| ALHAMDU
LILLAAH
All Existence and Creation Pronounce Solemnly:
Al-hamdu lillaah! 17-44
“And the conclusion of their prayer shall
be:
All Praise is due to Allah,
The Lord-Master-Owner-Sustainer of the worlds.”
10-10
“The
heavens are telling the Glory of God.
They are a marvelous display of His craftsmanship”.
Psalms 19-1
‘Hamd’
is the sincerely thankful praise for the real creations and
all the related phenomena, not imaginary or un-real. ‘Al-Hamd’
is the deep Praise for the Creator of a perfectly designed
wondrous–beautiful creation in all respects as `reality’
in the world of cause and effect, where immutable physical
laws work in actual effect. In reflection, howsoever cursory
or brief it may be, one can not ignore `grand design’,
beauty and benevolence in the creation. Deeper analysis of
scientific discovery and advancement, howsoever dazzling it
may be, brings a sobering realization that it only opens a
small screen, for further investigation, into the limitless,
seen and unseen wonders of the powerful computer of the Megaverse.
Man is not able to encompass its power and dimensions!
In the physical world everything, in whatever
form, figure or function, is Allah's real creation and not
just imaginary. Many mystics profess that this world is reflection
or manifestation of the Attributes of the Reality. Even as
a manifestation, it is of the Reality. Others deny this physical
existence as an illusion. This has already been discussed
at appropriate places. We have also discussed `real’,
`file’ or `relative reality’. Physical `reality’,
however, is not ‘absolute’.
The statement that the world is rational, is based
on the fact that there is an "order" among all and
in everything. Things don’t happen willy-nilly. They
are related. This inter-relatedness gives rise to the concept
of causation. The sun rises precisely and regularly on cue
because the Earth spins similarly in a regular and punctual
manner. The events that form such sequences are not isolated
or independent. This invariable conjunction of "causally
" related events is regular and smooth. The very existence
of these `patterns' is the manifestation of the world's rational
order, without which there will be no `world' or `cosmos’
but only chaos, which can not continue in perpetuity. The
universe behaves as a complete rational order. It has developed
in a series of rational orders, which proceeded from simple
inorganic to complicated organic orders in stages, to intellectual
and conscious and self-conscious orders in one direction.
“Scientific study has shown that
the rational development of universe is not continuous,
unbroken like a thread stretched from point to point as claimed
by the evolutionists. (This highlights plan, purpose and design
of the Creator for different creations at different stages
or in different frames of space and time.) The universe has
developed in higher and different rational orders, descending
one upon the other. The higher stage rationally dominating
the preceding stages living at a lower rational level. A
stage of development when it runs its course is sealed, immediately
fixing the values attained at the stage. The next
stage, starting simultaneously at its lower rung, dominates
the earlier stages as it progresses. Were it not so
and the process of development continued unckecked at each
stage (with varieties still coming) there would have been
chaos and the higher forms of life and orders would not have
emerged. Repetition of values accomplished at a certain
stage is against the developmental processes of the universe.
As a matter of fact, no development would be possible if nature
had repeated its gains accomplished at a certain creative
stage.
“There are six stages, which are classified,
relative to progressive appearance of consciousness in creation
in one direction. These are: (i) the cosmos-phase I (Higher
Energy Process), (ii) the cosmos-phase II (Low Energy Process),
(iii) the unified physical order of earth, (iv) the vegetables,
(v) the animals, and finally, (vi) the present self-conscious
stage of Man.
“Some of the fundamental laws, which determine
the rational stages relative to progressive appearance of
consciousness in creation reject the materialists’ and
evolutionists’ claim that the developmental process
of life and the universe has been a continuous evolutionary
process. The unbridgeable rational gaps between
the lower and higher stages is thus a scientific fact necessitated
by the creative process which aims at creation of infinite
divergent forms and values which can not otherwise
be achieved in a single continuous evolutionary process.”
“The scientific study of the various stages
developed in the progressive rational orders shows that each
life stage continues to stick to its own forms and values
as a separate and independent unit. ..Once having completed
the animal stage, no animal can jump into the self-conscious
stage of man to become a human being or step down to the vegetables.
Each stage of the universe is a complete plan which
exists as a perfect independent living unit within the over
all creative purpose of the Creator.”
(Muhammad Munir, “Reconstructing
scientific though”, and “States of consciousness”,
The Dawn, 7.9.2003, and 14.9.2003).
Also see the
Part pertaining to the explanation of the term Aalamiin.
These sequences and phenomena are so smooth, regular
and familiar that man gets tempted to ascribe causative potency
and power to the material objects themselves. This has very
wide implications for development of human thought and progress
of society. This gave rise to superstition so much so that
man surrendered his own superiority, sovereignty and destiny
to these objects and events.
Paul Davies in his book ‘The Mind of God’,
(p.32) discusses causality and related concepts at length.
"Closely related to ‘causality’ is the notion
of ‘determinism’ ..If the world is strictly deterministic,
then all events are locked in a matrix of cause and effect..
Ilya Prigogine has expressed it more poetically: `God is reduced
to a mere archivist turning the pages of a cosmic history
book already written’ ..Standing in opposition to determinism
is indeterminism, or chance.. One expression of this indeterminism
is known as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.. that all
measurable quantities are subject to unpredictable fluctuations..
This supposes that quantumn uncertainty is genuinely intrinsic
to nature, and not merely the result of some hidden level
of deterministic activity. In recent years....experiments
have.. confirmed that uncertainty is indeed inherent in quantumn
systems. The universe really is indeterministic at its most
basic level…There is a difference between the role of
chance in quantumn mechanism and the unrestricted chaos of
a lawless universe.. Although there is generally no certainty
about the future states of a quantumn system, the relative
probabilities of the different possible states are still determined...
This statistical lawfulness implies that, on a macroscopic
scale where quantumn effects are usually not noticeable, nature
seems to conform to deterministic laws.
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