then did Satan make them slip from the (Garden) and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. And WE said: “Get you down, all (you people) with enmity between yourselves. On Earth will be your dwelling place and a means of livelihood for a time. Q (2: 35-36)
Also, in dealing with the notion of adam being brought forth around 52,000 years ago or so, we find nothing, absolutely nothing in the fossil record (52,000 years is a small drop in the age for fossil finding) concerning men who were over 40 feet in height.
This helps to support the idea that has been presented here such that science and religion, when used in the more correct understanding, can form a powerful tool to help in bringing a greater awareness to the appreciation of THE ONE GOD and our own humble beginnings as well as our responsibilities to HIM WHO MADE ALL THINGS.
