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Every single thing is an existence, and existence is established on the
foundation of time and space (distance). While distance is covered through
time, time displays itself in distance, that is, five minutes exhibit
themselves when there is a distance of five minutes. Read an account of a
journey below to understand the equation of time and distance.
These characters portray life.
Two wayfarers, one of tall stature and the other short, were walking on a
path. Though the pace at which they both walked was the same, the
shorter-statured person took shorter strides, while the taller person’s stride
covered greater distance. Though they raised their feet to move forward, the
path behind them was being covered, as if someone was rolling it up. After
covering a great distance, another wayfarer of larger stature joined them. As
they all walked together, they left the path behind them and at the same time,
the path before their eyes, was expanding. They took two steps forward, and
upon taking the third step, they left the path behind them. As the path slid
under their feet, the hands of the clock moved too.
The first wayfarer looked at his watch and said, “It has been twenty
minutes since we started walking; the earth is pushing us as we walk. When our
feet covered the path sliding under our feet in yards and furlong, 20 minutes
of time elapsed.”
The short statured wayfarer added, “We are moving forward, and the path
is moving backwards. If the path is pushing us forward, then it has been 20
minutes since we started walking. What is 20 minutes of time in this case?”
The third wayfarer joined the conversation. He said, “What I have
understood is that when we lift one step, the second step is on the path, and
when we lift the second step, the third step is on the path. Whatever is in
between the two steps is ‘Space’, and even if a fraction of a second passes
between the steps, it is ‘Time’.”
After covering a considerable distance, the wayfarers sat down under a
densely shaded tree located alongside the pathway.
After a brief silence, one of the wayfarers paid attention to their
sitting position and said, “The positions in which we are sitting is naturally
such that it can be called a triangle. Is this triangular formation a mere
coincidence, or is there any wisdom behind this?”
The short-statured man replied in astonishment, “Look above you! The tree
is round in shape. The triangle seems to be inside the circle or under the
umbrella of the tree. However, it is rather peculiar that the umbrella is
established upon earth and so are the three of us; we are all sitting on earth
too. When we were walking, the path was sliding backwards; now that we are
sitting, the earth is fixed in its place, while it is not actually fixed*.
Is the circular (umbrella) shape of the tree and our triangular sitting
position synonymous?”
The third Aadam (man), that was actually an Insaan (an
enlightened being) said, “Friends! The circular shape of the tree is fixed to a
trunk, which is fixed upon the earth. What is the message in the circular
umbrella formed by the earth, trunk, leaves and branches?”
The wayfarers were so engrossed in solving this issue, that they did not
realise the time passing. When they looked at their watches, they saw that an
hour had gone by.
One of the wayfarers spoke, “When we left the path behind us as we
walked, 20 minutes of time had passed. At this moment, we are sitting and
talking, we are not walking, and yet, an hour of time has passed by? Is time
linked to walking or does time pass even when we do not walk?”
The third wayfarer said, “What is worth our attention is the fact that
the time passed when we were walking, and time is passing as we are sitting
too.”
The profoundness of the analysis left the other two wayfarers astonished.
Whether one is walking or sitting, the process of space and time is in
constant movement.
One of them said, “The birth of creations also takes place in space. The
womb of a mother is also nothing but space. Time begins, when the process of
birth initiates in the space. It has never happened that an infant has become
an adolescent and an adolescent has become old without space. The expansion and
contraction of space is time. When Adam and Eve (PBUT) committed disobedience
in paradise, they felt that they were without clothes. This means that the body
and the garment of Adam is space, and due to the disobedience, the space of
their bodies and garment changed. They came from a superior space to an
inferior space.”
The first wayfarer commented, “There are clues to
understand time and space, in the story of Adam and Eve (PBUT) from the
Heavenly Scriptures. This is because Adam and Eve (PBUT) were introduced to us
by these Heavenly Scriptures.”
The third wayfarer, lost in the vastness of the skies, said, “Day,
light, and eon are all space.”
God Almighty has stated:
1. My one day constitutes
50,000 years.
2. My one day constitutes
1,000 years.
That is, the length of a day, or the day being long or short is linked to
its expansion and contraction.
“God Almighty called upon Prophet Moses (PBUH) for 30 nights, and kept
him on Koh-e-Toor (Mount Sinai), for 40 nights.
Though Prophet Moses (PBUH) was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights, only the
space of night is mentioned. This is because, he stayed those 40 days and
nights in the space of night. Time expands in the space of night, and contracts
in the space of day. This can be illustrated with the example of
dreams.”
The second wayfarer added, “From all of this we understand that all
things and sensations are space.”
For example: Clouds float in the atmosphere, and airplanes
fly in between these clouds. All of these are different spaces in their
own right. We use the space of eyes to see them, space of speech to refer to
them by their names, and the space of ears to listen to their sounds. If the
space between a person who is standing on the ground and the airplane flying in
the atmosphere increases, the airplane blurs out and appears to be a dot, and
after a while, the dot disappears from sight i.e., the airplane and its sound
goes further away from the space that mankind is used to seeing and hearing
them at.
The first wayfarer said, “This example applies to all routines of our
life. By this we gather that every thing and sensation is an existence. There
are dimensions in every existence, and every dimension is established on space.
A name is also a space, because a space is identified by a name. If there is no
space, body, or dimension, then it will not be named.”
The third wayfarer said, “All
three of us have names. The space that we identify with a name are all bodies
in their places. In each of these bodies, there is a mind to think, eyes to
see, ears to listen, heart to feel, blood flow to touch, nose to smell, and pores
to feel hot and cold. We are bound to the earth for our settlement, and this
earth which is a space, keeps increasing or decreasing.”
Respected ladies and gentlemen, you have read this editorial; it mentions
the laws of time and space. Read the topic and open the doors to knowledge in
your minds, so that you may understand what the source of time and space is.
May God protect you.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DIN AZEEMI
Articles of 'MESSAGE OF THE DAY' from Qalandar Shaoor Monthly
