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Our purpose of describing different developmental stages of the universe is to find out a rational system or what may be called a creative process underlying development of the universe in successive stages. Based on our notes laid in the light of modern scientific discoveries underneath the description of each creative stage, the following fundamental laws establish that the creation of the universe is not a continuous process; it has been created in successive rational stages or closed systems – one upon the
other [ At many places in the Holy
Quran, the creation of the universe and man in stages has been revealed. The following verses distinctly establish the creation of universe in successive stages or orders:
“He Who created seven heavens one above another ; no want of proportions wilt thou see in the creation of (Allah) most Gracious…..”
(67: 3). “What aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity. When He created you by (diverse) Stages? See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens one above another.”
(71: 13-14) And about the ultimate goal, it is thus revealed in the Holy
Quran: “And that thy Lord, He is the goal.”
(53: 42)] . The difference between the rational values of the preceding and the succeeding stages is not in degree but it is in kind. Had the development of universe been in degrees only that is, it would have simply evolved as a continuous unit order, we could never describe its development.
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The processing of matter at Phase I of the Cosmos, known as the High Energy Process, started from insignificant units of highly charged particles. After passing through a long process of its processing in the form of various kinds of galaxies laid in succession and through the Low Energy Phase of processing which involved processing of matter in planets and interstellar medium, the Cosmos wound up by organising the matter into basic elements we call them the building blocks of the universe.
On completion of Cosmic Order in two successive phases, the Planet earth took its start as an independent higher stage from insignificant gaseous state and continued to discover, harness and synthesise the behaviour of elements in a unified order we call them the physical laws.
On completion of physical laws in a unified order , the Vegetable stage took its start as an independent creative stage from an insignificant state in the form of a plastic cell and continued to build values in the form of millions of vegetable species. Having accomplished values of the stage to affinity, the Vegetable stage closed on it.
Simultaneously on completion of Vegetables, the Animal stage took its start from insignificant values of the stage in the form of an amoebic cell and after accomplishing rational values of the stage through the creation of millions of animal species, further development of the Animal stage stopped.
Simultaneously on completion of animal stage , the next higher creative stage took its start in the Human Self in which life for the first time became conscious of itself. In the beginning, the Human Self was conscious of itself only as if it were something unique and distinct in the world around him. In other words , the Human Self – consciousness stage also took its start from humble state of Self-knowledge as an individuality outside the
universe. The fact that each stage on accomplishment of the preceding stage took its start from insignificant values of the stage establishes that:
- The values of the new and higher stage were not different in degree but these were different in kind from the preceding stage; and
- The creation of the universe is not a continuous (evolutionary) process; it has been created in successive stages.
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The higher creative stage always starts simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage, the words “closing of the stage” imply that the values earned in the stage become fixed; hence no new values are created in the stage. As a matter of fact, each stage is allowed to earn full values of the stage to its affinity; it is closed on it only when it could proceed no further. Nevertheless, the stage as a whole continues to live for serving as a base for the higher stage by preserving its values through the procreative process developed by it. That on succession of higher creative stage, the values earned by the preceding stage become immutable is supported by the fact that if on appearance of higher stage, the values in the preceding stage will continue to change and develop, the higher stage which starts from insignificant values of the stage could neither stand on it nor develop its values as an independent stage. Besides, had these values continued to change and develop as a single continuous stage, we could never understand the universe and its creation in successive stages nor the universe would ever have developed as it has. Hence here we have the following basic laws which underlie creation of the universe in successive
stages:
- The higher creative stage starts only on closing of the preceding stage;
- The act of closing of the preceding stage and starting of the new or higher stage is always simultaneous;
- The values earned in the preceding stage become immutable, that is, no new values , laws or changes can occur in it; and
- For creative development , the presence of infinite gulf between the preceding and the successive stages is a necessity.
The law that simultaneously on succession of the higher creative stage, the values in the preceding stage become immutable reveals that the universe is not a mechanics; it is purposive.
Its creative processes are living processes. The wonderful thing - no doubt an ingenious one – is that simultaneously on fixation of values in the preceding stage and start of higher on it, the higher stage because of its higher and different kind of intellect and conscious awareness continues to
witness [ The human being who stands at the top creative stage and so overrides conscious level of all the stages we call them universe, witnesses the glory of the Creator by deliberating on the whole creation living beneath him. In the Holy Quran it has been distinctly revealed that man as another kind of creation has been blessed with higher kind of hearing, sight and hearts over all the creation which lay prostrated before him. Hence the Holy Quran reminds him again and again that if he wants to console his Self and satisfy his inherent urge of seeking and loving the Creator he should deliberate on the creation which exists beneath as subservient to him. The infinite values such as vastness, grandeur, harmony, beauty, richness and discipline etc manifest in the creation can assure him that the creation under such a disciplined order cannot exist without its Creator. The deliberation may also convince him that his own creation is not without any purpose and that this purpose must be none other than making him fit for meeting his ultimate Source, the Creator.]
the beauty and attributes of the Creator manifested in the creation living beneath it and through that remains spiritually attached with it. Thus the whole creation seems to grow in successive stages as if a child witnesses and preserves its past as he grows in years. We shall dwell on this ingenious process of creation in the next pages.
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Each higher stage, which succeeds, appears at an infinite higher conscious level over all the preceding stages. It is established by the fact the values earned in the preceding stage cannot be applied to the higher creative stage. The laws governing processing of matter in Phase I – High Energy Process cannot be applied to the laws earned by Phase II – Low Energy Process and the laws of the processing of matter in Phase II cannot be applied to the laws established on the Earth – we call them the physical laws. On the other hand, as against the physical laws of cosmic matter, the laws of physics and chemistry established on the Earth, without overthrowing the laws fixed in the Cosmos hold good throughout the universe. In other words, the physical laws established in a unified order on Earth dominate the whole nature. Similar is the case with successive organic stages developed simultaneously on completion of physical laws. The Vegetable life stage, which started as a separate independent order, without overthrowing the physical laws, dominates the whole nature. The Animal stage, which succeeded the Vegetable stage, dominates the Vegetables, the unified physical laws of Earth as well as the whole Cosmos! The Human being who appeared as a Self-conscious entity over the Animal stage dominates both organic and inorganic creative stages – we call it the universe. It is because each higher creative stage which succeeds is not higher as a mere aggregate of whole nature but it appears with infinite higher kind of intellect and conscious enlightenment over the whole creation living beneath it. Had the new stage appeared with mere aggregate values of the preceding stages, it could neither maintain itself as an independent stage outside the preceding stages nor could it earn higher values of the stage. In such an event no development would have been possible and the creation would have stopped. These facts established that the universe had developed in higher and higher rational orders.
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Both the classic physics and the natural science have established that the developmental processes of the universe have proceeded in one direction only and that the succession is irreversible. These discoveries support that the nature of the development of universe is not mechanical; it has developed from low to higher rational order, which continued to emerge in higher and higher forms of intellect, and conscious enlightenment, which ultimately appears in Human Self in the form of Self-consciousness. These facts establish that the nature of rational orders being intellectual and mental – the fundamental attributes of consciousness or life – the creative processes of universe proceed in one direction only – the direction towards higher and higher conscious enlightenment. Hence the whole universe is a living universe.
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The fact that each creative stage appears with infinite higher kind of intellect and consciousness over all the preceding stages which become fixed simultaneously on start of higher creative stage establishes that each higher stage dominates all the preceding stages without overthrowing the values fixed in them. It further establishes that the nature of domination is not due to physical or mechanical causes; it is essentially of the nature of higher and different kind of intellect and consciousness which emerged at each successive rational order. Accordingly what the physicists call "energy" is acted form of consciousness in the form of bodies and motion in space-time field relevant to the creative stage.
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The study of the developmental processes of universe has shown that what we know as universe, is the form of rational orders built in succession. The fact that matter moves under law only; the whole universe despite its development in different kind of rational orders behaves as a perfect rational order and that the nature of rational orders is essentially mental, intellectual, volitional and emotional – the fundamental attributes of life appeared at the top creative stage of man – establishes that each higher creative stage which appeared with infinite higher conscious enlightenment lives outside all preceding
stages. The fundamental laws described above are based on the modern scientific discoveries. These laws reveal the wonderful process the universe has followed in its development. Nevertheless we have more laws and principles underlying development of universe which will be discussed in the following pages. With a view to make our work simple we summarise these laws, which have their import from the classic physics and natural sciences established under the modern scientific research. Needless to say this whole work is made possible in the light of the Divine guidance as laid in the Holy
Quran:
- The universe came into being as a result of great illumination dubbed as "Big Bang" by the astro-physicists,
“Allah-ho-noorussamawat-e-wal-ard”.
- There was nothing outside for the Big Bang to explode into Space-time and matter are inseparable; these appeared simultaneously with the explosion.
- The universe took its start from insignificant rational state. Its unimaginable temperatures, chaos and agitation reveal an equally unimaginable charge or innate pressure for finding out and setting down to rational orders as is witnessed by the course of its development in successive rational stages and as established by the facts revealed by the classic; physics that:
- matter moves under laws only; and
- the universe despite its development in successive orders behaves as a perfect rational order.
- There does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which to identify development of the universe. It establishes that the universe is a creation.
- The creative processes of the universe proceed in one direction only; they are irreversible. It establishes that the universe is nothing but a series of rational orders raised in succession of higher and higher conscious enlightenment as it is the characteristics of consciousness only that it proceeds in one direction and can never is reversed.
- What real has emerged as a result of one-way rational development of universe at the top creative stage of Man, is essentially mental, intellectual, volitional and emotional in nature – the fundamental attributes of life or consciousness. Hence the nature of rational development is mental and not
mechanical.
- Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute time also. Space-time are relative terms and cannot be separated from matter and motion (energy). Accordingly along with the processing of the forms of matter and motion (energy) at every successive rational stage, space-time also continued to change their sense, as did the matter which continued to shed mass. The Cosmos space-time, matter and motion which physicists call simple forms of matter and motion involving change of place, continued to be squeezed from external to inward rational processes until we find them settled in a unified physical system of the Earth. These processes further shifted towards mental processes at the biological stages. The space-time world determined by the animal is limited relative to its material sense perceptions. As against it, space-time world determined by Human Self knows no bounds. Human Self, which exists as the only stable entity outside the material universe already lives in the universe beyond which, can be witnessed by the fact that Human sense of time without overthrowing the sense of perceptual time remains changeless and overrides all the physical times. It is supported by the fact that the man has not only measured the lifetime of the universe but he has also determined the phases of its development. Unless the Human Self is stable, it lives outside the physical space-time as a non-material entity and has the sense of eternal time; man could never measure the lifetime of the universe and classify the phases of its development.
- The fundamental law of the creative process that each stage simultaneously on start of the higher stage becomes immutable establishes that the creative activity can proceed only at the top-creative stage of the universe, which lives outside all the preceding stages. Hence it is the present Self-conscious Stage of Man only in the whole universe where creative process is active. That man lives at the top of all creation is revealed in the Holy Quran at many a places. It is thus revealed in verse
(45: 13):
“ And (Allah) made of service unto you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth.”
(45: 13).
- The fact that high-energy processes active in the very early universe continued to develop into rational orders establishes that the developmental processes of the universe are creative.
- The higher rational order appears only when the values earned in the preceding stage becomes fixed. The act of succession and closing of the preceding stage is always simultaneous. This law establishes that there exists certain overall Entity that strictly lays discipline under the urge of achieving certain overall purpose.
- That no higher creative stage can start until the values of the preceding stage are simultaneously fixed establishes that
- the universe has been created in successive stages; and
- the values of each higher stage emerge in different kinds of intellect and conscious enlightenment.
- Each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage being higher and different in the scale of conscious enlightenment lives outside all the preceding stages which become fixed and continue to live as a base for serving the higher creative stage. Man who is presently under active creative process lives outside the whole universe.
- Each creative stage sticks with its own values as an independent stage and being a different kind of rational order can neither come down to the preceding stages nor jump to the higher creative order which appears at a different kind of conscious plan.
- Since there does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which to identify the creation of the universe in one way direction, the nature of the development of universe and its processes can be described with reference to the top creative stage only which outlives the whole creation because of appearing at the highest plan of consciousness. It is man only who could determine the nature of universe he outlives.
- Each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage comes with conscious enlightenment more than whole of the creation living beneath it. Hence the higher creative stage dominates the whole creation. The nature of development being rational and intellectual, the domination is by no means mechanical; it is mental and intellectual.
- That the higher stage, which appears simultaneously on fixation of values in the preceding stage, cannot overthrow those values establishes that the whole creation has developed as a unit-whole under a unit purpose and that these stages descend from the overall purpose. These stages do not evolve from lower to higher values without prior understanding on their own.
- That the universe despite its development in different orders behaves as a perfect rational order establishes that certain overall Absolute Self-conscious Entity prevails the whole creation and that since in one-way direction what real has emerged at the top creative order of man, is his Self-consciousness, which establishes that future creation must build on the Human Self in the form of higher and higher Self-enlightenment. In other words the higher creative process must be mental and not physical in nature.
- That the nature of rational orders created in succession is essentially of intellect and consciousness is established by the fact that while each higher creative stage which appears on the preceding stage dominates all the creation living beneath it, the preceding stage is never aware of the values and the kind of conscious enlightenment of the higher stage. The preceding stage, therefore, simply continues to live by maintaining itself under the procreative process established by the stage. We can understand the ecology system as developed on the Earth under this law which envisages that only higher creative stage influences the lower stages and not the lower stages, which remain ignorant of the stages, created on them.
Note: These laws kill all the theories laid on material evolution or mechanical interpretation of the universe.
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