WHY DOES THAT HAPPEN?
Written By: Ahid Arrusmani
We
have looked closely at well over hundred everyday happening and have seen what
makes them happen. From the heavy serious
solemn phenomenon
such Boston marathon bombings,
demonstration, anarchism, and wars up to the simple phenomenon such as the water flowing
from downhill but not to up, flaming a paper but can not un-burn
it, putting the salt into warm water but can not get it out again, if it’s too
much. Questioning each everyday happening and finding a unique explanation for
those, only to move on to the next and the next? As a good moslem who always
takes more concerns on the way we live we could say “yes” indeed, but is there
some Allah’s rule that determines what can happen and what can not? Beside the
fundamental koranic answer.
Actually we (as a good moslem) have encountered the answer of that
question in one place, Holy Koran indeed, but there’s a little false notion if
we put aside the science answer, obviously right that Allah
(May
He be Glorified and Exalted) is everything, He is knowing all of
things, but we couldn’t instantly forgotten the science answer (logical an
accurate) that may be will lead us all the way to genuine, the way that wouldn’t
leave us just as mystified as before, or
in another case it’s far away from solemn, even a host of moslems
perpetuate the conviction that science
answer is inherently incomprehensible to ordinary mortals.
Nevertheless, we couldn’t put aside the koranic answer to gain the logic
answer of that phenomenon. it acts such a basic principle of everyday
happening. Furthermore, let’s see what’s in koran said
عَلِيمٌ شَيْءٍ بِكُلِّ وَهُوَ
سَمَاوَاتٍ سَبْعَ فَسَوَّاهُنَّ السَّمَاء إِلَى اسْتَوَى ثُمَّ
جَمِيعاً الأَرْضِ فِي مَّا لَكُم خَلَقَ الَّذِي
هُوَ
It is He who created for you all of that which is on the earth.
Then He directed Himself to the heaven, [His being above all creation], and
made them seven heavens, and He is Knowing of all things. (Al-baqarah [2]:29)
instead of mere ayah,
we will be given another example how important it was, by using our grace
(brain) to keep thinking on everyday
happening like what was wrote in Al-Ghasiyah [88]:17:
خُلِقَتْ كَيْفَ الْإِبِلِ إِلَى يَنْظُرُونَ أَفَلَا
Do
they not look at the Camels, how they are made?
Back
to the science answer, there is no such thing as a stupid question. Actually it
is perhaps the most profound question in all of science, until it gives us the
answer that everywhere in nature there is balance between two fundamental
qualities, those are Energy, which we probably know
something about it, and Entropy which we probably don’t, it
is balance alone that determines whether or not something can happen (let’s just put this theory as more
detail explanation of the power of God).
exactly
that general theory do exist and here the scientist’s job is call it as theories. It’s rarely we know that when
a theory has been thoroughly tested, it may achieve the exalted status of Law of Nature, and it’s real different
than what’s going on beneath the surface of Holy Koran.In this case there are 2
rules that must be met to explain what can happen and what can not, and may be
this answer will be a specter for those who may be a bit intimidated by
science, they are:
·
Everything
will lower its Energy if it probably can
In
general, everything will try to decrease its energy if it can, of course it is Allah’s will, at a
water flowing from highest place to the lower, the water gets rid of its
pent-up gravitation energy by falling down into the ground, but once the water
gets down to the ground, it is an energy dead, at least gravitationally
speaking, and the water can't get back up to the top. Thus with one condition
other things being equal, nature’s inclination will be no more than 1st
rule.
·
Everything
will increase its Entropy if it can
Let’s
figure it out what the real meaning of Entropy is, it was just a fancy word for
disorder or randomness or in a simple way we get used to call it as chaotic
(irregular arrangement of things), about the entropy, Holy Koran has given us a
serious explanation:
يَرْجِعُون لَعَلَّهُمْ عَمِلُوا الَّذِي بَعْضَ لِيُذِيقَهُم النَّاسِ أَيْدِي
كَسَبَتْ بِمَا وَالْبَحْرِ بَرِّالْفِي الْفَسَادَُ ظَهَر
Evil (sins and disobedience of Allah, etc.) has appeared
on land and sea because of what the hands of men have earned (by oppression and
evil deeds, etc.), that Allah may make them taste a part of that which they
have done, in order that they may return (by repenting to Allah, and begging
His Pardon). ( Ar-Rum [30]:41)
This verse has given us wide point of view, and told to moslem that the
meaning of entropy (chaotic) has been long time ago, but nowadays scientifics call
this chaotic condition as an entropy.
In a simple case, there
can an unnatural increase in energy as long as there is a
more-than-compensating increase in entropy, or there can be an unnatural
decrease in entropy as long as there is a more-than-compensating decrease in
energy. That’s what science means with the balance between two
fundamental qualities which determines what
can happen and what can not.
Now, let’s take a serious example from those rules
application in our real live. imagine, with enough effort we could collect 10
million tons of dissolved gold that are distributed throughout the earth's
ocean, and sitting there just for the taking (exactly collecting the gold atom
by atom). but it is dispersed through 324 million cubic miles (1.35 billion
cubic kilometer) of ocean in random, by using enought energy, we can always
overpower nature's entropy rule that everything tends toward disordeliness. but
the problem is that the energy necessary to separate and purify the gold would
cost a lot more than the value of the gold.
Last but
not least, that example is not far away from our everyday cases. Violence,
suppresion, murder are some such shapes of entropy (chaotic), while in another
side we get used to face the energy as its balancer such as kindly, goodwill
etc that play an important role to bring
back the nature balance. and once more the writer take a serious reason of
everyday happening, why does something happen and why it doesn’t, obviously, as
a good moslem we always perpetuate the conviction, that everything happens whether
in the past, present, or future time because of Allah, who arranges everything in this great universe. But the writer always
believe that “behind every sign, there’s a story”.
May God bless us every one, amen...
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