Mutual Influence of the Metaphysical and Physical

By: Ziauddin Ahmed

Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

Hello everyone

 

Time is the only resource that is limited, and when it passes you can never get it back. You can get everything else back including money, health, family.

Do you all know how much time is wasted when people do not think clearly, and therefore cannot come to a definite conclusion?

 

Let us ponder over this and make up our minds once and for all, we can accept or deny but at least we conclude the discussion and move to something progressive.

 

Take a stone and tie it to one end of the rope - hold onto the other end of the rope and swing it above your head.  When the stone breaks away from the rope, it will fly outwards. While the stone is orbiting around your hand that is holding the rope, the centrifugal and centripetal forces are balanced. For this to happen the following variables play a part:

 

- The speed of revolution of the stone around the hand

- the mass of the stone

- the length of the rope

 

If this were an orbit, "without pillars", there would be no rope.  There is a force of gravity. Additional factors come into play,

 

- the speed of rotation of the stone around itself

- the speed of rotation of the hand (affecting the gravitational pull)

- the mass of the central object

- the gravitational constant

 

There are a trillion galaxies out there each with a billion stars. Each of these objects is moving in an orbit.

 

If you take a grain of sand on earth, there are millions of atoms in it. The number of atoms on earth cannot be imagined.

There are trillions of heavenly bodies, each much larger than our sun.

 

Imagine the number of atoms in our universe - you cannot imagine it. Yet each is moving in an orbit.

 

And none of these orbits come to a stop - ever.

 

Not only are these objects moving in an orbit around a central body, the central body itself is moving in an orbit around another central body.

 

When one of the forces is always constant, the other variables have to be fine tuned to match.

 

According to British Scientist Richard Collins, if we take a ruler (or measuring tape) graded in inches, and stretch it from one corner of the universe to the other corner, a distance of 14 billion light years (one light year is approximately 10 trillion kilometers) - imagine how many notches of one inch there would be - the value for the gravitational constant lies on one notch.  If it were moved up or down one notch, anything bigger than a pea would get crushed.

 

We can never ever imagine the greatness of our Creator. Those who want to question or argue about the Creator's existence and greatness under the guise of an 'intellectual' discussion aren't intellectual at all. And they insist on burying their head in the sand.

 

[13:2] GOD is the One who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, then assumed all authority. He committed the sun and the moon, each running (in its orbit) for a predetermined period. He controls all things, and explains the revelations, that you may attain certainty about meeting your Lord.

[31:10] He created the heavens without pillars that you can see. He established on earth stabilizers (mountains) lest it tumbles with you, and He spread on it all kinds of creatures. We send down from the sky water to grow all kinds of beautiful plants.

[39:67] They can never fathom the greatness of GOD. The whole earth is within His fist on the Day of Resurrection. In fact, the universes are folded within His right hand.* Be He glorified; He is much too high above needing any partners.

[18:54] We have cited in this Quran every kind of example, but the human being is the most argumentative creature.

 

Feroz Karmally

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