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The mind, capability of thinking
GPT Translation
The mind , capability of thinking and the awareness are the miracle of creation within us. So how do some try to nullify it and not allow its use, out of fear for religion and the beliefs of the
ancestors, as if God needs protection from those who think?
Some philosophers say that God exists as long as the human mind thinks of Him, otherwise He would not have crossed our minds. Even atheists indirectly acknowledge His existence by denying it. Other philosophers say that the relationship between man and God has evolved with the growth of perception and knowledge. Some physicists and philosophers go to extremes and wonder, who created whom? Did God create man, or did man create God in his mind and imagination to fulfill his needs?
Before reaching maturity, a few thousand years ago and within the 250,000 years of human existence ( the Earth is 4 billion years old and the universe is 13.8 billion years old), humans used to picture God as being
multifaceted. This is the God of love, and that is the God of war, and there are other Gods of justice and darkness, and so on. As the human mind evolved, the idea of monotheism began to form. However, the human mind during its growth stage
continued to visualize God in the form of a human being, or in statues to accompany it, as the Arabs did before Islam (1400 years ago) because they could
not imagine anything beyond that. Here the genius of one like Ali bin Abi Talib appears when they asked him to describe God to them, so he said:.
“The perfection of devotion to God is the negation of attributes from Him. So whoever describes God, glory be to Him, has associated Him, and whoever associates Him has paired Him, and whoever dualizes Him has conditioned Him, and whoever suffices Him has ignored Him. Existing, not out of non
existence, with everything, not in comparison, and other than everything, not in removal. He is , a being that exists and is not comparable to anything, He
is the Doer, yet not in the sense of movement and the machine, and He is the Beholder, yet there is no observer observing Him from amongst His creation.”
In terms of its time, this was a tremendous leap in thoughts. Judaism portrayed the Lord in
the form of a human being, the Jewish scriptures described the him as a man walking alongside Moses. Again christianity portrayed Jesus as the son of God or God himself . Even after the revelation of the Quran, without any human miracles but the words of the Lord ,
addressing the mind, many Muslims interpreted the verses
with the mentality of childhood and attributed human-like miraculous traits to Muhammad, the prophet of reason and humanity, contrary to what was intended. They claimed that God had a throne He sat on, and His hands were above the hands of the non-believers, unable to understand the symbolism that Ali bin Abi Talib so brilliantly captured in his description of the Lord. All of this is nothing but stages in the maturity of the human mind that required time to expand awareness.
Scientifically, it has now been proven that we live in a four dimensional world – length,
width, height (and depth), and time. Have you ever thought, dear reader, what if our world was only two-dimensional, with just length and width and no height or depth? We would live a flat life as if we were drawings on a flat piece of paper. The third
dimension made us
tridimensional beings, and time as the fourth dimension gave us a history and future.
Science has even proven in the last few days, through the activation of the “CERN”
experiment (the largest human experiment to understand the beginning of the universe), that there is a possibility of the
existence of a fifth dimension that we have not yet discovered, and that there are possibility of existence of creatures that possess this fifth dimension, which enables them to see us, and even our past and our future, while we cannot see them. The same physical space that we occupy may contain other creatures that exist in four dimensions in a specific
universe. This hypothesis has become plausible, if not
confirmed, so use your
imagination and open your mind.
In fact, the mind and science tell us that there is no “void,” since the discovery of the mind tells us
that even empty space is made up of particles scientists call “bosons,” which make up the fabric of the universe and in which galaxies move. Therefore, there is no emptiness in the human sense of the word.
I return to the human mind, which imagined and then proved all these facts. It scaled time to millions of millions of seconds and distance to millions of millions of particles. It has proven that matter is nothing but energy produced by vibrational waves that create quarks, which are the smallest particle
discovered by science that make up the electron, proton, and
neutrino within the atomic nucleus, which humans only discovered 250 years ago by the scientist John Dalton in the 19th century.
When humanity was in its childhood, adolescence, and youth, the time had not yet come to convince humans of the size and vastness of the universe, nor the speed of the movement of its planets, stars, and galaxies. It was not possible for the human mind to imagine billions and billions of numbers or particles so small that they hardly existed within the components of atoms. Only by intellectual awareness through the mind could
imagination and scientific proof be achieved.
We are born with empty minds, and absence of awareness . The mind does not fully mature anatomically until the end of its first year, and our consciousness is not complete until it matures and gradually & accumulate knowledge. Can you imagine what would happen if we faced life with fully conscious minds from the moment of birth? The wonder and miracle of life is not in its sudden revelation before one who emerges from the world of darkness and non existence, but life unfolds before us gradually.
In my opinion, the mature human thought throughout history has created the possibility of balance for humanity, leaving us the task of thinking with our own minds. We now seek proof, doubt, search, discuss, then convince ourselves, and re-examine what we know. Our accumulation of knowledge is something our ancestors did not have and couldn’t even dream of.
Don’t you see the futility of our disputes, the foolishness of our wars, and the absurdity of our judgments in this amazing, organized universe? Once we realize our planet is just a speck
of sand in an endless desert, and there are other universes beyond our own, we should spare ourselves from extremism, fear, violence, threats, retaliation, and excommunication. The system is bigger, wider, smaller, finer, deeper, and higher than what our minds limited to the infancy of humanity can conceive.
