The Universe Beyond

 (Spiritual Interpretation of the Universe)

(Reproduced with the permission of author, Mr Muhammad Munir, by Mr Navid Masud & Omer Farooq)

" Brief Over View Of The Book"

"The Origin Of The Universe And Its Development In Stages"

"Classification Of Developmental Stages Of The Universe Relative To Progressive Appearance Of Consciousness In Creation"

"Fundamental Laws Underlying Creation Of The Universe In Stages"

"The Unbridgeable Gulfs - A Creative Necessity"

"Universe - A Continuum Whole"

"The Immortal Soul - Self-Conscious Stage Of Man"

"The Theory Of Unconsciousness"

"The Physical Body And The Human Self Live As Two Distinct Stages"

"Man Exists At The Planet Earth Only"

"The Creation And The Purpose"

"Detailed Summary of the Book"

We are all too familiar with the entrenched lines of creationists and evolutionists. Stated below for the first time is the Islamic view on this argument which you will find different from both the above stated viewpoints.

In the pages of Noble Qur'an, we read:

"Moreover (tumma) God turned to heaven when it was smoke and said to it and to the earth: come willingly or unwillingly! They said: we come in willing obedience." --------41 (11)

We infer from this that the entire creation has come into being by the "free act of creation". The creation creates itself for the love of the Creator under its own conscious enlightenment by "Free Act Of Creation" and the Creator uses His free will and selects from what creation has created an ideal that is closest to His ideal (will) and bestows upon it higher consciousness. To whom He bestows this consciousness is now ready for further creative activity and the cycle continues.

Following this cycle we have achieved this Self-conscious State starting from the moment of Big Bang in stages. The nucleus mass of the universe was a living substance and its chaotic agitation was nothing but its inherent "feeling" of its separation from its source.

Creation, whether divine or human has to pass through various stages before its completion. During each of its creative stage, the state of in-discipline and lawlessness, which prevails in the beginning, continues to turn into discipline and harmony as the creative stage progresses towards completion. The question arises why the creation has to pass from chaos to discipline and disorder to order. To understand the significance of this, one has to study the relation between the Creator and the creation. Creation, is not the act of duplicating some thing, which already exists.

The foremost and basic urge behind creation is to seek the love (ideal) as desired and willed by the Creator through free choice. The creative activity is; therefore, a free act of the creation- Creator will not accept any compulsion. Free act; can only be exercised if we have more than one choice before us to choose from. In other words, many avenues of attraction are always open before the creation to choose the one for reaching his ideal. The urge of creation is also reflected in itself, as it is conscious or aware of its Creator. Thus the creation creates for the love of the Creator, according to the level of its consciousness and exercises free choice in selecting the values determined by its love or desire.

Now, if the Creator is not free to seek His ideal that would imply that the Creator has no will or desire of His own, and hence any activity which is devoid of will and desire can never be called creative activity. The Creator also manifests His love in different angles and forms and then whichever is nearest to His love from what the creation has produced by "free act of creation", He selects that for His further creative activity and bestows upon it higher consciousness, and so the cycle continues.

 Stages Of Creation.

Starting from Big Bang the universe created itself for the love of Creator following the principle of attraction and repulsion, which also signifies the free will and God only provided the laws and guidance from within and not from top. The behaviour of the universe can only be described in the form of movements of celestial bodies with respect to each other. This behaviour can be called stereo-typed and can be expressed in mathematical equations i.e. so many light years, earth take 24 hours to rotate, 365 day in year and so on. Behaviour is an attribute of life no matter how stereotyped; it is still an essence of consciousness. Life at this stage was in an unconscious state or material state of life - the state in which bodies played consciousness under the stimulus of attraction and repulsion caused by external processes.

Earth can be understood on an analogy of living organism. It started its journey from gaseous state and created itself by free choice following the principle of attraction and repulsion. Acting in unified order it harnessed infinite number of substances (minerals). The behaviour of these substances can be expressed in chemical equations. This can also be called acted or played form of consciousness, a degree higher than that of the universe, as evident from the soil of the earth, which is different from the rest of the universe.

The vegetable life recast the behaviour of matter processed at the physical Earth in the form of various species of vegetables under higher rational (conscious) plan of the Vegetable Stage. If we take the physical laws as the elementary measurements with which the Planet Earth fashioned itself and developed its atmosphere, we could see these measurements recast with greater intelligence at the higher Vegetable Stage in the form of beautiful flowers, their delightful colours, sizes and shapes of plants, proportion of tender branches and their leaves as well as in the kinds of fruits and their juices. All these artistic manifestations are based on complete mathematical equations in so harmonious proportions that they decorated the Earth like the paradise.

At this stage life started in an insignificant organism of amoeba and then making its way through uncountable species of animals, it reached its completion at the start of the Human Stage of creation. It is very important to note that it was due to the higher conscious enlightenment of animal with which it differentiated the characteristics of various objects, such as darkness and light, remoteness and vicinity, coldness and heat, solidity and liquidity etc. In other words, the new conscious values developed by Animal stage were not known to the preceding stages. The Animal as a higher creative stage relevant to its higher conscious enlightenment determined these. The Animal detected only those properties, which were useful and necessary for onward march of life stages. The Animal ultimately perfected its sense perceptions in one of its leading species which appeared immediately before the emergence of Human Stage and which served as the physical organism for Man.

"The creation of Adam is not his physical body but his attaining of the mental state of Self-consciousness, from there on, man exists in a non-material state, call it soul, in his mind and that where all new values will be earned."

The significance of Adam being that he was the first human being to cross the barrier of Self-consciousness. However, in time all similar species achieved Self-consciousness in a universal way. We are informed that Adam had two sons and so we can safely assume that there must be people around for them to marry and the question of them marrying their sisters as put forward by some groups is preposterous - lying is a sin today as it was yesterday and so is incest, the law of the Creator never changes.

It is because of soul that we developed a language because it retains every image it sees; records every word it hears; and every thought that you might have had remains preserved from within. In short it is a microchip within us. Self-consciousness (soul) being an attribute of the Creator will not die; it already exists beyond the barrier of time and space. The most important point to be noted is that in all the creative stages preceding the Self-conscious Stage of Man, the conscious values were preserved and passed on by each species in kind and not in "Person" or "Self". The values preserved at the human stage are "Personal" as implied in the words "Conscious Self". If we take away the "Conscious Self" no conscious values pertaining to the self or person can exists or survive. Life must protect those hard earned values in its minutest detail, as otherwise the process of creation cannot proceed.

From the day Adam achieved self consciousness we are in a state of mental evolution and the reality of life is constant progressive change -- that change in one direction towards higher and higher consciousness. If we analyse the entire creation we discover that rationality prevails in all previous conscious orders that is Universe, Earth Vegetation and Animal Kingdom. Having completed the creative process they have become immutable and just maintain themselves under the procreative process developed by them and the only order where the creative process is still active is the self-conscious man. However, man's direction is also rational but as his intellect is in the "making" (conscious mind is to sole / self what digestive system was to the physical brain) he cannot determine laws, values and direction on his own without prior understanding - that guidance has been provided in the form of law in Qur'an just as it was provided to every group of people on the face of this earth by various prophets from Adam to Jesus to Muhammad and it was also provided to all previous conscious orders under the principle of ":Emergent Evolution".

1. The development had taken place in stages. A stage of development when it had run its course got sealed, immutably fixing the values attained at the stage. Next stage, simultaneously starting at its lowest rung, dominated the earlier stages as it progressed. If this was not so, the book claims, and had the process of development continued unchecked at each stage (varieties kept coming up) there would have been chaos and higher forms of life would not have emerged.
2. Each higher stage, which succeeds, appears at an infinite higher conscious level over all the preceding stages. The difference is not in degree but in kind as well, had this not been the case we would never been able to classify the stages.

The reason of our failure to understand the universe as a creation is that we think the lower stages are responsible for raising the universe. (A misleading concept). There is always a purpose behind creation and if we do see the purpose working in the creation we could be sure of the Creator of the universe. Just as each soul or life lives in a unit, similarly the purpose lives in a unit. Identical to the surface of the earth which cannot be expressed as from where it starts and where it ends, the purpose also has no beginning or end. It is the purpose, which starts and not the lower stages as such which determine the purpose. The lower stages, independent of the purpose, can lead nowhere. If these stages appear to have proceeded towards the purpose, it proves that the purpose itself is working in these stages.

Let us, therefore, keep in mind, that when we say that on completion of the preceding stage, the higher conscious values of life emerge, we mean that these new values are not determined by the lower conscious stages, but these values appear from above, that is, these follow from the Purpose. These values do not evolve rather these descend from the Purpose, which always lives with the Creator in unit.

The creation of the universe in various stages vis-à-vis the purpose behind creation may perhaps be explained by quoting a simple example of the construction of a building.

Let us suppose that our purpose is to construct a building. At the outset we will dig the foundation and then build it to the desired level. On completion of the foundation, the next stage will be the construction of walls on the foundation. Now for the construction of this new higher stage we cannot say that the foundation had itself known the purpose of this second phase of construction and, therefore, it is the foundation that has evolved the construction of walls. Similarly, in respect of the second phase of walls, we cannot say that the purpose for construction of the second phase of walls was the preceding stage of foundation. In fact, it is the overall purpose, which is the construction of the building that has brought about this second phase of construction. As the building continues to rise up step by step, the purpose continues to unfold itself. With the completion of the building the purpose stands completely unfolded and realised in the form of the building.

On the analogy of the above example, we can study the various phases of the creation of the universe. Digging up the elements, which are said to be the elementary construction blocks of the universe, completed the first phase of the universe. Aligning the infinite properties of these elements into a complete physical system completed the second phase; we call them the physical laws of the Earth. In this connection the most important thing which needs our attention is that just as each higher phase of construction fully observes and respects the limitations as laid in the preceding constructive phase of the building, similarly in the case of the creation of the universe, each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on completion of the preceding stage fully observes and respects the values so fixed in the stage and without overthrowing them builds higher and new values as an independent creative stage over it.

Now again if we take the example of the building, we shall note that during the construction of each stage it seems that everything is in disarray. We see heaps of bricks and stones scattered at one place and at another place ditches are dug and the earth is piled along. And still at another place wood, cement and other construction materials are piled up loosely. All this shows that there is no order or discipline and that lawlessness prevails everywhere. But let us not forget that even in this state of lawlessness, the purpose continues to work and whatever the stage of construction it may be, purpose flows in each action. Accordingly, as the building continues to rise up step by step, we can see that lawlessness is replaced by order, in-discipline by discipline, and wear and tear by solid construction. Thus on completion of one phase, the second phase starts and passes through similar state of its construction and, then at the completion of the second phase, the third phase starts and so on. Now if someone takes the material and its constructive process as merely the activity of blind forces, and then as a result, when the construction appears in the shape of a beautiful building, he may consider it a mere chance or a "mechanics", he is mistaken because the lower stages are not even aware of existence of higher conscious order above it and so ignorance can never give birth to something of higher order.

The law of the universe is one -- same creative process by free will for the entire creation from particle to self-conscious man. Understand the creative process and you will understand the oneness of God. Observe how from tiny sub atomic particle to gigantic universe all are in submission to the will of God (without God lifting the finger) by free will -- those who deviate from the "Purpose" end up on extinction files.

At whatever stage life may be, it must have consciously or unconsciously spiritual love for its Creator. At inorganic and organic stages, life satisfied this love by dividing itself into two complementary units of attraction from within. We call it polarity at inorganic stages and sex at organic stages. We should know that life is the art of the Creator and, therefore, insofar as it was not yet directly aware of its Creator, its love for itself from within through dividing its conscious attributes in two sex attraction, in fact, amounted to loving the attributes of the Creator. It is evident from the fact that it is aesthetic appreciation and love of beauty of its "own kind" which is ultimately replaced by the inferior kind of pleasure derived from the sexual act. This can be seen in the behaviour of birds and insects who are at first attracted by the beauty of colour, song, or plumage of their opposite sex. This indicates that sex instinct has been carved out of spiritual love. Had it not been carved out of spiritual love, life would not have procreated itself at all.

Heaven and Hell are two states of the same soul, you are in hell by your own realisation that you lack the attributes which could have only be attained during your worldly stay by following God’s commandments and you missed the boat.

Similarly the Human Soul which comes as a clean state continue to preserve all the values and events from within and when the Self-conscious Stage as a whole reaches completion and enters a higher tier of life, every Human Soul would construct its universe under the higher enlightenment vis-à-vis the values earned by it during its worldly life. If a germ cell under the physical laws can act as a physical mind to reproduce values in minutest detail, we can be sure that Human Self or Soul which has inherent reflection of the Creator would not simply reproduce but in fact instantly bring forth events and values it lived and watch them as if played on the screen.

Last but not the least, in whatever society man may live, whatever culture he belongs to, the creative process of the Creator leaves no excuses for him that he has been deprived of the spiritual light, provided he cared to understand.

Where do we come from? The most fundamental question in all of science concerns the ultimate origin of the universe in which we live. As recently as the early 1920, astronomers believed the universe to be constant and unchanging. At that time it was thought that the stars which make up the Milky Way were the universe, and that although individual stars might be born, live and die, the milky way itself continued more or less unchanged, just as a forest may remain more or less unchanged, even though individual trees grow, live their lives and die. The earth had remained the same without alteration from all eternity. The five continents of the present day had always existed, and they had always had the same flora and fauna, except insofar as change or transplantation had taken place at the hand of man. The species of plants and animals had been established once for all when they came into existence. Thus in contrast to the history of mankind, which develops in time, there was ascribed to the history of nature only an unfolding in space. All changes, all development in nature, was denied.

This petrified outlook on nature was soon shattered by a combination of new developments in both theory and observation. The earth and the whole solar system appeared as something that had come into being in the course of time. If the earth was something that had come into being: it must have had a history not only of coexistence in space but also of succession in time. This supported the fact that nature does not just exist but comes into being and passes away. Thus the decision had to be taken to acknowledge that not only earth, its present surface and the plants and animals living on it, but the whole universe as we see it today did not exist as such from eternity; it possessed a history in time.

It was indeed a great discovery made by the natural scientists, which changed the petrified outlook of universe. The scientists view that nature did not just exist but came into being and passed away and that the processes of nature must have had a history not only of coexistence in space but also of succession in time was indeed illuminating. It, besides unmasking other invaluable mysteries underlying development of the universe, supports the fact that the universe has its start in time. Another most important factor revealed by the discovery was that it was only the history of mankind which at present is passing through its development and that all the development orders preceding the present Human Stage, that is, the Animals, the Vegetables, the Planet Earth and the Cosmos, each of which was active at one time continued to become immutable simultaneously on succession of the higher order.

The scientific view that the universe did not exist as such from eternity, it was born and has since developed has further been strengthened by the Big Bang Theory. According to the astro-physicists, at a certain time in the past, which can be calculated as roughly 15 thousand million years, all of the matter and energy in the universe was concentrated in a mathematical point, a singularity, from which it burst out to create the universe as we know it. The outburst has been dubbed "Big Bang". In 1965, radio astronomers Arno Penzies and Robert Wilson of the Bell Telephone Laboratories detected a baffling radio noise, which came evenly from all directions of the sky. The Princeton University confirmed that the radio hiss was a distant echo of the cosmos radiation, which originated from the Big Bang and filled all the space. The layman tends to picture the Big Bang in terms of a very dense lump of matter located in an infinite void, suddenly exploding. Einstein, however, has shown that both space and time (which he called space-time) and matters were inseparable. The Big Bang, therefore, created not just matter but space-time as well. There was nothing, not even empty space, "outside" for the Big Bang to explode into. Besides the above scientific outlook of the universe, these discoveries provide us comprehensive discipline with which we can formulate the development process of the universe. The discoveries that in contrast to the present creative stage of Mankind, where creative activity is still in progress, the processes of the nature must have had a history not only of coexistence in space but also of succession in time reveal that the universe has developed in stages. On succession of each higher stage, the values so earned in the preceding stage became immutable. Since in contrast to the history of mankind, all the preceding stages have become immutable, it establishes that the human being lives at the top of all the creative stages we call them universe. The man lives at the top of all creation is further strengthened by the fact that when we look into the universe and analyse the laws prevailing in it independently of any reference to nature, we find that the laws of mathematics formulated by us a product of our own minds do not only come completely in accord with the laws prevailing in the universe but it reveals that these laws are its ultimate nature. Man thus stands conqueror of all the preceding orders of the universe, which simply continue to maintain their values to serve as a basis for the top leading creative stage of Man. Since in the process of development of the universe what real has emerged at the top creative stage of Man, it is attainment of Self-consciousness – highest kind of awareness which has made the man consciousness of himself, we can infer from it that all the creative stages of the universe (both inorganic and organic) preceding the present Self-conscious Stage of Man have the characteristics of consciousness also. Thus all the development stages right from particle to the present creative stage of Man are living and conscious relative to the conscious level of the stage. It further reveals that the development of universe in successive stages implies development of consciousness in steps or stages.

These discoveries support that inorganic matter is not dead. As blood runs through the veins of a living organism so a current of life runs through all matter although it may appear to us to be dead. It is alive because it has properties on account of which it acts and behaves. It responds to outside situations and stimuli as the animal or the human being does. Its activity follows definite laws, which are studied by the physicists and the chemists. The activity of the animal and of man also proceeds in accordance with definite principles, which are studied by the behaviourists and the psychologists. Matter is life from another point of view as there could have been no organic life without matter and its laws. The laws of matter seem to have been designed in order to make possible the development of higher stages of life on Earth. Matter is primitive life and the laws governing it have fixed tendencies developed by it just as instincts have developed by the animal.

The most important question, which the modern sciences have been unable to solve, is to determine the nature of development of the universe. It is an important question because as discovered by physicists and natural scientists, there does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which we may determine the nature and distinguish the succession of development stages of the universe. The universe is a restless place; stars; nebulae; galaxies; and all the vast gravitational systems of outer space are incessantly in motion. But their movements can be described only with respect to each other.

The materialists interpret birth and development of universe in one direction as mechanical in nature. It is observed, they say, that the clusters of galaxies move apart from one another as the space between them expands and that the heat energy within the atoms and in outer space is inexorably diffusing like vapour through the insatiable void. The implication is that at a certain time in the past the universe was concentrated in a mathematical point – a singularity – from which it burst out to create the universe, as we know it. Regarding development of universe in one direction and its ultimate fate, they claim that in the very beginning the nucleus of the universe was very hot. It was at unimaginable temperatures such as no longer exist even in the interior of stars. There was no element in such heat, no molecules, no atom – nothing but free neutrons and other sub-atomic particles in a state of chaotic agitation. As the temperature continued to drop, the cosmic mass continued to develop into aggregate proportions. Ultimately the development of the universe would cease when the heat processes cool down and reach a state of maximum entropy, that is, when the heat is uniformly spread in the cosmos. When the universe reaches that state, no energy can be used because all of it will be uniformly distributed in the Cosmos. And there is no way of avoiding this destiny, as according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics we cannot convert the heat into work unless we have difference of temperatures. The materialists conclude, therefore, that the developmental processes of nature are irreversible. Nature moves just in one way.

A cursory glance at the interpretation given above in regard to the birth of the universe, its development in one direction and its ultimate fate will show that it is laid on mechanical grounds. The materialists relate the phenomenon of birth of the universe with the concentration of mass energy at a certain point in space-time from where it burst out. Regarding development of universe, they claim that as the temperature continued to fall along with expansion of the nucleus mass, the free neutrons and other sub-atomic particles continued to develop into aggregate proportions in the form of galaxies, nebulae etc. Similarly they explain the rational development of universe in one direction on the plea that since energy tends to cool and spread in one direction hence the developmental processes of universe proceed in one direction only; they cannot be reversed!

The material outlook does not explain development of universe; it rather explains dissolution of energy from its chaotic state to the state of normalisation in the wake of expansion. The modern scientific discoveries reject mechanical interpretation of the birth and development of the universe. Among other factors we shall discuss in the next pages, the following discoveries to support the creation of the universe:

1. Einstein discarded the view that matter and energy were concentrated at a mathematical point – a singularity – in space from where it erupted. According to him, there did not exist any space nor any point where the matter and energy were concentrated. Both space-time and matter were inseparable. The Big Bang, therefore, created not just matter but space-time as well. There was nothing, not even empty space "outside" for the Big Bang to explode into. It was not, therefore, a lump of matter located in an infinite void which exploded suddenly. The universe did not exist; it was born at one time.
2. The scientific discovery that there does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which we could distinguish the succession of various developmental stages or explain the nature of development of the universe supports that the universe was born and it is being developed under the creative process.
3. It is established by the physical sciences that the universe in spite of its development in successive stages behaves as a complete rational order. These sciences have further established that matter moves under law only and that as a result of processing of matter from high energy to low energy processes, the values earned at the low energy process besides stubbornly sticking with their laws dominate the laws developed in the high-energy processes. It reveals that high energy processes in the wake of development of universe continued to yield to the low energy processes by transforming into higher and higher rational orders.
4. The research into the developmental processes of the universe has shown that they are irreversible, that is, they proceed in one direction only – the direction towards higher and higher rational orders. That the developmental processes of universe are rational and irreversible support that the universe has developed from lower to higher conscious orders which turned into mental processes at the biological stages of development.

Processing of matter in higher rational orders implies processing of matter-motion and also space-time as a unified higher order. Einstein has shown that space-time, matter and motion cannot be separated. Processing of matter in higher rational orders, therefore, implies processing of all values, that is, matter-motion and space-time as a unified higher order laid under different and higher kind of rational discipline. It shows, therefore, that at each higher rational order, the space-time, matter and motion have been "pressed" and "squeezed" from simple outward motion established at the preceding rational order to complicated "inward motions" (mental) at higher rational orders. Hence absolute space or absolute time does not exist; they continue to change into different sense at each higher rational order. We can witness this fact more vividly at the biological stages developed on the completion of physical order of the Earth where the physical processes further squeezed from their "outward motion" and turned into "inward mental processes" in the form of recepts and precepts at Vegetable and Animal Stages of development. That at the top creative stage of Man, consciousness or life has become aware of itself as a Self-conscious entity and determines the whole universe relevant to its conscious enlightenment establishes beyond doubt that the development of Universe implies development of consciousness or life in higher stages. Development of universe in conscious stages shows that the universe is a creation and that the gradual reflection of creation is in fact the reflection of the attributes of that part of the Creator, which he wants to manifest in the creation.

These facts establish that the nature of development of universe is not mechanical; the universe is a creation and its creation in successive rational order implies appearance of greater and greater cognition and appreciation in creation of the possibilities, attributes and beauty of its Creator as it develops from stages to stages and comes near the desire and Will of the Creator. The unimaginable heat temperatures caused by great chaotic agitation visualised by the physicists in the nucleus mass of the universe within fractions of its birth and then settling down the heat temperatures as the universe developed in higher and higher rational orders in one direction establishes that the nucleus mass was a living substance and that its chaotic agitation was nothing but its inherent "feeling" of its separation from its source. In the next chapter we shall discuss classification of the developmental stages of the universe in the light of physical and natural sciences as well as in the light of revelations made in the Holy Qur'an and determine concrete laws and principles underlying the development of the universe.

The universe behaves as a complete rational order. When we study its development, we find that its development has proceeded from lower to higher and complicated rational orders in one direction and that what really differentiates these orders is the emergence of higher and different kind of intellect and conscious awakening expressed in behaviour. The most remarkable discovery, which has unfortunately escaped notice of the scientists, is that the development of universe has followed an unprecedented process, which is duly disciplined and preserved by Nature. It is the study of this discipline which exists as a basis of this work and which helps us in determining the nature of development of the universe in successive stages. In the next pages we shall gradually discuss the fundamental laws underlying this great developmental process of the universe. Based on these laws and relative to the appearance of progressive but different kind of consciousness, we can classify the development of universe in the following creative stages or closed orders: -

1. The Great Illumination – Creative Stage of Cosmos: This stage is laid on the development of matter in the form of different kinds of galaxies under the High Energy and Low Energy Processes.
2. The Earth: Creative Stage laid on development of different kinds of elements under a unified rational order, we call it the Earth.
3. The Plants and Vegetables: Creative Stage of Semi-conscious life.
4. The Animals: Creative Stage of Senses (Perceptual Life).
5. The Man: Creative Stage of Human Self or Soul (Self-conscious Life).

We shall give brief comments against each Creative Stage and a small note at the end of the comments drawing attention to the silent features which would help us in analysing and finding out the basic fundamental laws revealing the unprecedented process of creation of the universe in successive rational stages.

The currently accepted laws of physics have revealed that soon after the great illumination dubbed as "Big Bang" by the physicists, the very early universe acted like an enormous particle accelerator. The radiated energy in different forms of light converted into electron and positron pairs. The phenomenon is known as pair production and the process is called materialisation of energy.

The development of cosmos matter, according to the established laws of physics passed through the following processes into two successive phases or stages:

This phase consists of two successive parts as under:

1. Matter was partly formed in few minutes that followed the enormous initial explosion known as Big Bang, which followed formation of light elements such as hydrogen, deuterium and helium. Later when matter was rearranged in galaxies, by gravitational forces, great clouds formed deep inside the galaxies and sometimes collapsed inwards on themselves. In this way, the first stars were born but these earliest stars probably had no planetary systems because heavy elements did not yet exist. However, thermonuclear reactions in the centres of these stars were soon creating heavier elements, especially carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
2. When a massive star has exhausted its nuclear fuel it explodes, launching its material into the interstellar medium where the heavy elements formed in the star amalgamate with the gaseous clouds. When a cloud, thus seeded with heavy elements, collapses to form new stars, the new stars would probably have planetary systems. A cycle of star creation proceeds in this way inside the galaxy; eventually the interstellar gas is progressively locked up in the inert residue of stellar systems; planets, red and white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. Throughout this cycle of production of heavy elements, considerable amounts of energy are involved and, in general, matter lacks the time to fashion itself into structures more complicated than atoms.

As against the development of matter in the high-energy process just described, the low energy process is a different phase of development of the matter. This phase involves processing of matter notably in the planets and in the interstellar medium where more than fifty kinds of organic molecules have been discovered. The development process of matter in this phase is not yet fully understood, except one, the development of Earth, which as we shall study in the next pages exists as a second higher creative stage of the universe.

The high energy and the low energy process of matter developed in the form of galaxies reveal progressive development of cosmic matter and cosmology. The astronomers have sought to define the fundamental parameters, which categorise galaxies and have endeavoured to formulate a method of classification. The classification covers physical difference other than the straightforward morphology such as (a) dynamical development of galaxies; (b) chemical development of galaxies; and (c) development of the colours of galaxies. Elliptical galaxies are redder than spiral galaxies. This is interpreted as difference in their stellar constituents. On the basis of different specialities in mass, colour, chemical composition, physical morphology etc. astronomers have so far classified the galaxies into five main groups (HEAVENS) as under:

1. Heaven consisting of Elliptical Galaxies: Galaxies falling in this category are oval shaped and can be upto three times the size of our own galaxy.
2. Heavens consisting of Spiral Galaxies: Galaxies falling in this category have arms, which swing out, in semi-circle from a nucleus. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way falls in this category.
3. Heavens consisting of Barred Galaxies: These galaxies have a bar-shaped nucleus with two arms curving out from the end of the bar.
4. Heavens consisting of Irregular Galaxies: These galaxies consist of a somewhat smaller groupings of stars with no particular shape.
5. Heavens consisting of Starburst galaxies: These galaxies are also called radio galaxies. The galaxies falling in this category produce infrared radiation. These galaxies consist of brilliant stars, which exists as the powerful source of radiation.

Apart from the categories given above, there are one to two percent of observed galaxies which are considered abnormal in the sense that it is impossible to classify them as yet. They are termed peculiar galaxies, and often in pairs, which immediately suggest that, the reason for their deformity (hideous character) is due to short-range gravitation interaction or even collusion between galaxies. The Holy Qur'an mentioned seven categories of heavens. Cosmology is still in its infancy. Astrologists are confident that with the improvement in telescopes and detectors, they will be able to classify the remaining galaxies as well.

The study of cosmologists has revealed that galaxies behave as living "bests". A natural tendency drives the galaxies of a given class to join together or live in pairs. Strange enough galaxies interact each other which results in their merger (a sort of mating) and consequently this procreative process triggers starbursts. According to astrologists, just as all populations have their oddities, the world of galaxies is no exception. Galaxies are not uniformly distributed in the sky but appear to be living in-groups, each of which is sustained and nourished relevant to its kind.

The modern physics has established that:

1. The universe took its start from insignificant rational state. Its unimaginable temperatures, chaos and agitation reveal an equally unimaginable charge or innate pressure for finding out and settling down to rational orders as is witnessed by the course of its development in successive rational stages and as established by the facts revealed by the classic physics that: (a) matter moves under laws only; and (b) the universe despite its development in successive orders behaves as a complete rational order.
2. The Cosmic Order of the universe developed in two successive rational stages: (a) The High Energy Process; and (b) The Low Energy Process.
3. The second stage, that is, the Low Energy Process started simultaneously the processing of matter in the first stage of the Higher Energy Process had been completed and its values fixed. It is because; the higher stage could start only after the values on completion of the first elementary stage became fixed. Had the values earned by the first phase on its completion not been fixed, the changes in the first stage could destroy building of the higher stage. We shall further witness this fact which exists as one of the most fundamental law of developmental process in the organic developmental stages of the universe.
4. The development of matter has proceeded from simple to higher grades or from low rational states to higher complicated rational orders. Objectively speaking, High-Energy process reveals great agitation of particles to find rational values and the Low Energy Process reveals settling down or the matter in harmonious aggregate proportions.
5. The nature of development of universe being rational, the succeeding rational stage simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage lives outside it as a higher independent rational order.
6. The physicists claim that the developmental processes of the universe proceed in one direction; they are irreversible. It is true. The nature of development of universe being rational, its developmental processes cannot be reversed; they are apt to proceed in one direction – from low and simple rational orders to higher complicated intellectual orders.
7. When we say that on appearance of higher creative stage, the values in the preceding stage become fixed, it implies that no further creative activity continues in the stage. Nevertheless the whole stage continues to live and maintain it as usual through the procreative process developed by it. Accordingly, the Cosmos simultaneously on its completion and start of next higher creative stage of Earth is apt to maintain its hierarchical system which includes birth and death of galaxies, stars and planets under the laws developed on it before the start of creative stage of Earth as a higher creative order.

The laws registered above exist as the basis for differentiation between the developmental stages and lay a discipline with which we can understand development of the universe. We shall witness the same laws while differentiating the developmental stages. These laws have particularly more sharply appeared at organic stages of life.

The modern physics has established that the planet Earth exists as an independent higher rational order outside the Cosmos. The following accepted laws of physics support this fact:

1. The Low energy Process involving processing of matter in the interstellar medium has shown that as against the Planet earth where complete synthesis process of elements into organic substances is found, only a negligible number of organic molecules have yielded in the rest of the planetary system which rule out the possibility of life, even of elementary type;
2. The matter of Cosmos appears to obey a very small number of physical laws which can be expressed in a series of unified physical laws as exist on the Earth; and
3. The laws of physics and chemistry established in earthly laboratories hold good throughout the Cosmos without over-throwing the laws fixed in it.

About 4.5 thousand million years ago, the Earth took its start from a gaseous state which seems to have contained unique combination of matter. From its gaseous state to the state of its solidification, it struggled hard to dig, develop and harmonise properties of various kinds of elements in a unified order. It was indeed a great task as it involved infinite series of action and reactions in the form of attraction and repulsion caused by infinite situations through which the elements had to discipline their behaviour under the unitary order of Earth. Attraction and repulsion of molecules of one element with the molecules of the other elements under definite conditions shows that each molecule knew precisely where to attract and where to repel. The unified response of these substances shows as if the Earth lives and functions like a physical brain in itself.

The manifold forms of behaviour which go on changing under the common expression of motion on the Earth such as passing of heat into electricity, into magnetism; heat and electricity into chemical decomposition and chemical combination developing heat and electricity etc which apparently seem occurring through the simple play of attraction and repulsion under the same medium of motion cannot be regarded as mechanical or dead nor can these be taken as separate values independent of the overall unit lived in the form of Earth. We can understand the unit function of the Earth on the analogy of a living organism, which uses chemical energy to build chemical compounds and mechanical energy to move about. Even an electric current may be detected in it. This is similar to the manifold forms of behaviour, which go on changing under the unified order of the Planet Earth under the same expression of motion. It establishes that Planet Earth is a living Planet. Like an egg cell it has developed a shell of atmosphere around it and within this closed system it has harnessed infinite forms of substances acting in a unified order.

The behaviour of these substances can be reduced to mathematical equations. It explains that all forms of physical and chemical motions, which strictly act under law, are nothing but played consciousness. Behaviour, however fixed or stereotyped, is a characteristic of life. The fact that the Planet earth has a response as well as urge to strictly preserve its substances under its overall unit discipline shows that the Earth lives something like an organism.

1. The creative stage of Earth took its start from an insignificant gaseous state after the processing of cosmic matter had reached its completion in Phase II of the Low Energy Process in the form of basic elements. The difference between the age of the universe some 16 thousand million years and the birth of the Earth about 4.5 thousand million years ago fairly justifies that the establishment of Cosmic Order must have been accomplished by Nature by the time the second rational stage of Earth started and began to synthesises the properties of different elements into a unified order outside the Cosmos.
2. The currently accepted laws of physics have established that the physical laws developed on the Planet Earth dominate the laws established in the whole Cosmos. According to these laws no organic molecules except light elements were formed in Phase I (High Energy Process). The Phase II (Low Energy Process although yielded a negligible number of organic molecules they, however, rule out the possibility of organic life, even of elementary type.
3. Since organic life stages have appeared on the Earth, hence complete synthesis of elements into organic substances has only developed on the Earth. It is further supported by the fact that the unified laws of physics and chemistry established in earthly laboratories hold good throughout the universe. These facts reveal that (a) the higher creative stage dominates the preceding stage without overthrowing the values, which become fixed in it simultaneously on start of the higher creative stage; and (b) the laws developed in the higher stage are irreversible. It is in accordance with the accepted laws of physics, which explain that developmental processes proceed in one direction from low to higher rational (conscious) orders.
4. The development of universe being rational, each successive stage which appeared with higher discipline and rational values lives outside all the preceding stages. It is, firstly because the values earned in the preceding stages simultaneously on start of a higher rational order become fixed and secondly because each higher creative stage which comes with different and higher kind of conscious enlightenment can develop only if it exists as an independent stage outside all the preceding stages. The earth as a higher rational order is apt to earn and preserve its values by living outside the preceding stages of Cosmos. For this purpose it has developed an envelope of a strong magnetosphere around it.
5. Just as the laws and values earned by the Cosmos simultaneously on appearance of higher creative stage of earth became fixed, similarly on completion of physical laws in a unified order on the Earth and start of higher Vegetable Stage on it, the physical laws of the Earth became fixed. Nevertheless, the Planet Earth continued to live by preserving its values from within by changing infinite substances into the form of mixtures and compounds and by transformation of the behaviour of various substances called chemical energy, mechanical energy, electrical energy etc through the play of attraction and repulsion under the procreative process developed by it.

Simultaneously on completion of physical laws in the form of Earth, organic life took its start in an insignificant vegetable cell of algae. It was a momentous even in the history of creation as against the independent unified order of Planet Earth, life at Vegetable Stage appeared as independent system of its own which started at a conscious level that superseded the rational order of the "living Earth". In other words, the conscious level of vegetable life as compared to the "living" Earth was not only higher in degree but it was different in kind too.

According to the investigation made by the natural sciences, about 4.5 billion years ago, the earth lost its original atmosphere. It was probably swept away by the violent solar wind coming from the new-formed sun. Later, gases escaped from the Earth’s crust as it became heated by the numerous meteorite impacts that frequently occurred in the solar system at that epoch. These gases formed a new atmosphere, made up mainly of hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, ammonia, water vapour and carbon dioxide. The temperature was low enough to allow the water vapour to condense and form the oceans. Since the atmosphere contained neither oxygen (whose appearance followed that of life; it was photosynthesis in plant life that manufactured all the oxygen that we breath) nor ozone, ultra-violet radiation from the sun could freely penetrate the atmosphere, right down to the surface of the Earth. This energy flux, contained with that obtained from other sources such as storm and volcanoes, led to the formation of more complex organic molecules that were dissolved in the relatively fresh-water oceans of that epoch. This investigation confirms that before the start of organic life, the Planet Earth had completely established its unified physical order, which became fixed on appearance of organic life in vegetable cell.

The vegetable life recast the behaviour of matter processed at the physical Earth in the form of various species of vegetables under higher rational (conscious) plan of the Vegetable Stage. If we take the physical laws as the elementary measurements with which the Planet Earth fashioned itself and developed its atmosphere, we could see theses measurements recast with greater intelligence at the higher Vegetable Stage in the form of beautiful flowers and their various delightful colours, in the size and shape of plants and trees, in the proportion of tender branches and their leaves as well as in the various kinds of fruits and their juices. All these artistic manifestations are based on complete mathematical equations in so harmonious proportions that they decorated the Earth like the paradise.

1. The creative stage of Vegetables being a higher rational stage took its start from an insignificant plastic cell
2. Simultaneously on start of Vegetables as a higher stage, the behaviour of earth substances, that is, the unified physical laws developed on Earth became fixed. Had there been any change in the behaviour of substances, we call the physical laws, the higher Vegetable Stage could neither develop nor earn the values of the stage. This wonderful law applies to each creative stage whenever succeeded by the higher creative stage.
3. The Vegetable Stage being a higher conscious stage lived outside the creative stage of Earth as well as the whole Cosmos.
4. Being a higher creative stage, the Vegetable rational order (life) dominated the physical laws of the Earth without over-throwing them. It should be noted that the whole creation is made under the overall unit purpose. Hence nature fully preserves the values created in the preceding stages which serve as a base to the higher stage. The successive stage, which appears at a higher and different kind of conscious plan simultaneously on fixation of values in the preceding stage, is apt to "respect" those values. We shall elaborate the ingenious process of creation as we advance in our work. Accordingly the Vegetable life tactfully faced the fixed values of the preceding nature such as the vagaries of the sun, wind, storms etc as well as the change of seasons by deeply rooting in the earth and developing elasticity in its branches etc.
5. Just as physical laws of the creative stage of earth became fixed simultaneously on appearance of higher creative stage of Vegetables, and no new physical laws were created, similarly on start of the higher rational stage of Animals, the laws governing the behaviour of Vegetable life became fixed and hence no new vegetable species were created in the stage.

It is usually understood that the physical laws of Earth are the only laws, which are eternal. The study of the development of universe in stages has revealed that simultaneously on appearance of each higher rational order, the values earned in the preceding stage became eternal and existed as a basis for the higher creative order. Hence whether these are the laws of the Cosmology or the unified physical laws developed on Earth or the behaviour of Vegetable life, they became eternal and existed as indispensable basis for higher order. Simultaneously on appearance of higher stage no change was admitted nor new laws were created in them. It is because of this fundamental law of creative process that we are able to study the laws prevailing in each creative stage and differentiate their development relevant to the laws fixed in each higher rational order.

At this stage life started in an insignificant organism of amoeba and then making its way through uncountable species of animals, it reached its completion at the start of the Human Stage of creation. The animal life started with insignificant sensory perceptions. Appearance of senses at the Animal Stage was a great event in the history of rational orders as it brought the life nearer the cognition of its Creator. The great task for animal life was to complete its sensory values in perfect proportions and in the light of its higher conscious awakening, give new meaning to the life that existed in the earlier stages. Higher life stage always tries to understand the tendencies and behaviour of life fixed in the preceding stages at its own conscious level. If the Vegetable life had achieved its conscious values in mathematical proportions relative to the behaviour (laws) of physical Earth, the Animal life developed new conscious measures in the form of senses of smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing. Each species of animal determined the external world according to the development of its sensory perceptions. Some species were low in developing the senses in their true proportions and the others were abnormal. The great task for animal life was, however, to complete its sensations in perfect proportions on a universal scale which could serve as a rational basis for the higher creative stages.

It is very important to note that it was due to the higher conscious enlightenment of animal with which it differentiated the characteristics of various objects, such as darkness and light, remoteness and vicinity, coldness and heat, solidity and liquidity etc. In other words, the new conscious values developed by Animal stage were not known to the preceding stages. The Animal as a higher creative stage relevant to its higher conscious enlightenment determined these. The Animal detected only those properties, which were useful and necessary for onward march of life stages. The Animal ultimately perfected its sense perceptions in one of its leading species which appeared immediately before the emergence of Human Stage and which served as the physical organism of Man. Even the physical organism of Man, which is a perfect animal species, and in whom the sense perceptions achieved universal standard, could not detect light in its various lengths. The human sense of smell is not as strong as found in some other animal species. The reason for this is that the values of sense perceptions have been fixed by nature under its overall purpose to be achieved. Therefore, the sense perceptions fixed in Human Organisms can perceive only those values, which are essential and useful for life on its onward march. Irrespective of their imperfection, the human physical senses form the universal standard for judging the behaviour of life in the crude material stages as well as for serving the higher life of Man who utilises these perceptions to ascertain the reality of the universe vis-à-vis his own in the light of his Self-consciousness.

The Animal creative stage as a higher rational order as usual took its start from an insignificant state in the form of an amoeba simultaneously on completion of the Vegetable stage. On appearance of Animal stage as a higher creative stage, the form and values earned by the preceding Vegetable stage became immutable. Hence no new species were created in the Vegetable stage. The Animal stage perfected its sense perceptions in one of its leading species, which ultimately served as the physical organism of Man. The animal lives as an independent higher creative stage outside the Vegetables, the Physical earth and all the preceding stages of creation. Its universe is what its sense perceptions determine for it. The rational values perfected by the Animal stage in the form of sense perceptions cannot come down as the nature of developmental processes being rational, these are irreversible.

The fundamental laws with which we can determine the higher creative stage as well as differentiate the stages from one another establish that the creative stage of Animals exists as independent higher rational order over the preceding stages. We shall enlist these fundamental laws at one of the next chapters.

Some of the laws are:

1. The higher stage takes its start from insignificant values of the stage;
2. Simultaneously on start of higher stage, the values in the preceding stage become fixed;
3. The higher stage lives out of all the preceding stages as an independent higher rational order;
4. The higher creative stage without overthrowing the values so fixed in the preceding stages tactfully dominates them; and
5. The higher stage does not come down to the preceding stage. If it does, it must lose its higher intelligence and become a part of the preceding stage - an impossible impasse!

The Human Self appeared as a non-material Self-conscious entity simultaneously on accomplishment of sense perceptions by the Animal stage in one of its perfect animal species, which served as the physical organism of the Human Self or Soul. Creation of Self and its inherent awareness of itself as a self-conscious entity was a tremendous leap over all the creative stages we call it the universe. Upto the Animal stage, life or consciousness was not aware of its own "Self" as a distinct individually and as such the animal world existed as determined by its sense perceptions.

However, on attaining Self-consciousness, the inward mental processes of the Human Self, in the non-material form of thought radiation’s, overshadowed the limited approach of animal sense perceptions by pervading the whole universe. Attaining of Self-consciousness by the Human Self implied that it has become aware of itself relative to a certain entity other than itself. It revealed that the Human Self has appeared as the greatest art of the creator bestowed with all such attributes, which the Creator wanted to accomplish as His Ideal. Being the highest form of creation perfected by the Creator as His Ideal, the Human Self found inherent reflection of its Creator in it. It is by virtue of this inherent spiritual feeling of the Creator in the Self, which made it conscious of its Creator as the sole aim and ideal of its existence and induced natural love to seek Him. Since the Self came to know of itself as an entity due to appearance of direct spiritual feeling of its Creator, the Self could develop and find real peace and satisfaction by loving and seeking its Creator only. Self as an accomplished art superseded all the material forms of art which being in the process of making could have no direct vision or feeling of its Creator. In those creative stages, the creation was alive of its Creator relative to the attributes bestowed on them by the Creator and loved its Creator indirectly by loving and attracting its own attributes, which in a way reflected the attributes of the Creator, through their complementary division from within. The procreative process through which the creation loved its attributes in their complementary division in the form of opposite attraction (sex) is in fact the spiritual way of loving the Creator. (We shall discuss about this great process in the following pages).

We have learnt that under one of the fundamental laws of the creative process, simultaneously on appearance of the higher creative stage, the forms and values created in the preceding stage become fixed. The fact that ever-since the Human Self has appeared as a higher creative stage, the forms and sense perceptions of his physical body, which belong to the Animal creative stage, have become fixed, establishes that the Human Self or "Soul" an entity in itself lives as an independent creative stage outside its physical body as well as all the creative stages of the material universe. It is not the present Self-conscious Stage of Human Self, which lives outside all the preceding stages. As a matter of fact each higher creative stage which starts from insignificant values of the stage developed by living out of all the preceding stages! It is witnessed by the fact that each creative stage sticks fastly with its own values and never comes down to the values of the preceding stages which become immutable. It establishes that all the creative stages are alive of their forms and values and that each higher stage starts at an infinitely higher and different intellect and conscious plan over all the preceding stages. Being higher in intellect and consciousness, reversion of any higher stage to the preceding stage amounts to its death. Besides, being higher in intellect and consciousness, it is prerequisite for the higher stage to live outside all the preceding stages which exist at lower intellect levels and which simultaneously on appearance of the higher creative stage become fixed. It is indeed ingenious work of creation. "Ahsan-ul-Khaliqeen" (The best of all the creators) could only work; like that. Unless the higher creative stage lives outside all the preceding stages as independent stage, it can neither earn the values of the stage nor can the development ever proceed from stage to stage. These facts reveal that the development of universe in successive stages implies development of consciousness in creation relevant to the creative stage. It further establishes that all forms of matter and their motion (energy) are the forms of consciousness played in space-time field relative to the development stage. In other words the whole universe is living organism! It is supported by the discoveries made by the physical sciences which establish that matter moves under law only and that in-spite of its development from High Energy to Low Energy processes, the universe behaves as a complete rational order. These facts confirm our view as expressed in the preceding pages that the nature of chaotic agitation and high-energy temperature visualised by the physicists at the birth of universe was "living". Its state of agitation revealed highest degree of unrest and chaos due to its separation from its source. That high energy processes continued to develop towards normalisation in the form of higher and higher living and intellect orders and ultimately found direct feeling of its Creator in the Human Self or Soul in the form of Self-enlightenment establishes that all forms of matter and their motion (energy) were living relative to the creative stage and that the forms of motion are nothing but played forms of consciousness under the impulse of attraction and repulsion at the material stages of creation. Play under attraction and repulsion reveals freedom of action and it is the attribute of life or consciousness only.

1. The Human Self as a Self-conscious Entity took his start from insignificant state of Self-consciousness simultaneously the Animal stage accomplished the sense perceptions in physical form of Man.
2. Simultaneously on appearance of Human Self as a higher rational order, the form and sense perceptions of his physical body, which exists as a perfect animal species, became fixed. Had the form and sense perceptions still continued to develop or change Human Self as a Self-conscious Entity could neither appear nor develop his mental faculties.
3. Human Self who took his start on fixation of form and sense perceptions of the physical body, as a higher independent stage cannot revert to the preceding Animal stage on death of the physical organism, which lives under the procreative law, disciplined by the physical stage of Animals.
4. Human Self lives in his mental state as a top independent creative stage outside the whole material universe! Since the developmental processes of creation proceed in one direction only, Human Self or "Rooh" must rise from its Self-conscious State to Universal Conscious Enlightenment.

We shall sum-up the fundamental laws as discussed in this chapter in the next pages. More laws will be added as our work develops. Nevertheless these laws are eternal and will remain as basis of our work.

Our purpose of describing different developmental stages of the universe is to find out a rational system or what may be called a creative process underlying development of the universe in successive stages. Based on our notes laid in the light of modern scientific discoveries underneath the description of each creative stage, the following fundamental laws establish that the creation of the universe is not a continuous process; it has been created in successive rational stages or closed systems – one upon the other . The difference between the rational values of the preceding and the succeeding stages is not in degree but it is in kind. Had the development of universe been in degrees only that is, it would have simply evolved as a continuous unit order, we could never describe its development.

The processing of matter at Phase I of the Cosmos, known as the High Energy Process, started from insignificant units of highly charged particles. After passing through a long process of its processing in the form of various kinds of galaxies laid in succession and through the Low Energy Phase of processing which involved processing of matter in planets and interstellar medium, the Cosmos wound up by organising the matter into basic elements we call them the building blocks of the universe.

On completion of Cosmic Order in two successive phases, the Planet earth took its start as an independent higher stage from insignificant gaseous state and continued to discover, harness and synthesise the behaviour of elements in a unified order we call them the physical laws.

On completion of physical laws in a unified order , the Vegetable stage took its start as an independent creative stage from an insignificant state in the form of a plastic cell and continued to build values in the form of millions of vegetable species. Having accomplished values of the stage to affinity, the Vegetable stage closed on it.

Simultaneously on completion of Vegetables, the Animal stage took its start from insignificant values of the stage in the form of an amoebic cell and after accomplishing rational values of the stage through the creation of millions of animal species, further development of the Animal stage stopped.

Simultaneously on completion of animal stage , the next higher creative stage took its start in the Human Self in which life for the first time became conscious of itself. In the beginning, the Human Self was conscious of itself only as if it were something unique and distinct in the world around him. In other words , the Human Self – consciousness stage also took its start from humble state of Self-knowledge as an individuality outside the universe.

The fact that each stage on accomplishment of the preceding stage took its start from insignificant values of the stage establishes that :

1. The values of the new and higher stage were not different in degree but these were different in kind from the preceding stage; and
2. The creation of the universe is not a continuous (evolutionary) process; it has been created in successive stages.

The higher creative stage always starts simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage, the words "closing of the stage" imply that the values earned in the stage become fixed; hence no new values are created in the stage. As a matter of fact, each stage is allowed to earn full values of the stage to its affinity; it is closed on it only when it could proceed no further. Nevertheless, the stage as a whole continues to live for serving as a base for the higher stage by preserving its values through the procreative process developed by it. That on succession of higher creative stage, the values earned by the preceding stage become immutable is supported by the fact that if on appearance of higher stage, the values in the preceding stage will continue to change and develop, the higher stage which starts from insignificant values of the stage could neither stand on it nor develop its values as an independent stage. Besides, had these values continued to change and develop as a single continuous stage, we could never understand the universe and its creation in successive stages nor the universe would ever have developed as it has. Hence here we have the following basic laws which underlie creation of the universe in successive stages:

1. The higher creative stage starts only on closing of the preceding stage;
2. The act of closing of the preceding stage and starting of the new or higher stage is always simultaneous;
3. The values earned in the preceding stage become immutable, that is, no new values , laws or changes can occur in it; and
4. For creative development , the presence of infinite gulf between the preceding and the successive stages is a necessity.

The law that simultaneously on succession of the higher creative stage, the values in the preceding stage become immutable reveals that the universe is not a mechanics; it is purposive.

Its creative processes are living processes. The wonderful thing - no doubt an ingenious one – is that simultaneously on fixation of values in the preceding stage and start of higher on it, the higher stage because of its higher and different kind of intellect and conscious awareness continues to witness the beauty and attributes of the Creator manifested in the creation living beneath it and through that remains spiritually attached with it. Thus the whole creation seems to grow in successive stages as if a child witnesses and preserves its past as he grows in years. We shall dwell on this ingenious process of creation in the next pages.

Each higher stage, which succeeds, appears at an infinite higher conscious level over all the preceding stages. It is established by the fact the values earned in the preceding stage cannot be applied to the higher creative stage. The laws governing processing of matter in Phase I – High Energy Process cannot be applied to the laws earned by Phase II – Low Energy Process and the laws of the processing of matter in Phase II cannot be applied to the laws established on the Earth – we call them the physical laws. On the other hand, as against the physical laws of cosmic matter, the laws of physics and chemistry established on the Earth, without overthrowing the laws fixed in the Cosmos hold good throughout the universe. In other words, the physical laws established in a unified order on Earth dominate the whole nature. Similar is the case with successive organic stages developed simultaneously on completion of physical laws. The Vegetable life stage, which started as a separate independent order, without overthrowing the physical laws, dominates the whole nature. The Animal stage, which succeeded the Vegetable stage, dominates the Vegetables, the unified physical laws of Earth as well as the whole Cosmos! The Human being who appeared as a Self-conscious entity over the Animal stage dominates both organic and inorganic creative stages – we call it the universe. It is because each higher creative stage which succeeds is not higher as a mere aggregate of whole nature but it appears with infinite higher kind of intellect and conscious enlightenment over the whole creation living beneath it. Had the new stage appeared with mere aggregate values of the preceding stages, it could neither maintain itself as an independent stage outside the preceding stages nor could it earn higher values of the stage. In such an event no development would have been possible and the creation would have stopped. These facts established that the universe had developed in higher and higher rational orders.

Both the classic physics and the natural science have established that the developmental processes of the universe have proceeded in one direction only and that the succession is irreversible. These discoveries support that the nature of the development of universe is not mechanical; it has developed from low to higher rational order, which continued to emerge in higher and higher forms of intellect, and conscious enlightenment, which ultimately appears in Human Self in the form of Self-consciousness. These facts establish that the nature of rational orders being intellectual and mental – the fundamental attributes of consciousness or life – the creative processes of universe proceed in one direction only – the direction towards higher and higher conscious enlightenment. Hence the whole universe is a living universe.

The fact that each creative stage appears with infinite higher kind of intellect and consciousness over all the preceding stages which become fixed simultaneously on start of higher creative stage establishes that each higher stage dominates all the preceding stages without overthrowing the values fixed in them. It further establishes that the nature of domination is not due to physical or mechanical causes; it is essentially of the nature of higher and different kind of intellect and consciousness which emerged at each successive rational order. Accordingly what the physicists call "energy" is acted form of consciousness in the form of bodies and motion in space-time field relevant to the creative stage.

The study of the developmental processes of universe has shown that what we know as universe, is the form of rational orders built in succession. The fact that matter moves under law only; the whole universe despite its development in different kind of rational orders behaves as a perfect rational order and that the nature of rational orders is essentially mental, intellectual, volitional and emotional – the fundamental attributes of life appeared at the top creative stage of man – establishes that each higher creative stage which appeared with infinite higher conscious enlightenment lives outside all preceding stages.

The fundamental laws described above are based on the modern scientific discoveries. These laws reveal the wonderful process the universe has followed in its development. Nevertheless we have more laws and principles underlying development of universe which will be discussed in the following pages. With a view to make our work simple we summarise these laws, which have their import from the classic physics and natural sciences established under the modern scientific research. Needless to say this whole work is made possible in the light of the Divine guidance as laid in the Holy Qur'an:

1. The universe came into being as a result of great illumination dubbed as "Big Bang" by the astro-physicists, "Allah-ho-noorussamawat-e-wal-ard".
2. There was nothing outside for the Big Bang to explode into Space-time and matter are inseparable; these appeared simultaneously with the explosion.
3. The universe took its start from insignificant rational state. Its unimaginable temperatures, chaos and agitation reveal an equally unimaginable charge or innate pressure for finding out and setting down to rational orders as is witnessed by the course of its development in successive rational stages and as established by the facts revealed by the classic; physics that: (a) matter moves under laws only; and (b) the universe despite its development in successive orders behaves as a perfect rational order.
4. There does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which to identify development of the universe. It establishes that the universe is a creation.
5. The creative processes of the universe proceed in one direction only; they are irreversible. It establishes that the universe is nothing but a series of rational orders raised in succession of higher and higher conscious enlightenment as it is the characteristics of consciousness only that it proceeds in one direction and can never is reversed.
6. What real has emerged as a result of one-way rational development of universe at the top creative stage of Man, is essentially mental, intellectual, volitional and emotional in nature – the fundamental attributes of life or consciousness. Hence the nature of rational development is mental and not mechanical.
7. Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute time also. Space-time are relative terms and cannot be separated from matter and motion (energy). Accordingly along with the processing of the forms of matter and motion (energy) at every successive rational stage, space-time also continued to change their sense, as did the matter which continued to shed mass. The Cosmos space-time, matter and motion which physicists call simple forms of matter and motion involving change of place, continued to be squeezed from external to inward rational processes until we find them settled in a unified physical system of the Earth. These processes further shifted towards mental processes at the biological stages. The space-time world determined by the animal is limited relative to its material sense perceptions. As against it, space-time world determined by Human Self knows no bounds. Human Self, which exists as the only stable entity outside the material universe already lives in the universe beyond which, can be witnessed by the fact that Human sense of time without overthrowing the sense of perceptual time remains changeless and overrides all the physical times. It is supported by the fact that the man has not only measured the lifetime of the universe but he has also determined the phases of its development. Unless the Human Self is stable, it lives outside the physical space-time as a non-material entity and has the sense of eternal time; man could never measure the lifetime of the universe and classify the phases of its development.
8. The fundamental law of the creative process that each stage simultaneously on start of the higher stage becomes immutable establishes that the creative activity can proceed only at the top-creative stage of the universe, which lives outside all the preceding stages. Hence it is the present Self-conscious Stage of Man only in the whole universe where creative process is active. That man lives at the top of all creation is revealed in the Holy Qur'an at many a places. It is thus revealed in verse 45(13): -----

   " And (Allah) made of service unto you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth." -----45(13).

9. The fact that high-energy processes active in the very early universe continued to develop into rational orders establishes that the developmental processes of the universe are creative.
10. The higher rational order appears only when the values earned in the preceding stage becomes fixed. The act of succession and closing of the preceding stage is always simultaneous. This law establishes that there exists certain overall Entity that strictly lays discipline under the urge of achieving certain overall purpose.
11. That no higher creative stage can start until the values of the preceding stage are simultaneously fixed establishes that (a) the universe has been created in successive stages; and (b) the values of each higher stage emerge in different kinds of intellect and conscious enlightenment.
12. Each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage being higher and different in the scale of conscious enlightenment lives outside all the preceding stages which become fixed and continue to live as a base for serving the higher creative stage. Man who is presently under active creative process lives outside the whole universe.
13. Each creative stage sticks with its own values as an independent stage and being a different kind of rational order can neither come down to the preceding stages nor jump to the higher creative order which appears at a different kind of conscious plan.
14. Since there does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which to identify the creation of the universe in one way direction, the nature of the development of universe and its processes can be described with reference to the top creative stage only which outlives the whole creation because of appearing at the highest plan of consciousness. It is man only who could determine the nature of universe he outlives.
15. Each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage comes with conscious enlightenment more than whole of the creation living beneath it. Hence the higher creative stage dominates the whole creation. The nature of development being rational and intellectual, the domination is by no means mechanical; it is mental and intellectual.
16. That the higher stage, which appears simultaneously on fixation of values in the preceding stage, cannot overthrow those values establishes that the whole creation has developed as a unit-whole under a unit purpose and that these stages descend from the overall purpose. These stages do not evolve from lower to higher values without prior understanding on their own.