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When
the Israelis refused to accept the teachings of Jeremiah, he predicted their
subjection to Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar invaded the holy land of Jerusalem
and damaged the Doom of the Rocks, all the copies of Old Testament were burnt
away and many Israelis were made captive and taken to Babylon. Young Azariah
was also among the captive. Daniel looked after him and coached him in the days
of captivity. Azariah of Old Testament is mentioned in the holy Quran as Uzair.
Nebuchadnezzar
wished to appoint few wise and knowledgeable Israelis as councilors in his
court and selected" four persons; namely, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and
Azariah. He arranged to teach them the language of Chaldeans, provided them the
proper attires and made them to eat at the table of the king. The table had that
meat, which they couldn’t eat. When the king came to know of their refusal of
eating the meat, he summoned them and talked to them. Uzair talked about the
manners and ethics, which impressed the king and he appointed Uzair governor of
Babylon.
The
valley of Euphrates and Tigris had remained a center of great civilizations
including the Babylonian Civilization. Babylon was the capital of the
Babylonian and the most ancient and grand of all Ashorian cities. Area of the
walled city was 56 sq miles; the city wall was 320 feet high having a width of
80 feet with 100 bronze gates. The city wall had a 25 ft thick wall that ran
parallel to it at a distance of 38 ft, which was further reinforced with
another 12 ft thick wall. The gap of the inner two walls was filled up with
earth and debris to make a passage for patrolling of the guards on it. There
was a 27 feet high guard tower at every 165 feet along the inner wall and thus
there were 360 such towers in total.
A
grand road ran through the center of the city from north to south. This was 73
feet wide and had thick walls on both of its sides, which were covered with
glazed decorative tiles of red and yellow colors in the blue background. The
brick paved road enforced with asphalt had limestone tablets with this
inscription upon them. “I, Nebuchadnezzar Bin Biliah, the king of Babylon have
constructed this avenue with the slabs of stars for the procession of our god
Marduk, our lord god.”
Procession
of hundreds of priests of Marduk along with the sacrificial animals, in the
company of singing bands, on the avenue offered a scenic view. This avenue also
had its strategic significance. It led the way from the city wall towards the
inner fort of the city. Any invading army in order to advance towards the
fortress of the city had to walk through this holy avenue but because of the
high walls on both sides of the passage forced them to walk in files, which made
them easy targets for archers positioned on these high wall.
The
holy avenue led up to the Gate of Ashtoreth' chief goddess of Babylon. This
large gate was decorated with the glazed pictures of bulls and other animals.
Hanging
Gardens of Babylon known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, were
situated near the Gate of Ashtoreth. These gardens were not actually hanging
but appeared to be hanging in the air as those were grown over the roofs- of
the palaces of the city. Nebuchadnezzar built those gardens for his young wife
to please her. Water lifted, up to 350 feet, using a wonderful system of rising
steps of canals from Euphrates, irrigated these gardens.
was a lofty tower in Babylon, which was
considered to be the most sacred place in the city. This tower was erected in
amidst many small temples and was 288 feet high. A 48 feet high temple was
built upon the top of this tower that had a great statue of Marduk and other
pieces of decoration embedded with diamonds and other precious stones. Walls of
this temple were decorated with gold plates and blue glazed tiles. When the
sunlight would fall upon the peak of the tower, the entire city of Babylon
would light up from the reflection of this temple.
Uzair
after becoming the governor forbid the idol worshipping. Nebuchadnezzar
summoned him in the court and asked the reason for such an action. Uzair said,
“ Worthy of our worships is only God, our Lord.” This infuriated the king and
he ordered to throw him in a blazing furnace. God helped Uzair and the fire of
furnace did not harm Uzair. Seeing this miracle Nebuchadnezzar said, “Blessed
is the God of Uzair, Who sent an angel to save Uzair. Indeed no god other than
Him is worthy of worshipping.” And, Uzair was reinstated as the governor of
Babylon.
Upon
reaching Jerusalem, Uzair started the construction of the Doom of Rocks. Cyrus
bore all the expenses incurred in this regard.
Since
all the copies of Old Testament were destroyed, Israelis after having freedom
from captivity of seventy years, wanted to inhabitation that, too, had been
revived and had taken the form of a city with all its hustle and bustles.
And
didn’t ye consider the one who passed by a hamlet all in ruins to its roof He
said, ‘Oh, how shall God bring it ever to life, after this? But God caused him
to die for a hundred years, then raised him up again. He said, “How long did ye
tarry thus?” He said, "Perhaps a day or part of a day. ” He said, “Nay,
thou has tarried thus a hundred years but look at thy food and thy drink. They
show no signs of age and look at thy donkey and that We may make of thee a
sign up to the people, look further at the bones, how We bring them together
and clothe them with flesh. Then this was shown clearly to him, he said, "I
know that God has power over all things. ” (S: 2,V: 259)
Nowadays
almost everyone is familiar with deep freezers and refrigerators. We know, when
the things are cooled down to freezing point, they do not perish. A particular
gas circulating in these appliances keeps things preserved as long as those
stay below freezing point.
Food,
in our times, is preserved either by freezing or by packing it in a vacuumed
container or by adding certain chemicals as preservatives, which enable the
food to last for a certain period of time.
Below
freezing point the movement of the molecules of food slows to their lowest ebb.
Under normal temperature the movement of the molecules is very fast and this
fast movement results in extra contacts with the air. And, this increases the
rate of decomposition in organic compounds containing nitrogen
and carbon like meat, vegetables and other food items.‘ Rate of chemical
actions also drops with dropping of temperature. If somehow or the other, we
could stop or reduce the speed of the molecules in items like these, as is done
in the case of deep freezing or refrigeration, the food will not perish or its
decomposition would be delayed considerably.
Time
is also related to with movement. If motion of a body were decreased hundred times
from its normal speed, the speed of passing time for that particular object
would also be decreased hundred times. For instance, we breathe at a speed of
eighteen breaths per minute and if we would just have one breath in a minute,
we would require eighteen minutes to complete eighteen breaths, or to say, slow
breathing, in this case, increased the duration of the same number of breaths
to eighteen times.
Thus Uzair had those many breaths in
One hundred years as many breaths are taken in a day; for this reason when he
was asked as to how long did he sleep, he said a day or less than that.
Sadhoos,
knowing this control, decrease the rate of breathing to increase their life.
Similarly, in case of Uzair’s food when the motion of the molecules decreased,
the time passing for those molecules also slowed down, almost coming to a halt,
and the food did not perish. But, in case of the donkey, the time kept on
flowing at its normal pace and in the meantime it perished and decomposed
like any normal living thing, as it should have in the period of one hundred
years.
The
same laws became active in case of the Companions of the Cave. Another
example concerning the speed of time is that of a cricket match witnessed on
TV. In which the ball is occasionally shown in slow motion, Now the ball that
reaches the batsman in one second, reaches him in five seconds when shown
moving in slow motion. This means that decrease in speed of movement of the
motion requires more time from the completion of the same movement, that is,
the unit of time is related to with the speed, if the speed is decreased the
time to complete a task would also increase.
We think that in a Pyramid, too,
time slows down or to say the movement of the molecules slows down and the
process known as decay decreases to a stoppage.
Those
who perform Muraqba; the act of Meditation, in a pyramid, do it in an
atmosphere which is free from spatio- temporal restraints, and it takes them
closer to their Unconscious. Meditation in a pyramid always gives very good
results.
Another
example in this regard is that of a Microwave Oven. When some frozen food is
placed in a Microwave Oven, it increases the speed of the motion of the
molecules using the energy of the microwaves. Increase in the motion of
molecules is’ so rapid that food heated on an ordinary oven for ten minutes can
be heated in about a minute or so. Or to say, increase in the motion of the
molecules, caused to shrink ten minutes time to just one minute.
This brings
these points before us:
1) Uzair slept
for one hundred years but ‘upon awakening he had the realization of just a
portion of a day.
2) The ass of
Uzair died and it suffered all those affects that a dead body experiences for
one hundred years‘ the food in its wrapping cloth remained as it was.
All
these three events took place in the same one place in the similar atmosphere,
now the question is that how did it all happen?
The
life as normally considered is "It depending upon the Oxygen only because
it is our common observation that only one person in a family often dies and
nine survive. If one’s survival had anything to do with the oxygen, the oxygen
remains available for everyone but in spite of this availability of oxygen 0n6
breathes his last.
Life depends
upon burning of oxygen in a body and the burning of oxygen is associated with
carbon. When the oxygen is inhaled through nostrils and reaches the lungs, the
carbon in the lungs spongy layers helps in it‘s burning and this burning
produces carbon dioxide. It means that life does not depend only upon oxygen
but the oxygen works as a fuel for life.
Every
particle of this universe, according to the Divine Books, is ordained with
consciousness, which means that every particle has understanding and
intelligence. It guards its life and fulfills its duty in the life of others.
Whether it is a human being, an animal, a plant or tree, it’s a star or planet
everything is made of carbon. Actually life is composed of hundreds of
thousands layers. Carbon is burning because of oxygen and the oxygen is
providing energy like fuel to life.
Food
does not perish in places where the temperature is very low, for instance, in
Iceland, where it snows the food does not rot even if it is left in the open,
because molecular movement of the food items is lesser in those areas. Deep
Freezers and Refrigerators are artificial methods invented to reduce the
molecular movements of perishable food items.
We
see in our daily life that a person goes to sleep or dies. When a person sleeps
for 36 hours, he does not know that he have slept for that long. Similarly, a
person who remains in comma for three years, upon recovering his senses, cannot
tell how long he remained in that state. He believes that he spent few hours in
that condition.
Every
creation is encased in a net of simple and compound waves of light. The gases
are no exception to this law. The web of lights enveloping a gas ascertains
type and quantity of the gas. Life and death of every individual depends upon
certain fixed quantities. When God wanted to disclose the secrets of life and
death upon one of his servants; Uzair, the gases that reduce the speed of
the molecules became active and Uzair and his food did not decay.
Any
invention or any advancement of any science is possible only because it already
exists in the Unseen Realm. This is the reason that first we conceive the idea
of an invention and then that invention is manifested after continuous
research. It is not possible to make an invention without having a thought or
thinking about it. First an idea comes to the mind of a scientist and then he
focuses all his attention towards that idea. Finally, when his concentrative
attention focuses upon the covering of lights enveloping that thing, it
materializes.
Man,
according to the teachings of the holy Quran, is alternating between the
Conscious and the Unconscious. In the Conscious the Time & Space grip upon
him and when he is under the influence of his Unconscious, he feels himself free
from the clutches of Spatio-temporal restrains and limitations. He feels so, in
actual effect, he is not totally liberated from them.
"Thou
causes the night to gain on the day, and thou causes the day to gain on the
night; Thou brings the Living out of the dead, and Thou brings the dead out of
the Living," and Thou gives sustenance to whom Thou pleases, without
measure."
(S: 3, v: 27)
He
draws the night as a veil o'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid
succession: He created the sun, the moon, and the stars, all governed by laws
under His command. Is it not His to create and to govern?
(S: 7, VI 54)
He
draws the night as a veil o'er the Day. Behold, verily in these things there are
signs for those who consider.
(S:
13, V: 3)
That
is because God merges night into day, and He merges day into night, and verily
it is God Who hears and sees all things.
(S: 22, v; 61)
It
is God Who alternates the Night and the Day verily in these things is an
instructive example for those who have vision!
(S: 24, V: 44)
And
it is He Who made the Night and the Day to follow each other: for such as have
the will to celebrate His praises or to show their gratitude. (S: 25,
v; 62)
Seest
thou not that God merges Night into Day and he merges Day into Night.
(S: 31, V: 29)
And
a Sign for them is the Night: We withdraw there from the Day, and behold they
are plunged in darkness.
(S: 36, V: 37)
He
created the heavens and the earth in true proportions: He makes the Night
overlap the Day, and the Day overlap the Night.
(S: 39, V: 5)
And
by the Night as it retreats. And by the Dawn as it shines forth.
(S: 74, v: 33)
By
the Day as it shows up the Sun ’s glory. By the Night as it conceals it.
(S: 91, V: 3)
By
the Night as it conceals the light. By the Day as it appears.
(S: 92, v; 1-2)
Man
and every creature of the universe keeps on alternating in two states of life
and death, i.e., life and death of creature is having two sides. One is the
Night (The Free Senses) and the Day (The Restricted Senses). Both these two
aspects of life remain active throughout, all the time. One experiences change
in Space only because of the intervals of the senses. For example life of a
person, who is awake, passes through different spades Here sighting is also a
space, hearing, too, is a space, walking is.a1sO a space, thinking is also a
space, i.e., no creature can go out of the sphere of spaces. Passing of moments
of activities of life in Space is Time. For instance, a person is walking.
Before starting walking, he stands still keeping both feet aligned on the
ground. When he starts walking, to take a step, he lifts one foot and places it
on the ground at a distance. As soon ‘as the first foot touches the ground, he
lifts the second foot. This lifting of the foot and its movement in the air
(space) is the time and the distance covered in between the two feet is the
space. Now, if a person walks ten steps, he covers the distance of ten units of
space and in covering this distance he spends time of ten seconds.
When
a person is sleeping, his physical body does not move around on the ground
therefore, it can be said that his life is passing in Time. In that state,
since steps have not covered any distance, the time cannot be measured. When a
person sleeps he travels in Time and when one is awake he travels in Space and
the Time moves along.
When
Uzair slept, according to the laws of God, his senses infused in Time and since
his physical body did not move around, he said that he had slept for a day.
And,
in the case of donkey, when carbon did not burn the Oxygen entering its body,
it expired.
The
reason for not decaying of food is that the movement of the molecules had
stopped because of God’s command. And, this could be exemplified that the food
was surrounded by such waves that froze it just like a small freezer.
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