Dear Dr. Javed Jamil: 

I have some technical queries about your following energy-related statements. 

“I have argued that it is the combination of the supply of Provision/energy (Rabubiyyat of God) and the Acknowledgement (Hamd) by the Universe (by way of spinning relative to God) that sustains the universe. The day the God stops the supply and the universe stops moving, Qiyamat (Halt) will come. “ 

·   You talk about a continuous supply of some “Rabubiyyat” energy from God to sustain the Universe.  Is this energy freshly created by God, and would  it increase the overall mass-energy amount in the Universe?  If it increases the overall mass-energy balance in the Universe, it is a bad news as it will violate the Law of Conservation of Mass-Energy which is the core of all physical sciences and is held as the fundamental basis for the universal stability observed from the subatomic levels to interstellar scales.  By injecting additional energy, God will actually destabilize the Universe!  On the other hand, if God does not create any additional energy but rather uses the already existing supply within the universe, God would have to depend upon the very Universe He wants to sustain, which is paradoxical.  It is even worse because it would tie God’s hands to follow the nature’s rules that the rest of His creation follows, which would make the nature godlier than God Himself.    

·   Why do you think that a continuous supply of energy is necessarily needed for the Universe to keep spinning?  How would you reconcile this notion with the conservation of angular momentum that opens up the possibility of an object’s perpetual spinning in vacuum in the absence of any external source of energy and force?  Any continuous infusion of energy into the object would accelerate its spinning which will eventually break it apart.  This is not what you theorize to keep the Universe stable. 

·   You suggest that the end of the Universe would necessarily require God to halt the supply of this new form of energy.  Does this mean that you do not accept that a quasi-steady solution of the governing equations [that currently do not factor in the Rabubiyyat energy] can lead to an eventual collapse of the Universe within the established energy-mass conservation framework? 

·   Can you propose some experiments, no matter how lofty they might be, to verify the existence of this new form of energy (Rabubiyyat)?  

·   Your physical picture of “the Universe spinning relative to God” envisions God to be at a specific central location.  Is that location inside or outside the Universe?  Either way, wouldn’t your model exclude God from the rest of the Universe?  Wouldn’t it allow our atheist friends to cite your research to prove that God does not exist around them because it exists at a grand central location.  

It appears that your theory is not rooted in scientific thinking, but rather in Ghazalian occasionalism, which is the foremost cause of the decline of critical thinking among the Muslim masses.  If you are really sincere about the welfare of Muslim Ummah, please work toward eradicating Ghazali’s influence. 

Best regards, 

Dr. Engr. Syed Imam Haider

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Washington, DC 20555 

Note: The views expressed in my letter are personal and have nothing to do with my organization.