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follows that we have ourselves placed artificial limits, and
we don’t go out of our physical boundaries. With the
advancement of scientific knowledge physics is progressively
peeping into the realm of meta-physics. All the time, although
we don’t make any effort, nature continues working according
to its plan and `program.’ Things leap into existence
or happening the way the Providence has planned and programmed.
Everybody at one or the other stage experiences such quantum
leaps in consciousness or awareness, as quoted in the above
verses. Scientists are increasingly taking interest in quantum
questions.
Research into cases of spontaneous cures of cancer,
conducted in both the United States and Japan, shows that
just before cure appears, almost every patient experiences
a dramatic shift in awareness or consciousness. He knows (beseeches
or believes) that he will be healed. He feels that the force
responsible is inside himself, to which he appeals or places
his hope in. But it is not limited within him – it exceeds
beyond his personal physical dimensions, throughout all of
nature. At that moment, such patients apparently jump to a
new level of consciousness that heals and prohibits the existence
of cancer or any disease. Then the cancer cells or any diseased
cells, etc. either disappear, literally overnight in some
cases, or at the very least stabilize without damaging the
body any further.
As a matter of fact, everyone possesses consciousness.
These miracles seem to be extensions of normal
abilities. When our body repairs a broken bone, why is that
not a miracle? As a healing process, it is certainly, far
too complex for medicine to perform. The reason why curing
cancer by yourself is a miracle but repairing a broken bone
or a wound is not considered as a miracle, comes down to the
mind-body connection. You mend the broken bone yourself because
consciousness makes it mend. The same holds
true for the so called miraculous cancer cure, the long term
survival of AIDS patients, the healing by faith, etc.
The reason that why not everyone manages to take the healing
process as far as it can go, is that we differ drastically
in our abilities to mobilize it. Their ability springs from
a level so deep that you can not go any deeper. To go there
you must get past all the grosser levels of the body –
cells, tissues, organs, and systems – and arrive at
the junction point between mind and matter, the
point where consciousness actually starts to have
an effect.
In all such cases the `mind’ gets `logged
on’ or ‘switched on’ to the Super Intelligent
Mind, from where it gets the healing process `set into action’.
As a normal routine the former gets continuous ‘down
loads’, ‘beams’ and ‘flashes’
even without `surfing’ and searching. It keeps getting
these without asking and without actually knowing what it
really needs. But the problem is, are we conscious or aware
of all this? Planck had a problem with the colour of hot objects.
Classical physics predicted that they should emit lots of
high frequency radiation. But they didn’t. His problem
was solved when he `stumbled upon’ (found by chance)
an equation that gave the right prediction i.e., the correct
spectrum of radiation. In emergencies, the dramatic awareness
like this, may spring from the sub-conscious to the conscious
level, in a flash, from the already ingrained
imprint on mind or humangenome, if we may call it –
The Response is always ready, then and there. When Dhul Nuun
(Peace be upon him) cried from the ‘depths of darkness’
(21-87), Allah responded:
“So
We (Allah) listened to him; And delivered him from distress:
And thus do We deliver those, Who have faith.”
(88) 21- 87 & 88.
“Verily,
my Lord-Master-Owner-Sustainer
is indeed Ever All-Hearer of the Prayer.”
14-39
Such a
leap in consciousness is the quantum jump. It may
not always have to come in a flash, or a beam. Such a sudden
change is a quantum (jump). The word denotes
a discrete jump from one level of functioning to a higher
level – the quantumn leap. In all of these instances,
the faculty of inner awareness seems to have promoted a drastic
jump. Consciousness is a force that we usually don’t
recognize or we undervalue it. Generally we do not focus
our inner awareness or use its real power,
even in the most difficult moments of crisis.
“And
when an affliction befalls men ,
they cry unto their Lord-Master-Owner-Sustainer,
turning to Him in repentance, then,
when He has made them taste of Mercy from Him,
lo! a section of them associates partners
with their Lord-Master-Owner-Sustainer;
so as to be ungrateful for what We have given
them,
So enjoy yourself awhile,
But soon you will come to know.” 30-34 to
35
“Say:
`Who delivers you from the calamities of the land and the
sea,
when you call upon Him (Allah) in humility and
in secret,
saying, `If He delivers us from this,
we will surely be of those who are grateful?’
Say: Allah delivers you from them and from every
distress,
Yet you associate partners with Him.” 6-64
to 69
It is not
only that we lack consciousness or do not try to `log on’
the higher level of awareness but we do not try to understand
even its most manifest evidence in our daily life! That may
explain why `miracle cures’ are greeted
with a mixture of awe, disbelief, and reverence.
“(Although)
the physical basis of science is very solid …(But) on
the other hand, the healing power of mind …(is)
a science in its own right… (i.e) `Satyaa’,
the truth, alone triumphs. Dr Deepak Chopra
points out: “When you look at the Ayurveda’s anatomical
charts, you don’t see the familiar organs…rather
you find astonishing diagrams of where the mind
is flowing as it creates the body. This flow is what the Ayurveda
treats.”
(John Joe McFadden, “Science and world without
reason”, The Dawn, 10.1.2001, and Dr Deepak Chopra,
`Quantumn Healing’.) [Verses from the Holy Quran and
statements without inverted commas are added by the author].
Some
Thoughts on `Mind’:But what we mean
by mind? The mind is a fiction, medically
speaking! It has proved impossible to define it even after
many centuries of introspection and analysis. It was once
believed that there is a smart `technician’ inside the
body, who moved the machine. This technician was called a
soul. Dr Chopra has discussed this mysterious mover at length.
“In a more naïve age, the driver
was thought to be a tiny man, called the homunculus, who sat
in the heart and performed all the gear shifts needed to run
the body. The homunculus went out in the Renaissance, when
anatomists began for the first time to dissect cadavers and
verify what was inside them. The homunculus wasn’t found
inside the heart (neither was the soul) .., Many scientists
since have tried to fill the gap with the brain … (but)
the brain is just another machine. The driver
still needs to be there. I will argue that he is, but he has
become something much more abstract than the homunculus or
even the brain – he is built into the intelligent
power that motivates us to live, move and think…(We
have) to work our way deeper into the body’s inner intelligence,
to try to find about what (Who) motivates
it. Inside us there must be a `thinking body’ (Intelligent
Being) that responds to the mind’s
commands (calls or demands), but where could it be
(see verses 2-186, how and what it could be, see 2-255, 59-22
to 24) and what is it made of ?”- (see Surah 112).
Various kinds of cells (heart, liver, brain etc.)
in a human body are estimated at 50 trillion. The cell, enclosed
in an outer membrane (cell wall) is filled with mixture of
water and swirling chemicals. At the center (its core) is
the nucleus, which safeguards the tightly twisted coils of
DNA. At anytime the innumerable activities being performed
by the body are literally infinite. All these activities
are coordinated into functions and interwoven into the fabric
of the whole.
Consider again,
the example of healing mechanism – it resides somewhere
in this over all complexity. There is no one organ or point
or place of healing. How does it know what to do when disease
attacks? Who does it? Science has no definite
clue! It is incredibly complex. If it fails, even the advanced
science is at loss to duplicate the impaired function.
The body has a mind, which can not just be defined
by the brain or the heart or the neuron. Every one’s
body knows its physical functioning, which shows that it is
`living’. But very few people have
bodies (with minds) that can demonstrate
their functioning in the metaphysical mode.
Intelligence
Pervades the Universe, but Resides Within:Intelligence
is basically the immense know-how. It is
present everywhere in the body. It is far superior to any,
we can ever try to substitute from the outside. It is essentially
important to the material body. Without it, matter would remain
unformed, undirected and chaotic. Intelligence makes the difference
between house designed by an architect and a pile of bricks.
Harun Yahya in his book, “Some Secrets of
the Quran”, (pp.148-149), asks some pertinent questions:
“To whom does the consciousness that
sees and hears (and heals) within the brain belong? Who is
it that watches an alluring world in its brain, listens to
symphonies and the twittering of the birds, and smells the
rose? The stimulations… travel to the brain as electro-chemical
nervous impulses… Who is it that perceives these electro-chemical
nervous impulses as images, sounds, odours and sensory events
in the brain? There is a consciousness in the brain that perceives
all this… To whom does this consciousness belong? There
is no doubt that this consciousness does not belong to the
nerves, the fat layer and neurons comprising the brain. This
is why Darwinist-materialists, who believe that everything
is comprised of matter, cannot give any answer to these questions.”
“That it is He (Allah), Who grants laughter
and tears.”53-43
I think, feel and act because He (Allah) makes
me do all that. Was Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) `on
line' with `Consciousness', in above terms,
or was he using `internet' or `telecommunication’ so
to say in modern scientific terms, when he, while sitting
in Madina, is reported to have sought attention of the commander
of the faithful in their encounter with the Persian Empire
forces, hundreds of miles away? - more than fourteen hundred
years ago!
Science is increasingly assuming the role of the
preacher of the Quran! Internet and computer explain a lot
in this regard, e.g., the `download' (compare the Arabic term
`nazzala') of the Message and its transmission for mankind.
Information technology has only recently made wireless computing
and communication possible through a group of chips designed
specifically for the purpose, called `centrino'.
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