08 April 2007

Why real and artificial products behave differently?

أَفَمَن يَخۡلُقُ كَمَن لَّا يَخۡلُقُ‌ۗ أَفَلَا تَذَڪَّرُونَ (١٧)
Is the One who creates the same as the one who creates not (16.17, Al-Qur’an)

هَـٰذَا خَلۡقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِۦ‌ۚ بَلِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ فِى ضَلَـٰلٍ۬ مُّبِينٍ۬ (١١)

This the creation of Allah. Now, show me that which those beside him have created. Nay, the wrongdoers are in manifest error. (31.11, Al-Qur’an)

The above two verses lays out the fundamental tenet of creation. Man cannot be a creator and if he attempts to create something, the following will be the fate.

Every action has two components to it: (1) origin; (2) pathway. The origin of any action is the intention. So, if a human being considers making something, it is automatically a false intention, as he cannot create anything. He has no power over his own short-term, let alone on others. The immediate fate of this false intention is that the entire process is based on a false or aphenomenal foundation or stems from aphenomenal root. As a consequence, one doesn’t even have to consider Point (2), i.e., the pathway of the action, the entire process is aphenomenal. Say, we want to make sugar so we can replace honey with sugar. Honey is the only complete food (including water) known to mankind. The moment we want to replace honey with sugar, we know that the process is inherently corrupt and you are set to fight against nature, a fight you cannot win. So, what happens to sugar when it actually comes to existence? It serves the opposite purpose of the one perpetrated by the false intention. So, what is the intention of the Creator behind creating sugar. After all, man cannot create anything, so why did the Creator allow the creation of such a product. If you can answer this, you can also answer why the Creator allowed Pharaohs to rule for many years, why He also allowed G W Bush to be ‘elected’ ‘leader of the free world’, twice. Sugar may have been allowed to be in existence but don’t blame the Creator for allowing human beings to make such a mess (closed word to ‘fassad’ as in Chapter 89.12 of the Qur’an:
فَأَكۡثَرُواْ فِيہَا ٱلۡفَسَادَ (١٢ ).

Human beings were created as vicegerent to the Creator. Would you say, the Creator failed in His original intention? The ones who follow the aphenomenal model are no vicegerent of the Truth. Our logic of true and false does not apply to the Creator as He is also the Creator of our logic and He is like none of the creation, as stated in Chapter 112, verse 4 of the Qur’an (see below):
وَلَمۡ يَكُن لَّهُ ۥ ڪُفُوًا أَحَدُۢ (٤) (there is none comparable unto Him)

At the end, all creations, including human beings, behave according to the intention of the Creator. The Qur’an states what was the intention behind creating human beings with conscience (vicegerent of the Creator) and what was the intention behind other objects than humans (it is to benefit men). It is not explicitly stated the intention behind creating humans who fail to act upon conscience and at the same time the products and processes that these humans attempt to create based on the aphenomenal model. Our logic states, they do not follow the false intention of humans. The Creator’s intention is never false, so this logic wouldn’t apply to Him (in Arabic, ‘Him’, ‘He’ also applies to neutral gender – another reason true logic cannot be done in English).