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Hossam Badrawi
Mind, wisdom and physics
In interpreting things
Is there divine revenge for injustice in the world we live in??!!!!
This dialogue came to my mind as I witnessed the double standards, the degradation of the principles of humanity, and the turning a blind eye of many countries in the Western world to the cruelty, killing, violence, and injustice that has been inflicted upon the Palestinian people for more than half a century.
Yes, violence begets violence, and murder and terrorism create murder and terrorism, and things get mixed up, so the perpetrator becomes a victim, and the dead person becomes a criminal, and his family deserves to be punished.
The absence of hope increases the tendency that calls people to pray to God to save them from calamity. What is strange is that there are those on the aggressor side who think they are right and call on the same God to grant them victory over the other.
With the passage of time and the renewal of generations, matters become mixed up, events overlap, and a new reality is created that new generations of aggressors see as if it were the life they were born into. The oppressed becomes a terrorist and the plundered becomes a criminal.
I watch the Arab calls and supplications for God’s vengeance, and I fear bringing God Almighty into the equation of worldly rewards, or even calling for environmental disasters on the oppressor and interpreting them in divine punitive terms.
An enthusiastic young man said to me: Yes, God gives respite and does not neglect.
I trust that God will not abandon them, and yes, Doctor, environmental disasters are a punishment from God.
Look at the distant and recent history, the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the kings and leaders who were arrogant and unjust in the land and slandered, they received earthly punishment, and the people who won over them had their lands destroyed and they were lost in all parts of the earth, expelled…
I said :
But there are reverse models as well. Not everyone who is wronged in life receives worldly punishment
History is full of them.
The issue must be thought about with the opposite philosophy, i.e., that victory in a war is because God helps those who are right, or that victory in a sport is a reward from God is a dependent view.
Victory and defeat, guys, are linked to effort, preparation, work, and training, and we should not attribute to God, in my opinion, any evil that happens in this world, as it may be good and we do not know. My philosophy is that God only creates good.. My question extends to: Are epidemics and diseases an injustice to man or a balance to creation, and are fires and floods a means of punishment or are they also a balance that the Earth needs…!!
The young man said sharply and with some anger:
This is the first time I hear the expression that disasters are necessary for the balance of nature.!!
I said: Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis are natural phenomena that occur as a result of the movement of the earth’s crust and the earth’s plates beneath it, due to pressure from the interactions of the flaming mass beneath the earth’s crust, or the expansion and contraction of this crust itself, which causes tremors, fractures, and fissures. Yes…it is a balance for the Earth, and it is a blessing from the Creator to keep the Earth alive, otherwise it will explode with all its contents. The idea that this is related to human punishment needs to be reconsidered.
He said: God hears, responds, and rushes to save the oppressed because He is a just God.
What Israel and America do will bring them vengeance and the scourge of punishment. I also see that whoever wants to prevent God’s bounty of water in Ethiopia in order to seize it for his people will face an unexpected blow, not military, but beyond our expectations and understanding. The idea of controlling the sources of livelihood that God created and designed is something that shows disdain for the Creator, so we also wait for the justice of heaven.
I said to him: Have you thought about why when an earthquake occurs in Japan with a magnitude exceeding 6 degrees, for example, it injures a few Japanese people, while thousands of Pakistanis die when an earthquake of the same magnitude occurs among them? It is knowledge, preparation, and prediction, not wishful thinking.
Do not underestimate human scientific achievements, and do not exploit the occurrence of disasters as an entry point into populist polarizations that address dependency tendencies.
My son, this world is not an abode of punishment. God says in the Qur’an: {And if God were to take people to task for what they have earned, He would not have left on its back any living creature. But He delays them for an appointed time} Surat Fatir, verse 45.
The relationship of hurricanes and storms to God’s wrath is like the relationship of fresh air breezes to God’s satisfaction. Tornadoes and gentle breezes both affect good people, bad people, and animals. Was the drought that struck Muslims in the year of Ramadan during the reign of Omar ibn al-Khattab an act of God’s wrath on the Companions and Followers? Does this drought affect certain societies and not others?
Is victory in wars a divine will or a scientific effort and human organization?
Is not exploiting the resources of the richest region in the world in the Middle East and Africa, or managing its country’s governance despite its wealth, and is it remaining at the bottom of modern civilization, a human act or a divine matter?
God has given us His bounties, our seas are full of food, our land floats on sources of energy and wealth, and our climate allows for the exploitation of the energy of the sun and wind, and, and, and, yet we are the oppressed, exploited, and poor peoples. Is this the will of God or our will!!!!
Is it right for us to cry over injustice and defeat without the scientific effort you are making and the civilizational superiority we are striving for?
In contemplating human and natural disasters, a person may feel some spiritual meanings, which help him build a deeper view of life, absorbing its pain and suffering as well as its beauty and splendor. But the cosmic order and human creation created by the Creator, and the movement of civilizational development, are not subject to religious emotions and concepts. Everyone is subject to one law: {If you suffer, then they suffer as you suffer, and you hope from God what they do not hope for} Surah An-Nisa, verse 105.
During the scourge of the Black Death (the Great Death), which swept throughout Europe in the year 1347, and caused the death of at least a third of the continent’s population, the Western Church’s discourse tended to interpret the disaster as a divine punishment for transgressions and sins, which is an exploitation of the event to achieve a goal.
God did not create man without reason, nor did he create the world according to a system of universal laws in vain, but rather to push man to search for them and take charge of them, so that he may be the caliph on earth in reality, and not merely by saying, claiming, and supplicating.. This means the necessity of researching the relationship of these human disasters to the reality of life. Our ability to choose and our willingness to address injustice when it comes to us from people like us.
I smiled and said: We must also not forget the victims and destruction that dictatorial regimes, clearly represented by religious and worldly political authoritarian regimes, leave behind, which may exceed what storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, and other what we call natural disasters, and the occupation and oppression of peoples from among our relatives and not from our enemies.
Some people try to give themselves peace of mind that the oppressor will receive his punishment, which is a good attitude, but I know that it is dependent and superficial. Guys, God only creates a complete world, and a complete world is completely independent of itself and moves according to its own laws. However, if we imagine the world as being in need of continuous divine intervention, this means that it is an incomplete world. According to this thinking, the system of nature and human civilizational growth is the will of God itself, and God cannot deviate from His will, to establish a momentary point of view in time.
The laws of nature, which do not differentiate between the oppressor and the oppressed, were created by God and made them work automatically. Therefore, they do not differentiate between one belief and another, or a believer and an unbeliever…
The divine natural physics, including the formation of the human mind and the diversity of its activities,
Which enables him to contemplate the laws of the universe, research and invent, anticipate mutations and surprises, and modify equations. Being prepared with science and knowledge is what saves us from injustice, not supplication and crying.
What saves us from the injustice of others is the application of justice among us, is not oppressing our citizens through good management of our peoples, and I believe that “God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”
Hossam Badrawi
Mind, wisdom and physics
In interpreting things
Is there divine revenge for injustice in the world we live in??!!!!
This dialogue came to my mind as I witnessed the double standards, the degradation of the principles of humanity, and the turning a blind eye of many countries in the Western world to the cruelty, killing, violence, and injustice that has been inflicted upon the Palestinian people for more than half a century.
Yes, violence begets violence, and murder and terrorism create murder and terrorism, and things get mixed up, so the perpetrator becomes a victim, and the dead person becomes a criminal, and his family deserves to be punished.
The absence of hope increases the tendency that calls people to pray to God to save them from calamity. What is strange is that there are those on the aggressor side who think they are right and call on the same God to grant them victory over the other.
With the passage of time and the renewal of generations, matters become mixed up, events overlap, and a new reality is created that new generations of aggressors see as if it were the life they were born into. The oppressed becomes a terrorist and the plundered becomes a criminal.
I watch the Arab calls and supplications for God’s vengeance, and I fear bringing God Almighty into the equation of worldly rewards, or even calling for environmental disasters on the oppressor and interpreting them in divine punitive terms.
An enthusiastic young man said to me: Yes, God gives respite and does not neglect.
I trust that God will not abandon them, and yes, Doctor, environmental disasters are a punishment from God.
Look at the distant and recent history, the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the kings and leaders who were arrogant and unjust in the land and slandered, they received earthly punishment, and the people who won over them had their lands destroyed and they were lost in all parts of the earth, expelled…
I said :
But there are reverse models as well. Not everyone who is wronged in life receives worldly punishment
History is full of them.
The issue must be thought about with the opposite philosophy, i.e., that victory in a war is because God helps those who are right, or that victory in a sport is a reward from God is a dependent view.
Victory and defeat, guys, are linked to effort, preparation, work, and training, and we should not attribute to God, in my opinion, any evil that happens in this world, as it may be good and we do not know. My philosophy is that God only creates good.. My question extends to: Are epidemics and diseases an injustice to man or a balance to creation, and are fires and floods a means of punishment or are they also a balance that the Earth needs…!!
The young man said sharply and with some anger:
This is the first time I hear the expression that disasters are necessary for the balance of nature.!!
I said: Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis are natural phenomena that occur as a result of the movement of the earth’s crust and the earth’s plates beneath it, due to pressure from the interactions of the flaming mass beneath the earth’s crust, or the expansion and contraction of this crust itself, which causes tremors, fractures, and fissures. Yes…it is a balance for the Earth, and it is a blessing from the Creator to keep the Earth alive, otherwise it will explode with all its contents. The idea that this is related to human punishment needs to be reconsidered.
He said: God hears, responds, and rushes to save the oppressed because He is a just God.
What Israel and America do will bring them vengeance and the scourge of punishment. I also see that whoever wants to prevent God’s bounty of water in Ethiopia in order to seize it for his people will face an unexpected blow, not military, but beyond our expectations and understanding. The idea of controlling the sources of livelihood that God created and designed is something that shows disdain for the Creator, so we also wait for the justice of heaven.
I said to him: Have you thought about why when an earthquake occurs in Japan with a magnitude exceeding 6 degrees, for example, it injures a few Japanese people, while thousands of Pakistanis die when an earthquake of the same magnitude occurs among them? It is knowledge, preparation, and prediction, not wishful thinking.
Do not underestimate human scientific achievements, and do not exploit the occurrence of disasters as an entry point into populist polarizations that address dependency tendencies.
My son, this world is not an abode of punishment. God says in the Qur’an: {And if God were to take people to task for what they have earned, He would not have left on its back any living creature. But He delays them for an appointed time} Surat Fatir, verse 45.
The relationship of hurricanes and storms to God’s wrath is like the relationship of fresh air breezes to God’s satisfaction. Tornadoes and gentle breezes both affect good people, bad people, and animals. Was the drought that struck Muslims in the year of Ramadan during the reign of Omar ibn al-Khattab an act of God’s wrath on the Companions and Followers? Does this drought affect certain societies and not others?
Is victory in wars a divine will or a scientific effort and human organization?
Is not exploiting the resources of the richest region in the world in the Middle East and Africa, or managing its country’s governance despite its wealth, and is it remaining at the bottom of modern civilization, a human act or a divine matter?
God has given us His bounties, our seas are full of food, our land floats on sources of energy and wealth, and our climate allows for the exploitation of the energy of the sun and wind, and, and, and, yet we are the oppressed, exploited, and poor peoples. Is this the will of God or our will!!!!
Is it right for us to cry over injustice and defeat without the scientific effort you are making and the civilizational superiority we are striving for?
In contemplating human and natural disasters, a person may feel some spiritual meanings, which help him build a deeper view of life, absorbing its pain and suffering as well as its beauty and splendor. But the cosmic order and human creation created by the Creator, and the movement of civilizational development, are not subject to religious emotions and concepts. Everyone is subject to one law: {If you suffer, then they suffer as you suffer, and you hope from God what they do not hope for} Surah An-Nisa, verse 105.
During the scourge of the Black Death (the Great Death), which swept throughout Europe in the year 1347, and caused the death of at least a third of the continent’s population, the Western Church’s discourse tended to interpret the disaster as a divine punishment for transgressions and sins, which is an exploitation of the event to achieve a goal.
God did not create man without reason, nor did he create the world according to a system of universal laws in vain, but rather to push man to search for them and take charge of them, so that he may be the caliph on earth in reality, and not merely by saying, claiming, and supplicating.. This means the necessity of researching the relationship of these human disasters to the reality of life. Our ability to choose and our willingness to address injustice when it comes to us from people like us.
I smiled and said: We must also not forget the victims and destruction that dictatorial regimes, clearly represented by religious and worldly political authoritarian regimes, leave behind, which may exceed what storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, and other what we call natural disasters, and the occupation and oppression of peoples from among our relatives and not from our enemies.
Some people try to give themselves peace of mind that the oppressor will receive his punishment, which is a good attitude, but I know that it is dependent and superficial. Guys, God only creates a complete world, and a complete world is completely independent of itself and moves according to its own laws. However, if we imagine the world as being in need of continuous divine intervention, this means that it is an incomplete world. According to this thinking, the system of nature and human civilizational growth is the will of God itself, and God cannot deviate from His will, to establish a momentary point of view in time.
The laws of nature, which do not differentiate between the oppressor and the oppressed, were created by God and made them work automatically. Therefore, they do not differentiate between one belief and another, or a believer and an unbeliever…
The divine natural physics, including the formation of the human mind and the diversity of its activities,
Which enables him to contemplate the laws of the universe, research and invent, anticipate mutations and surprises, and modify equations. Being prepared with science and knowledge is what saves us from injustice, not supplication and crying.
What saves us from the injustice of others is the application of justice among us, is not oppressing our citizens through good management of our peoples, and I believe that “God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”
