THE SECOND BEGINNING:
THE NEW UNIVERSE
IT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN THIS CHAPTER THAT THE DOOMSDAY OF THE EARTH IS BUT JUST OF ONE OF A SERIES OF SUCH CATASTROPHIC EVENTS WHICH REGULARLY OCCUR AMONG THE INNUMERABLE WORLDS LIKE IT, IN THIS EXTREMELY VAST UNIVERSE. ON A UNIVERSAL SCALE, SUCH EVENTS MAY BE TERMED AS BEING MERELY MINOR DISTURBANCES IN THE VASTNESS OF THE COSMOS. IN FACT, THE EARTH'S DOOMSDAY WILL BE OF LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE EVEN IN OUR OWN MILKY WAY, WHICH IS BUT ONE OUT OF MILLIONS OF GALAXIES IN HEAVENS, WHICH IS THOUGHT TO HAVE WELL OVER A BILLION SOLAR SYSTEMS LIKE OURS. MANY OF THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A LIFE SUPPORTING WORLD LIKE OURS. EACH ONE OF THEM, IN THEIR TURN, WILL HAVE ITS DAY OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE GIVEN IN THE DIVINE BOOK IS THAT PROCESS OF CHANGE IS THE STANDING REALITY OF THE UNIVERSE.
EACH DAY HE IS IN NEW SPLENDOUR.
IN THIS PROCESS, THE UNWANTED ONES ARE ROOED OUT AT THEIR TURN TO GIVE ROOM TO THE NEW CREATIONS. IT HAS BEEN SAID :
ARE THOU NOT AWARE OF THE FACT
THAT ALLAH HAS CREATED THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
IN ACCORDANCE WITH A DIVINE PURPOSE ?
HE CAN, IF HE SO WILLS, DO AWAY WITH YOU,
AND BRING FORTH AN ENTIRELY NEW CREATION,
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT FOR ALLAH
ULTIMATELY, THERE WILL COME THE TIME WHEN THE WHOLE OF THE PRESENT UNIVERSE WILL SEE ITS END. THAT WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE REVERSAL OF TIME AND SPACE, AND PHASE CHANGE FROM EXPANSION TO CONTRACTION. THAT WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE "ULTIMATE DOOMSDAY" THE IMPLOSION OF WHICH WOULD RESULT INTO RE-EXPLOSION OF THE CONTRACTING UNIVERSE.
THAT WILL SOUND TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW UNIVERSE.
THE PROCESS OF REBUILDING AFTER ULTIMATE DOOMSDAY IS POINTED OUT BY THE HOLY QURAN IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES.
AS WE BEGAN THE FIRST CREATION
SURELY WE SHALL REPEAT IT,
IT IS A PROMISE UPON US,
LO! WE ARE TO PERFORM IT.
IT SHOULD ALSO BE OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST THAT THE RECREATED UNIVERSE WILL NOT BE A REPLICA OF THE PRESENT ONE, BUT A GRAND SYSTEM OF NEDW HEAVENLY BODIES, VERY MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE PRESENT ONE. THE EARTH WILL NOT BE THE SAME AND THE HEAVEN OF THE NEW UNIVERSE WILL NOT BE THE HEAVEN OF THIS UNIVERSE. IN THIS RESPECT THE FOLLOWING REVELATION IS HIGHLY MEANINGFUL.
ON THAT DAY
THE EARTH WILL BE CHANGED,
TO A DIFFERENT EARTH,
AND SO WILL BE THE HEAVENS.
WE ALSO SEE FROM THE HOLY QURAN THAT THE NEW UNIVERSE WILL BE DIVISIBLE INTO THREE BROAD REGIONS. PARADISE . THE HEIGHT AND HELL. PARADISE WILL BE THE PERMANENT ADODE OF THE UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY OF THE REIGHTEOUS PEOPLE FROM ALL THE TIMES, AND FROM ALL THE WORLDS. IN SIZE, SAYS THE HOLY QURAN, IT IS UNIMAGINABLY VAST, MAY BE AS VAST AS THE ENTIRE SIZE OF THE PRESENT UNIVERSE. IT WAS TOLD :
A PARADISE
WHERE OF THE BREADTH IS
AS THE BREADTH OF
THE (PRESENT) HEAVEN ND EATH,
PREPARED FOR
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
ALLAH AND IS MESSENGER.
IN THIS VERSE, EQUIVALENCE OF THE PARADISE WITH THE PRESENT HEAVENLY WORLD, SHOWS THAT ITS SIZE IS TOO LARGE TO IMAGINE. THE ONE HEAVEN ABOUT WHICH SCIENCE HAVE SOME IDEA, IS ESTMATED TO CONSIST OF MILLIONS OF GALAXIES, WITH EACH GALAXY BEING FORMED OF APPROXIMATELY 100 BILLION STARS. WIDTH OF EVEN ONE GALAXY IS SO VAST THAT LIGHT TRAVELLING AT A SPEED OF 1,86,000 MILES PER SECOND, TAKES NEARLY 20,000 YEARS TO REACH FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER. THIS IS ONE GALAXY. NOW TRY TO IMAGINE OF THE SIZE OF ALL THE HEAVENS AND THEN TRY TO IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE PARADISE IN THE NEW UNIVERSE, WHICH IS TOLD TO BE EVEN VASTER THAN ALL THIS.
