GOD SAID

LET THERE BE LIGHT

OH LIGHT ! GUIDE US

THROUGH NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

By

Hajee Mahboob Kassim

F.I.C.S., F.I.Arb.

Copyright 1985

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NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

Why ? Where ? When ?

RETURN OF JESUS

Battle of Armageddon

WONDERFUL NEW CIVILISATION

JESUS KING OF MANKIND I.N.R.I.

Contents

About The Author
The Author's Note


PART ONE : GOD SAID : LET THERE BE LIGHT

1. Chapter 1 : Man in the World of Science
2. Chapter 2 : The Being of Light that Comforts Man after Death
3. Chapter 3 : Who is the Comforting Being of Light ?
4. Chapter 4 : Did Man Evolve from Prehistoric Animals ?
5. Chapter 5 : The Being of Light Accepts to Guide the Universe
6. Chapter 6 : The Part Played by the Being of Light for Mankind
7. Chapter 7 : The Being of Light and the Creation of the Universe
8. Chapter 8 : What was the Necessity of the Being of Light Coming on Earth and Where ?
9. Chapter 9 : The Loving Being of Light – The Comforter of the Universe

PART 2 : OH LIGHT ! GUIDE US THROUGH NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

1. Chapter 10 : Nuclear Holocaust – Why ? Where ? When ?
2. Chapter 11 : Armageddon & Return of Jesus
3. Chapter 12 : New Civilisation – Too Wonderful to Believe – Jesus King of Mankind – I. N. R. I.

The Author's Note

Ever since I have written and published in 1971 the research "DESTRUCTION OR PEACE" (containing 834 pages) people have been after me to publish something which is very short so that a much wider circle of today's busy public may be able to read and gain out of the vast knowledge which has been gathered by me and which is unknown to the masses.

This treatise is based on the leading Religious Scriptures of the World including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhs etc. It also includes the works of learned scholars, researchers and scientists. Quotations from several rare manuscripts have been included, some of which are the only copies known to be in existence.

As a few excerpts reproduced in this research are based amongst other sources on the "Gospel of Barnabas”. So a few lines are given hereunder as to who is the author of this Gospel.

SAINT BARNABAS

Saint Barnabas was a Levite Jew from Cyprus. His name was Joses. Barnabas was not his name nor his family title. He met Holy Jesus, son of Virgin Mary (Peace of God be on them). He was so much influenced by Jesus that he sold all his properties. He donated the entire proceeds for the propa­gation of the teachings of Jesus (Acts 4 : 36-37). He became a very ardent follower of Jesus. Under the personal dictations of Jesus he recorded the "Evangel of Jesus" in Hebrew Language, the mother-tongue of Jesus. These dictations of Jesus were written down in the presence of Jesus, before his departure from earthly life according to the declaration made at the beginning of this Gospel.

This Gospel according to George Sale contains a complete history of Jesus Christ from his birth to his ascension; and most of the circumstances of the four real gospels are to be found therein (Page XIII of Notes to the Readers by George Sales in his translation of "The Koran" published by Frederick Warne and Co., London and New York in 1891 which is a reproduction “The Koran" by George Sale which was originally published in November 1734, in a quarto volume, and was inscribed to Lord Carteret).

For his devotion to Jesus, Joses was given in Hebrew the title of "Bar Nabuha". "Bar" means "Son of" whilst "Nabuha" means “Of the Nabi i. e. Prophet". This title of Barnabas or "Son of the Prophet" was given by all the Jewish Prophets to their religious heir or successor. For example the Barnabas of Moses was Joshua, of Samuel was David, of David was Solomon, of Elijah was Elisha, of Elisha was Jehu, of Zakariah was his son John, of John the Baptist was Jesus when he anointed Jesus. Hence the title of Barnabas the Greek form of Barnabuha means that the Levite Jew Joses was made the Barnabuha or the spiritual heir by Holy Jesus. Thus by this appointment it was the duty of St Barnabas to carry on the real teachings of Jesus after he was lifted to heaven.

The followers of Jesus split into two groups. The Jewish Group claimed :

"And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren and said. Except ye be circumcised ( as Jesus was when he was 8 days old-St. Luke 2 : 21-24 ) after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved" (Acts 15 : 1).

"...Preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only" (Acts 11 : 19).

Pointing out that Jesus himself had ordered his disciples to preach only to the circumcised Jews and not to the uncircumcised Gentiles as follows :

"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying : Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not :

"But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (St. Matthew 10 : 5 & 6).

"And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus.

“And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God" (Acts 15 : 39 & 40).

St. Barnabas left for Cyprus where he preached and event­ually died. He was buried in Cyprus. In 382 A.D. during an excavation in Cyprus, the grave of St. Barnabas got opened.

The copy of a Gospel of Jesus written in Hebrew in the personal handwriting of St. Barnabas was found lying upon his chest. The said Gospel was intact. As if it had just been placed inside the grave. So also was the body of St. Barnabas. Both of these are no doubt miracles. Otherwise both the Gospel and the body of St. Barnabas could not have remained intact for over 300 years in the damp Mediterranean climate.

It is an Eastern Custom to bury one's most important treasure in one's grave. The very fact that this Hebrew Gospel was found lying intact after more than 300 years on the chest of St. Barnabas clearly proves that this treasured Hebrew Gospel in the mother-tongue recorded before Jesus was lifted to heaven, was not only the Original teachings of Jesus but it was also the dictations of Jesus recorded during his presence in his mother-tongue as stated in the opening verses of this Gospel. Otherwise why should it be placed upon the chest of St. Barnabas in his grave?

"Red Letter Holidays" are special Holy days for the obser­vation of the feasts of saints. Special services are set apart for them in the Book of Common Prayers. One of these important saints happens to be St. Barnabas. His feast is observed on 11th June. It is a Red Letter Day in the British Calender.

Barnabas has been cited by Clement Alexandrinus, Origen, Epusebius, Jerome and many of the Ancient fathers. Cotelerius affirms that Origen and Jerome also regarded it as authentic and canonical. Dr. Barnard Savilian professor at Oxford, not only believed it to be genuine but also that it was read throughout in the Churches at Alexandria as the canonical scriptures uptil the early part of the fourth century (i. e. until rhe Nicaean Council of 325 A.D.).

This Hebrew Gospel in the handwriting of Barnabas has been lying since its rediscovery in the Pope's Private Library at The Vatican in Rome.

The Hebrews have always regarded any book of the Old Testament not originally written in Hebrew as Apocryphal. Unfortunately all the existing handwritten Hebrew Gospels of Jesus were burnt in 325 A. D. by the Roman Emperor Saint Constantine at the Nicaean Council after being seized from Arius, a priest of Alexandria, who taught that Jesus was not co-eternal with God but was created by Him and therefore Jesus was inferior to God.

Constantine ordered the new Greek Bibles of the New Testament be written in the language of his choice i.e. Greek to replace those that were in Hebrew, the rnother-tongue of Jesus. In the Greek New Testaments Emperor Constantine introduced the Greek letter "X" pronounced "Chi" from which the word Christ has been derived with the date of Christmas, the sign of the Cross, Crucification, the fixation and the first observation of Easter, the only begotten son of God and Sun God's day i.e. Sunday be observed as the Sabbath. Constantine ordered these for the sake of uniformity to make this religion similar to the Pagan Roman faith which originated from Babylon and was then known as Mitraism.

The Italian Monk Fra Marino was a very close friend of Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590 A.D.). He was very anxious to read the Gospel of Barnabas, which was one of the Hebrew Original Gospels of Jesus, which were known to have escaped the burning of 325 A.D. So it was put on the list of Apocryphal Gospels. Pope Sixtus V gave special permission to Monk Fra Marino to studv the Hebrew Gospel of Barnabas in the Pope’s Private Library at the Vatican. Monk Fra Merino made a transla­tion of rhe Gospel of Barnabas from the Hebrew Original into Italian, his Mother-tongue. This Original Italian in the handwriting style prevalent at the end of sixteenth century in Italy, in paper manufactured in that period is now lying in the imperial Library at Vienna. It has notes in the margin in Arabic. This shows that Monk Fra Marino also knew Arabic. Arabic was the general international language of the time.

This copy of the Gospel of Barnabas was translated from the Italian at Imperial Library, Vienna by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg and published by Clarendon Press of Oxford University in 1907 A.D.

One copy of the Italian text cum-English translation of this Gospel with the Arabic Notations has been traced in the British Museum, London from where a Photo-copy has been obtained by me. All other printed copies of this edition has disappeared. Apparently some organisation has purchased from the market all the printed copies of the Gospel and destroyed them. That is why not a single copy is available anywhere except in some prominent Libraries. It is clear that somebody is trying to hide the contents of the Gospel of Barnabas from reaching the Christian World.

More details about this Gospel will be found on pages 162-170 of 'DESTRUCTION OR PEACE' as well as the Notes and introduction of this Gospel by Mr. & Mrs. Ragg.

I end this note with the prayer :

"The Good God, Almighty and Kind
Make this a guidance for Mankind".

Hajee Mahboob Kassim
21-3-1985

20, Royd Street
Calcutta-700 016

PART ONE

God Said :

“Let there be Light”

(Genesis 1 : 3)

Chapter 1 : Man In The World Of Science

The world of today is thriving upon Science and its daily fantas­tic developments. If one is sick, it is the modern medicines that cures. The daily luxuries of life so essential for man's comforts are provided by science. These amongst so many others include elect­ricity and its wonders of light, heat, cooking ranges, frigidaires, wash­ing machines, radios, televisions, cars, trucks, trains, ships, aircrafts, electronic equipments, calculating machines, computers etc. These have intoxicated man with its charm, comfort, wealth, position and power.

As the common man does not have any scientifically proveable evidence of life after death, so he considers death the total end of everything. Therefore achievement for him is the material success and the name he can acquire in this life. This is his all. He cannot understand that after death when his body would have been reduced to dust and after his dust would get scattered and mixed with tha earth all around, how could it ever be possible for him to be raised from the dead when no trace whatsoever of him is left anywhere?

Four thousand years back Nimrod, the first king of mankind after The Great Deluge, was a rebel against God. He even tried to shoot and kill God. That is how he got the title of the "Mighty hunter” against God [1]. He was the builder of the "Tower of Babel" [2]. The top of this tower temple was so very high that clouds used to float under its top. "Bab" means "Gateway" and "El" means "to perfection or heaven". That is how this tower got its name "Bab-el" which stands for "Gateway to Heaven". A painting of the Tower of Babel has been done by Pieter Bruegel. It shows the clouds floating under the top of the Tower of Babel. This painting is shown on page 63 of “Science and Discovery" under the heading of "Man Reaches to the Heavens" published for International Pictorial Treasury of Knowledge by International Graphic Society, Engleswood Cliffs, New Jersey, U. S. A.

King Nimrod propagated that everything in the universe including mankind had come about due to a process of 'Evolution' by nature i. e. merely by a freak accident in a meaningless universe. So also destruction of everything merely depended upon time. Hence there was no such thing as a reward for good deeds done on earth in a "heaven”. Nor will there be any punishment for vice committed during this life in a "hell". The Universe will exist for ever.

Nimrod claimed there was no necessity for a God. Especially for such a God whom none could contact, see, feel, or talk to. Therefore everyone must rely upon themselves if they wanted to achieve anything. It was defeatism and cowardice to put the blame for one's shortcomings on God. Therefore belief upon such a God was the height of absurdity and ignorance. These theories have become the basis of Atheism and Communism.

Nimrod further taught that people should rely upon their wisdom and skill to plan and their strength and efforts to execute their objec­tive The wondrous cities with their palaces, the bridges across the Euphrates, the building of dams and irrigation canals, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the extraction of copper, the manufacture of bronze etc. were the results of hard work and human intelligence.

When the “Tower Temple of Babel" was put to ungodly worship [3] the curse of God fell upon entire Mankind. At this point of time the generations of Noah were united with one language. Overnight the single language of the builders of Babel changed into numerous different languages. This caused chaos and confusion. This curse broke up the unity of Mankind. Different language groups departed from Babylon in different directions to set up separate nations and Kingdoms. With the numerous Nations around us, one realises that this curse is still plaguing man even after 4000 years, and preventing unity amongst Mankind. Now its Nuclear race threatens the very existence of man on Earth.

Man challenges— Has anyone who has been dead come back to life to give proof that there is life after this earthly life? He does not believe in the first miracle of the raising of the dead to life, after the body had been deliberately cut, mutilated, mixed and scattered over a vast area so as to leave no trace :

"And when Abraham said (unto God) ; My Lord : Show me how Thou givest life unto the dead (after it has been reduced to dust and scattered in the earth and become naught). He asked: Dost thou not believe ? Abraham replied ; Yea. but I ask in order that my heart may be at ease. (God) advised : Take thou then any four of the birds (i e. four different species; Abraham took a peacock, an eagle, a dove and a cock), and cause them to incline unto thee ( i. e. teach each of them to come to you when you call their respective names and when these birds have been so trained then cut them up into small pieces and mix these pieces all together ). Then scatter this mixture of cut up pieces on each of the (several nearby) hills, Then call them, ( and you win see before your eyes how the scatte­red mutilated parts will come flying from the different directions of that particular type of bird which you have called and you wilI see how) they will come to thee, (reassemble and come back once again to life ) in haste. And know that Allah is Mighty, Wise" [4].

Modern man basically does not believe in any "Miracle". Because miracles cannot be substantiated by scientific methods of testing. Hence miracles are beyond the scope of knowledge of ordinary man. Yet Man thinks himself in his pride and arrogance to be the all knowing and nothing is beyond him !

Science is proving daily before us that it is far from perfect and cannot meet all the problems facing us. New theories or processes are being discovered or proved showing that the previous theories which were relied upon to be correct were in fact wrong. In spite of these daily facts the modern Man contends that unless some modern methods of research could show that there is life definitely after this life, most men are not inclined to pay any heed to the question of resurrection. Just because it has not been proved to his satis­faction by rigid scientific tests, he refuses to believe in the evidences before him. He usually discards the existing evidences as unproved.

On the other hand all scriptures the world over proclaim :

This our present life on earth is transitory – This is evidenced by the facts of life. Not a single person from the time of creation of Adam is alive with us today. No not even the mighty kings nor any scientist nor anyone else has survived for thousands of years to be with us today: Man, inspite of all his past and present scientific achievements including visiting the moon and possibly other planets has failed in his most cherished attempt of prolong­ing his life indefinitely. All religions teach that God Almighty is the only One Who is alive from infinity till eternity [5]. That the entire universe has not come out of nothing. It has not come about by chance or accident. And that the "Something" from which this vast unfathomable creation has come about is from the Creator. It is He, Who has created Man for a very definite purpose saying :

"For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return'' [6].

''For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" [7].

"Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in that which all that are in the graves shall hear HIS voice,"

“And shall come forth (from their graves) : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done ill, unto the resurrection of damnation" [8].

But I say unto you, that every idle word that man shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement" [9].

"For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested" [10].

"And as I saw the dead small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened : and another book was opened, which is the book of life : and the deed were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works" [11].

All religious books make it clear that Man has come on this earth for a very definite purpose at the will of God, Who is the Creator of all things. As such Man will have to give an account for what he has done on earth. And on that basis Man is to be rewarded or will suffer in the next life. For this purpose Man would be resurrected from the dead long long after he has died and become dust and his dust scattered into nothingness and his identity completely lost. That He Who created Man originally out of nothingness, when no trace of him existed can certainly recreate him once more out of nothingness whenever He likes without any difficulty whatsoever. That all power rests in and with God.


References to Chapter 1 :

[1] Holy Bible — Genesis 10 : 8 & 9.
[2] Holy Bible — Genesis 11 : 1 — 9.
[3] Pages 22 to 72 of "Destruction or Peace" by Hajee Mahboob Kassim, 20 Royd Street, Calculta-700 016, published 1971.
[4] Holy Quran — Surah 2 — Al Bakr : Ayat 260.
[5] Holy Quran — Surah 2 - Al Bakr : Ayat 255.
[6] Holy Bible — Genesis 3 : 19.
[7] New Testament — St. Matthew 16 : 26 and St Mark 8 : 36.
[8] New Testament - St. John 5 : 28 & 29.
[9] New Testament — Si. Matthew 12 : 36.
[10] New Testament — St. Mark 4 : 22 similar is St. Matthew 10 : 26.
[11] New Testament — Revelation 20 : 12.

Chapter 2 : The Being Of Light That Comforts Man After Death

We are lucky that a lot of research has been done recently on the question :

"Is there any truth of life after this earthly life ?"

On this subject Dr Raymond A. Moody Jr., M. D. in the U.S.A. informs that over the five year period between 1970 and 1975 he has studied more than one hundred subjects who have experienced "Clinical death" and been revived. Their accounts of this experience are startlingly similar in detail. The findings of this research has been published under the title of :

"LIFE AFTER LIFE” [12].

A. COMMON FEATURES OF THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED TEMPORARY DEATH

Dr. Moody has stated on page 21 of "Life After Life" :

"Despite the wide variation in the circumstances surrounding close calls with death and in the types of persons undergoing them, it remains true that there is a striking similarity among the accounts of the experiences themselves. In fact, similarities among various reports are so great that one can easily pick out about fifteen separate elements which recur again and again in the mass of narratives that I have collected".

These basic common features as gathered by Dr. Moody are :

1. A man is dying. As he reaches this point he naturally feels the greatest physical distress, because he hears the doctor pronoun­cing him dead.

2. He hears an uncomfortable banging or ringing loud noise.

3. At the same time he feels he is moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel.

4. After this he suddenly finds himself outside his physical body.

5. But he is still in the immediate vicinity of his dead body.

6. So he sees his body from a distance, as though he is a spectator.

7. He watches the various attempts being made to revive him from the dead and the reaction of those relatives around his body upon his being pronounced dead.

8. Naturally he is in a state of emotional upheaval.

9. He notices that even after his death to earthly life he still has a "body” but one very different in nature and with very different powers from the physical body he has left behind.

10. He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died.

11. Immediately as he is out of the dark tunnel or passage the appears a very powerful "being of light"—a warm and comforting and loving spirit.

12. This "being of light" begins to ask him a question non-verbally to make him evaluate what he has done throughout his life and shows him a panoramic playback of all the major events of his earthly life from his very childhood till his death in the flash of a second so that he can evaluate :

(1) What he has done

(2) What he should not have done and

(3) What he did not do but what he should have done

13. These make him collect himself and he becomes more accustomed to his new odd condition.

14. At some point he finds himself reaching the barrier or line between earthly life and the next life.

15. Yet he finds he must go back to earth as the time of his death has not yet come. He has yet got some things to do which he must complete. At this point he resists for now he is taken in
with his experiences in the new life that follows death to this earthly life. He does not want to return back to the earthly life as the next life is unimaginably superior. But he has to.

B. THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO HAD TEMPORARY DEATH

From pages 69-70 of "Life After Life" two out of many similar experiences are quoted here :

Case 1 : After all this banging and going through this long, dark place all of my childhood thoughts, my whole entire life was there at the end of this tunnel, just flashing in front of me. It was not exactly in terms of pictures, more in the form of thought, I guess. I can't exactly describe it to you, but it was just all there. It was just all there at once. I mean, not one thing at a time, blinking off and on but it was everything, everything at a time. I thought about my mother, about things that I had done wrong. After I could see the mean little things I did as a child, and thought about my mother and father, I wished that I hadn't done these things, and I wished I could go back and undo them."

Case 2 : "I knew i was dying, and I remember thinking that I wanted to provide for my family. I was distraught that I was dying and yet that there were certain things that I had done in my life that I regretted and other things that I regretted that I had left undone.

"This flashback was in the form of mental pictures, I would say, but they were much more vivid than normal ones. I saw only the high points, but it was so rapid, it was like looking through a volume of my entire life and being able to do it within seconds. It just flashed before me like a motion picture that goes tremendously fast, yet I was fully able to see it, and able to comprehend it. Still the emotions didn't come back with the pictures, because there wasn't enough time".

"I didn't see anything else during this experience. There was just blackness, except for the images I saw. Yet, I definitely felt the presence of a very powerful, completely loving being there with me all through this experience.

"It is really interesting. When I recovered, I could tell everyone about every part of my life, in great detail, because of what I had been through. It's quite an experience, but it's difficult to put into words, because it happened so rapidly, yet it's so clear".

C. THE BEING OF LIGHT

On pages 58-59 of "Life After Life" Dr. Moody's recordings show :

"What is perhaps the most incredible common element in the accounts I have studied, and is certainly the element which has the most profound effect upon the individual, is the encounter with a very bright light. Typically, at its first appearance this light is dim, but it rapidly gets brighter until it reaches an unearthly brilliance. Yet, even though this light (usually said to be white or "clear") is of an indescribable brilliance, many make the specific point that it does not in any way hurt their eyes, or dazzle them, or keep them from seeing other things around perhaps because at this point they don't have physical "eyes" to be dazzled.

"Despite the light's unusual manifestation, however, not one person has expessed any doubt whatsoever that it was a being, a being of light. Not only that, it is a personal being. It was a very definite personality. The love and the warmth which emanate from this being to the dying person are utterly beyond words, and he feels completely surrounded by it and taken up in it, completely at ease and accepted in the presence of this being. He senses an irresistible magnetic attraction to this light. He is ineluctably drawn to it.

"Interestingly, while the above description of the being of light is uttery invariable............What each was trying to get across was that they took the being to be an emissary, or a guide. A man who had no religious beliefs or training at will prior to his experience simply identified what he saw as "a being of light". The same label was used by one lady of the Christian faith, who apparently did not feel any compulsion at all to call the light "Christ"!

D. THE BEING OF LIGHT QUESTIONS — WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ON EARTH?

Two cases are quoted from pages 60-63 of "Life After Life" :

"The next step of this experience clearly illustrates the difficulty of translating from this unspoken language. The being almost immediately directs a certain thought to the person into whose presence it has come so dramatically. Usually the persons with whom I have talked try to formulate the thought into a question. Among the translations I have heard are "Are you prepared to die ?", "Are you ready to die ?", "What have you done with your life to show me ?", and "What have you done with your life that is sufficient ?". The first two formulations which stress "preparation", might at first seem to have a different sense from the the second pair, which emphasize "accomplishment". However, my own feeling is that everyone is trying to express the same thought comes from the narrative of one woman who put it this way.

Case 1 : "The first thing he said to me was that he kind of asked me if I was ready to die, or what I had done with my life that I wanted to show him.

“The voice asked me a question :’Is it worth it?’ And what it meant was, did the kind of life I had been leading up to that point seem worthwhile to me then, knowing what I then knew."

Case 2 : “I got up and walked into the hall to go get a drink and it was at that point, as they found out later that my appendix ruptured. I became very weak, and I fell down. I began to feel a sort of drifting, a movement of my real being in and out of my body, and to hear beautiful music. I floated on down the hall and out the door onto the screened-in-porch. There, it almost seemed that clouds, a pink mist really – began to gather around me and then floated right straight on through the screen, just as though it weren't there, and up into this pure crystal clear light, an illuminating white light. It was beautiful and so bright, so radiant but it didn't hurt my eyes. It’s not any kind of light you can describe on earth. I didn't actually see a person in this light, and yet it has a special identity, it definitely does. It is a light of perfect understanding and perfect love.

“The thought came to my mind ‘Lovest thou me ?' This was not exactly in the form of a question, but I guess the connotation of what the light said was, 'If you do love me, go back and complete what you began in your life’. And all during this time, I felt as though I were surrounded by an overwhelming love and compassion."

From these actual experiences of those who had "Clinical Death" and were revived, it establishes unrefutably before Mankind the following facts of life in the hereafter which all the religions of the world have been preaching from the very begining :

1) There is definitely life after death.

2) Man has a body even after death which is merely a process of getting out of our earthly body just like a snake sheds off its skin and carries on to live even after that in the next stage of its life.

3) Man will be displayed all his worldly deeds. He will not escape from anything he has done on earth.

4) Man will have to give an account for what he has done during his earthly life.

5) That a “Being of Light" is giving comfort to all the entrants into the new life after death irrespective of their religion, wealth, caste, colour or nationality.

6) For the Being of Light all humanity is alike. All are on the same footing. Be they Christians or Protestants or Jews or Pagans or any one else, makes no difference !

7) The Being of Light is asking the very same questions to each one and there is no escape for anybody from it - about their deeds on earth and its value after death.

This is beautifully brought out in a verse which my father used to recite during my childhood :

"God will not ask thy creed
Nor will he seek thy birth
Alone will He demand of thee
What thou hast done on earth"

References to Chapter 2 :

[12] "Life After Life" by Dr. Raymond A. Moody Jr, M. D., 32nd Printing, 1979 by Bantam Books Inc., New York.

Chapter 3 : Who Is This Comforting Being Of Light ?

One is naturally tempted to ask who is this loving "Being of Light", who comforts the new entrants into the life after death.

The Holy Bible says :

"And God said, let there be light: And there was light".

"And God saw the light, that it was good……..” [13].

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God…….."

"The same was in the beginning with God".

"And all things were made by him; and without him was not a thing made that was made" [14].

From these quotations of the Holy Bible it would appear :

1. God created "Light".

2. "Light" was a good thing.

3. In the beginning the "Word" was with God.

4. All things were made by God out of the "Word" and nothing was created without the "Word".

Now let us look at the history of Man. It will be found that Man from time immemorial has believed in a Guiding Light, a Saviour. The chart given below vividly brings out that this belief is widespread throughout the earth from even pre-historic times :

Name of the Countries => Name of Saviour
Babylon => Baal or Bacchus or Merodach or Tammuz or Nimrod.
Persia => Maithra
Greece => Apollo or Plutus
Italy => Hercules
Rome => Jupiter-puer
Syria & Phyygia => Adonis or Attis
Egypt => Osiris or Horus
Scandinavia => Balder
Mexico, Peru & Central America => Quetzalcoatl
India => Hare Krishna
Asia Minor => Deoius
Tibet, Thailand, Ceylon & Japan => Buddha
Jewish Religion => Moses
European and American Countries => Christ
Islamic Countries => Mohammad

A. WHO IS THIS COMFORTER OR BEING OF LIGHT ?

With so many names before us it becomes difficult to find out who is this "Spirit of Light" the loving Comforting — Saviour of the Universe. Let us start our search systematically based upon the records as available from the very beginning of Man.

B. ACCORDING TO THE FIRST MAN – ADAM

The incidents that took place at that time of the creation of the First man are quoted here from pages 89 & 91, “Gospel of Barnabas” [15].

"God gave His soul to men, while all the holy angels sang : 'Blessed be Thy holy name O God our Lord'.

"Adam, having sprung up upon his feet, saw in the air a writing that shone like the sun, which said : "There is only one God and Mohammad is the messenger of God". Where upon Adam opened his mouth and said : I thank thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast deigned to create me; but tell me, I pray Thee, what meaneth the message of these words : 'Mohammad is the messenger of God'. Have there been other men before me?"

"Then said God: 'Be thou welcome, O my servant Adam. I tell you that thou art the first man whom I have created. And he whom thou hast seen is thy son, for whom I have created all things . Who shall give light to the world when he shall come; whose soul was set in a celestial splendour sixty thousand years before I made anything’.

''Adam besought God, saying : 'Lord, grant me this writing upon the nails of the fingers of my hands'. Then God gave to the first man upon his thumbs that writing; upon the thumb-nail of the right hand it said : ‘There is only one God', and upon the thumb-nail of the left hand it said : 'Mohammad is the messenger of God’. Then with fatherly affection the first man kissed those words, and rubbed (his thumb-nails) on his eyes, and said : "Blessed be that day when thou shalt come to the world".

C. ACCORDING TO THE HEBREW TEXT OF HOLY BIBLE

The Hebrew Text of verse 16 of Chapter V of “The Song of Solomon" is transliterated hereunder from page 1159 of the Old Testament — Hebrew text with English translation printed in 1950 in London for the British and Foreign Bible Society :

Hebrew Text Transliterated :

16. Hikor mumethakeem
"Wey Kehelav Mahamadeem"
zey dodi wey zey rayee
beynoth Yerushalayeem.

Translation :

16. His mouth is most sweet :
"And he is called Mohamad".
This is My beloved, and this is My friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.

D. ACCORDING TO HINDU SCRIPTURES

The "Puranas" are the 3500 years old religious books of the Hindus. “Bhavishya" means foretellings of things that will happen in the future.

Below is the English translation of the Sanskrit text from Parv 3, Kanda 3, Adhyaya 3, Slokas 5-8 of "Bhavishya Puran”, published by Venkateshwar Press, Bombay :

"A person, who has not been taught how to read or write, will appear (after many centuries) with his companions. His name will be Mahamad.

"He will be the teacher of the Universe teaching what they knew not".

"A Raja from India after giving this Maha Dev Arab a bath in the Panchgavya and the Ganges water, will offer him the presents of his sincere devotion and showing him all reference will say : ‘I make obeisance to thee'.

"O Ye ! the dweller in Arabia, the pride of mankind, Ye have collected a great force to kill the Devil and you yourself have been protected from your opponents".

"0 Ye ! the image of the Most Pious God, the biggest lord, I offer myself as a slave to thee. Take me as one lying at thy feet''.

The name of the promised saviour of the Earth has been given as "Maha-mad"' also in "Allo-Upanishad" translated by Upendra Math Mukhopadya of Calcutta.

E. ACCORDING TO SIKH SCRIPTURES

Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh Religion has preached :

"Pakh Padho Kalma Rab da Mohammad nal milaye"
"Ho Ya mashuk-e-Khuda yeda ho ya yallah" [16]

Translation :

"O Pious People ! Recite the Kalma of the Creator adding to it the name of Mohammad.
"Who is the beloved of God by dedicating his very self to Allah”.

F. ACCORDING TO THE BOOK WRITTEN BY MOSES AND JOSHUA

The following was revealed by a Jewish Scribe as recorded on page 427 of "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] :

"The scribe then said : 'Pardon me, for I have sinned'.

“Said Jesus: ‘God pardon thee; for against Him hast thou sinned’.

"Whereupon said the scribe : 'I have seen an old book written by the hands of Moses and Joshua servants and prophets of God, which book is the true book of Moses. Therein is written that Ishmael is the (fore) father of the Messiah (Mohammad the Messenger of God), and Issac is the (fore) father of (Jesus) the messenger (who will announce to the world the coming) of the Messiah. And thus saith the book, that Moses said "Lord God of Israel, Mighty and Merciful, manifest to thy servant the splendour of Thy Glory". Where upon God showed him His messenger (Mohammad) in the arms of Ishmael, and Ishmael in the arms of Abraham. Nigh to Ishmael stood (his younger brother) Isaac, in whose arms was a child (i. e. Jesus), who with his finger pointed to the Messenger of God saying :

"This is he for whom God hath created all things".

"Thereupon Moses cried out with joy : ‘O Ishmael, thou hast in thine arms all the world and paradise: Be mindful of me, God's servant, that I may find grace in God’s sight by means of thy son, for whom God hath made all’.”

G. ACCORDING TO NEW TESTAMENT

"I (Jesus) have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come (after I have gone away), he will guide you unto all truth :

“For he shall not speak of himself ; but whatsoever he shall hear (from God ) that shall he speak and he will show you things to come" [17].

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring aII things to your rememberance, whatsoever I have said unto you" [18].

H. ACCORDING TO HOLY JESUS

Jesus has disclosed the following facts regarding the Com­forter Saviour in "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] :

1) The very first thing that God created was the Soul of Mohammad ( page 91 ). So he is the "Light" that God created and found the Light to be good [13].

2) God kept the Soul of Mohammad for 60,000 years in Celes­tial Splendour before He created anything (page 91).

3) Everything that has been created is for the sake of Mohammad (pages 91, 225). So he is the "Word" referred to in the Holy Bible through which everything has been created [14].

4) His name will be Mohammad (pages 89, 91, 97, 105, 129, 225, 227, 319, 331 & 437).

5) Whosoever will bless Mohammad will be blessed by God, whosoever will curse Mohammad will be accursed (page 2 7).

6) All the earlier prophets from Adam till Jesus became prophets only because of “Mohammad" (page 105).

7) The mission of Jesus was to inform the Jews as well as the World of the coming of Mohammad, the Messenger of God (page 167).

8) Blessed is the time when Mohammad will come on earth (pages 91, 106).

9) Idols all over the earth will fall down upon the birth of Mohammad and when lifted would speak like human beings announcing the birth of Mohammad (page 169).

10) Mohammad will come on earth as the Messenger of Salvation (page 227).

11) There will be no more prophets born after Mohammad (page 225).

12) Mohammad will be born South of the land of Israel (page 223).

13) A white cloud would give shade over him whenever he would go out under the open skies and that he would be recognised by this sign (page 167).

14) Destroyer of idolatry and idols (pages 167, 223).

15) Jesus informs that even though the heaven and the earth shall fail but the faith taught by Mohammad shall never fail (page 227).

I. ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGY

Jamaseph the great astrologer of Persia had predicted 4000 years back the birth of Prophet Mohammad [20] in his works known as "Jamaseph Nama" or the records of Jamaseph.

J. ON THEORY OF JUDGEMENT

All religions have taught that Man would be resurrected from the dead on the Day of Judgement and would have to give an account of what he has done on earth. So it becomes very impor­tant to know what function the Comforter Saviour of the Universe is likely to play at this most important event in the lives of each one of us.

On pages 127 and 129 of "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] one reads :

"When these signs be passed, there shall be darkness over the world for forty years, God alone being alive to Whom bo honour and glory forever. When the forty years be passed, God shall give life to His messenger, who shall rise again like the sun, but resplen­dent as a thousand suns. He shall sit, and shall not speak, for he shall be as it were besides himself. God shall rise again the four angels favoured of God, who shall seek the messenger of God, and, having found him, shall station themselves on the four sides of the place to keep watch upon him. Next shall God give life to all the angels, who shall come as bees circling round the messenger of God. Next shall God give life to all His prophets, who, following Adam shalI go every one to kiss the hand of the messenger of God, committing themselves to his protection. Next shall God give life to all the elect, who shall cry out : 'O Mohammad, be mindful of us !‘ At whose cries pity shall awake in the messenger of God, and he shall consider what he ought to do fearing for their salvation…..... "

Thus Holy Jesus has clarified that on the day of Judgement all the prophets from Adam till himself would place themselves under the protection of Mohammad the Comforter—Saviour of the Universe, who would plead for the safety of the followers of the earlier prophets from Adam to Jesus and also for mankind at large.


References to Chapter 3 :

[13] Holy Bible—Genesis 1 : 3 & 4.
[14] New Testament-St. John 1 :1-3.
[15] 'Gospel of Barnabas' translated by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, published by Clarendon Press Oxford University, 1907. To know who St. Barnabas was please refer to Author's Notes.
[16] Page 14 of Bhai Bhala's Janam Sakhi.
[17] New Testament—St. John 16 : 12 & 13.
[18] New Testament—St John 14:26.
[19] New Testament—Acts 3 : 22-24.
[20] Page 5, Second part of Silver Jubilee—1945/1970—issue of Jyotish Ghayan, published at Calcutta on 21-1-1972.

Chapter 4 : Did Man Evolve From Prehistoric Animals ?

A. DARWIN'S THEORY

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82) once again revived the old theory of "Evolution" of King Nimrod in his thesis published in 1859 under the title of “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. He could not prove his theory because he came up again and again against what he termed "The missing links".

Darwin has stated on page 1 of "The Origin of Species" [21] :

"As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth ? I will here only state that I BELIEVE the answer mainly lies in the record being incomparably less perfect than is generally supposed".

As a result a lot of research was done by eminent teams af resear­chers since 1859 to find out these “missing links" which would prove beyond doubt that life from single unit cell must progressively have grown with the passage of time more complex into very different things from their origin as millions of years elapsed and that nothing in creation retained its original form for any length of time.

Yet very surprisingly many LIVING types of animals and plants are essentially the same as their fossil representatives. Some even believed to be over a billion years old ? These living fossils have proved again and again beyond any scope for denial that there is no such thing as EVOLUTION. Otherwise they would have completely changed in the course of time from their fossil representatives into something quite diferent as claimed by the theorists of evolution that man has come about from a single cell unit.

B. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DISPROVES EVOLUTION !

Late in 1938 Miss M. Courtenay-Latimer, a curator of the Museum at East London, a port on the Southeast coast of South Africa, was surprised to find a strange - looking fish amongst the catch of a fisherman. She sent the details of this fish to the renowned ichthyologist, Professor J L B Smith of the Rhodes University College at Grahamstown (South Africa). He was stupe­fied and exclaimed :

"My surprise would have been little greater if I had seen a dinosaur walking down the street".

It is the ancient Coelecanth which lived over 50 million years ago and was supposed to have been extinct for about 70 million years.

Jacques Millot, the Director of Madagascar's Institutes of Scientific Research has acknowledged :

"Throughout the hundreds of millions of years the Coelecanth have kept the same form and structure. Here is one of the great mysteries of evolution .. " [22].

Another amazing discovery was made in the 1963, which came as a jolt to the Scientific world. A deep-sea mollusk (Neopilina Galatheae) was recovered off the coast of Central America at a depth of about two miles. These mollusks were assumed to have become extinct about 350 million years ago. But now scientists have realised the Neopilina Galatheae are not only still with us but also have remained unchanged in a period of over 350 millions of years [23].

In 1910 on the slope of Mount Wapta in British Columbia, Charles B. Walcott made a startling discovery from "Middle Cambrian" rocks, considered 500 million years old. He found 70 genera and 130 species of perfectly preserved remains of such creatures as sponges, jellyfish, and a remarkable array of annelid worms in which even the bristles, scales, and intestinal tract are highly preserved. All are exactly like their modern counterparts.

One is tempted to ask why these creatures of the sea have not evolved into some higher from of Life. The figure of one half billion years is indeed too long a period of time for them have remained unchanged if there is any such a thing as Evolution.

After dealing with creatures from the sea, let us refer to the article "Insects in Amber", which appeared in the November 1951 issue of "Scientific American". Here one gets the following information :

On page 57 :

"Cockroaches still exist in very much the same form as they did 250 million years ago".

Cockroaches are believed by some scientists to have been existence for at least 350 million years without any transformation whatsoever. Some may even put that figure at a billion years.

On page 58 :

"The common black ant has been in existence for over 70 million years without any change”.

On pages 60-61 :

“By and large the insect population of today remains remarkably similar to that of the earlier age. All the major orders of insects now living were represented in the ancient Olinocene forest. Some of the specific types have persisted throughout the 70 million years since then with little or no changes".

"On page 6 of the May 1961 issue of “Science Digest" is an article under the title of "The Dragonfly : Fossil On Wings" in which we are informed that fossils of the dragonfly exactly resembling the modern-day dragonfly have been found in Jurassic period assumed to be atleast 170 million years old.

Now let us turn our attention to reptiles. On the offshore islands near New Zealand have been discovered the Tuatara or Sphenodon.

Scientists confess : "The skeleton of a reptile found in the Jurassic deposits of Europe is so nearly identical with that of the living Tuatara that very little change in the bone structure must have taken place during a period of 150.000.000 years” [24].

Living creatures are not the only forms which destroy the very basis of evolution. Let us now consider only one of the plants out of the many that can be referred to.

The Paleobotanist Professor Theodore Delevoryas of Yale University has written about the life-span of the modern “Cycad" tree without any change or evolution on Page 134 of "Morphology and Evolution of Fossil Plants" as follows :

"The true cyeads, of the order Cycadales, are in existence since early Triassic times ( i. e. over 200 millions of years ) or perhaps even earlier without any change".

Thousands of other examples can be cited of specimens having been in existence for hundreds of millions of years, in many cases surviving for billions of years without any change or evolution
whatsoever.

Now let us analyse and try to discover if modern man has come about through a process of evolution out of monkeys or from pre-historic men.

Primitive monkeys and gibbons appeared in Burma over 50 million years ago. The tail-less primitive apes appeared more than 25 million years ago. Whilst the earliest Ape-like men known as Olduval in East Africa and Australopithecinse in South Africa appeared more than 500,000 years back—perhaps even a million years ago.

Traces of the Neanderthal man, a prehistoric cave dweller during the last glaciation are to be found in various places dating back to about 100,000 years. They are believed to have been in existence for at least 400,000 to 500,000 years. They had receding foreheads and a stocky physique. They were widespread in Europe, Asia and Afnca. They were the nearest to modern men. According to scientitic research these prehistoric men, if we should call them men, had a basic mental capacity similar to that of the modern man according to available scientific data. But they have disappeared mysteriously from the face of the earth sometime about 15,000 years ago : i.e.a few thousand years before the advent of Adam.

Anthropologist Hibben explained it this way :

"It would seem that the Neanderthaloids become more distinctively Neanderthaloid as they progressed rather than less so. In fact a number of Neanderthal skeletons said to be younger, seemed to be more primitive looking than the earlier ones” [25].

"Neanderthal man ... abruptly disappeared," says anthropologist Howell, "the evolutionary tendencies that he exhibited during this period are extremely puzzling. For he seems to have gotten more 'primitive', not less so......He was noticeably different from modern man and became more so as time went on.”

“In addition to stopping abruptly, the classic Neanderthaler is replaced with equal abruptness by people like ourselves. There is NO BLENDING, no gradual shading from one type to the other" [26].

No wonder the scientists have eliminated Neanderthal Man as a direct link from the supposed chain leading to modern man.

C. FROM WHERE DID MODERN MAN COME ?

Anthropologist Howells, a past president of the American Anthropological Association, discussed this very problem :

"We now enter the whole question of the origins of Homo Sapiens ( i.e. modem man ).

"It is the worst problem in our evolution. Of course we have gaps to face, but here it is NOT a question of lack of fossils…….Yet the problem obstinately remains unsolved.

"Who are we—us, ourselves—and what have we to do with Neanderthal ? What are the connections of the two kind of man ?" [27].

This brings us to the second category of discoveries—the discoveries of bones which look exactly like those of modern men. Such fossils are labelled Cro-Magnon Man — a generic term for the first clearly recognized example of what anthropologists call full-fledged "Homo Sapiens" — humans like you and me.

In any case, the first Cro-Magnon Men to be recognized were found in the spring of 1868 A. D. This was just nine years after the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species".

Soil was being removed to make way for a railroad at Perigord, France that was to run through Les Eyzie-de-Tayac. Five skeletons and some bits of foetal and infant bones were discovered from a rock shelter which became exposed.

These bones revealed a man fully "modern" in the European Sense—tall, handsome, having regular features, high forehead, prominent chin, small teeth, thin skull, without the heavy brow ridges so characteristic ot the Classic Neanderthal Man.

Since then numerous remains of the Cro-Magnons, or us, the modern men have been found throughout Europe froin Southern England to Russia. France, especially, is rich in its remains.

What is the status of the Cro-Magnon Man's evolutionary history ? Is he linked to older, more primitive “man” or "near-men” ?

Can we really find a connection for the Cro-Magnon Man with some more primitive being ?

The answer, admit prehistorians, is "No" !

Here is what experts say about the Cro-Magnon Man :

"Just as we might actually be finding some of the connections to which the threads of evidence seem to be leading, we are frustrated. The evidence itself disappears . We have only Neanderthals.

"Beyond and before this Neanderthal occupation we drop off to still poorer levels of information. The human remains are few and piecemeal, and therefore quite incompetent to answer most of the problems they raise.

“And the main one is still the birth of Homo Sapiens" [28].

These scientific researches clearly show that there is no established link between "Prehistoric Man" and us "Human Beings". "Prehistoric Man" and “Modern Man" are two entirely distinct creatures who have no connection whatsoever between them. They have definitely not evolved from one to the other according to scientific findings. Similarly also according to science, man has not evolved out of any one of species of monkeys and/or apes as was supposed erroneously before these researches were carried out.

Numerous examples can be quoted of individual species disappearing. The vacuum thus created was in many instances filled by something totally different. The most vivid example of mass termination of the past dwellers of this earth and their surroundings took place about seventy million years ago. Strange creatures were roaming this earth then. Dinosaurs dominated the land. Pterasaurs (flying reptiles) flitted through the skies. The oceans were alive with giant marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs. Plant life in this “Age of Reptiles" would seem strange to us. Cycads, ferns and fern-like plants dominated the landscape. The flowering plants, the fruit trees and the vegetations of today were simply not in existence.

The landscape of the earth was so totatly different that "we might", as one paleontologist put it, "well imagine ourselves upon another planet”. None of the mammals with which we are ordinarily familiar then existed. There were no dogs, no horses, no cattle, no cats. The array of feathered fowls, the varieties of grains, fruits and vegetables and fish with true scales were absent. No man walked upon the earth to view this strange creation. Only a few of the common insects with which we are familiar, such as butterflies and bees, are known to have existed.

Then suddenly some strange and terrible disaster wrought havoc on this earth, as a result of which the entire world of that time perished with an alarming abruptness. The flying reptiles were totally exterminated. The great dinosaurs vanished completely from the surface of the earth. The great reptiles of the sea became a thing of the past according to the findings of Scientists.

"There can be no doubt about it. All the dinosaurs, along with various other.......... reptiles, became extinct.

"......Not One of Them Survived, as is amply proved by the fact that during almost a century and a half of palentological exploration, the wide world over, no trace of a dinosaur bones or teeth has even been found in any post-Cretaceous rocks, not even in the earliest of them.

"The proof of the geologic record on this score is Irrefutable" [29].

The famous geologist Carl O. Dunbar, in his well-known text­book ''Historical Geology", is simply awed by the sudden extinction of the Reptilean Age and the equally sudden appearance of Mammals and the modern plants of today—plants upon which mammals and man alike depend for their survival.

Musing about this problem, he has quoted George Gaylord Simpson, one of the most respected men in Paleontology :

"It is as if the curtain were rung down suddenly on a stage where all the leading roles were taken by reptiles, especially dinosaurs, in great numbers and bewildering varieties and rose again immediately to reveal the same setting but in an entirely new cast in which the dinosaurs do not appear at all, other reptiles are mere supernumeralies (unimportant bit-part actors) and the leading parts are all played by Mammals" [30].

Everywhere that scientists look they are faced with this certainty that there is no such thing as "Evolution" ! It has always been a case of sudden disappearance of old species and shortly thereafter an equally sudden appearance of new creations ! Scientists cannot answer how and where they come from ! All religions of answer with one voice—It is the work of God, Who creates what He pleases, then effaces when He wishes !

D. IS GOD THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING ?

How it is possible to establish scientifically beyond any scope for doubt that God is the Creator of each and every person, place or thing ? Let us take the thumb impression of any person. In how many people do we expect to find a matching thumb impression ? Do you think there is a chance of finding even one duplicate in a hundred thousand ? The answer is a "No" ! Then what are the chances of finding a single duplicate amongst all the people living on earth, if we were to examine the impressions of the palm of a man with all his fingers and thumb prints ? Again the answer will be a "No". If we were to include the whole body of a person and note each and every little detail, the number of hairs, the number of pores, the various organs etc. besides the various lines and marks on a human body what conclusion do we arrive at ? That it will be impossible to fined a duplicate from the first to the last man on earth !

Let us now turn our attention for a moment towards nature. There also you will be surprised to find that no two leaves of the same plant, no two petals of the same flower, no two peaks of the same mountain range, no two tributaries of the same delta are identical in all respects. Each has its undeniable individual features.

A glance at our Galaxy would also reveal these glaring differences. Each star, planet, satellite, meteor is an individual. Each follows a separate course of its own, rotates at different speeds, directions and angles. Everyone of them are composed of different elements. No two are exactly the same ! Yet in the midst of all this diversity and differences there is no chaos ! Every second the Sun or the Moon is not crashing into the Earth or one galaxy into another or the stars of the same galaxy into one another !

1) There are these great differences between the works of men and the works of Allah. The same minute and searching investigation, which displays the defects and imperfections of the one, brings out the beauties of the other. If the most finely polished needle on which the art of man has been expended be subjected to a microscope, many inequalities, much roughness & clumsiness, will be seen. But if the microscope be brought to bear on the flowers of the field, no such result appears. Instead of their beauty diminishing new beauties and still more delicate, that have escaped the naked eye, are forthwith discovered—beauties that make us appreciate, in a way which otherwise we could have had little conception of the full force of this saying of Jesus :

2) "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin :

3) "….And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" [31].

4) These facts all around us brings out very vividly that Allah always gives personal individual attention to each and everyone of His crea­tions even to the minutest details of the lines to be found in each thumb impression or petal to make them individuals not only on this earth but even in the entire universe ! Thus bringing home with full force the first portion of the "Kalama" !

“La llaaha Illal Laahu" i.e. “There is none worthy of divine worship except Allah" which in this context brings out very clearly that there is no one who is the creator of anything whatsoever—but Allah, The One, The Individual.

5) He, who is able to do all these distinctive acts requiring continuous individual attention to each and every little detail therefore must of necessity be not only an Individual— "A One" but that He also proves He is omnipresent in each and every person, place or thing by making them individuals like Himself !

6) Scientific evidences already read earlier repeatedly shows that this Creator allows a thing to remain in existence for a period of time. Nobody knows how long that will be ! Then suddenly He
effaces all traces of it without any warning or notice and without any escape. Then equally suddenly He replaces it with something very different. Scientists are left dumbfounded, they cannot even venture any explanation as to how it happened ! Just let us look at the sudden effacement of the Reptile Age. Its sudden replacement by mammals and plants of our age. The sudden disappearance of the Prehistoric Animals looking like man — the Neanderthal and after
a period the sudden appearance of us the modern Man. All religions have described Him as the Shaper, the Maker, the Creator out of nothing, the Omnipotent, the Omnipresent, The Doer
of what He Pleases, the Lord of the Universe, Who has no equals, the one and only Who has been alive from Infinity and will remain so for Eternity, the Uncomparable that is Allah. He does not permit anyone whether you call it Evolution or by any other name to usurp His functions of creating what He wills and to give them an end when He wills with no connection whatsoever between the various types of creation, which are in each case an individual creation not
connected to anything else in the entire universe.

The Holy Bible mentions this fact:

"So God created man in His "Own Image" in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them" [32].

God has no shape or form, Hence the phrase "Own Image" can only means the individual oneness with which He has created each and every person, place or thing i. e. "Individual Ones" thus proving very clearly that the Creator of all these many billions of "Ones" must Himself be a "One and only one" and these indisputable facts prove that there never was and can never be any such thing as Evolution in the entire universe be they galaxies or stars or any thing else. In each and every case there is an individual creation by the Only Individual Creator !


References to Chapter 4 :

[21] "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" by Charles Robert Darwin, was first published in 1859 A. D. The page numbers is from the 1962 edition published by Collier,
New York.
[22] The article "The Coelecanth" appearing on page 37 in the December 1955 issue of Scientific American.
[23) Page 431 "Essentials of Earth History" by Carl Stokes.
[24] The article "The Tuatara : Why is it a lone survivor ?" by Charles M. Bogert appearing on page 167 in the March 1953 issue of Scientific Monthly.
[25] Page 33, "Prehistoric Man in Europe” by Frank C Hibben published by University of Oklahama Press, 1958.
[26] Page 126, "Early Man" by F. Clark Howell, published by TIME-LIFE Books, New York, 1968.
[27] Page 215, "Mankind in The Making" by William Howells, published by Doubleday, New York, 1967.
[28] Pages 343-344, "Mankind in The Making" by William Howells.
[29] Page 249, "Dinosaurs" by Edwin H. Colbert.
[30] Page 426, "Historical Geology" by Carl O. Dunbar.
[31] New Testament - St. Matthew 6 : 28 & 29.
[32] Hoy Bible - Genesis 1 : 27.

Chapter 5 : The Being Of Light Accepts To Guide The Universe

A. GOD OFFERS TO GIVE RESPONSIBILITY

Just a few thousand years before the advent of man, God offered to appoint a Viceroy to manage the universe according to His laws. Naturally He offered this opportunity first of all to the spiritual powers. These included angels, Genies, Fairies, and many other forms of spirits who are in the universe. But they, realising its responsibilities, were frightened to assume it ! Then He offered this to the animal kingdom on earth including apes and what scientists have dubbed as the prehistoric man. They also declined as it was beyond their capacity. Finally He offered it to things of nature i e. the deep unfathomable oceans, the high mountains, the wide­spread lands and the trees, the fruits and the flowers. But they also could not bear such a responsibility. Very surprisingly, MAN accepted it without any hesitation ! [33]

Man had not yet been created ! Everybody asked the question —who is this Man who has accepted this onerous burden ? In reply God announced across the skies in letters shining brighter than the sun :

"La llaha Illallah Mohammadur Rasul-Allah"

Translation :

"There is no god except Allah and Mohammad is the messenger of Allah”.

Thereby making it clear that the "Being of Light" was the man who had assumed this onerous responsibility.

B. THE MATERIAL SELECTED FOR CREATION OF MAN

To implement the creation of the one, who is to teach the Divine laws to all, God selected black potter's clay as the material from which to create man. All the spiritual forces realised that anything created out of such a base material was sure to cause mischief and bloodshed as was happening daily in the animal kingdom, who were also made out of similar mud. When God shaped the hollow statue of man He became the “Musavir" (in Arabic) or the Sculptor or Shaper of man and that which is shaped by a Musavir out of clay is called "Tasvir" (in Arabic). As soon as the Tasvir or the statue of Adam was shaped the spiritual elements protested to God :

"And when they Lord said unto the spiritual dwellers of the Universe Lo ! l am about to place a "Khalifa” (i.e. Viceroy) in the earth, they said : Wilt Thou place therein one, who will do harm therein, will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee ? He (Allah) said : Surely I know thatwhich ye know not.” [34].

C. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FACULTIES OF ANIMALS AND MAN

When Man was being made out of mud, the material out of which animals have also been created it becomes necessary to study the differences between animals and Prehistoric men on the one hand and Adam on the other.

Every scientist and "materialist" will confirm emphatically the amazing complexity of the animal brain. In the highest animals it is only very slightly less in quality as compared to the human brain but much more in size and comparative weight in some cases.

Scientists have discovered that each and every component found in the human brain is also to be found in the animal brain viz :

Medulla, Pons, midbrain
Central Hemispheres
Thalamus
Cerebellum and
Corpus Callosum.

All the functions of the various parts of the human and animal brains are identical and comprise :

Visual
Auditory
Sensory
Motor
Posterior Association Cortex
Frontal Association Cortex

The weight of the brains of the "Capuchin monkey" of South America is 5. 7% of the total body weight as against that the human brain weighs about 1.8% of its body weight. So the brain of the monkey is over 200% more than the human brain-weight/body-weight ratio.

Now let us take the ratio (percentage) of intrinsic cortex to total cortex. This percentage is roughly 10% in rats, 50% in cats, 75% in monkeys, and 95% in men. Recent data indicate that the percentages of intrinsic cortex in a whale and a dolphin are roughly the same as in a monkey i.e. 75%. This means that the whale and the dolphin by weight have a greater amount of intrinsic cortex than man with very close to the same ratio.

Professor E. J. Slijpe in his research "Whales" reports that cetacean brain aside from its size, is remarkably similar to the human brain. He emphasises that cetacean cerebral cortex is exceptionally convoluted just like the human brain and extends so far back that in the common dolphin it completely covers the cerebellum at the rear of the cranial cavity again just like the human brain. Slijpe contends "these convolutions are not only very striking in appearance but are an essential criterion for judging the stage of development a given brain has reached". He sums up his impression by asking : "Must we assume that porpoises, sperm whales and dolphins, by virtue of their highly developed brains have the capacity akin to those of men .. "

Then according to scientific data do animals have a greater brain capacity ? The indisputable answer must be—YES. Why then is the human mind so transcendingly superior to the animal brain ?

Monkeys and gibbons have been in existence in Burma for the past 50 million years. When their brain is of similar material, quality and 200% larger in size than the brain of the modern man, then one is indeed puzzled as to why have they, the monkeys and gibbons etc, not acquired those mental achievements which have made man so very much superior to them in spite of all our mental-physical draw­backs when compared to the physical properties of the brain in
animals e.g. :

Animal instinct causes new-born animals automatically, without any teaching or learning to do what they need to do.

— As against that —

A new-born human baby, of itself is utterly helpless. It is born with a human brain—a blank mind devoid of any knowledge what­soever. It does not come equipped with the same kind of instinct as the new-born animal. On the contrary it must be taught—or learn— everything done by other human beings as he grows up. Certainly not by in-born instinct as in the case of animals.

— Further —

The new born calf is on all fours and walking in a few minutes — It is not taught to walk. It walks by instinct in order to fulfil a need for its mother's milk.

— As compared to —

The new-born human child learns or is taught to walk in about a year. The human baby is quite helpess at birth and must be fed and in course of time even taught to eat.

It is a well known fact that animal instinct is far superior to that found in human beings. A horse can hear and recognise his master's voice from even a mile away. Similarly a dog will smell his master from a mile away and go running to him. A wolf would smell humans from as far as three miles. All of which are quite beyond ordinary human mental capacity.

These simple daily truths bring out very glaringly that at least as far as physical properties and instinct are concerned the animal brain is much better equipped to face the requirements of physical life than the human brain.

Our scientists have found out that for more than 400,000 years, probably atleast half a million years, a prehistoric man whom they have named "Neanderthal" had been in existence with similar capabilities as the descendants of Adam.

In this long period of half a million years why did they not build skyscrapers like the Empire State Building or World Trade Centre, accomplish our Nuclear advance, our huge Hydro-electrical projects for irrigation, navigation and power, our wonderful feats such as space travel and landings upon the moon, our super tankers and bulkcarriers. All of which we the descendants of Adam have now achieved, let us say, in about 6000 years according to Biblical calculations or in only 1/80th of the time that the Pre-historic "Neanderthal" were in existence until about 15,000 years ago when they mysteriously vanished from the face of the the earth leaving the earth void for the next creation of God, which is man. Why is their achievements similar only to that of the monkeys and gibbons etc. in their 50 millions years on this earth ?

Hence there is unimaginable differences for some mysterious reason unknown to scientists between the mental capacities of "Pre-historic Men" and the generations of Adam. This difference is equal to the difference between the human intelligence and the animal brain. All this vast difference exists in spite of all the superior physical qualities and instinct possessed by the animal brain which according to scientific findings is composed of similar matter, size, quality and capacity as the modern human brain.

Some animals have physical brains as large or larger than man's brain, and with similar cerebral powers of intellect, logic, selfconsciousness and creativity.

The physical brain of a dolphin, whale or elephant is larger than the human brain, while a chimp's is slightly smaller. Qualitatively the difference between them and human brain is very little, not
enough to remotely account for the vastly superior intelligence and output of the human brain.

The gap between animal brain and human mind is incredibly vast !—Why ?

One is naturally quite puzzled at the miserable failure of scientists to fathom as to what could be the reason for this glaring difference ? What we now have achieved in as little as 6000 years they—the monkeys and the so-called pre-historic men—did not do even in 50 millions or half a million years respectively—Why ?

What an incredible paradox ! The human mind—so great as to make space ships to take him to the moon and back and yet so helpless that it cannot solve his problems with his fellow beings —Why?

Today the number one problem humanity faces is that of survival ! Yet few seem to understand that the answer to the problem lies in : "Why were you born" ?

Where science and materialism fail, we do not have any option left but to turn towards something else. After all, science and it methods of proving materialism are not the "be all and end all" of our knowledge.


References of Chapter 5 :

[33] Holy Quran, Surah 33 - Al Ahzab - Ayat 72.
[34] Holy Quran, Surah 2 - Al Bakr: Ayat 30.

Chapter 6 : The Part Played By The Being Of Light For Mankind

When God decided to create Adam, He made him in His infinite wisdom with those faculties which are present even today in each human baby viz :

a) In a condition in which he would not be able to fend for himself. As such the "Garden of Eden" had to be provided for his survival with all kinds of ripe and ready fruits and vegetables for his food.

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed : to you it shall be for meat" [35].

b) With a blank mind which has to be taught.

c) With qualities which would be much inferior to even animals at the time of creation. Then he would be given the freedom to develop himself to whatever extent he may desire. Thereby raising himself into the highest of all creation. The Quran confirms :

"Surely We (Allah) created Man with the best potentials !

"Then we reduced him (at the time of his birth) to the lowest of the low (i.e. as a helpless baby without any means to fend for itself and with a blank human brain).

"Now it is for those who believe and do good works (to learn and acquire knowledge and acheive perfection to any limit they like) and theirs is an unfailing reward (for whatsoever efforts they put in).

"Is not Allah the most conclusive in His Judgement (of what faculties and abilities, he should give to which of His creations)?" [36].

A. SOUL

God has given one soul to each of His creations, e.g. :

1) SPIRITUAL SOUL

To the angels and other spirits such as Genii, Fairies etc. Allah has blessed them with the "Immortal Soul" known in Arabic as "Nafs Lawwama" or the soul which draws them towards their Creator, purity and goodness. As a result spirits do not get any benefit or pleasure by committing any sins. Nor do they have any desire to commit any sins. Rather their souls cause in the spirits an abhorrance against sins. So it is really difficult for them to commit any sins !

2) ANIMAL SOUL

To animals God has bestowed the Animal Spirit or mortal Soul. This soul will die with the death of the body. This Soul is called “Nafs Ammara" in Arabic. It draws its possessor towards materialism. Hence its possessor commits sins and bloodshed for material gains or sexual pleasures, lust and worldly power.

3) GUIDANCE

Man assumed the responsibility for the guidance of the universe. This comprised of both the spiritual as well as animal forces. So it became necessary for Man to be blessed with such abilities that he could serve as a guide for both. God has disclosed in the Quran [37] that for anyone to be able to act as a guide he should appear before his audience as an equal, even through he might belong to a higher category of creation. This is essential to avoid giving an inferiority complex to those, who are to be guided.

4) MAN

Therefore Adam had to be blessed with two Souls because of the responsibilities that Allah was going to place upon mankind— the control and education of the universe through the teachings that the "Being of Light" would spread when he would come on earth.

a) The Spiritual Soul was required to educate to the Spiritual forces throughout the entire universe including Angels.

b) The Animal Soul being necessary to train and control animals and bring them to man's service and benefit.

5) MAN A SUPERIOR CREATION

Thus it will be seen that the children of Adam are the only crea­tion on earth who are blessed with both the spiritual forces i. e. the mortal and immortal souls. Such double force has not been blessed even upon angels who are among the highest creation. This has been confirmed repeatedly in the Quran. One example is quoted here :

"Verily We (Allah) have honoured the children of Adam. We (Allah) carry them over the land and the sea, and have made provision of good things for them and have preferred them above many of those whom We (Allah) have created with a marked preference" [38].

B. CREATION OF ADAM

When the "Tasvir" or statue of man made out of clay was ready, God asked the mortal Soul to enter it. Upon entering the Tasvir of Adam, the Soul found it to be a very dark hollow space. Feeling very stifled it came out and petitioned to the Creator:

"Oh Lord, it is very dark inside. How can I survive in such a dismal prison".

God smiled. It was His plan in His infinite wisdom that such a petition be made. Because He wanted to prove the superiority of man not only over animals but also above the spiritual forces including angels. This could only be achieved if Man could be given such knowledge which was unknown even to the angels and other spirits.

God ordered that "Nur-e-Mohammadi" or the "Being of Light" be brought and placed in the forehead of Adam. This provided Man with the Immortal Soul. After that He ordered the mortal soul to re-enter the body of Adam.

C. EFFECT UPON MAN'S SOUL

The Soul of Adam when it again entered the "Tasvir" or Body was surprised to find this new home not only well lighted but also a very pleasant place to stay in due to the Immortal Soul which was the blessing of the Being of Light. So much so that not only then, but even now after 6000 years the human soul does not want to come out of the body at the time of a man's death. Indeed what a fantastic influence ! This is one of the incredible gifts to mankind from the Being of Light.

D. HOW THE BEING OF LIGHT MADE MAN SUPERIOR TO ANGELS AND SPIRITS ?

"And he taught Adam (by placing Nur-e-Mohammadi in the forehead of Adam. The Being of Light already knew from much before) all the names (of Allah as it was the first thing that Allah created out of Himself and through which Allah had created the entire Universe), then (when He had breathed His spirit, i.e. Nur-e-Mohammadi into Adam) He (Allah) showed him (Adam) to the spiritual dwellers of the universe asking : Inform Me of (My) names, if ye are truthful" [39].

When the Creator asked as to what were His names, all the angels and other spirits held a consultation amongst themselves. Some of the Angels were even 20 billion years old. After pooling all their knowledge and experience together they came to the following conclusions :

a. The Creator of the entire Universe is only a one.

b. The name He has taught us in this long period of time is "Allah".

c. Since the Creator is only a one so His name also has to be only one and that is Allah.

After consultation the spiritual forces gave their answer.

"They replied : Be glorified: We have no knowledge save that which Thou hast taught us (i.e. Your name is only one and that is Allah). Lo ! Thou, only art the Knower, the Wise".

"He (Allah) asked : O Adam ! Inform them (My) names (immediately Adam recited the 101 glorious names of Allah to be found in the Quran). And when he had informed them the names (of Allah, all dwellers of Heaven stood dumbfounded at the love and knowledge of Allah and His Divine Attributes as expressed through the means of Nur-e-Mohammadi by Adam, who had been created only a few minutes earlier). He (Allah) said : Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth ? And I know that which ye disclose and that which ye hide" [40].

Allah's will is law. He has not to justify His actions to anyone. Because there is none who can question His actions [41].

But Allah nevertheless wanted to demonstrate to all the dwellers of heaven—the spiritual world—that even though they were created billions of years before Adam yet all their vast experience and combined knowledge was far less than the light of wisdom displayed by Adam just when he was only a few minutes old ! Indeed what a fantastic contrast to prove Man's superiority over Angels etc ! This wonderful incident does bring out how very much superior is the 'Being of Light’ as compared to all other creations in the universe.

E. HONOUR TO BEING OF LIGHT THROUGH ADAM

Allah thus established the superiority of Man over all the spiritual forces. He laid down the law on how one should honour his superiors and his tutors. Accordingly He ordered the spiritual world to pay their respect and honour to the Being of Light or Nur-e-Mohammadi in the forehead of Adam as follows :

"And then We (Allah) ordered the dwellers of Heaven : Prostrate yourselves (the Arabic word "Sajada" means to salute, to pay respect and honour by prostrating [42]. It however does not in this context by any stretch of the imagination mean to worship Adam as a God) before (the Nur-e-Mohammadi in the forehead of) Adam (who and whose children i.e. the various prophets and saints will be the Khalifas or Viceroys of God). They all (including angels, Jinns i.e. genies and fairies and all other types of spiritual dwellers of the Universe) fell prostrate (before Adam in an act of paying respect and honour to him for having taught them the 101 wonderous names of the Creator), save Iblis" [43].

F. IBLIS—WHO IS HE ?

Iblis is not an angel. He is a Jinn i. e. a Genie [44]. He was made of "Fire" [45].

Fire has the following inherent properties :

1) To burn and destroy any thing it comes in contact with which has materialism in it.

2) As such Iblis cannot have any materialism in him. So he does not have any desire to snatch away for himself the wealth or the property or the children or the wife or other worldly possessions of somebody else ! Because such materialistic things are of no value or utility to him. That being the case he has no need nor a desire to commit any crime or theft or rape or bloodshed or murder.

3) Flames are with all fires. Flames will never proceed downward. Light a match and you will get the proof. The flames will always shoot upwards If anything catches fire the flames keep on rising until the fire has burnt and destroyed whatever material thing it has got hold of.

4) Whatever is burnt by fire gets destroyed. It cannot be restored to its original form out of its ashes. So fire is a destroyer of material things.

G. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NATURES OF ANGELS AS AGAINST A GENIE

Angels are one of the numerous spiritual forces in the universe. They are made out of "Nur" or light, which is a very pure thing. Angels are therefore by their very nature obedient to Allah. That is what they have been created for. They are absolutely content and happy with any position or duties that the Creator has alloted to them. As such their nature does not permit then to have any competition or desire to become the greatest angel. They are a happy obedient lot. Contented with whatever duties or positions are alloted to them. It is not in their nature to and compete and rise over others.

Before the advent of Man the various types of spirits used to to mingle with one another. There was no restrictions upon their meetings. Because uptil that time none of them had been condemned into a "Satan" and outcasted from the societies of spirits.

This situation enabled Iblis to carry out all the orders given by God to the angels. Since Iblis was made of fire, he always had the inborn desire to climb higher and higher until he reached the highest position to become even the leader of the angels. That was his goal. These are the basic differences between angels and Jinns.

H. IBLIS — HIS ACHIEVEMENTS

With this object of becoming the greatest worshipper, Iblish prayed continuously for 700,000 years on this planet. So much so that there was not an inch of ground on earth where he had not prayed. Seeing the manner in which Iblis was praying continuousty day and night, the angels petitioned God to permit Iblis to enter into the first heaven. Here also he prayed for 700,000 years in all parts of this heaven. It was here that he got the title of "Abid" [46].

Thereafter the angels again and again petitioned God and got him the permission to enter serially :

1) The second heaven. After another 700,000 years of prayers he got the title of "Zahid".

2) The third heaven. After another 700,000 years of prayers he got the title of "Awwab".

3) The fourth heaven. After another 700,000 years of prayers he got the title of "Saleh".

4) The fifth heaven. After another 700,000 years of prayers he got the title of "Khashae".

5) The sixth heaven. After another 700,000 years of prayers he got the title of "Shakir".

6) The seventh heaven. After another 700,000 years of he got the title "Mati".

7) The garden of Heaven where the throne of Allah is situated. Here also he prayed for 700,00 years and got the title of "Izazil".

8) Finally under the throne of God for 700,000 years.

9) When Iblis had completed 7 millions of years of prayers, the Angels petitioned God that the treasuries of the Heavens be placed in his charge. Accordingly Allah allowed Iblis to take charge of the treasuries of Heaven.

10) Thus Iblis by his continuous prayers rose to the position of a virtual king of the spiritual forces in the universe [46].

11) His teachings were so popular that uncountable numbers of angels used to attend his lectures delivered from under the Throne of God [47].

12) When Iblis was at the height of his glory and power then Allah offered to make anyone His Khalifa (Viceroy) who agreed to take on the responsibity of running the universe according to His laws. All the angels declined out of fear of assuming such a great responsibility. As read earlier Iblis also declined after consulting with the other spiritual forces.

I. A GREAT WORSHIPPER WOULD BE CAST OUT AS SATAN FOR DISOBEDIENCE

"Lauhae Mahfooz" is the "The Preserved Tablet" in Heaven. On it all the decrees of God are recorded. Shortly before the creation of Adam a group of angels read on "Lauhae Mahfooz" the following warning :

"A great worshipper of God would soon be cast out of heaven in disgrace for his disobedience and would be declared Satan".

The angels became very much upset. Iblis enquired what was the matter. They appealed to him as their elected leader to pray for the safety of the angels from this decree. Accordingly Iblis wholeheartedly prayed for the safety of the Angels from this decree. This prayer of Iblis was accepted by Allah. But Iblis, who was a Jinn, did not pray for his own safety ! God made him to forget.

Thereafter Iblis continued to send curses upon Satan in all his prayers little realising that he would be the one to disobey the orders of God and eventually be convicted as Satan and cast out of the heavens in disgrace from his exalted position of the virtual ruler of the universe [47]. Iblis could not imagine this.

Iblis was never given the sight of Allah or His beauties inspite of all the exalted position and the respect he commanded amongst the angels. This makes it clear that Allah did not accept Iblis but merely tolerated him as per the petition of the Angels, whose feelings God did not want to hurt without disclosing a justified cause.

J. IBLIS IS GIVEN REPEATED OPPORTUNITIES TO OBEY

Allah does not want to punish anybody. Because He is after all the Creator of all. He is the Most Beneficient and the Ever Merciful. He is the Oft-Forgiving. So He affords each and every opportunity to all to repent and withdraw from acts of disobedience and sin.

In accordance with this standard policy, the Creator repeatedly asked Iblis to obey His Order to bow before "Nur-e-Mohammadi or the "Being of Light" in the forehead of Adam and thereby obtain His forgiveness.

The Holy Quran has brought this out beautifully :

"He (Allah) asked : O Iblis ! What is preventing you from (obeying My Order and) falling prostrate before that (Adam) whom I have created with both My Hands (i.e. with two spiritual forces) ? [48]

Iblis replied : O Lord ! Have I not prayed to you with all my heart and all my soul for the past 7 millon years ? Have you not honoured me by making me the Treasurer of the Universe ?

Allah replied : You have indeed prayed for 7 million years. But it was with the sole object that you wanted to become the greatest worshipper as per your nature of "Fire" to climb higher and higher ! Your prayers were not out of love for Me. If you love Me then prove it by obeying My Order and prostrate yourself before Adam in whom I have placed My Spirit i.e. Logos or the Word of God or Nur-e-Mohammadi or the Being of Light [49].

Thus God proved to the universe that Iblis was not His lover. That his million years of worship were with the sole object of becoming the greatest worshipper and to gain honour and respect. When God made Iblis the Treasurer of the Heavens upon the request of the Angels, he already received in full the reward for his worship ! When thus cornered Iblis realised that his first opportunity to get forgiveness had failed. So in his second chance he contended : Is not my worship of You for the past 7 million years enough to get me atleast to Heaven and gain your forgiveness for any mistakes or disobediences I may commit ?

God replied : If I had not given you this long life and also the sustenance to keep you alive for this long period and also the strength and good health and peace of mind so that you may be able to pray for this long period then surely you would not have been able to pray to me for such a long period. If I am to take into account and deduct from your prayers for what I have provided you with to enable you to pray than you will be left with nothing to show as to how you carried on with your prayers. Then God quoted :

"If Allah took the created beings to task by that which they deserve, He would not leave a single living creature on the surface of the earth" [50].

Iblis in his third opportunity to obtain forgiveness argued : O Lord ! Man will have a very small life as compared to my long 7 million years of prayers to You. If You bless man with heaven, then You Who is "All Justice" will also have to reward me with not only Heaven but also with a higher position in heaven than that given to man.

This reply of Iblis has been given in the Quran as :

“He (Iblis) said : Am I not better then him (Adam, because I have done 7 million years of adoration of You. In any case my life is much longer than man's life. So l am able to do incomparably greater service of adoration of You than he) " [51].

Allah replied : What the few minutes old Adam through the knowledge of Nur-e-Mohammadi had recited and taught to all the spiritual forces of the universe viz: the wonderful 101 beautiful Names of Allah which even the angels did not know and you also inspite of your 7 million years did not know what Adam knew upon his birth through Nur-e-Mohammadi. So is not Man a much superior creation than all the spiritual forces put together ? Please note that this adoration of Adam of Me in that one incident is far superior to all your 7 million years of adoration. Adam has taught you that which you did not know. So Adam is entitled to your respect as your teacher ! I Allah hereby gives you the fourth opportunity to save yourself. So even now prostrate yourself out of respect before Adam, which tantamounted to bowing before Nur-e-Mohammadi or the Being of Light.

When thus cornered Iblis retorted : O Lord ! Man is going to do mischief on earth and will cause bloodshed whilst we, the spiritual forces, hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee.

Allah replied : It is very true that man will do mischief and cause bloodshed on earth due to "Nafs Ammara" or the body which I have given to him and which consists of over 99% of him whilst the “Immortal Soul" is less than even 1 % but he who amongst man­kind will be able to control 99% of himself i.e. worldly desires and overcome his passions and act upon the dictates of the Immortal Soul will certainly have achieved such a success as is incomparable to any achievements which can be attained by the spiritual forces including angels. If you had been given "Nafs Ammara" or the animal spirit, you would not have been able to do the adoration about which you are now boasting. Man is the only creation which has two souls or forces in him so he is a superior being to you, who has only the Immortal soul i e. Nafs Lawwama. This is the fifth time I am giving you the opportunity to save yourself. Now will you not obey Me and fall down prostrate before Adam ?

K. IBLIS BECOMES SATAN FOR REFUSAL TO HONOUR THE BEING OF LIGHT

Finding himself cornered by God and already four opportunities lost and no more excuses left Iblis gave his final reply :

"I have not done Sajda (Prostration) to anybody but You"
"I will not do Sajda (Prostration) to anybody but You"
"Oh Lord ! Sajda 'Prostration) can be done only to God"
' I cannot do Sajda to Adam as he is not God"
"Oh Lord ! a very big mistake have You made"
"In ordering that Sajda to Adam be made".

Then Iblis turned around to all the spiritual forces including angels and taunted and made fun of them them by saying :

"Shame ! Shame ! all of you have done Sajda to somebody i.e Adam, who is not God".
"Shame ! Shame ! You all have committed the sin of 'Shirk’ i.e. Polytheism".
"I am the only single sinless soul amongst all the spiritual forces in the whole of the universe".

Naturally Allah could not permit such a rebellious mockery of His command to do Sajda to Adam being declared a wrong and sinful act and the taunt on those who obeyed His injunction being called sinners. The Quran informs :

"Have you (Iblis) become so very proud (because of your continuous adoration of Me, which had earned for you the leader­ship amongst the spiritual beings in the Universe) or are you (thinking yourself to have reached that stage) of the high exalted (through your prayers to Me that you think you can advise Me that it is not right for Me to demand of all creation to honour My beloved Nur-e-Mohammadi by requesting them to pay respects and salute by doing Sajda i.e. bowing their heads before Adam)" ? [53].

"Iblis retorted : Shall I fall prostrate before (and adore as a God) that which Thou hast created of (dirty, black, altered potter's) clay (or Thee, the Creator of the entire Universe Who is the only one entitled to be worshipped and honoured, which is correct and better Oh ! My Lord)" ? [54].

"He (Allah) said (If you refuse to pay respects to my beloved Nur-e-Mohammadi and salute him by bowing your head as ordered and you want deliberately to confuse it with the Divine Adoration due only to Me) Then go down hence ! It is not for thee to show pride here (and advise Me on what I, your Lord should do and what is right or wrong in My order to prostrate before My beloved Nur-e-Mohammadi in the forehead of Adam for the purpose of honouring and paying respects and saluting him whom I as Allah want to be honoured), go, get out ! Lo ! thou art of those degraded" [55].

From this incident it will be clear that even seven million years of adoration of God by Iblis could not save him, who had been the virtual king of the heavens, from being condemned and outcasted because he showed disrespect to the Being of Light or Nur-e-Mohammadi in the forehead of Adam.

L. ANGELS EDUCATE MAN WITH SCIENCE

About 800 years after the creation of Adam two angels named Horus (in Arabic : Harut) and Marduk or Merodach (in Arabic : Marut) approached the Almighty and placed before Him their complaint :

"O God ! see how wicked the people of the earth have become in such a short period yet you have made them the Viceroy over all your creations whilst we the Angels only hymn Thy Praise day and night" [52].

"If we are sent on earth we shall be able to prove that we are superior to mankind".

These angels were amongst the cleverest of the heavenly host. They were very confident that they would easily be able to bring the wicked people on earth to the right path. They repeatedly pleaded with the Creator that they be given a chance to prove their superiority over man. God replied : He would be very satisfied if they would be able to save themselves from the temptations for evil even if they could not bring the people on earth to the righteous path. They assured repeatedly that they would never adopt the evil ways of man. The Lord warned them again pointing out that "Nafs Ammara" or the physical body of man that they were being granted would constitute over 99% of themselves and that their immortal soul which now constituted 100% of their body would be reduced to less than even one percent so as to be at par with man. As such they had to be very careful as all the time they would have to face temptations from the 99% of themselves to do all kinds of evils but they must avoid all temptations. Otherwise they would be most severely punished.

Especially as they had knowledge of the rewards in heaven about which the general mass of men were unaware. Further they had studied "Lauhae Mahfooz" i.e the preserved tablet containing records of not only all the laws of God for the Universe but also all kinds of knowledge and how it could be converted scientifically into unimaginable powers. These angels faithfully promised that they would abstain from evil even when their physical bodies would constitute 99% of themselves and as such could have an over­whelming power over their souls.

Thereupon Horus and Marduk were given human bodies, faces and features. When they landed on earth they were naturally considered intelligent human beings from outerspace. This fact naturally gave rise to the surmise that there are many intelligent superior beings in outerspace with an ability to visit the earth whenever they liked !

Dr. Eric Von Daniken has shown in his research "The Day the Gods Arrived" published in German in May 1984 that these extraterrestial intelligent beings arrived from far beyond our Galaxy onto the earth on 11th August 3114 B.C. In a press conference at Calcutta on 4th July 1984 Dr. Daniken stated that he had calculated this date on the basis of the traditional calendar of the Maya tribes of Central America which has recorded the date of the last arrival of superhuman beings from outerspace on earth.

These two extra terrestrial beings set up two separate camps to compete with each other to show who could achieve better results. One of them was with the human civilisation in the Egypt-Mesopotamia belt whilst the other was in the Peru-Brazil-Central America area.

They worked hard for about a century to try and bring the people to the right path. During this period of a hundred years they imparted all kinds of scientific and magical knowledge—the
knowledge which was recorded on "Lauhae Mahfooz". Due to the "Being of Light" being placed on the forehead of Adam, as recorded earlier, Man had the capacity of learning and acquiring any knowledge that was imparted to them from any source. Thus mankind received all kinds of scientific knowledge from these two angels for a century. As a matter of fact even in the last
60 years we have again acquired unimaginable similar scientific progress.

Dr. Eric Von Daniken has found at various places mute eviden­ces of carvings, excavations, findings and folk-lore throwing light upon these scientific progress of the Pre-deluge people. He has not only recorded the remarkable nature of these discoveries but even produced photographs for all of us to see in his numerous researches and judge for ourselves. Let us take for instance only one of these books viz : ''Chariots of the Gods ?" [56].

1. ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS

One of these two angles or visitors from outerspace taught a numerical system with fifteen digits. On the hill of Kuyundjik (former Nineveh) a calculation was found with the final result in our notation of .95,955,200,000,000 (Pages 11 & 40).

The other taught the ten digital system with decimal calculations. A few examples of these wonderful calculations are :

a) The Mayas have left behind a fabulous calender with incredible calculations to last for 64 millions years (page 75).

b) The earth took 365.2420 days to make a circle round the sun— the exact calculation today is 365.2422 ! (page 75).

C) The discovery of thousands of years old electric dry cell batter­ies in Iraq (page 43) gives evidence that these fantastic calculations were done by electronic computers all over the world 5000 years ago.

2. SPACE TRAVEL

Computer calculation were not the out only things they taught to the pre-deluge people. They even manufactured Nuclear powered rockets. Did space travel : Here is a quotation from pages 66-67 :

"On the seventh tablet is the first eye-witness account of a space trip, told by Enkidu. He flew for four hours held in the brazen talons of an eagle. This is how his story goes literally :

"He said to me : ‘Look down at the land What does it look like? Look at the sea. How does it seem to you?’ And the land was like a mountain and the sea was like a lake. And again, he flew for four hours and said to me: 'Look down at the land. What does it look like ? Look at the sea. How does it seem to you?‘ And the earth was like a garden and the sea like the water channel of a gardener. And he flew higher yet another four hours and spake : 'Look down at the land. What does it look like ? Look at the sea. How does it seem to you?' And the land looked like porridge and the sea like a water-trough.

"In this case some living creature must have seen the earth from a great height. The account is too accurate to have been the product of pure imagination. Who could have possibly said that the land looked like porridge and the sea like a water-trough, if some conception of the globe from above had not existed ? Because the earth actually does look like a jigsaw puzzle of porridge and water-troughs from a great height.

"When the same tablet tells us that a door spoke like a living person, we unhesitatingly identify this strange phenomenon as a loudspeaker".

3) EARTH PHOTOGRAPHED FROM OUTER SPACE—THE GREAT PYRAMID

They even took photographs of the earth from outer space. One such photo was taken from outer space of the land-masses of the earth. Based upon this photo of the earth, meridians were drawn to pinpoint the center of the land masses. At this point marking the centre of the earth the Great Egyptian Pyramid of Cheops has been built. The height of this Pyramid multiplied by 1000 million corresponds approximately to the distance between the sun and the earth i. e. about 93 million miles. A meridian running through the Pyramid divides the continents and oceans into two exact halves.

Besides the base of the Pyramid divided by twice its height gives the celebrated figure of "pi"—3.14159 (pages 98-100). The Pyramid is supposed to have been built by King Surid before the Deluge (page 102). A copy of this famous pre-deluge photographic map of the earth from outer space was found in the Topkapi Palaces, Istanbul, in the library of Admiral Piri Reis (see photograph opposite pages 96 & Seq). This map is identical to the photo taken by Apollo Lunar probes (pages 29-30 & 100).

4. SPACE DROMES

They also had special "space - dromes" all over the earth. Out of the numerous rocket air-fields one is still intact at Nazca in Peru. It is some 37 miles long and one mile wide (pages 31-32) i.e. the largest air field in the World. On the high walls of the cliffs of Bay of Pisco is a 820 feet high indicator pointing to the Space-drome (page 33).

5. NUCLEAR WARS

Nuclear wars had been fought on earth is clear from the fact that an entire fort the size a big four-storied mansion cut out of a single stone block weighing about 20,000 tons had been turned upside down near Sacsayhuaman. Barely 900 yeards away are rock vitrifications like those caused by nuclear explosions at Navada Desert. Similar rock vitrifications are also found in the vicinity of old Iraqi archaeological sites showing use of Nuclear weapons in different pre-deluge wars the world over (pages 38-39).

6. MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALLY-GUIDED RE-ENTRY VEHICIES

These people used to fire one rocket and it would destroy three individual cities at three different places by their bombs (pages 78). As such they had the "M.I.R.V." or multiple indivi­dually - guided re-entry vehicle for their nuclear weapons.

7. RADIO ACTIVE FALL-OUTS

Their radio-active fall-outs used to destory everything in vast areas which used to become barren for long periods (pages 76-80).

8. DRAWINGS OF PRE-DELUGE ROCKETS

The carvings of the Nuclear Rockets and the space suits worn by the Astronauts of these people are detailed in "Chariots of the Gods?". They are identical to those now being worn by our Astronauts ( see 7th page of photos after page 96 ).

9. MAGICAL POWERS

Further these angels transported huge blocks of stone some individual pieces weighing over 100 tons. These were transported many miles over rough impassable terrain. Huge quantities of stones were transported for which no means nor man power existed in these early periods ( pages 35-38, 96-102 & 113-115 ). Yet they were done. How ? By the power of magic which these two angels taught. A power which we have not yet re-discovered and about which we now know little or nothing. The Quran informs us :

"...teaching mankind magic and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut..." ( Quran Surah 2, Al-Bakr: Ayat 102).

10. A technical appliance of the pre-deluge period is reported to be still in existence in working condition in the ancient city of Akahim in the dense forest of North Western Brazil ( pages 1 & 2 of "Ancient Skies" Vol. 6, No. 4 dated September- October 1979 published by Ancient Astronaut Society of Illinois, U. S. A.).

These are but a few evidences which have come to light of the fantastic scientific achievements of the first civilisation of Man. All this was possible only due to the "Being of Light" being placed in the forehead of Adam which gave man the intelligence to achieve anything he tried for. We are now once again re-discovering during the past 60 years some of this vast knowledge that the first civil­isation of man had.

M. THE TWO FALLEN ANGELS

Eventually after a time the "Nafs Ammara" or the desires of their bodies got the better of these two extraterrestial beings. Both Horus and Marduk were enticed by a very beautiful married woman.

At her behest they drank wine. Then at her command they murdered her husband. Thereafter she compelled them to worship idols. After that she permitted them to commit adultery with her [57].

Now they realised they were doomed. So they approached the greatest Prophet of that time and requested him to plead to Allah for their forgiveness. Prophet Enoch prayed for the two fallen angels during the night of the Jumma or Friday Sabbath, which commences from sunset of Thursday till sunset of Friday. But his prayers went unanswered. So these two superbeings again request­ed Enoch ( Arabic : Idrees ) to pray on the next Friday. On the second Friday Enoch was authorised by God to ask the angels, whether they wished to be punished on earth or in the next life. Both the angels preferred to be punished on earth because the punishment on earth would eventually come to an end when this planet would be destroyed. But the punishment on the Day of Judgement would be eternal.

So their punishment was that they have been hung upside down in a well inside a chamber deep underground at a place named "Babel". They have been tied with chains and will be continuously whipped until the destruction of this earth [58].

N. VISIT OF EXTRATERRESTIALS FROM OUTERSPACE

As read earlier Dr. Von Deniken has calculated the last visit from outerspace was on 11th August 3114 A.D. Therefore on 11th August 1985, 5099 years will have passed. Is not this space of about 5100 years an exceptionally long period during which numerous visits by extraterrestials from outerspace by highly intellegent beings should have taken place ? Why have they not visited us again and again ? Especially when they made such a successful contact with us and taught us the above fantastic scientific knowledge ? Does this not raise the doubt that they were not superbeings from space ?

If science fails to produce any logical answers must we accept failure? If we consider ourselves to be intelligent beings is it not our duty to hunt for a solution elsewhere ? Should we not ask who were these last visitors ?

All the religious Scriptures tell us that God sent angels to our leaders whom we call prophets to educate and guide mankind from the time of the first man Adam. A list of some of these visits throughout the ages until the last prophet are to be found in Chapter 8 Section "K" of this theisis. So Harut or Horus and Marut or Marduk were merely Angels, who had been given human bodies by God. Therefore they should not be regarded as super intellegent beings from Outerspace but merely Angels who had offered to correct Mankind from their evil ways.

We should soon be facing at the Battle of Armageddon a group whom the people of earth will regard as extraterrestials from outer-space. We shall read about them, their intentions and achievements later on in this research.


References to Chapter 6 :

[35] Holy Bible Genesis 1 : 29.
[36] Holy Quran Surah 95—At Tin : Ayat 4—6 & 8.
[37] Holy Quran Surah 6—Al Anam : Ayat 9.
[38] Holy Quran Surah 17—Bani Israil ; Ayat 70.
[39] Holy Quran Surah 2—Al Bakr : Ayat 31.
[40] Holy Quran Surah 2—Al Bakr : Ayats 32 & 33
[41] Holy Quran Surah 21—Al Anbia : Ayat 23.
[42] The meaning of the word “Sajada" in Arabic—English Lexicon by Edward William Lane.
[43] The Holy Quran Surah 2—Al Bakr : Ayat 34.
[44] The Holy Quran Surah 18—Al Kahf : Ayat 50.
[45] The Holy Quran Surah 38—Saad : Second portion of Ayat 76.
[46] Pages 53—54, Vol. 1, Tafrihul Azkia Fil Ahwal ul Anbia, collected and compiled between 1261 and 1300 A.H. by Abul Mohsin Hasan Alvi Kakori son of martyr Abul Hasan Hussain Alvi. 4th Edition, published by Munshi Naval Kishore Press, Lucknow in 1342 A.H.— March 1924 A. D. in Urdu language in 2 volumes.
[47] Pages 30-31, Vol. 1, Ajaibul Kassas written by Abdul Wahed son of Mohammad Mogni, assisted by Khan Bahadur Hakim Mohammad Ahsanullah, The original was written in Persian and completed in 1265 A.H —1848 A.D. Translated into Urdu by Syed Bakr Hussain Khan son of Syed Ali Naqi Khan. Seventh Edition published by Munshi Naval Kishore, Lucknow in 1926 A.D. in 2 volumes.
[48] Holy Quran Surah 38—Saad : First portion of Ayat 75.
[49] Holy Quran Surah 38—Saad : Ayat 72.
[50] Holy Quran Surah 35—Al Fatir : Ayat 45.
[51] Holy Quran Surah 38—Saad : First portion of Ayat 76.
[52] Holy Quran Surah 2—Al Bakr : Ayat 30.
[53] Holy Quran Surah 38—Saad : Second portion of Ayat 75.
[54] Holy Quran Surah 17—Bani Israil : Second portion of Ayat 61.
[55] Holy Quran Surah 7—Al Araf : Ayat 13.
[56] “The Chariot of the Gods ?" by Eric Von Daniken, published by Corgi Books, London reprint of 1975.
[57] Pages 133-134 Vol. 1, "Tafrihul Azkia Fil Ahwal Ul Anbia".
[58] Pages 135-136 Vol. 1, "Tafrihul Azkia Fil Ahwal Ul Anbia".