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The book was published by the
Research Center at Strasburg,
France. This was the result of
research work performed by 25
scholars from Europe, United
States of America except 2
scholars who were from Middle
East. The book was originally
compiled in French, but
subsequently was translated in
other languages including
Persian and Urdu. It has 55
chapters covering various
scientific, astronomical,
religious, and social aspects.
The book was written with a pure
scientific background without
any regard to religious
affiliations as majority of
scholars are non-Muslims. The
scholars have called Imam Jaffer
AlSadiq, the superman of Islam.
I will Endeavour to select
topics of general interest.
Eating & Diseases:
To protect life, avoid excesses
in eating and drinking. Excess
in eating may cause a person to
die prematurely before the
natural death. Imam Ali had
said, ”Do not make your stomachs
the graveyard of animals”. The
Imam advises people not to eat
excessive meat as this may lead
to premature death in some
cases. A person apparently looks
healthy but he is sick inside
and he may become unconscious
and die. People who eat meat or
other heavy foods in excess may
still feel hungry and without
feeling pain may develop
sleeplessness. Accidental death
is of three types;
Diseases of brain, heart and
blood. In the end the accidental
diseases are caused by sickness
of blood which attacks heart,
and brain. This sickness of
blood is caused by eating too
much meat or other heavy
(saturated fats) foods. Modern
science also confirms death by
heart diseases, stroke affecting
brain and blood cancer. People
who eat such food in moderation
may live longer.
Imam Jaffer AlSadiq said that
there were two types of death;
natural and accidental. A man
meets his natural or fixed death
when he leads a normal life and
does not resort to excess in
eating and drinking and when the
ascertained time of death
arrives he will die. The other
type of death is that when a man
by his own folly of excesses in
life brings his own death
prematurely. In reply to a
question as to what is death,
the Imam said that death is the
stoppage of bodily functions
specially the heart and
breathing. Death is the
transformation from one
condition to the other and
nothing in this world remains in
one condition.
Human body:
All materials which are found in
the soil are found in human body
but in varied quantities.
There are four items found in
large quantity and then there
are eight items that are
comparatively in lesser quantity
and lastly there are eight items
which are in very small
quantity.
Modern biology confirms Imam’s
statement. The four elements
found in large quantity are
carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and
nitrogen. Next elements found in
comparatively smaller quantity
are magnesium, sodium,
potassium, calcium, phosphorus,
chlorine, sulpher, and iron. The
trace elements are molybdenum,
selenium, fluorine, cobalt,
manganese, iodine, zinc, and
aluminum.
One day a man named Abu Shakir
asked Imam Jaffer AlSadiq about
the existence of Allah. He said
that he did not believe in any
thing if it could not be
comprehended by five senses. The
Imam asked him if he could see
inside his body to which he
replied in negative. The Imam
told him that there was blood
circulating in your body which
completes one circulation in a
few minutes. And further, if the
circulation stops for a few
minutes then death would occur.
The Imam told him that there
were creatures in the body in
millions which you cannot
comprehend by five senses but
Allah had created them for human
beings safety. Imam Ali had said
“who ever knows himself shall
know his Creator”. Imam further
said that there was movement in
the stone which was beyond five
senses comprehension. Imam’s
statement was confirmed by the
US magazine “The Knowledge” in
its issue of June 1973. In
response to Abu Shakir’s
assertion that every thing in
the world was created
automatically, the Imam told him
that grass did not grow by
itself. Grass grows by the seed
fallen in the soil, rain water
soaks it, the solar energy and
air was essential for it growth.
The air was necessary for human
and plant life but not
comprehended by five senses.
Theory of Rotation around the
sun:
Imam Jaffer as Sadiq was 11
years old and was a student in
his father’s school when he
challenged the prevalent theory
of Ptolemy about heavenly bodies
that sun and the stars were
revolving around the earth.
Copernicus, a Polish scientist
(1473-1543) said the same thing
which the Imam had said about
1000 years earlier.
System of Medicine of Jaffer
asSadiq:
His research and his theories
had a great impact on science of
medicine.
During the 2nd and
3rdcenturies of Hijra, most of
the physicians in the East
followed the methods of
diagnosis and treatment
prescribed by him. In cases
where the condition of the
patient was such that a
physician could not know whether
he was dead or alive, Imam
Jaffer asSadiq had suggested
that a small incision should be
made in his body, especially
between his two fingers.
If blood comes out, it was a
sign that he was alive. His
theory was practically
demonstrated during the 2nd
Hijra when the cousin of Abbasid
caliph, Haroon Rashid was very
sick and the royal physician
told the caliph that his cousin
will die before dawn. Another
physician, Ibne
Behla assured the caliph of his
sound health. Next morning, the
cousin died and his body was
washed and shrouded. The Caliph
summoned Ibne Behla. Ibne Behla
requested that his body be
placed in normal clothing
because when he was revived he
may die after seeing himself in
the traditional shroud. Ibne
Behla then made an incision
between his left two fingers.
Blood started to flow and the
patient opened his eyes.
Theory of Four Elements:
At the age of 12, Imam Jaffer
asSadiq rejected the Aristotle’s
theory of four elements-earth,
water, fire and air. He said
that earth was not an element
but there were many elements in
it.
About one thousand years after
Aristotle, a young 12 years boy
from Medina proved him wrong.
When Imam Jaffer asSadiq grew up
and started teaching in his
institute, he proved that water,
air and fire were also not
elements. One thousand one
hundred years before the
European scientists discovered
that air was not an element,
Imam Jaffer asSadiq said that
air was a mixture of elements.
He further said that there were
many elements in the air which
were essential for breathing.
Now we know that there is oxygen
and ozone in the air which helps
in breathing. Imam Jaffer
asSadiq was the first person in
history who said that oxygen
produces acidity. He said that
this element is so active and
strong that if it is separated
from air in a pure form, it
would burn even iron. It is now
proved that if we take a piece
of red hot iron and plunge it in
pure oxygen, it will burn with a
luminous flame. It is reported
that Imam Jaffer asSadiq’s
father had said that by using
scientific methods we can
produce fire from water. In 18th
century, this was proved by
burning hydrogen with oxygen; a
flame of fire with a temperature
range of 667 degrees was
produced. It is now called
oxidation and is used in welding
and cutting metals.
Imam Jaffer asSadiq had also
said that the element which
supports life is heavier than
all other elements in the air.
It was a very important
discovery. The world had to wait
for about 1000 years till
Lavoisier proved that oxygen is
so heavy that in 9 kilograms of
water, there are 8 kilograms of
oxygen.
Theory of Earth’s Rotation on
its Axis:
Imam Jaffer asSadiq had
suggested that earth was
revolving around its axis. There
were people like Poincare, a
great scholar who died in 1912,
who did not believe in the axial
movement of earth. This rotation
can only be proved by
observation. When astronauts
landed on the surface of the
moon and turned their telescope
towards earth, they could see
the earth was moving slowly.
There is no star in our galaxy
which does not rotate around
itself. Imam Jaffer asSadiq must
have known the Laws of Mechanics
which postulates that when two
forces work on an object in such
a way that one force pushes it
away from the centre and other
force pulls it towards the
centre, then it starts to spin.
This is called Centripetal Force
and Centrifugal Force.
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