Parthenogenesis in Human

Humans:-

On June 26, 2007, International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCC), a California-based stem cell research company, announced that their lead scientist, Dr. Elena Revazova, and her research team were the first to intentionally create human stem cells from unfertilized human eggs using parthenogenesis. The process may offer a way for creating stem cells that are genetically matched to a particular woman for the treatment of degenerative diseases that might affect her. In December 2007, Dr. Revazova and ISCC published an article^[79] illustrating a breakthrough in the use of parthenogenesis to produce human stem cells that are homozygous in the HLA region of DNA. These stem cells are called HLA homozygous parthenogenetic human stem cells (hpSC-Hhom) and have unique characteristics that would allow derivatives of these cells to be implanted into millions of people without immune rejection.^[80] With proper selection of oocyte donors according to HLA haplotype, it is possible to generate a bank of cell lines whose tissue derivatives, collectively, could be MHC-matched with a significant number of individuals within the human population.

On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientistHwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.^[81] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryon and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/]

Parthenogenesis in Human

Humans:-

On June 26, 2007, International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCC), a California-based stem cell research company, announced that their lead scientist, Dr. Elena Revazova, and her research team were the first to intentionally create human stem cells from unfertilized human eggs using parthenogenesis. The process may offer a way for creating stem cells that are genetically matched to a particular woman for the treatment of degenerative diseases that might affect her. In December 2007, Dr. Revazova and ISCC published an article^[79] illustrating a breakthrough in the use of parthenogenesis to produce human stem cells that are homozygous in the HLA region of DNA. These stem cells are called HLA homozygous parthenogenetic human stem cells (hpSC-Hhom) and have unique characteristics that would allow derivatives of these cells to be implanted into millions of people without immune rejection.^[80] With proper selection of oocyte donors according to HLA haplotype, it is possible to generate a bank of cell lines whose tissue derivatives, collectively, could be MHC-matched with a significant number of individuals within the human population.

On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientistHwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.^[81] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryon and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/]

SUFISM: ITS ORIGINS and Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes

SUFISM: ITS ORIGINS

The word Sufi is most likely to be derived from the Arabic word “soof”, meaning wool. This is because of the Sufi habit of wearing woolen coats, a designation of their initiation into the Sufi order. The early Sufi orders considered the wearing of this coat as an imitation of Isa bin Maryam (Jesus). In reply to this, Ibn Taymiyyah said: “There are a people who have chosen and preferred the wearing of woolen clothes, claiming that they want to resemble al-Maseeh ibn Maryam. But the way of our Prophet is more beloved to us, and the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam.s) used to wear cotton and other garments.

Sufism is known as “Islamic Mysticism,” in which Muslims seek to find divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God2. Mysticism is defined as the experience of mystical union or direct communion with ultimate reality, and the belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience (as intuition or insight)3 Both the terms Sufi and Sufism and Sufi beliefs have no basis from the traditional Islamic sources of the Qur’an and Sunnah, a fact even admitted by themselves. Rather, Sufism is in essence a conglomerate consisting of extracts from a multitude of other religions with which Sufi’s interacted.

During the primary stages of Sufism, Sufis were characterised by their particular attachment to zikr (remembrance of Allah) and asceticism (seclusion), as well as the beginning of innovated practices to ‘aid’ in the religious practices. Yet even at the early stage of Sufism, before their involvement in innovated rituals and structured orders, the scholars warned the masses of the extremity of Sufi practices. Imam Al-Shafi’ had the opinion that “If a person exercised Sufism (Tasawafa) at the beginning of the day, he doesn’t come at Zuhur except an idiot”. Imam Malik and Ahmad bin Hanbal also shared similar ideas on this new movement which emanated from Basrah, Iraq. Although it began as a move towards excessive Ibaadah, such practices were doomed to lead to corruption, since their basis did not come from authentic religious doctrines, but rather from exaggerated human emotions. Sufism as an organised movement arose among pious Muslims as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad period (AD 661-750)4. The Sufis exploited the chaotic state of affairs that existed during the fifth and sixth centuries A.H. and invited people to follow their way, alleging that the remedy to this chaos was conformity to the guidance of their order’s Sheikhs. Dar al-Hikmah was established during the reign of Khalifah Ma’moon, where he invited the scholars of the Romans and Greeks to meet with the Muslims and ‘discuss’ their respective positions. This provided the perfect breeding ground for the synthesis between Islam and Pagan theology, to produce the Sufism of the like of Ibn Arabi.

The Mixing Pot

With the demise of the Companions and their successors, the door became open for the distortion of Islamic Principles. The enemies of Islam had already burrowed deep into the ranks of Muslims and rapidly caused Fitnah through their spreading of forged hadith and subsequently created new sects such as the Khawaarij and Mu’tazilah. Sufism gained its breeding ground during this period, whereby it gained its support from the Dynastic Rulers, who had deviated from Islam to the extent whereby magic was used as entertainment in their courts, even though magic is considered as Kufr in Islam.5 During this period, Sufism developed its Shi’a flavour, indeed the roots of contemporary Sufism have been traced back to Shi’a origins (see later). Sufi ideology and thinking flourished during the times of the likes of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, Jalal Ad Din Rumi, and Imam Ghazali. Their translation of Greek philosophical works into Arabic during the third Islamic century left an indelible mark on many aspects of Sufism, resulting in Greek pantheism becoming an integral part of Sufi doctrine. Pagan practices such as Saint worshipping, the use of magic and holding venerance towards their Sheikh overtook the Orthodox practices of Islam and had little resemblance to the Islam left by our Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). By examining the mystic doctrines of Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism and other religions, it becomes clear how closer Sufism is to these religions than to Islam. In fact, Sufism is never characterised under “Islam” in any system of catalogue, but rather under ‘Mysticism’. Sharda highlights these unsurprising similarities by stating that: “After the fall of Muslim orthodoxy from power at the centre of India for about a century, due to the invasion of Timur, the Sufi became free from the control of the Muslim orthodoxy and consorted with Hindu saints, who influenced them to an amazing extent. The Sufi adopted Monism and wifely devotion from the Vaishnava Vedantic school and Bhakti and Yogic practices from the Vaishnava Vedantic school. By that time, the popularity of the Vedantic pantheism among the Sufis had reached its zenith.”6

The following comparison demonstrates the non-coincidental similarity that Sufism shares with other religions:

Concept of validity of all religions

The Sufi doctrine of all religions being acceptable before Allah is derived from the Mystical beliefs of other religions, and not Islam, for Allah says: “Truly, the religion in the Sight of Allah is Islam…” [2: 19]. Take for example the Buddhists: “No Buddhist who understands the Buddha’s teaching thinks that other religions are wrong… All religions acknowledge that man’s present state is unsatisfactory. All teach an ethics that includes love, kindness, patience, generosity and social responsibility and all accept the existence of some form of Absolute.” The Sufis also believe the same: “Allah does not distinguish between the non-believer and the Faasiq (wrong doer) or between a believer and a Muslim. In fact they are all equal to Him… Allah does not distinguish between a Kaffir or a hypocrite or between a saint and a Prophet.”7 In al-Fusoos, Ibn Arabi leaves no doubt as to his conviction in the unity of all religions: “Beware of restricting yourself to one particular religion and disbelieving in everything else, so that great good would be missed by you, indeed you would miss attainment of knowledge of the affair in the form he is following. Rather be ready to accept all forms of belief. This is because Allah is higher and greater than to be comprehended by one belief to the exclusion of others. Rather all are correct, and everyone who is correct receives award, and everyone who is rewarded is fortunate, and everyone who is fortunate is one with Whom He is pleased.”8

Union with the Creator

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’aala is completely distinct from His Creation. He neither resembles His Creation, nor is He enclosed by it. Sufis however, with their deviant doctrine of Wahdat ul Wujood, believe contrary to this. Ibn Arabi, the Sufi scholar with whom which the concept of Wahdat ul Wujood is rightly attributed, asserted that since Allah’s Attributes were manifested in His creation, to worship His creation is similar to worshipping Him: “So the person with complete understanding is he who sees every object of worship to be a manifestation of the truth contained therein, for which it is worshipped. Therefore they call it a god, along with its particular name, whether it is a rock, or a tree, or an animal, or a person, or a star, or an angel.”9 This is how far the Sufis deviated because of their reliance on Greek and Eastern philosophy, rather than the Qur’an and Sunnah. To them God is not Allah Alone with whom no one else shares in His Dominion, but rather everything we see around us, and ultimately our own selves! Glory to Allah, who Stated “There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer” [42: 11].

Looking at where Sufism derived its understanding from, we find the same ingrained beliefs: “When you live in the wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside;” you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of non-duality.”10 “Finally, the experience of realisation matures sufficiently that the [spiritual aspirant] may rightly utter the startling assertion, ‘I am Shiva’ (a Hindu deity)”.11 “When I am in that darkness I do not remember anything about anything human, or the God-man.. I see all and I see nothing. As what I have spoken of withdraws and stays with me, I see the God-man.. and he sometimes says to me: ‘You are I and I am you’”.12

Corruption of Tawheed in Allaah’s Attributes

Sufis totally deny all of Allah’s Attributes, such as His Face, His Hands, His Istawaa etc, using metaphorical meanings to explain His Attributes. Although the Companions and Tabi’een believed in them without any resemblance to His creation, the Sufi’s deem His Attributes to be a part of His creation. Ibn Arabi went as far as to say that he saw Allah during one of his ecstatic trances, in the shape of a young blond boy sitting on a Throne! (see Bezels of Wisdom, London 1980). Other Sufi Gnostics followed suit in Ibn Arabi’s trail: “In the writings of Ibn al-Arabi and Ibn al-Farid, eternal beauty is symbolised through female beauty; in Indo-Muslim popular mystical songs the soul is the loving wife, God the longed-for husband.” 13 Incorporation of Music in Rituals Music of all forms is forbidden by the majority of scholars, and remains attached to forbidden practices such as drinking, fornication and parties. However, after the Muslim conquest of the Deccan under Malik Kafur (c. 1310), a large number of Hindu musicians were taken with the royal armies and settled in the North. The acceptance of the Sufi doctrines, in which music was an accepted means to the realisation of God, enabled Muslim rulers and noblemen to extend their patronage to this art.14 At the courts of the Mughal emperors Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan, music flourished on a grand scale, and Sufi Dervishes used music as a means to enter ecstatic trances. Allah’s Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said in a lengthy hadith concerning the appearance of vile acts, “…when singing-girls and stringed instruments make their appearance, wines are drunk, and the last members of this people curse the first ones, look at that time for a violent wind, an earthquake, being swallowed up by the earth, metamorphosis, pelting rain, and signs following one another like bits of a necklace falling one after the other when its string is cut.” [Tirmidhi ].

The deception of Sufism is brought to full light by looking at the lives of their esteemed leaders, the Sheikhs of whom which they place full trust in heir knowledge and obey their every command, and by contrasting the Orthodox Islamic teachings against the Sufi alternative.

Sufi Sheikhs: Role Models or Deviants?

Bayazid Tayfur al-Bistami

Bayazid is considered to be “of the six bright stars in the firmament of the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)”15, and a link in the Golden Chain of the Naqshibandi Tariqah. Yet his life reeks of Shirin all aspects. Bayazid al-Bistami was the first one to spread the reality of Annihilation (Fana’), whereby the Mystic becomes fully absorbed to the point of becoming unaware of himself or the objects around him. Every existing thing seems to vanish, and he feels free of every barrier that could stand in the way of his viewing the Remembered One. In one of these states, Bayazid cried out: “Praise to Me, for My greatest Glory!” Yet this concept is to be found nowhere in the Qur’an, nor Sunnah, nor in the behaviour in the Salaf us Saalih. Bistami’s belief in the Unity of all religions became apparent when asked the question: “How does Islam view other religions?” His reply was “All are vehicles and a path to God’s Divine Presence.” Was this the Message of Tawheed which the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) practised and was followed by the Sahaabah? He attributed the believers to be the same as the disbelievers themselves, who Allah describes as being worse than cattle (Surah 7, verse 179) and dogs; the same disbelievers who the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) stated he had been commanded to fight till they testified that there was no deity but Allah. The whole life of Bayazid is rife with such contradiction to Eeman. From a young age, he left his mother stating to her that he could not serve Allah and his mother at the same time.16 When walking through the streets, he once called out “I am God; why do you not worship me?” He spent his time sitting with his head resting between his knees, one of his companions stating he did so for thirty years. But strangest of all was his obedience to a dog he once came across. The dog had apparently become upset at Bayazid’s attempt to avoid him, to which the dog spoke to him and scolded him. So Bayazid pleaded “O dog, you are so enlightened, live with me for some time.”17

Ibn Arabi

During the late 12th and early 13th centuries, under the influence of speculative mysticism, Ibn al-Arabi produced a system that created a complete chasm between the law and Sufism. In societies, such as Islamic India, that had a strong pre-Islamic heritage of mysticism, this chasm became much wider.18 Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi holds perhaps the highest position amongst all Sufi Schools, and was pivotal in the permanent split between Islam and Sufism. He claimed to have received direct orders from the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) himself, including a book of completely new hadith never seen or heard of before. Prior to his receiving ‘revelation’, Ibn Arabi was well known to attend nightly parties in Seville. During one of these nights, he heard a voice (his drunk inner self?) calling to him, “O Muhammad, it was not for this that you were created”. He fled in fear to a cemetery, where he claims to have met, and received instruction from, Jesus, Moses and Muhammad, peace be upon them all. From his books, innumerable forged sayings attributed to the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) have been used, to the extent that countless of Muslims consider these to be real. The following are quotes from Ibn Arabi:

“The man of wisdom will never allow himself to be caught up in any one form or belief, because he is wise unto himself”.19

“All that is left to us by tradition (Hadith) is mere words. It is up to us to find out what they mean”20. (This reflects his alliance with Baatini (inner) meanings and interpretations)

“He (Ibn Rushd) thanked God that in his own time he had seen someone (Ibn Arabi) who had entered into the retreat ignorant and had come out like this (knowledge of inner meanings)- without study, discussion, investigation or reading”21

Junaid

Junaid was the fourth head of the Safavid order who sought to transform the spiritual strength of the order into political power. What may be unknown to his followers however was his policies of military adventurism combined with Shi’a and Sufi piety.22 His son, Haydar, himself established the Safavid dynasty and the Twelver Shi’a Islam in Iran came under his grandson, Isma’il I. He was said to have blown a fatal breath at his slave-girl, to which he argued that she was ruining his forty years of spiritual practices.23 This so-called ‘Saint’, a supposed friend of Allah, made the following remarks: “I saw a thief who was being gibbeted. I bowed to him… for being true to the profession he followed.” “He who fears Allah never smiles”. “One moments forgetfulness of the Lord ruins a thousands years worship”. Mansur al-Hallaj Mansur is renowned for his claim “Ana-l-Haq” (I am the Truth), for which he was executed for apostasy. Yet he is still revered by Sufis even though he abandoned all the laws governing Tawheed. He was said to have lived in one cloak for a full twenty years, along with a scorpion inside. He stood bare-footed and bare-headed for one year at the same spot in Makkah. During his prayers, he would say “O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.” He also said “I denied your religion (Islam) and denial is obligatory on me, although that is hideous to Muslims.”24

Abu Yazid

Abu Yazid once prayed one Juma’a prayer in 24,000 different places. He told the religious authorities in one place: “I was praying in 12,000 different houses of worship today.” They asked: “How?” He said, “By the power of the Lord Almighty. If you don’t believe me, send people around to ask.” They sat and waited until messengers returned saying that he was seen in so many places. Abu Yazid said later: “I was afraid to say 24,000, so I only said 12,000.” So Abu Yazid clearly lied, when he could have simply not mentioned anything in the first place.

Are these truly the ones who we are told to receive the knowledge of our religion from? Do these men reflect the teachings of Islam? A man who left obedience to his mother, to the obedience of a dog? Are we supposed to follow men who receive revelation in a cemetery after spending the night at a party? Or a man who kills his slave girl for ‘disturbing’ his worship? To us, Islam calls smiling a charity, not a deviation from Allah’s Pleasure. Islam forbids prostration to anyone but Allah. The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) used to make du’a seeking Allah’s guidance, not begging for heresy. And Islam teaches us truthfulness, not lies.

Evidence Against their teachings: their beliefs and practices

Position of the Sheikh and Wali

The Sheikh or Wali is given a similar standing as that of a Catholic Saint, or the Dalai Lama himself. Complete obedience is enforced on his followers, and any questions are deemed as a betrayal of trust: “The seeker must submit to the will of the Sheikh and to obey him in all his orders and advice, because the Sheikh has more experience and more knowledge in Haqiqat, in Tariqat and in Shari’ah,” and “he must agree with the opinion of his Sheikh completely, as the patient agrees with the physician”.25 Yet Muslims believe that any single act of worship must be substantiated by the Qur’an and Sunnah only. Allah the Exalted says:“Say (to them), ‘Produce your proof if you are truthful’.” [2: 111], and the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said “The created is not to be obeyed over the Creator.” The Sheikh is given the standing of a deity in Sufism. Attributes which belong to Allah, are also assigned to their Sheikhs. They seek help from them, whether they are dead or 10,000km away. They believe that their sheikhs know everything their students are thinking, and that they converse with the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) on a regular basis (in reality).

Distortion of the concepts of Dhikr, hadith, Qur’an

Since the Qur’an and Saheeh Hadith cannot be changed, the Sufi’s have reverted to Ta’weel, a method of changing the apparent meaning of the verse or hadith to have a hidden one. This provided them with sufficient lee-way to support any concept they desired, by simply stating that the verse/hadith had an inner meaning which only the Sheikh himself could know. In the Bezels of Wisdom, Ibn Arabi presents certain aspects of what he terms “Divine Wisdom,” as he conceives it. But Ibn al-Arabi interprets the relevant verses of Surat Noah in the most outrageous fashion, since he suggests meanings diametrically opposed to those accepted by all Muslim scholars. He interprets the “wrongdoer,” “infidels,” and “sinners” in Surat Noah as ‘saints and Gnostics’ drowning and burning not in the torment of Hell, but rather in the flames and water of knowledge of God. Ibn Arabi regarded the idols worshipped by Noah’s people as divine deities. Allah condemned their deed saying: “And they (Noah’s people) said, ‘Do not abandon your gods, neither Wad, Suwa’, Yaghooth, Ya’ooq nor Nasr’. “[71: 23] On which Ibn Arabi commented: “If they (Noah’s people) had abandoned them, they would have become ignorant of the Reality … for in every object of worship there is a reflection of Reality, whether it be recognised or not.”

The act of making Zikr in circles and jumping/moving frantically is also totally unfounded. Zikr in the true Arabic sense means “Remembrance of Allah.” The Prophet’s (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) method, which Muslims agree to be the best and only acceptable one, of zikr consisted in reciting Qur’an, discussing religion with his companions, and making Tasbeeh on his hands. Yet the act of sitting in circles and loudly or silently chanting “Allah, Allah” was never practised by the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) nor the Salaf, and all hadith which state that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) did so (such as when he supposedly went into a room, told the companions to lift up their hands and chant “La Ilaha Illa Allah” ) are unanimously agreed upon to be forged. Ibn Taymiyyah stated that this practice opened the door to Shaytaan, whereby the Shaytaan would enter the gathering (since they were involved in innovation) and take the form of a pious person. He also stated that the recital of “Allah, Allah” was forbidden, as it was never declared to be a form of Dhikr, and has no attached word to complete it (such as Allahu Akbar, Subhaan Allah).26 The stories also of Khidr and his meeting with the ‘Awliyaa’, the 40 Abdaal’s who are always on the Earth and can be at any place in the wink of an eye, are derived from Jewish and Christian legends, not Islamic traditions.

Innovation

Imam Malik remarked: “That which was not religion at the time of the Messenger and his companions, may Allah be pleased with them all, is never to be religion today. He who introduces a Bid’ah (innovation) in the religion of Islam and deems it a good thing, claims by so doing that Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam.s) betrayed the Message.” The Sufis are to be found indulging in and spending an enormous amount of resources defending innovated practices, declaring them to be “good innovations.” These include celebrating the death of the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam.s) (a practice adopted from the reign of Fatamids, who began this innovation in order to seek the pleasure of the masses), reading Qur’an over the dead and seeking blessings form them, and the building of extravagant mosques (even though our Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam.s) forbade this. Anas reports that the Messenger of Allah said: “The Hour will not come to pass until the people vie with each other in (building) the mosques.” [Ahmad, Abu Dawud, anNasa’i, Ibn Majah] ).

Why they still survive Emotional attachment

The Sufi’s have become such an integral part of the lives of so many Muslims that Muslims are finding it difficult to accept that the Sufi path is wrong, and accuse anyone who pinpoints the errors of Sufism as an extremist or a follower of some ‘deviant’ sect. Sufism calls to human emotions rather than intellect and Islamic evidence. For example, poetry and music were the most popular form during the past hundreds of years, whereby “Sufi ideas permeated the hearts of all those who hearkened to poetry.”27 Today, Sufism is followed by masses of people who desire to leave behind the complexities of this world, instead of building the ability to challenge it. Sufism provides the perfect escape, where its followers can meditate instead of thinking about the other Muslims who are suffering, let alone help them. Similarity with pagan beliefs Sufism is so similar to other religions, and as we noted earlier very tolerant of them, that a change to Sufism does not involve a complete change of life, as Islam requires. So Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists and mystic Jews and Christians looking for an easy alternative find solace in Sufism which perhaps only adds another dimension to their previous way of life, rather than uprooting it and starting afresh Simplicity Ibnul-Jawzee says in Talbees Iblees: “Sufism is a way whose beginning was complete avoidance of the affairs of worldly life, then those who attached themselves to it became lax in allowing singing and dancing. Therefore the seekers of the hereafter from the common people became attracted to them due to the avoidance of the worldly life which they manifested, and the seekers after this world were also attracted to them due to the life of ease and frivolity which they were seen to live.” Sufism offers its followers a life carefree from fighting (Jihad), politics, the initiative to seek knowledge and teach it, the work of Da’wah, and allows a person to indulge in worldly activities such as music, magic, and other prohibited acts.

The leader of the Naqshibandi Tareeqa in America, was quoted in the media as saying the following: “You have to be both material and spiritual. Sufis can give people joy in their spiritual life. Well, Madonna is giving people a kind of joy in their material life… You cannot say she is wrong. Sufis don’t object and criticise – they are accepting everything. That’s why, when my children are looking at Madonna on MTV, I say, ‘Let me come and look also!’” Support from the governments Any group which manages to gain the support of an anti-Islamic Government must be suspicious. During the reign of the tyrant Mustafa Kemal, under whose leadership thousands of scholars were executed and Islamic practices banned, special permission was granted by the Turkish government in 1954 allowing the Mawlawi dervishes of Konya to perform their ritual dances. In fact, they have become a regular attraction nowadays, performing around the world along with their Turkish Mystical Music State Ensemble. 28 The Sheikh of the Naqshibandi’s of America has greeted and received praises from the President of America Bill Clinton himself. And why shouldn’t he, since the ‘Islam’ he portrays is one of pacifism and unity with the Kuffar.

Twisting of evidence

Since the Qur’an and Hadith are readily available, and cannot be changed, the Sufis have resorted to another trick used by other Mystics:

Ta’weel, or changing the apparent meaning of a verse or hadith to a secret inner one which only a certified Sheikh could explain! They also rely on providing the mass with forged hadith, such as the one stating the beseeching of Adam (alaihi salaam) in the name of Muhammad when he sinned; the stories of Khidr; the rising of the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) from his grave so a person could kiss his hand and so on. Because of the lack of knowledge the general mass possess on the knowledge of Hadith and Aqeedah, they believe what they are told, and pass on the stories to other generations, becoming distorted even more along the way. Another smart tactic is to attribute forged sayings in support of the Sufi’s from the righteous scholars. For example, Ibn Taymiyyah is attributed to have been a member of the Qadiri order and had been initiated, and spoken great words on Bistami and his likes. Yet Ibn Taymiyyah spent the majority of his life fighting against the teachings of Sufism, was imprisoned because of them, and bluntly stated “…Ibn Arabi who wrote “Al-Fousous,” and other slandering atheists such as Ibn Sab’een and his like. They even witness that they are simultaneously the worshipers and the ones being worshiped.”

The Damage to the Ummah

• Sufis distracted the Muslims from the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah towards the servitude of the Sheikh. Muslims thus became alienated from the teachings of Islam, and possessed no protection from the innovations and trappings of the deviant sects. Teachings such as “He (the follower) must not look to any other than his Sheikh” did nothing to cement the community. Rather, it sent the ball rolling for the wars between the various Mathabs, which culminated in fighting, rejection of each other faiths, and praying at different stations in Makkah itself.
• The Sufi’s have left a lasting impression on the image of Islam, portraying it as one of peace and apolitical, and anyone who contravenes this is an impostor and considered an extremist. By relying on forged hadith such as the ‘bigger Jihad is Jihad’ul Nafs (i.e. struggle against the self)’ and its like, Muslims have been made to believe that work and family is the greatest Jihad, rather than establishing Allah’s religion on Earth though the use of the sword.
• The Sufi influence undoubtedly contributed greatly to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The pacifist views they spread, the lack of Shari’ah knowledge, and their befriending of the disbelievers, made sure that no one would oppose the vast changes being made to the Ottoman Laws. By 1880, the Tanzimat period was in full force, where Shari’ah was replaced by European Laws (except in limited circumstances such as in Hadd punishments), yet little opposition was heard29. Whilst the masses were busy in the construction of extravagant mosques and spinning around in circles, the Ottoman Empire was overtaken by Masons and eventually torn to parts. Conclusion Sufism was doomed to destruction from when it first emerged, because of its deviation from the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah. The small excess, the little innovation, led to the snowball effect, such that it emerged as a movement for well-meant increased Ibaadah and Zuhd, to Kufr and Innovation.

In truth, Islam is sufficient for us, and it is only Shaytaan who wishes to turn us away from our religion, to make us exceed the limits, and fall into his trap. The only sure way to avoid this is to grasp tightly onto what was left to us by our beloved Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), the Qur’an and Sunnah, as understood and believed and acted upon by the best people to have lived: the Salaf us Saalih, the Companions and those who followed their footsteps.

– Br. Yusuf Hijazi

1 Al Fataawa 11/7
2 Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
4 Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 The Fundamentals of Tawheed, Abu Ameenah Bilal Phillips
6 S. R. Sharda, Sufi Thought
7 The Naqshbandi Way, pp 12,16
8 Ibn Arabi, al-Fusoos, p.191
9 Hadhihi Hiyas-Soofiyah, p.38
10 The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, p.77
11 The Triadic Heart of Shiva, pp 183-4
12 Angela of Foligno: Complete Works, pp 181-2
13 Encyclopaedia Britannica
14 ibid.
15 Naqshibandi Way
16 Memoirs of the Saints, translated by Dr. Bankley Behari
17 ibid.
18 Encyclopaedia Britannica
19 An unpublished poem from Ibn Arabi’s ‘Diwan’, translated by Dr Austin
20 Stephen Hirtenstein’s paper Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi: The Treasure of Compassion
21 Sufis of Andalusia, transl. by R. W. J. Austin, p.23
22 Encyclopaedia Britannica
23 Memoirs of the Saints, p.108
24 ibid.
25 Naqshibandi Way
26 Sheikhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmoo’ al Fatawaah
27 Encyclopaedia Britannica
28 They recently came to perform in Australia, charging $30 per head. Only the elite went to watch this 90 minute theatrical display.
29 The Islamic World, New Jersey 1991

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Rumi : Who is Mevlana?:- Click on Photo-

Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes

The Living Tradition of Mevlana Jelaluddin

by Sheikh Abdul Azziz

Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes

Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim
In the Name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful

From the Holy Qur’an, Unto Allah (God) belongs the East and
the West and whithersoever you turn, there is the Face of God.
Lo! Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Our path, the Mevlevi path of the Whirling Dervishes, is the path of Hazreti Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi is, apparently, now the most popular poet in the U. S., but sometimes people don’t make the connection between the poetry of Hazreti Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi and the tradition of the Whirling Dervishes. The Whirling Dervishes are the Sufis of the Mevlevi Order, the Mevlevi tariqa, or path. There are many different Sufi Orders and most of them take their names from great saints who have placed their stamp on a tradition which grew up after them. Hazreti Mevlana placed his stamp on what became the Mevlevi tariqa, the Mevlevi Sufi way and the main feature of that way is the Sema, the whirling or turning dance of the Mevlevis. In referring to Rumi as Hazreti Mevlana, Mevlana means Lord or Master and Hazreti is like a title; it means Presence.

The Sema is a ceremony of dhikr Allah, which means remembrance of God. All the various Sufi Orders do different forms of dhikr and ceremonies of dhikr. In our way, the Sema is our group ceremony of remembrance of God. We use dhikr Allah as a private, personal devotion as well as a group devotion, so when the dervishes are turning in the Sema, they are saying in their hearts, the dhikr of the order, which is simply the name, Allah. When the dervishes turn, they are focusing their attention on their inner centre and they turn around and around their own centre in this way, and there should be nothing else in their hearts except remembrance of God.

Hazreti Mevlana said: Sema is peace for the lovers of God, and, The Sema is made for the union with the Beloved. Those who have their faces turned toward the Qibla,

For them it is the Sema of this world and the other.
Even more for the circle of dancers within the Sema
Who turn and have in their midst, their own Ka’aba.

The Ka’aba for Muslims is the Holy House in Mecca, the place of pilgrimage. In our turning, we make a pilgrimage to that centre of our own being. The Ka’aba is also the place where all Muslims turn to make their prayer; wherever they are in the world, they are turning towards that centre for their prayer. Sema is prayer and the way I would ask people to view the Sema is not as a performance, but as a sharing of the experience of our prayer in the Sema. It is for this reason that we ask people not to applaud after the Sema, because it is worship. It is, for example, like going into a room and seeing us make the Muslim devotions, the Muslim prayer. After an initial moment of curiosity, you would just accept our prayer as we were doing it and join in that feeling of prayers. You would not view that prayer as a performance, as something we were doing to impress you or show you or entertain you. You would see that this prayer was given for our own personal reasons; for Allah Almighty. It is in that way that I ask people to view the Sema; as an experience of devotion and prayer that we are privileged to share with you.

The Sema is based on Hazreti Mevlana’s experience and Hazreti Mevlana was, like all the Sufi Sheikhs and Masters, a follower of the Sunna, the Way, and of the revelation of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu aleihi wa salaam, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him. Mevlana wrote: I am the slave of the Qur’an while I still have life. I am dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. If anyone interprets my words in any other way, I deplore that person and I deplore his words. The ceremony and the way of the dervishes is a way that uses and submits to the religion of Islam, the Sunna of the Holy Prophet and the saints who followed in His footsteps. Much has been said of Hazreti Mevlana’s universal message. It is universal because the truth of the way of the heart is universal and meaningful to all of us.

In the Sema, the ceremony begins with a song called the Na’at, a recitation: Ya Hazreti Mevlana, and this means: Presence of our Lord, or Master. This is commonly used when referring to Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, but these words in the opening recitation do not relate to Rumi, rather they relate to the Holy Prophet, s.a.w.s. After this opening, there is the ney (reed flute) playing, recalling this yearning and separation of the soul from its divine origin. Then we enter into the Sema with the cycle of Sultan Veled in which the dervishes walk round three times and bow to each other. As they bow in front of the post‚ the red sheepskin throne‚ of the Sheikh, they are recognizing in each other the divine spark. There follows a period of dhikr Allah before we begin the four selams or salutations, the four greetings, which comprise the turning or whirling of the Sema itself. Finally, there is a recitation from the Holy Qur’an and often the passage used in that recitation is the one that I began with, . . . whithersoever you turn, there is the Face of God.

Hazreti Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi was from a family of Sufis and he was taught in the traditional Sufi way by his father and by other Sheikhs. At the same time, he was naturally gifted intuitively; he was one of those great ones who, when he stepped into the world, understood that there was a relationship between the seen and the unseen. However, Mevlana had an experience in his life which created a change of vast significance. Although he had been taught and trained with retreat and with dhikr by Sufi masters, it was only when a wandering dervish sheikh, a great Sheikh called Hazreti Shamsuddin of Tabriz, came into his life that Mevlana became the spiritual force which created the Mevlevi tradition and sent its vibrations down through the centuries to the point where, even today, people in the Western world, just as they have for many centuries in the Middle East and the East, are appreciating his poetry.

Shams was a great and powerful Sheikh. His name means the sun, the sun of the faith, and his energy was the energy of positive power. Mevlana said: I was raw, I was cooked and then I was burned. Hazreti Mevlana was burned by the sun of Shams‚ energy. When Shams, on his lonely path, entered Konya where Mevlana lived, he met Mevlana and Mevlana swooned with the force of the Presence of Shams. They closeted themselves away for many months, until eventually jealousy and resentment by Mevlana’s existing pupils drove Shams away because they did not understand who Shams really was; he did not fit in with their preconceptions. Mevlana, on the other hand, submitted himself to Shams completely; he didn’t hang onto any of his former status. He let it all go and followed Shams‚ energy and light. Shams, in a famous story, met another Sheikh on his travels; a Sheikh well respected in his own locale, and this Sheikh recognized that Shams was a great teacher. He said to Shams: Oh, I must follow you, and Shams said: Well, I don’t think you will be able to.

The Sufi master said: Oh, I must, I must be with you. Shams said: Then let us celebrate. Let us go down to the Jewish quarter, buy some wine and toast this beginning. Now the Sheikh immediately said: Oh, I do not think I could do that; you know I have a reputation here and people will think worse of me.
Shams said: I told you, you cannot be with me. In Islam, of course, it is prohibited by law to drink alcohol, but with Mevlana it was nothing like that. Mevlana, according to his son, Sultan Veled, said: When Shams came into my life, he lit the fire of mystic love within me.

Eventually, Shams disappeared completely from Mevlana’s life and it was rumored that he had been murdered. From that time on, as we understand it, Mevlana changed the way he taught because he was aflame with mystic passion; with the passion of love which is Mevlana’s legacy. Mevlana wrote: Know that it is the waves of love that turn the wheels of heaven. It is through the energy of love that we communicate from heart to heart and in the Sufi tradition it is said that the heart of one can communicate with the heart of another. Hazreti Mevlana wrote: There is a way from your heart to mine, and my heart knows it, because it is clean and pure like water. When the water is still like a mirror, it can behold the moon.

The dhikr, the remembrance of God, is the way that we cleanse the heart. Through the repetition of various phrases and words within the Islamic Sufi tradition, we clear the mind and then the heart so that we can listen to the voice that guides us; that guides us with love, towards success; success in the way that it is said in the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. Come to prayer, come to success. To know success is to be in love with the Beloved in the way that the great Sufi saints, particularly Mevlana, describe it; where there is no more self, in the personal sense, we turn only around the greater Self, the Divine Consciousness.

When Shams was gone from Mevlana’s life, Mevlana began to turn in; the way that we have inherited this tradition. In Mevlana’s time it was an ecstatic, spontaneous turning. There is a famous story illustrating this. There was a close colleague who became one of Mevlana’s closest associates, a fellow student, Sheikh Salahuddin Zerkub, which means the gold-beater. This Sheikh earned his living beating gold and he also had apprentices. Now, it is said that once when Mevlana was walking in the marketplace in Konya, he

The dhikr, the remembrance of God, is the way that we cleanse the heart.

heard the rhythmic hammering of the gold-beater’s apprentices and of the gold-beater Sheikh. As he heard this sound, Mevlana slowly opened his arms and began to turn around and around in the marketplace in ecstasy. In that rhythmic hammering he heard the dhikr: Allah, Allah, Allah . . . and it set off within him the energy of love which made him turn. In Mevlana’s own time, he often had gatherings with music, singing and poetry and the Sema, in this spontaneous way. In later generations, particularly with his son, Sultan Veled, the ceremony became more formalized and over the centuries a musical tradition also grew up around the ceremony. There are particular robes which we wear in the ceremony and these have a symbolism which relates to dying and being resurrected. We are really referring to the great Sufi phrase of, Die before you die . . .

[sourse-http://tasavvufterapi.com/eng/rumi-and-the-whirling-dervishes]

Quantum Law of Cosmological Redshift-a report-29.01.2014

Sergey B. Alemanov  http://alemanow.narod.ru  alemanow@mail.ru

Hubble’s quantum law  vn = nH0 (Quantum law of the cosmological redshift) A report in the Moscow State University (13.03.2013, 18.10.2013), in the Prokhorov General Physics Institute (29.01.2014). Published in the «Engineering Physics» (No. 3, 2014).

Hubble constant is the quantum amount by which a photon’s frequency decreases in one period of oscillation.

Hubble’s law, as presented in quantum form, allows exact calculation of the cosmological redshift for galaxies at any distance. For example, the distance to galaxies, as calculated on the basis of the contemporary method of “standard candles” (Nobel Prize 2011) mismatches the one calculated on the basis of the Doppler effect (the Big Bang theory), while it is fully consistent with Hubble’s quantum law.

Vacuum fluctuations.           The pressure of the vacuum fluctuations on the parallel plates.

The static Casimir effect.

When the cosmological redshift was discovered, it was unknown that vacuum fluctuations existed and respectively, that the distribution of the electromagnetic waves is always accompanied by the energy dissipation due to the transformation of this energy into the inner energy of the vacuum. Therefore the only – as it then seemed – possible explanation was put forward: the Doppler effect. But not all scientists agreed to it, and the disputes continued. Some thought it to be connected with the Doppler effect, while others – including Edwin Hubble – thought that “the aging of light” (“tired light”) happens, because ideal waves without dissipation simply do not exist.

«Edwin Hubble, who discovered the redshift, let us see that it is connected not to the Doppler effect, but to the effect of the increase of the light’s wavelength as light moves.»
http://ritz-btr.narod.ru/privid.html (In Russian)

Oscillation of the waves is the transformation of one energy form into another and back, and any transformation of energy is inevitably accompanied by a partial loss; the energy of the waves is being dissipated, which converts into the inner energy of the medium expressed in form of fluctuations. The waves’ propagation in the physical vacuum is no exception, as, according to quantum physics, a vacuum is not a void. There are fluctuations in it as in any environment. They are called zero-point vibrations of the electromagnetic field. It is the energy dissipation of electromagnetic waves that creates a cosmological redshift, not the Doppler effect caused by the acceleration of the galaxies by supernatural dark energy.

«Hubble’s Law is an empirical law connecting in a linear fashion the redshift of the galaxies and distance to them: cz = H₀r, where z – the redshift of the galaxy, r – the distance to it, H₀ – coefficient of proportionality, called Hubble constant, c – velocity of the light.»
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Закон_Хаббла (In Russian)
« H₀ = 2.4·10^-18 s^-1(Hz) »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_constant
«Using the Hubble’s classical law z = H₀r/c to determine distances to galaxies …»
http://www.astrogalaxy.ru/858.html (In Russian)

Hubble’s law is associated with the redshift of the electromagnetic quants, that is why, in accordance with quantum physics, it must be presented not only in classical but also in quantum form. For this purpose into the formula of redshift dependency on time z = H₀t (Hubble’s classical law z = H₀r/c) the time of one oscillation period should be added T = 1/v, where v – the frequency of the photon, H₀ – Hubble constant 2.4·10^-18 с^-1(Hz). We receive the redshift per one oscillation periodZ_T = H₀T = H₀/v and Z_Tv = H₀ – the amount by which photon’s frequency decreases during one oscillation period, and respectively, v_n = nH₀ – a quantum form of the Hubble’s law, where n is the number of oscillations performed during certain traveled distances n = t/T = r/λ, v_n = (v₀ – v). That is to say, Hubble’s constant is the quantum amount by which photon’s frequency decreases in one period of oscillation irrespective of the wavelength, and to determine by how much the frequency of the photon has decreased, the Hubble constant must be multiplied by the number of oscillations performed: v_n = nH₀ – formula for the photon’s frequency redshift. For example, a photon with a frequency of 6·10¹⁴ Hz (λ = 5·10^-7 m), having travelled 40 megaparsec (r = 1.234·10²⁴ m), will perform a number of oscillations n = r/λ = 2.47·10³⁰. This would decrease its frequency by

v_n = nH₀ = 2.47·10³⁰ × 2.4·10^-18 Hz = 5.9·10¹² Hz,

and the redshift would be

z = v_n/v = 5.9·10¹² Hz / 6·10¹⁴ Hz = 0.01.

At short distances – a full match with the Hubble’s classical law

z = H₀r/c = (2.4·10^-18 Hz × 1.234·10²⁴ m) / 3·10⁸ m/s = 0.01.

The dissipation of the photon energy per one oscillation: E_T = hH₀ = 1.6·10^-51 J – the quantum of energy dissipation of the photon, where h – Planck constant. The maximum number of vibrations, which a photon is capable of doing during its lifetime: N = E/E_T = hv/hH₀ = v/H₀, where E – is the photon energy. After putting Hubble’s law into its quantum form v_n = nH₀ it becomes apparent that the cosmological redshift of the photon’s frequency has a quantum nature and depends only upon the number of oscillations per traveled distance. That is to say, this is a quantum effect, where the wave’s energy is dissipated. There is no dependency on the number of oscillations in the case of the Doppler effect. If the frequency decreases by the Hubble constant with each new period, then such process presents wave energy dissipation and not the Doppler effect.

Hubble’s quantum law (quantum law of the cosmological redshift) states that a photon’s frequency decreases with each new wave oscillation by a quantum amount equal to the Hubble constant, v_n = nH₀,which is being observed as a redshift. Due to the fact that the period of oscillation constantly increases, frequency decreases with time t according to the law of exponent v(t) = v₀e^-H0^t, and the length of the wave increases λ(t) = λ₀e^H0^t.

Frequency (energy) dependency on the distance. On top of the chart is the time (billion years).

Wavelength dependency on the distance. On top of the chart is the time (billion years)

The graph shows that over 9.3 billion years (2.9 Gpc) the frequency is reduced by half. The frequency of the photon is directly proportional to the energy; respectively, E(t) = E₀e^-H0^t – is the formula for photon attenuation, where the Hubble constant represents the parameter of the attenuation of electromagnetic oscillations. This provides total agreement with the exponential law of damped oscillations.

«DAMPED OSCILLATIONS, the natural oscillations, the amplitude A of which decreases with time t according to the law of the exponential A(t) = A₀e^-at(a – parameter of the attenuation) due to the energy dissipation because of the viscous friction forces for damping mechanical vibrations and the ohmic resistance for electromagnetic damped oscillations.»
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/natural_science/4301/ЗАТУХАЮЩИЕ (In Russian)

The study of the work of Nobel Prize winners in 2011 on the distant type Ia supernovae, attested that the observed redshift of the frequency for both the near and distant galaxies coincides with v(t) = v₀e^-H0^t (formula of dependency of the photon frequency on time). The expression reflects an exponential law of damped oscillations, where H₀ – parameter of the attenuation, which is the amount by which the frequency is reduced in one period of oscillation. That is, if the oscillation period t is t = 1/v₀, then, regardless of the frequency it is always v(t) = v₀ – H₀. For example, for distant galaxies at 3.3 Gpc(t = 10.76 billion years = 3.43·10¹⁷ seconds), the observed cosmological redshift would be

z = (v₀ – v(t)) / v(t) = v₀/v(t) – 1 = 1/e^-H0^t – 1 = e^H0^t – 1 = 1.3,

rather than z = 2, as assumed in the theory of Universe’s expansion, hence the brightness of the supernova is lower.

«With displacements z = 2 … speed v = 0.8 c … the distance by the redshift – is r = 3.3 Gpc (the Doppler effect)»
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Космологическое_красное_смещение (In Russian)

1 – according to the theory of the Universe expansion (the Doppler effect). 2 – according to the Hubble quantum law (by the method of “standard candles”). On top of the chart is the time (billion years).

Speed dependence on the redshift by the Doppler effect (as percentage of the light speed). On top of the chart is the time (billion years).

«In the works of the Nobel Prize winners in 2011 it was discovered that the far away galaxies, the distance to which was calculated by the Hubble’s law, the type Ia supernova’s have a brightness lower than the one they were supposed to have. In other words, the distance to these galaxies calculated by the method of the “standard candles” turns out to be larger than the distance calculated on the basis of the previously set value of the Hubble parameter. It was concluded that the Universe is not just expanding, but that it is expanding with acceleration!»
http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/ioc/ioc/line%209-10-2011/n5.htm (In Russian)

«Thus, by studying distant from Earth supernovae’s, the winners found that those at least a quarter fainter than it had been predicted by the theory, that means the stars are farther than determined from the calculations.»
http://lebed.com/2011/art5913.htm (In Russian)

So studying distant supernovae’s, the winners have found that the distance calculated by the Doppler Effect does not correspond with the actual distance to the stars. As of today Ia supernovae’s are observed up to z = 2. At z = 2, the distance calculated by the Doppler effect, is 10.8 billion light-years (3.3 Gpc), and by the method of “standard candles” 14.8 billion light-years (4.5 Gpc) redshift increases exponentially z = e^H0^t – 1. Hence usually a wrong conclusion is made that the Universe is expanding exponentially.

«… the scale factor of the Universe behaves asymptotically like this: a(t) ~ e^H0^t – the Universe will expand exponentially, and this has not really been expected earlier. That is, it is the accelerated expansion of the Universe, but before that, according to the standard theory, it appeared that the Universe should expand with the slowdown»
Lecture A.D.Linde. http://elementy.ru/lib/430484 (In Russian)

According to the method of “standard candles” the following is established: z + 1 = a₀/a(t) = e^H0^t and z = e^H0^t – 1, that is the astronomical observations attest that the redshift is subject to exponential law of damped oscillations.

«… a(t) ~ e^H0^t … z + 1 = a₀/a(t), where a(t) – cosmological scale factor at time t, and a₀ – its value at the moment.»
http://www1.jinr.ru/Pepan/2012-v43/v-43-3/01_dol.pdf (In Russian)

During the studies of distant galaxies it was discovered that cosmological redshift occurs according to the law of the exponentially damped oscillations, in accordance with the Hubble’s quantum law, not with the Doppler effect, then – for the sake of the salvation of the Big Bang theory and against all laws of physics – a ‘miraculous’ explanation was invented: the accelerated expansion of the Universe due to dark energy (force). But in this case, the speed of the young galaxies must be less than the speed of the old ones, such as our galaxy, and, therefore, our time should slow down more. Because of this, the observed (by us) duration of the outbreaks of the distant supernovae’s should decrease, and not increase.

«This way the galaxies, spectrum of which had the observed double increase of the wavelength of light, had their supernova explosions extended also by two times: from two weeks to four weeks.»
http://www.ritz-btr.narod.ru/compress.html (In Russian)

For each shift, red or purple (due to the Doppler effect, or under the influence of gravity, etc.), always changes not only the wavelength, but also the duration of the wave packets. This happens because the number of periods of oscillation does not change and accordingly, the duration of the wave packets (bursts) varies in direct proportion to the wavelength λ/λ₀ = 1 + z.

It is foolish to talk about the expansion with acceleration, if – no matter where we look – according to the Doppler effect, the young (distant) galaxies are moving faster than the old ones, that is to say that over time the speed becomes less – braking is 22 km/s in a million years. At the same time – in some magical way – the young galaxies right after the Big Bang happened to be on the outskirts of the Universe. It turns out that in the first seconds after the explosion, all matter was on the surface of a sphere with a radius of 13.7 billion light-years and was moving away from the center with great speed.

According to the theory of Universe expansion, the younger the galaxy the faster it is moving away from us. That is, the acceleration of the galaxies occurs in the direction of the very first seconds after the Big Bang, and this acceleration is observed in any direction from us, indicating the absence of any logic in the theory. It turns out that the explosion is coming from the point of the Big Bang, and conversely, the acceleration occurs on any side of us. The proponents of this theory explain this absurdity by the fact that at the moment of the Big Bang all laws of physics and logic can be broken, and therefore there is “complete freedom of choice”.

«At the point of the Big Bang and other singularities all the laws are violated therefore God keeps complete freedom of choice of what was happening in singularities and how the beginning of the Universe looked like.»

Also, the statement that the cosmic microwave background radiation is associated with the Big Bang, contradicts logic, as in this case it would have been observed on one side; on the side of the explosion, the radiation source. For example, if somewhere a star explodes, one point would be seen, the one where the explosion occurred. Radiation always comes from the point of radiation. It is applicable to all sources, even those that are more than 13 billion years old; they are also seen as points.

Due to the fact that on the basis of the theory of Universe expansion, the distance calculated using the Doppler effect is wrong, the distant galaxies appear to be small (compact), and type Ia supernovae have lower brightness. For example, galaxy UDFj-39546284, where z = 11.9, according to Hubble’s quantum law, the distance is t = ln(z + 1)/H₀ = 1.06·10¹⁸ sec = 33.8 billion light-years (10.4 Gpc), not 13.4 (4.1 Gpc), as considered in the expansion theory. That is why it seems compact.

«UDFj-39546284 is a compact galaxy, consisting of blue stars that have existed 13.4 billion years ago, that is, approximately 380 million years after the Big Bang. … The galaxy has a redshift of z = 11.9.»
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDFj-39546284 (In Russian)

According to the Big Bang theory, at z = 11.9 using the Doppler effect, the speed of the galaxy is close to the speed of light and time passes very slowly, all processes are slowed down z + 1 = 12.9 times. Accordingly, it turns out that we have aged 380 million years, and galaxy has aged 29.5 million years after the Big Bang. But the formation of galaxies requires about a billion years, and in such a short time the galaxy cannot be formed, and if we consider that by the Doppler effect the distance to distant galaxies is calculated incorrectly, time becomes negative.

«1 billion years – formation of the first galaxies.»
http://www.modcos.com/articles.php?id=105 (In Russian)

If vacuum field fluctuations exist, then in this vacuum there also would be electromagnetic wave energy absorption – a wave’s energy transforms into fluctuation energy.

«At present it is ascertained that vacuum is not an “empty space”. It is certain material continuum with quite determined, but unclear properties. It was confirmed by vacuum effects observation such as “zero-oscillations”, vacuum polarization, particle generation by electromagnetic interactions. Therefore it is reasonable to suggest that physical vacuum could have real own internal “friction” resistance due to its own small but real viscosity. Thus, photons could interact with vacuum which could result in astronomical redshift of the light.»
http://bourabai.narod.ru/shtyrkov/evolution.htm (in Russian)

Waves are oscillations of a medium, as otherwise diffraction and interference would not been observed. During the oscillations there cannot be one hundred percent energy conversion, so the law of attenuation is effective for all waves, due to dissipation by conversion of one form of energy into another and back. No need to create myths, explaining the cosmological redshift by the intervention of dark energy, “wedging the galaxies off”, since the usual formula of damped electromagnetic oscillations, taking into account the quantum principles, allows accurate calculation of the redshift for any distance.

«The chek-up showed that the data almost perfectly coincides with the model of “tired light” and strongly disagrees with Friedmann’s model.»
http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/6797/ (In Russian)
«Finally, after taking pictures of very distant objects (z of order 4) with the space telescope “Hubble”, when it was expected to see the separate objects of the early Universe, close to the beginning of evolution, it became clear, that the complex structures (galaxies) are seen again. It is clear that it would take tremendous time for the formation of its structure, compatible with the age of the Universe calculated for the Big Bang model.»
http://bourabai.narod.ru/shtyrkov/evolution.htm (In Russian)
«… there is no significant evolution of the metallicity of the GRB host galaxies in the range 0 < z < 6.»
A report in the SAI 05.04.13. http://sed.sao.ru/~vo/cosmo_school/presentations/Sokolov_paper.pdf (In Russian)

One of the main tasks of the space telescope “Hubble” was to see the border of the Universe, but it has not been found. Everywhere there is roughly the same pattern of galaxies, which do not differ by age. The Universe is homogeneous, isotropic, there is no evolution of metallicity and no visible signs of the Big Bang.

Distance calculations by the method of “standard candles” showed that the cosmological redshift is in exact accordance with the formulas of Hubble’s quantum law. In fact it turns out that the Nobel Prize in 2011 has been awarded for the confirmation of the Hubble’s quantum law.

Distribution of the quantum principles to the astrophysics helped to conclude Hubble’s quantum law, which, in contrast to the Doppler effect (the Big Bang theory) allows correct calculation of the cosmological redshift for any distance, as confirmed by the modern method of the “standard candles”.

«Hubble’s quantum law» in the «General Science Journal» (PDF)

Hubble’s quantum law (Word)
Hubble’s quantum law (in Russian)

Braking of the space crafts caused by the vacuum fluctuations

(sourse-http://alemanow.narod.ru/hubbles.htm)

The Story of Zam Zam water

 

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Hajar, the mother of Isma^il settled with her son where Ibrahim peace be upon him left them. She breast-fed him and drank from the water that Ibrahim had left for them. This water eventually ran out as the water container dried up. Consequently, Hajar became thirsty, and so did her son who started crying and became unsettled due to his extreme thirst. Hajar hated seeing him in that state and she set forth looking for water. As-Safa being the mountain closest to her, she climbed it and looked down at the valley to see if she could find anyone to assist her. She found no one and so she descended from the mountain until she reached the valley. Then she climbed Al-Marwah Mountain in keeping her search for water but to no avail. She went back to As-Safa then back again to Al-Marwah for many times. On her last arrival to Al-Marwah, she heard a voice which prompted her to call out: “Help, if you can”. There was Angel Jibril peace be upon him, who hit the ground with his wing until fresh and pure water emerged. That became known as Zamzam water. The mother of Isma^il gathered the water with her hands and collected it in her container while it was springing out. Jibril said: “Do not fear loss, for there is a sacred House here which will be built by this child and his father”, meaning Isma^il and his father Ibrahim peace be upon them both.

Hajar drank from Zamzam water quenching her thirst and breast-fed her son Isma^il. She thanked Allah, the One who endows countless bounties upon His slaves.

O Allah, we ask you to grant us Al-Hajj and Al-^Umrah and the visit of the Prophet peace be upon him, and we ask You Allah to make us amongst those who drink from his honourable hand at the Hawd. Amin.(courtesy-http://www.darulfatwa.org.au/en/Friday-Sermons/the-story-of-zam-zam-water)

Ibrahim (Abraham) – The Idolaters Try to Burn Abraham

Anger was burning in their hearts. They decided to throw Abraham into the biggest fire they could build. All the citizens were ordered to gather wood as a service to their gods. Ignorant, sick women vowed that if they were cured they would donate so much wood to burn Abraham. For several days they collected fuel.

They dug a deep pit, filled it with firewood and ignited it. They brought a catapult with which to cast Abraham into the fire. Abraham was put on the catapult, his hands and feet tied. The fire was ready with its flames reaching the sky. The people stood away from the pit because of the great heat. Then the chief priest gave his order to cast Abraham into the fire.

The angel Gabriel came near Abraham’s head and asked him: “0 Abraham, do you wish for anything?” Abraham replied: “Nothing from you.”

The catapult was shot, and Abraham was cast into the fire, but his descent into the blaze was as a descent on steps in a cool garden. The flames were still there, but they did not burn, for Allah the Almighty had issued His command: “0 fire! Be you coolness and safety for Abraham.” Surah 21: 69

The fire submitted to the will of Allah, becoming cool and safe for Abraham. It only burned his bonds, and he sat in the midst of the fire as if he were sitting in a garden. He glorified and praised Allah the Almighty, with a heart that contained only his love for Allah. There was not any vacant space therein for fear, awe, or worry. It was filled with love only.

Fear and awe were dead, and the fire was turned into coolness, making the air pleasant. Those who love Allah as Abraham did do not fear.

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Ibrahim (Abraham) – The Idolaters Question Abraham

When the people returned, they were shocked to see their gods smashed to pieces, lying scattered all over the temple. They began to guess who had done that to their idols, and Abraham’s name came to their minds.

Allah the Almighty said: They said: “Who has done this to our aliah (gods)? He must indeed be one of the wrongdoers.” They said: “We heard a young man talking (against) them who is called Abraham.” They said: “Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they may testify.” They said: “Are you the one who has done this to our gods, 0 Abraham?” (Abraham) said: “Nay, this one, the biggest of them (idols) did it. Ask them, if they can speak!”

So they turned to themselves and said: “Verily, you are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers).” Then they turned to themselves (their first thought and said). “Indeed you (Abraham) know well that these (idols) speak not!” (Abraham) said: “Do you then worship besides Allah, things that can neither profit you, nor harm you? Fie upon you, and upon that which you worship besides Allah! Have you then no sense?” Surah 21: 59-67

Furious, they demanded that Abraham be arrested and tried. Abraham did not resist. This was precisely what he had been aiming for, so that he could show them up in public for their foolish beliefs.

At the trial they asked him if he was responsible for breaking the idols. Smiling, he told them to ask the biggest idol, which was still whole. He told them that he must be the culprit! They replied that he knew well that the idol could not speak or move, which gave Abraham the chance to prove the foolishness of worshipping these lifeless objects.

They then realized the senselessness of their beliefs; however, their arrogance would not allow them to admit their foolishness. All they could do was use their power of authority – as tyrants usually do – to punish Abraham. They kept him in chains and planned their revenge.

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Ibrahim (Abraham) – Hadith About Abraham , Sarah, and Hajar

 

Abu Hurairah narrated that Abraham did not tell a lie except on three occasions, twice for the sake of Allah (Exalted and Almighty) when he said: “I am sick,” (when his people were holding a festival in honor of their gods, Abraham excused himself by saying he was sick; see Surah 37: 89), and when he said: “(I have not done this but) the big idol has done it.” The (third was) that while Abraham and Sarah (his wife) were going (on a journey), they passed by (the territory of) a tyrant. Someone said to the tyrant: ‘This man (i.e., Abraham ) is accompanied by a very charming lady.” So, he sent for Abraham and asked him about Sarah saying: “Who is this lady?” Abraham said: “She is my sister.” Abraham went to Sarah and said: “0 Sarah! There are no believers on the surface of the earth except you and me. This man asked me about you and I have told him that you are my sister, do not contradict my statement.” The tyrant then called Sarah, and when she went to him, he tried to take hold of her with his hand, but (his hand got stiff and) he was confounded. He asked Sarah: “Pray to Allah for me, and I shall not harm you.” So Sarah asked Allah to cure him and he got cured. He tried to take hold of her for the second time, but (his hand got as stiff as or stiffer than before and) he was more confounded. He again requested Sarah: “Pray to Allah for me, and I will not harm you.” Sarah asked Allah again, and he became all right. He then called one of his guards (who had brought her) and said: ‘You have not brought me a human being but have brought me a devil.” The tyrant then gave Hajar as a maid servant to Sarah. Sarah came back (to Abraham) while he was praying. Abraham, gesturing with his hand, asked: “What has happened?” She replied: “Allah has spoiled the evil plot of the infidel (or immoral person) and gave me Hajar for service.” Abu Hurairah then addressed his listeners saying:’That (Hajar) was your mother, 0 Bani Ma-is-Sama (i.e., the Arab, the descendants of Ishmael, Hajar’s son).”

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ZamZam Water: Scientific Research Findings

 

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Research by Tariq Hussain, Riyadh, By MOINUDDIN AHMED

 

Come the Hajj season, and I am reminded of the wonders of Zamzam water.

 

Let me go back to how it all started. In 1971, an Egyptian doctor wrote to the European press, a letter saying that Zamzam water was not fit for drinking purposes. I immediately thought that this was just a form of prejudice against the Muslims and that since his statement was based on the assumption that since the Ka’aba was a shallow place (below sea level) and located in the center of the city of Makkah, the wastewater of the city collecting through the drains fell into the well holding the water.

 

Fortunately, the news came to King Faisal’s ears who got extremely angry and decided to disprove the Egyptian doctor’s provocative statement. He immediately ordered the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources to investigate and send samples of Zamzam water to European laboratories for testing the portability of the water.

 

The ministry then instructed the Jeddah Power and Desalination Plants to carry out this task. It was here that I was employed as a desalting engineer (chemical engineer to produce drinking water from sea water). I was chosen to carry out this assignment. At this stage, I remember that I had no idea what the well holding the water looked like. I went to Makkah and reported to the authorities at the Ka’aba explaining my purpose of visit.

 

They deputed a man to give me whatever help was required. When we reached the well, it was hard for me to believe that a pool  of water, more like a small pond, about 18 by 14 feet, was the well that supplied millions of gallons of water every year to hajis ever since it came into existence at the time of Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S.)many, many centuries ago.

 

I started my investigations and took the dimensions of the well. I asked the man to show me the depth of the well. First he took a shower and descended into the water. Then he straightened his body. I saw that the water level came up to just above his shoulders. His height was around five feet, eight inches. He then started moving from one corner to the other in the well (standing all the while since he was not allowed to dip his head into the water) in search of any inlet or pipeline inside the well to see from where the water came in. However, the man reported that he could not find any inlet or pipeline inside the well.

 

I thought of another idea. The water could be withdrawn rapidly with the help of a big transfer pump which was installed at the well for the Zamzam water storage tanks.

 

In this way, the water level would drop enabling us to locate the point of entry of the water. Surprisingly, nothing was observed during the pumping period, but I knew that this was the only method by which you could find the entrance of the water to the well.

 

So I decided to repeat the process. But this time I instructed the man to stand still at one place and carefully observe any unusual thing happening inside the well.

After a while, he suddenly raised his hands and shouted, “Alhamdullillah! I have found it. The sand is dancing beneath my feet as the water oozes out of the bed of the well.”

Then he moved around the well during the pumping period and noticed the same phenomenon everywhere in the well. Actually the flow of water into the well through the bed was equal at every point, thus keeping the level of the water steady.

After I finished my observations I took the samples of the water for European laboratories to test.

 

Before I left the Ka’aba Sharief, I asked the authorities about the other wells around Makkah.

I was told that these wells were mostly dry. When I  reached my office in Jeddah. I reported my  findings to my boss who listened with great interest but made a very  irrational comment that the Zamzam well could be internally connected to the Red Sea. How was it  possible when Makkah is  about 75 kilometres away from the sea and the wells  located before the city usually remains dry?

 

The results of the water samples tested by the European laboratories and the one We analysed in our own laboratory were found to be almost identical.

 

CALCUIM & MAGNESUIM IN ZAM ZAM WATER:

The difference between Zamzam water and other water (city water) was in the quantity of calcium and magnesium salts. The content of these was slightly higher in Zamzam water. This may be why this water refreshes tired hajis.

 

FLOURIDE IN ZAMZAM WATER:

But more significantly, the water contains fluorides that have an effective germicidal action.

 

Moreover, the remarks of the European laboratories showed that the water was fit for drinking.

Hence the statement made by the Egyptian doctor was proved false. When this was reported to King Faisal he was extremely pleased and ordered the contradiction of the report in the European Press. In a way, it was a blessing that this study was undertaken to show the chemical composition of the water.

 

In fact, the more you explore, the more wonders surface and you find yourself believing implicitly in the miracles of this water that Allah Ta’ala bestowed as a gift on the faithful coming from far and wide to the desert land for pilgrimage.

 

Let me sum up some of the features of Zamzam water:

 

Never Dried Up:This well has never dried up. On the contrary it has always fulfilled the demand for water.

Same Salt composition:It has always maintained the same salt composition and taste ever since it came into existence.

Portability:Its portability has always been universally recognised as pilgrims from all  over the world  visit Ka’aba every year for Hajj and umrah, but  have never omplained about it. Instead, they  have always enjoyed the water that refreshes them.

Universal taste:Water tastes different at different places. Zamzam water’s appeal has always been universal.

No Biological Growth:This water has never been chemically treated or chlorinated as is the case with water pumped into the cities.Biological growth and vegetation usually takes place in most wells. This makes the water unpalatable owing to the growth of algae causing taste and odour problems. But in the case of the Zamzam water well, there wasn’t any sign of  biological growth.

 

Centuries ago, Bibi Hajra A.S. searched desperately for water in the hills of  Saffa and Marwa to give to her newly born son Hazrat Ismail A.S. As she ran from one place to another in search of water, her child rubbed his feet against the sand. A pool of water surfaced, and by the grace of  Allah Ta’ala, shaped itself into a well  which came to be called Zamzam water.

{ May we appreciate and utilize this great Ni’mah of Allah Ta’ala}

 

 Research by Tariq Hussain, Riyadh, By MOINUDDIN AHMED

Courtesy: www.everymuslim.net       

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Mineral concentration as reported by researchers at King Saud University[8]
mineral	concentration
	mg/L	oz/cu in
Sodium	133	7.7×10−5
Calcium	96	5.5×10−5
Magnesium	38.88	2.247×10−5
Potassium	43.3	2.50×10−5
Bicarbonate	195.4	0.0001129
Chloride	163.3	9.44×10−5
Fluoride	0.72	4.2×10−7
Nitrate	124.8	7.21×10−5
Sulfate	124.0	7.17×10−5
Total dissolved alkalinity	835	0.000483

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