Discover Islam, - Atoms that come alive

Atoms are the building blocks of both animate organisms as well as
inanimate objects. Since atoms are inanimate particles, it evokes
extreme astonishment that they are the building blocks of living
beings. This is an issue evolutionists can never explain.
Just as it is impossible to imagine pieces of stone coming together to
form living organisms, it is impossible to imagine inanimate atoms
coming together by themselves to form living organisms. Think about a
lump of rock and a butterfly -- one is inanimate, the other is
animate. Yet, when we delve into their essences, we see that both are
made up of the same sub-atomic particles.
The following example may elucidate the impossibility of inanimate
matter transforming by itself into animate matter in a better way: Can
aluminum fly? No. If we mix aluminum with plastic and gasoline, can it
fly? Of course it still cannot. Only if we bring these materials
together in a way so as to form an airplane, can they fly. So, what
makes an airplane fly? Is it the wings, the engine or the pilot? None
of these can fly by themselves. In fact, an airplane is manufactured
by the assemblage in a special design consisting of different pieces
each of which has no ability to fly. The ability to fly is derived
neither from aluminum, nor plastic, nor gasoline. The specifications
of these substances are important, but the ability to fly can only be
gained by bringing these substances together in a very special design.
Living systems are no different. A living cell is formed by the
arrangement of inanimate atoms in a very special design. Faculties of
living cells such as growth, reproduction and others are results of
perfect design rather than the properties of molecules. The design we
find at this point is only Allaah's creating the living from the dead.
Allaah Says )what means(:"Indeed, Allaah is the cleaver of grain and
the date seed. He brings the living out of the dead and brings the
dead out of the living. That is Allaah; so how are you deluded?"]Quran
6:95[
When the Theory of Evolution was advanced in the middle of the 19th
century CE, scientific research conducted with primitive microscopes
had created the impression that the cell was just a simple lump of
matter. However, in the 20th century CE, observation and research made
using advanced instruments and electron microscopes revealed that the
cell has an extremely complex structure that could only have been
formed as a result of perfect design. Most importantly, research
showed that it is absolutely impossible for life to arise
spontaneously out of inanimate matter. The source of life is life
alone -- a fact has been proved experimentally too. This is a problem
evolutionists can never resolve.
It is for this reason that renowned evolutionary scientists find
themselves in a great impasse and instead of presenting solid
scientific evidence, resort to telling hypothetical 'tales' which
amount to nothing but window-dressing. They put forward completely
illogical and unscientific claims that matter has a consciousness,
ability and will of its own. However, they themselves do not believe
these absurd tales and are eventually forced to confess that the main
questions that need to be answered cannot be answered scientifically:
"The outstanding evolutionary mystery now is: how matter has
originated and evolved, why it has taken its present form in the
Universe and on the earth, and why it is capable of forming itself
into complex living sets of molecules." ]C. D. Darlington, Evolution
for Naturalists, )NY, John Wiley, 1980( p. 15[
As the evolutionary scientist quoted above confesses, the basic
purpose of the Theory of Evolution is to deny that Allaah )God(
created living beings. This is the scenario claimed by evolutionists,
describing the transformation of inanimate and unconscious atoms into
animate organisms, and most significantly, into people with high
levels of consciousness and intelligence: "After the Big Bang, atoms,
containing precisely balanced forces, somehow brought themselves into
being...These atoms first transformed themselves into cells with
highly complex structures and then produced copies of the cells they
formed by splitting into two, after which they started speaking and
hearing. Subsequently, these atoms transformed into university
professors viewing themselves under the electron microscope and
claiming that they came into being coincidentally..."
It is possible to prolong this story but let us stop here and see
whether unconscious atoms can spontaneously form the DNA molecule, the
cornerstone of life and proteins.
DNA )Deoxyribonucleic Acid(, which is located in the nucleus of a cell
contains the codes carrying the information that controls the
formation of all organs and characteristics of the body. This code is
so complex that scientists were only able to translate it )to a very
limited extent( as late as the 1940s. Proteins are the building blocks
of living beings and play a key role in many vital functions of the
organism.
DNA is a series of nucleotides arranged in a special sequence. A
protein is a series of amino acids arranged again in a special
sequence. First of all, it is mathematically impossible for either DNA
molecules or protein molecules that come in thousands of different
types to sort out the appropriate sequences necessary for life by
chance. Probabilistic calculations reveal that the probability of even
the simplest protein molecules achieving the right sequence by chance
is zero. In addition to this mathematical impossibility, there is also
an important chemical obstacle to the coincidental formation of these
molecules. If the relationship between DNA and protein were a result
of time, chance and natural processes, then there would be some sort
of chemical affinity of DNA and protein to react, as acids and bases
have a great tendency to react. In that case, if chance had really
played a role, a whole host of other natural chemical reactions would
occur among any random fragments of DNA and protein and the living
beings we see today would not have formed.
Just as the entire Universe was created from nothing, so were living
beings created from nothing. Just as only nothing can come into
existence out of nothing by chance, inanimate matter cannot combine by
chance to form living beings. Only Allaah, Possessor of Infinite
Power, Infinite Wisdom and Infinite Knowledge, has the power to do all
these. Allaah Says )what means(:"Indeed your Lord is Allaah, who
created the Heavens and Earth in six days and then established Himself
above the Throne. He covers the night with the day )another night(
chasing it rapidly; and )He created( the sun, the moon, and the stars,
subjected by His command. Unquestionably, His is the creation and the
command; blessed is Allaah, Lord of the worlds."]Quran 7:54[

Discover Islam, - Thermodynamics falsifies evolution

The Second law of Thermodynamics, which is accepted as one of the
basic laws of physics, holds that under normal conditions all systems
left on their own will tend to become disordered, dispersed and
corrupted in direct relation to the amount of time that passes.
Everything living or non-living wears out, deteriorates, decays,
disintegrates and is destroyed. This is the absolute end that all
beings will face one way or another and according to this law, this
unavoidable process has no return.
This is something that all of us have observed. For example if you
take a car to a desert and leave it there, you would hardly expect to
find it in a better condition when you come back years later. On the
contrary, you would see that its tyres had gone flat, its windows had
been broken, its chassis had rusted and its motor had decayed. The
same inevitable process holds true for living things.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the means by which this natural
process is defined with physical equations and calculations.
This famous law of physics is also known as "The Law of Entropy".
Entropy is the range of the disorder involved in a system in physics.
A system's entropy is increased as it moves towards a more disordered,
dispersed and unplanned state from an ordered, organized and planned
one. The higher a system's disorder, the higher is its entropy. The
Law of Entropy holds that the entire universe unavoidably proceeds
towards a more disordered, unplanned and disorganized state.
The validity of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or the Law of
Entropy, is experimentally and theoretically established. The most
important scientists of our age agree on the fact that The Entropy Law
will preside as the ruling paradigm over the next period of history.
Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of our age, said that it is
the "premier law of all of science". Sir Arthur Eddington also
referred to it as the "supreme metaphysical law of the entire
universe".
Evolutionary theory is an assertion that is advanced by totally
ignoring this basic and universally true law of physics. The mechanism
offered by evolution totally contradicts this law. The theory of
evolution says that disordered, dispersed and inorganic atoms and
molecules spontaneously came together in time in a certain order and
plan to form extremely complex molecules such as proteins, DNA and
RNA, after which they gradually brought about millions of different
living species with even more complex structures. According to the
evolutionary theory, this supposed process that yields a more planned,
more ordered, more complex and more organised structure at each stage
has formed all by itself under natural conditions. The Law of Entropy
makes it clear that this so-called natural process utterly contradicts
the laws of physics.
Evolutionist scientists are also aware of this fact. J.H. Rush states:
''In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable
contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law of
Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expresses an irreversible
progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves
continually higher levels of order. ''
The evolutionist scientist Roger Lewin expresses the thermodynamic
impasse of evolution in an article inScience: "One problem biologists
have faced is the apparent contradiction by evolution of the second
law of thermodynamics. Systems should decay through time, giving less,
not more, order."
Another evolutionist scientist, George Stravropoulos states the
thermodynamic impossibility of the spontaneous formation of life and
the unfeasibility of explaining the existence of complex living
mechanisms by natural laws in the well-known evolutionist
magazineAmerican Scientist:
"Yet, under ordinary conditions, no complex organic molecule can ever
form spontaneously but will rather disintegrate, in agreement with the
second law. Indeed, the more complex it is, the more unstable it is,
and the more assured, sooner or later, is its disintegration.
Photosynthesis and all life processes, and life itself, despite
confused or deliberately confusing language, cannot yet be understood
in terms of thermodynamics or any other exact science. "
As acknowledged, the Second Law of Thermodynamics constitutes an
insurmountable obstacle for the scenario of evolution in terms of both
science and logic. Unable to put forth any scientific and consistent
explanation to overcome this obstacle, evolutionists can only defeat
it in their imagination. For instance, the famous evolutionist Jeremy
Rifkin notes his belief that evolution overwhelms this law of physics
with a "magical power":
"The Entropy Law says that evolution dissipates the overall available
energy for life on this planet. Our concept of evolution is the exact
opposite. We believe that evolution somehow magically creates greater
overall value and order on earth."
These words very well indicate that evolution is totally a dogmatic belief.
The myth of the "Open System"
Confronted by all these truths, evolutionists have had to take
recourse to a mangling of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, saying
that it holds true only for "closed systems" and that "open systems"
are beyond the scope of this law.
An "open system" is a thermodynamic system in which energy and matter
flow in and out, unlike a "closed system", in which the initial energy
and matter remains constant. Evolutionists hold that the world is an
open system: that it is constantly exposed to an energy flow from the
sun, which leads to the assumption that the law of entropy does not
apply to the world as a whole, and that ordered, complex living beings
can be generated from disordered, simple and inanimate structures.
However, there is an obvious distortion here. The fact that a system
has an energy inflow is not enough to make that system ordered.
Specific mechanisms are needed to make the energy functional. For
instance, a car needs a motor, a transmission system and related
control mechanisms to convert the energy in gasoline to work. Without
such an energy conversion system, the car will not be able to use the
energy in gasoline.
The same thing applies in the case of life as well. It is true that
life derives its energy from the sun. However, solar energy can only
be converted into chemical energy by the incredibly complex energy
conversion systems in living things )such as photosynthesis in plants
and the digestive systems of humans and animals(. No living thing can
live without such energy conversion systems. Without an energy
conversion system, the sun is nothing but a source of destructive
energy that burns, parches or melts.
As may be seen, a thermodynamic system )be it open or closed( without
an energy conversion mechanism of some sort is not advantageous for
evolution. No one asserts that such complex and conscious mechanisms
could have existed in nature under the conditions of the primeval
earth. Indeed, the real problem confronting evolutionists is the
question of how complex energy converting mechanisms such as
photosynthesis in plants, which cannot be duplicated even with modern
technology, could have come into being on their own.
The influx of solar energy into the world has no effect that would on
its own bring order. No matter how high the temperature may become,
amino acids resist forming bonds in ordered sequences. Energy by
itself is not enough to make amino acids form the much more complex
molecules of proteins or for proteins to form the much complex and
organised structures of cell organelles. The real and essential source
of this organization at all levels is conscious design: in a word,
creation.

Dought&clear, - Should he give the policeman a bribe so that he won’t charge him a fine for speaking on the cell phone in the car?

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In our country if you speak on a cell phone whilst driving, the traffic policeman will charge you a fine of 500 dinars. If you give him a bribe he will let you off, if you have money with you, and if you do not have money with you, he will put you in jail. What should I do?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Islam came to protect the five basic essentials: religion, reason, life, wealth and honour. There is no doubt that adhering to traffic laws plays a role in protecting people’s lives and wealth. Hence Islam requires the Muslims to adhere to these rules and regulations, especially when there is nothing in them that goes against sharee’ah; rather they are aimed at preserving people’s lives and property.
Going against these rules and regulations does not only bring harm to the driver himself, rather that affects other people too. The accidents that happen on the road as the result of going against these rules and regulations usually affect other parties too, which makes the transgressor more responsible and he will be burdened with numerous rulings such as diyah (blood money), fasting, paying compensation for damage done, and so on.
Punishing transgressors by making them pay fines is permissible according to sharee’ah. This is the view of Ishaaq ibn Raahayawh, Abu Yoosuf the companion of Abu Haneefah, Ibn Farhoon (who was a Maaliki), Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah and Ibn al-Qayyim. In his bookal-Turuq al-HukmiyyahIbn al-Qayyim quoted a great deal of evidence that it is permissible to impose fines, and he quoted the words of Ibn Taymiyah concerning the matter, and refuted those who said it is abrogated.
InHaashiyat ‘ala Tahdheeb Sunan Abi Dawood(4/319) it says:
With regard to the permissibility of imposing financial penalties, there are a number of ahaadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and there is no proof that they have been abrogated, and the khulafa’ (caliphs) after him acted upon them. End quote.
The penalty should be reasonable, so that the intended purpose will be served, which is to deter people from breaking these rules. There is nothing wrong with making the fines high, based on the nature of the infraction and the effect it has on the person and on others.
This issue has also been discussed in the answer to question no. 21900.
There is no doubt that using the cell phone whilst driving can cause accidents which may lead to deaths, let alone loss of property.
Wise people in all parts of the world have pointed out the necessity of imposing stern punishments in order to prevent people from using cell phones whilst driving. Field research has been conducted in Britain which demonstrates that the negative effects of using cell phones supercede the effects of drinking on a person’s driving ability!
This research proves that a driver who uses a cell phone whilst driving is 30% less in control of his vehicle than one who drives when drunk. In comparison to a normal person, the one who uses a cell phone when driving is 50% less in control of his vehicle.
Some experts say that using cell phones when driving, even when using headphones, increases the possibility of getting into an accident by 400%.
For more details please see the Qatarial-Watannewspaper, Wednesday 10/7/2005.
Conclusion: using a cell phone whilst driving is a major cause of accidents, so the punishment for this infraction, whether it is a fine or imprisonment, is justifiable. Based on this, it is not permissible for you to give a bribe to the policeman in order to avoid this penalty, because you are the one who is in the wrong. But if the policeman is wronging you by charging you with something that you have not done, then there is no sin in this case, if you cannot rid yourself of his wrongdoing except by paying a bribe to him or to someone else.
And Allaah knows best.





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Dought&clear, - Why death is the punishment for Apostasy

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This question has bees asked several time from non-Muslims and I want to find an answer: Why When the Muslim convert to another religion(Murtad) he/she should be killed?
Praise be to Allaah.
Your question may be answered by the following points:
(1) This is the ruling of Allaah and His Messenger, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever changes his religion, kill him." (reported by al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, no. 3017).
(2) The one who has known the religion which Allaah revealed, entered it and practised it, then rejected it, despised it and left it, is a person who does not deserve to live on the earth of Allaah and eat from the provision of Allaah.
(3) By leaving Islaam, the apostate opens the way for everyone who wants to leave the faith, thus spreading apostasy and encouraging it.
(4) The apostate is not to be killed without warning. Even though his crime is so great, he is given a last chance, a respite of three days in which to repent. If he repents, he will be left alone; if he does not repent, then he will be killed.
(5) If the punishment for murder and espionage (also known as high treason) is death, then what should be the punishment for the one who disbelieves in the Lord of mankind and despises and rejects His religion? Is espionage or shedding blood worse than leaving the religion of the Lord of mankind and rejecting it?
(6) None of those who bleat about personal freedom and freedom of belief would put up with a neighbour’s child hitting their child or justify this as "personal freedom," so how can they justify leaving the true religion and rejecting the sharee’ah which Allaah revealed to teach mankind about His unity and bring justice and fairness to all?
We ask Allaah for safety and health. May Allaah bless our Prophet Muhammad .







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