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All the
stages of man's life are lived in small fragments of time equaling to a tiny
fraction of a second, Whole life of man, even if exceeds hundred years, keeps
on dividing into these fractions of time called moments. It is worth
considering that in order to live this life man keeps on joining these
fractions of tune in his mind and the very same fragments are put to use. In
our thinking which resembles a whirl-pool of fragments of time either we
advance from one segment of time to another or revert back from the one to
another one.
This
could be understood by considering the following case. One thinks about eating
something but then realizing about one's stomach problem abstains from having
anything. How long will one be able to desist the urge to take something? It is
not in one's knowledge. Similar is the case with every thought. Thoughts, the
main ingredients of one's life, are responsible for one's success or failure in
life. One decides a thing and then abandons it. Sometimes it is abandoned
within few minutes of the decision taken and sometimes it take hours, months or
years to abandon it but ultimately it is abandoned. In other words,
renunciation or repudiation of thoughts and ideas is the main constituent of
man's life because by nature man is easy-going.
Many
things are termed as difficulty, problem, disease, restlessness, lethargy,
irritation, idleness, italicize and in contrast to all these there exists a
state which is called as peace. It cannot be said that all these states are
real. Most of these states, in actual fact, are fictional and unreal and are
founded upon suppositions. It is the structural formation of man's mind that
makes him facile oriented and makes him to avoid the hardships in doing
anything. It is quite obvious that these two are oppositely directed things and
man always keeps on traversing in one of these two directions in his thoughts.
Every movement of man is directed in either of these two directions.
Usually
it happens that we think of doing something, we plan it, we organize it, so
much so that it is completed and we start moving ahead with it but then III of
a sudden a change takes place in our mind. With this change, whole set of our
thoughts undergo a change resulting change in our direction and thus the goal
we were aiming at goes into oblivion. What are we left with? Groping and to
take steps gropingly. It should be clearly understood that we are talking about
the .situation when one is lingering between the certitude and dubiety, doubt
and faith.
We
should not be forgetting that dubiety and certitude are the bases of man's foundation.
In terms of religion the same have been termed as doubt and faith. God forbids
from having doubts and commands us to have certitude and firm faith. It has
been stated in the opening verses of the holy Quran, "Indeed, this Book is
guidance for those who believe the unseen and have certitude about it. The
state of dubiety which has been prohibited by God Almighty is the same state
about which Adam was warned and cautioned to keep away from it. But, Lucifer
ultimately managed to trick Adam into it and made him to eat its fruit which
resulted in Adams expulsion from the Heaven. At that point Adam came to know
about these oppositely directed two states of dubiety and certitude.
In the
light of the above stated facts man's mind is an axle of certitude and dubiety
which remain functioning in the brain cells. The more is the dubiety the more
is the deterioration of the brain cells; the very same cells that are
responsible for the working of all nerves of our body. And, the impulses of the
nerves result in human life.
Believing
something and having certitude is as difficult as getting rid of dubiety and
delusion. Reason is quite simple. Man presents and expresses himself what he
actually is not. He always hides his shortcomings and weaknesses rather boosts
about such hypothetical qualities which he does not possess in actual fact. The
main problem in this regard is that the society in which one grows and is
brought up becomes an article of his faith. His mind loses the ability of
analyzing this belief and the belief turns into such a faith which is nothing
more than a delusion. The main for all this is that man poses himself what he
is not, that is, he expresses himself contrary to his true self.
One is
bound to encounter hardships and difficulties in living such a life. The
difficulty for which he finds no solution mid is unable to resolve them. On
every step of his life, he fears that his efforts would go futile and will
yield no results. Sometimes this fear grows so strong that he starts believing
that his whole life is in danger and is about to suffer destruction. All this
happens because of the deterioration of the brain cells insulting from dubiety
and uncertainty. If the rate of deterioration of brain cells resulting from
shifting decisions and changes in the mind exceeds a limit it creates
hindrances on every step of one's course of action. Actions and deeds prove to
be inconsequent and fruitless causing damage to the nerves.
Man
enjoys control over his mind. He can check the rate of deterioration of the brain
cells with the blessed power of certitude. With reduction of deterioration of
brain cells chances of damage to the nerves also diminish.
Man is a
animal who has somehow learnt the use of fire. This learning eventually laid
the foundations of various sciences. We have discussed, in the book "Rang
our Roshni say Illaj" (Chroma Therapy), man's ability to walk on his hind
limbs and its effect upon the distribution system of lights flowing in him. It
has been elaborated in that book that how is the distribution of lights differ
for man and animals and how does this difference causes them to behave
differently.
In the
history of mankind there had never been a period when the ratio of healthy
people have exceeded than few per thousand. Actually man was required to
discover and explore, as much as it was possible, the types and kinds of lights
and to study their ways of actions and interactions. But he never paid any
attention to this thing and it remained behind a veil. Man never tried to lift
this veil either this veil of lights was non-existing for him or he did not
consider it worthy of his attention. It never occurred to him that he should
strive to discover the rules, laws and formulae concerning the interaction of
lights. If man had followed this course of action he would have succeeded in
controlling the wear tear and deterioration of brain cells. This would have
eventually resulted in his advancement
towards certitude. Superfluous
beliefs, whims, superstitions and dubiety would not have tormented him as much
as these are causing troubles for him now. This would have also curtailed the
obstacles and hindrances in receiving and accepting the natural impulses and
stimuli. Unfortunately this did not happen. He did not try to discover the
types and kinds of lights nor did he make any attempt to know the nature and
disposition of lights. Even this much is not known to him that lights too have
structural formats and different characteristics and dispositions. These also
display trends and tendencies. This also is not known to him that the very same
lights are responsible for his life and provide protection of every type to
him. He is only aware of that effigy of clay and dust which has no life of its
own and about which it has been stated by God, Almighty that "Verily man
is created from rotton day". At another occasion, "And, We created
man from resounding clay". Resounding Clay is indicative of the fact that
man is an empty hollow void.
It has
been proclaimed in the holy Quran, "Verily man was not even worthy of
mentioning, We inspired our soul into him and he became a human being with
power to see, hear, speak, understand and feel."
Definition
of the Soul is that it is the Edict of the Lord and the Edict of the Lord is
that when he intends a thing his command is 'to be' and there it 'is' In other
words, man is soul and the soul is the Edict of the Lord. Man's ignorance in
this regard gives rise to dubiety, superstitions and whims resulting in
distortion and disintegration of faith and belief.
According
to the Holy Quran a nation, too, is an individual therefore the same thing
happens to her which is supposed to happen to an individual in consequence of
his acts and deeds. If a nation is suffering from lack of certitude and excess
of uncertainty and dubiety becomes to be her second nature then this thing
affects in one of the two possible ways. If it is of an ascending nature then
catastrophes from the sky way hit the nation and if it is directed towards the
earth, earthly calamities would size the nation.
When catastrophes
and calamities mind up a nation mind and nerves of the whole nation are
affected. In order to remain protected from all this there is no other way
except that the whole nation should have a common pattern of certitude and it
must not be a multidirectional. The very same lesson was preached by the
prophets of God. When a nation is divided into factions and .communities’ of
different patterns of belief dubiety reign the earth resulting into chaos This
chaos triggers the earthly calamities like earthquakes, floods, cyclones,
epidemics. Sometimes riots and civil wars outburst. All this damages and
destroys the nerves of individuals and flic nation this further aggravates the
conditions of general health and diseases of every type emerge and spread.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
All the
stages of man's life are lived in small fragments of time equaling to a tiny
fraction of a second, Whole life of man, even if exceeds hundred years, keeps
on dividing into these fractions of time called moments. It is worth
considering that in order to live this life man keeps on joining these
fractions of tune in his mind and the very same fragments are put to use. In
our thinking which resembles a whirl-pool of fragments of time either we
advance from one segment of time to another or revert back from the one to
another one.
