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Life-a life-what is a life? Life
is composition of senses- starvation, thirst,
love and affection, hatred and despise, pledge and misery,
watching and listening, apparent
and hidden aspect
of observation, speaking, perception and
feeling, thoughts and illusions are laid on "vertical and horizontal axis".
The vertical and horizontal are stretched so close to each
other, the space between them is not prominent.
For instance, a cloth or a canvas is
embedded with similar architecture of vertical and horizontal axis. When a
picture is drawn on the canvas, it represents itself. Reflecting iridescent
colors, narrating a self, listening others and maintaining silence-but it
speaks and listens. Read this paragraph three times.
Mercurial world-it is an outcome of
appearance and diminishing of objects, an instance of action and reaction. It
is hard to explain the temporal nature of world, neither a dictionary can add
the narration, however it can be exemplified to elaborate the intricacies of
subject matter.
Life
is staged in steps, following a pre-defined
equation, that is:
Water + Dust = Mud .. Human
(Insaan)
"We have created man from an extract of clay. Then We
made him a sperm-drop
in a firm resting place. Then We turned the sperm-drop into a clot, then We
turned the clot into a fetus-lump, then We turned the fetus-lump into bones,
then We clothed the bones with flesh; thereafter We developed it into another
creature. So, glorious is Allah, the Best of the creators." (Quran,
23:12-14)
Salaala
(extract) is primary seed. Mother's womb is the soil for
seeding. Fertilization is the fusion of haploid gametes, egg and sperm, to form
the diploid zygote. The place of fusion is called in divined books Qarar Makeen (stable place). The sperm
binds through the corona radiata, a layer of follicle cells on the outside of
the secondary oocyte.
Fertilization occurs when the nucleus of
both a sperm and an egg fuse to form a diploid cell, known as zygote. The
successful fusion of gametes forms a new organism.
The sperm must undergo capacitation in the
female's reproductive tract over several hours, which increases its motility
and destabilizes its mem- brane, preparing it for the acrosome reaction, the
enzymatic penetration of the egg's tough membrane, the zona pellucida, which
surrounds the oocyte, called as Alaqa. It
is similar to leech, sucks blood from
placenta.
The placenta is an organ
that connects the developing fetus to the uterine
wall to allow nutrient uptake, provides thermo-regulation to the fetus, waste
elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply, fights against internal
infection and produces
hormones to support
pregnancy.
In three to four weeks, Alaqa transformed into Mudgha,
similar to chewed flesh, an imminent formation of backbone or spinal cord.
During rest of period of fetus growth, bones are further extended, encapsulated
with flesh and finally a beginning of drop turns out to be a newborn baby.
Human is produced
out of a Nutfa that is sperm. How a
sperm is produced?
Qarar
Makeen (stable place), where body is nurtured inside mother's
womb, like mother Earth. Mother Earth provides us resources to continue our
life. Despite its ability to nurture, if womb does not appreciate a seed, there
would be neither germination nor growth of seed into a tree.
Similarly, a defective seeding is futile for
a fertilized soil. A seed surrenders itself to soil, soil turns into seed and reveals its potential in stages.
Allah said,
"He is the One who made the earth a
cradle for you, and made in it pathways for you to move, and sent down water
from the heavens; and We brought forth with it pairs of different vegetations:
Eat, and graze your cattle. Surely, in that there are signs for the people of
understanding. From this (dust) We created you, and in this we shall put you
back, and from this We shall raise you up once again." (Quran, 20:53-55)
Food at the dining table is a variant of
dust. Edible food is converted into blood, followed by sperm and eventually all
sperms unite with dust. One can understand the process of transformation that is what we eat, turns
into dust.
When dust is transformed into plants, wheat,
fruit and flowers, the base which is dust disappears (into Ghaib).
After a certain period, what appears,
is diminished and dust gains the dominance.
How does it happen?
The phenomenal world is the apparent aspect
of soil and what is beyond our observation is hidden aspect. The growth of seed
into plant is the apparent aspect of soil, meanwhile plant continues its link
with the seed. Everything in Allah's system is stabilized on specific
proportions. E.g., for a
stable long tree, it is required for a tree to grow
higher and higher, to have widely spread roots in soil. Because what has to
appear, has to be a reflection of hidden perspective.
It is independent of
spatial distances, link between the two aspects is never discontinued and focal
point is the life line.
Readers! You read about soil, can you
describe the nature of soil? It is the hidden aspect that
is (Ghaib). The transformation in
mother's womb is continuous. The stages of a child creation from decomposed
water to a blooming innocent infant are nothing but appearance of a vivid and
hidden reality.
The process of growth varies through two
aspects disappear (Ghaib)appear
(Hazir)-disappear (Ghaib). The
process can be formulated into a tri-fold dynamics.
Disappear (Ghaib)-Appear (Hazir)-Disappear (Ghaib) It is mentioned in Quran Kareem,
"From this dust, We created you, and in
this we shall put you back, and from this We shall raise you up once
again." (Quran, 20:55)
It forms an entity-one unit.
The apprehension of one unit is a moment in life. Childhood, adulthood, old
age-the inhale, exhale process-a day vanished into another day-the sunset and
sunrise are all impressions of this very tri-fold
dynamics of disappear (Ghaib)-appear (Hazir)disappear (Ghaib).
What is life? Let's
exemplify-
A drama writer composes a play, collecting
all the good and bad attributes of a society. The behavior of an individual in
the play characterizes him and reflects inclination. Whether a play or
home-despite the difference in situation or presentation, story is usually
similar.
History witnesses this very fact, neither a
situation nor a role is different. A cogent observation leads us to conclude,
behavior is life. Whether it is a story of drama or life, it is a behavior.
One may ask what behavior is. If it
is a reaction to an action, then considering reaction an outcome of an action
what would be action?
While resolving dilemma of behavior, student
asked his teacher, 'How one can understand an action and how a reaction can be
described?'
Teacher answered, 'Refuse to submit an
action is a reaction. If you
don't refuse, what remains is an action.'
The message underline is difficult to grasp,
but indulging effort to understand makes it easy to understand. There was a
tree of Cera on the bank of river.
Once a heavy flood ripped all the trees at bank away, even hundreds of years
old vanished. Cera tree also became one victim, but he was surprised to see
Narsil Tree (a white tree of Gondor) was still intact, as nothing is changed around him.
Cera tree asked him, what is the secret of
your stability? Narsil Tree answered, let me explain to you the secret that
saves me from potential dangers. He said, I don't fight with others, neither
get stubborn nor become ego-maniac before enemies. I don't make issues to any
trivial matter. I show humiliation to any enemy who is after me.
Quran Kareem
mentioned that,
"The ones who spend (for Allah's sake)
in prosperity and adversity, and those who control anger and forgive people.
And Allah loves those who are good in their deeds." (Quran, 3:134)
Readers, can you describe the gist of
'Message of the Day', presented here? If it is a sequel of narration, then
identify vibrating words which created annoyance. But it is not the gist.
Without paying attention one cannot hear any
cogent point uttered from the mind of a writer. What utters are vibrations.
Light vibes are soothing as compared to the harsh ones.
How this message is reflected on you, light,
heavy, most likely or unlikely-a compilation of various viewpoints!
How did you perceive and comprehend the
nature and significance of 'Message of the Day'? Do write to us.
Allah Hafiz
FEB 2017-QSM
