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SUPERMAN IN ISLAM
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
Al Sadiq, 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 Al Sadiq 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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