Life Supreme — Page 74
LIFE SUPREME 77. All things are made of atoms and each one is practically all empty space. The protons and neutrons form its nucleus. The electrons which vary in number in different kinds of atoms revolve around the nucleus at great speed as the planets of our solar system revolve around the sun. Indeed every atom is a miniature solar system floating in space. Keeping in mind the size of an atom the distances separating the electrons from the central nucleus have been compared to the distances separating the planets from the sun. . There is no wonder that radio waves, x-rays, and other kinds of rays can pass through the hardest rock or steel. Switch on a radio, seal it in a trunk, and it will continue to play. The waves pass through the steel as easily as an apparition passes through the door of a room. . Almost all of solid matter is empty space in which not one atom or sub-particle is touching another. Our sense of vision is extremely restricted and what we are able to see around us is different to what it seems. We live in an illusory world. . Howbeit, matter-as we call it-does exist. What is matter?. Whence from has it come?. MATTER IS ENERGY. There exists the law of cause and effect. Something cannot come from nothing. This is a self-evident truth. Islam teaches that God is the Original Cause of all things. He is Unique in as much as He has no beginning or end. He is the Creator of all things: "He is indeed the Supreme Creator. " (36:82) "He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. " (59:25). There arises the question whether matter was created in one direct stroke by God or did it evolve from immaterial forces which already existed in the great void?. Einstein (1879-1955) is the greatest name in mathematical physics in the twentieth century. He proved that matter and energy are one and the same thing in different forms. Both are interchangeable. . Matter has been converted into energy and energy has also been converted into matter. Energy was present before the creation of matter which is a manifestation of that energy from which it evolved.