ADDRESS TO THE
SCIENTISTS,PHILOSOPHERS AND THE POLI-TICIANS.

Let now the baseless
optimism cease in the face of the reality that now stares into one's eyes. Let
the scientists now solemnly declare to this world, that nothing could possibly
be done about the atomic bomb and the atomic radiation and that this world
could be deemed both by the atomic bombs as well as the atomic radiation to a
miserable and ignoble death And let now the philosopher analyze the case of
this problem of the philosophy of atomism to its root and tell this world that
the atomic hell was the only logical end of this Baconian progress. And let the
politician too awake from the slumber and realize the situation. It is unwise
to lead this world to the flames of atomic hell in the name of progress and
monopoly. Lead not your countrymen to the flames of the atomic hell to rule
there. It is better to serve in heaven, than to rule in the hell.

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THE AGE OF FULL-FLEDGED ATOMIC ENERGY-FOR-PEACE; THE AGE OF
UNTOUCHABLES

(A)
Untouchability to be a Universal vogue of the age of
Full-fledged Atomic Energy

And now having no time to sit and wonder how a mankind should venture to adopt
the atomic-energy-for-peace on the dint of such scanty knowledge of the subject
and so little control over the radiations as against so sure a knowledge of
such veritable hazards of the venture as are essentially incident on the
adoption of atomic energy, hazards to bring about the sure ruin of entire
mankind, nay even the whole life on earth, we venture to peep into the future
world of Radio-untouchability. The age of atomic energy, brethren! is going to
be an age of untouchables. The present generation, however, has a little cause
to worry about, for it may escape the experience of the darkest aspects of the
venture. The posterity only will suffer. Let it, however, not be taken as a
surety that this present generation will pass away unscathed by the effects of
radiation, for, it is liable to contract radiation sickness, cancer and genetic
disorders. And also atomic war may suddenly appear and throw every thing in
disorder. Radiations have short term effects too.

Bacon's design, was, by means of inquiries some of which should be experimental
like those of the Al-Chemists, but purged from all superstitious taint and
directed not toward immediate gain, but towards a thoroughgoing knowledge vastly
to increase in the long run the dominion of man over nature. To enjoy such a
dominion was, he held the original destiny of our race. How little than Bacon
knew, that his design despite all its affected magnanimity of sentiment and
extreme cautiousness was destined to subject mankind to the hail of atomic
bombs and the stings of deadly nuclear radiations. The ambition of acquiring
dominion over the forces of nature proved to be a costly affair and the
apparently yielding nature turned out in the long run as a very formidable
opponent capable of devouring its prospective conquerors. The scientist's
design regarding the atomic energy is by means of researches all of which
should be experimental, but directed not toward a thoroughgoing or finalized
knowledge of the subject, or to prior acquirement of means of effective and
universal protection against radiation hazards, but rather directed toward
immediate gain, adopting and advancing in the field, tackling radiation
problems step by step, stage by stage, as the occasion in the adoption of a
certain point in the course of the development of the atomic energy arose. Thus
adopting and developing the atomic energy and brining it into the harness point
by point applying such local protection, as the occasion may presently deemed against
radiation, but also besides that conducting independent and continuous
researches with a view to discovering more efficient means of protection
against the radiation hazard and some sure cure for radiation sickness and
radio-genetic injuries. To enjoy such a utility of atomic energy is according
to the scientist the indispensable necessity of the modern mankind of this
atomic age. There, however, was certainly some flaw in Bacon's design that
engineered the slide of mankind into the atomic hell replete with atomic bombs
and deadly radiations. And there is certainly a perceptible flaw in the design
of the atomists as regards the atomic energy. If the flaw of Bacon's design in
assigning the increase in dominion over nature as the sole object of life to man
led the mankind into the atomic hell, the flaw of the scientist in adopting
atomic energy prior to providing mankind with complete means of protection
against radiations will turn this mankind and along with it all the living
world into a hoards of stinking cancer-ridden touch-me-nots.

Perhaps perceiving the possible dangers when toward the close of the nineteenth
century the scientists were engaged in breaking the unbreakable atom, Lord
Rayleigh, himself a prominent scientist had said, "There is no possibility
of telling whether the issue of the scientists' work will prove them to be
fiends or dreamers or angels". In prermodern times the scientist was
generally regarded as a conjurer in leaguer with devil. In modern age, however,
the scientist due to his knowledge, sincerity, sacrifice, ingenuity and above
all else his material services to mankind came to be regarded as one worthy of
gratitude and honourable benefactor of mankind. But alas, it seems as if
history is going to repeat itself once more and perhaps fate has some terrible
reverse in store for the scientist. The moment may arrive in the form of the
atomic war when all the combined atrocities ever committed by the most
tyrannical of the pirates, and the most despotic of princes, and the most cruel
of the priestess, and the most blood-thirsty and most voracious of the
conquerors in whole human history would be paled before the single atrocity of
the benefactor of mankind who had built the atomic bomb. This judgment,
however, could be left to those miserable people to whom the dreadful doom
shall befall in the guise of the atomic explosion. Yet there is another
atrocity of the scientist which as yet is screened by the dread of the atomic
bomb and which actually is, if not more formidable than the atomic bomb at
least as dreadful as the atomic bomb explosion itself. We mean the adoption of
atomic-energy-for-peace before providing the mankind with protection against
radiation and hoping only that some day the discovery of some effective protection
may come. This point naturally cannot be exactly comprehended except by those
unfortunate generations which will have the misfortune of suffering the
frightful miseries of the atomic-energy-for-peace. They only will be able to
truly appreciate the truth of atomic-energy-for-peace who will be changed by
the atomic radiations into sickly, stinking cancer-ridden untouchables. Steeped
in their radio-miseries they will sit and curse the men who had discovered all
these means of unbearable miseries from which there is no way out. The fact
that this world in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace will be changed into a
world of untouchables may come as a strange news to many, but it is a fact.

The prohibition of touch is going to be a common characteristic feature and an
all pervading vogue of the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace, so that the
whole face of this earth shall be bestrewn with the signs like,
"Caution", "Radio-activity", "Danger",
"Radio-active materials within etc.".

The presence of Radio-active materials is announced by the sign, HOT, just as
the sign of "DEATH 'S HEAD" is displayed as a warning wherever there
is the danger of death, and indeed the radioactive materials are the deadliest
of all the deadly things. The area in which some radio-active substance is kept
is scientifically termed as "Hot Area", and a sign will certainly be
found there to read, "Danger" ,"Hot Area"-----Radio-active
Materials", and the instruction, "Keep this door closed", will
always be found inscribed on the door of the room containing the radio-active
material. Radio-active materials are called as Hot Materials, and even the pots
that contain such materials are labeled as Hot. Now this word, "Hot",
is frequently suggestive and strangely reminiscent of Hotama, not only for the
quality of heat which is common to both, but also, and indeed very amusingly
that the word "Hot" happens to be the abbreviation of the word
Hotama, just as Gen. of General, Maj. of Major, Capt. is of Captain, and so on
so forth. At first glance, no doubt, the resemblance may appear as a mere
coincidence, but a careful examination of the case may well reveal a causal
link and a functional resemblance to exist between the two terms. Nay, even if
it were a mere coincidence, how strangely reminiscent a coincidence it shall
prove to be, and how often the people of the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace
will be reminded of this coincidence when at every point their eyes hall meet
the sign "Hot", the exact abbreviation of "Hotama", to
remind them of the prophetic term of Quran, namely, Hotama, and man then loaded
with the miseries brought about by the radio-activity, will stop to see the
caution "hot" and marvel at the oracular truth of the scripture and
the miraculous omnipresence of the suggestive reminiscence to be prompted by
the ever present site of the sign "Hot".

We live in an age in which atomic energy as yet is next only to nothing. A few
places as yet exist where the radio-active substances are kept and a few signs
of warning could accordingly be met with. But times may surely come when in the
age of full-fledged atomic-energy-for-peace not a cubit of this earth may
remain without the radio-active materials and consequently the sign
"Hot", "Caution", "Keep out", "Radioactive
materials within" etc. Hospitals, drug-stores, firms, factories, ships,
aeroplanes, submarines, Railways, agricultural forms and defence areas
will all be glutted with the warning signs, and men will move about in an
atmosphere of constant fear, constant apprehension, constant dread of touch.
They shall move in apprehension lest their sight may touch a warning sign, Hot,
Keep away. History might have recorded many of worst type of anathema in the
priest-ridden and superstitious ages of ancient past, but the
radiation-ridden anathema of the future enlightened age of the atomic energy
will surpass the bounds of human imagination. The unfortunate people of that
age, when they will laugh, their laughter will resemble a guffaw of sighs and
when they will sigh their sighs shall be mistaken for a laughter. Such will be
their wonderment in their helplessness.

The drugs stores dealing with radioactive substances will have no soda
fountain, toys, or the usual assortment as are displayed in most drugstores today.
Even the drugs will be out of sight and will be viewed by the druggist
through a mirror.

These drugs shall be too hot (radio-active) to examine except by remote
control. When some one shall have an order for a radio-active liquid for a hospital,
the druggist will locate the bottle containing the required medicines by
looking in a tilted mirror there fitted to show him what is stored behind a
2-foot concrete wall. Using a metal arm with metal fingers, he will roll out a
small drawer full of bottles, will grasp the correct bottle, and lift it from
the drawer. He will uncap the bottle by a remote control syringe, and cap both
bottles without touching a thing. Clanging bells will set off when Geiger
Counters will register radiation from open drawers, and will continue
until the operation is complete. The bottle shall be tugged into a lead-box
through which the deadly rays cannot emerge. It shall be shipped to the
hospital by aeroplane, train, or truck.

A doctor administering a radio-active medicine to the patient will use metal
tongs to administer the atomic beverage to the patient.

All hospital workers and visitors shall be checked when they leave hospital to
make sure that they have not picked up dangerous radiations. Inside a
laboratory a man in red collared protective clothing will be seen pushing an
instrument called FIDO, in search of spilled radio-active materials.

Men working on atomic projects will be seen dressed in radiation proof dresses
which in the first sight may suggest their origin in some distant planet.

Mark this dress. But this is worn only by the employees of the atomic plants.
Who will cause every individual of the world to wear such a dress all the time.
Radiations in the age of atomic energy are not going to be confined only to the
atomic plants, but the leakage and explosions of the atomic reactors and their
great redundance, and the alarming abundance of radioactive residue will cause
the prevalence of radiations over larger areas in neighbouring regions all over
the world. Who then will be able to oblige every single individual in the world
to wear such dress, and who will be able to wear such dresses all the time from
the cradle to the grave, changing the dress in radiation proof closets and
taking bath in a radiation proof bath-room, and even sleeping in such a dress
has to be like a skin if a sure protection is to be guaranteed, for who knows
when and where the radiation will attack. It is quite apparent that such an
arrangement is well nigh impossible, and it is quite certain that without such
an arrangement the destruction of mankind through radiations is almost sure. It
has to be remembered that the genetic effects of radiations are cumulative and
even multiplicative and the involvement of a smaller population could be
automatically developed into the involvement of larger populations. Alas, for
my poor miserable fellow humans! to what a pass you have been driven in your
history. An even stranger suit will sometimes be worn by repairmen in atomic
plants who shall have to work where bulky suits may be nuisance. These workers
shall crawl into a thin plastic suit through the long tunnel-like opening at a
port hole in an adjoining room. Cables through the tubes will supply air for
breathing, and see the union of the ghostliness with the ghastliness hand in
hand, through the dress.

Yet all such precautions may prove futile, for radiation cannot be detected by
five senses, while the least leakage of radiation may cause gene mutations with
dreadful consequences to the victim's posterity. Man may carry the
genetic load without any sign or sickness to the end of his life.

This is a horrid picture to behold. It is dreadful and terrifying. Yet it is
nothing in comparison to that picture of the entire mankind in the atomic age
which shall appear as a horrid portrait of a stinking, cancer-ridden, leprous
race. The picture of the atomic age in these days of false expectations is
drawn in such an exquisite relief, and the atomists are sketched in such
enviously spotless attires, and in such impeccable health and form, such sharp
well chiseled features turned to such exhillarative music, as every on-looker
may cherish the age of atomic energy as an age beaming with health, overflowing
with wealth, extremely smart, specifically tidy, in short a replica of
paradise, a sample of acme, a specimen of utopia, yet the fact is that, that is
going to be the worst type of hades that could possibly be imagined on this
earth. The atomists of that age will appear like a bundle of oozing cancers.
Their dresses shall be stained, and not of whistling but of groaning shall be
their appearance. The dirt produced by oil and soot might not be there in the
age of atomic energy but the noxious heaps of tormenting radioactive residue of
reactors, and the drum-fuls of the dark stinking blood of radiation victims,
millions of them, will far outstrip the oil age in filth. In that filth,
atomists of that age will be obliged to work, and in no way in the likeness of
those fanciful pictures in which they are drawn these days by the eluded
artist, but rather appearing in the likeness of sackfuls of poisonous blood
covered all over with a motley of ugly warts, cysts, cancers, running sores and
lacerating ulcers, and engaged not so much in discoveries for the benefit of
mankind as whisking ever-tormenting swarms of obstinate flies. The presnt
generation of the atomists may, however, entertain the consolation of passing
away unhurt by the radiations, but not without a severe torment of their
conscience for leaving the formidable debt to the future generations of the
atomists to be paid by them in time.

A host of health physicists in the age of atomic energy shall have to play the
detective by checking through the hospitals with a Geiger Counter, and by
keeping count of the exposures of the staff to the touch of the radiations,
uncontrolled chronic exposure to radiation can cause cancer. But who will be
there to move with Geiger Counters among all those millions of unprotected
people in cities, villages and other remote places to keep account of their
exposures to the vagrant radiation issuing from the leaking and explosing
reactors all over the world.

Workers in atomic plants will never touch anything radio-active. No sooner than
the Uranium is converted into Plutonium it shall become untouchable. It shall
be handled by mechanical hands only, and by remote control. Workers will not
even be able to safely breath the air around the cans containing plutonium. All
atomic plants shall be shielded by thick concrete walls and the holes
will be plugged with lead. The atomic plant itself will resemble a colony of
untouchables. Not only its employees will not be allowed to touch anything
radio-active, but it shall itself be completely covered materially to stop the
radiations from spreading. Men working in an atomic plant will have to be
completely shielded as a precaution against the possible leakage of radiation
from the plant or the explosion thereof. Workers will not be allowed to touch
anything without first wearing the gloves. No radio-active material will be
left outside the lead-boxes. Each worker will be obliged to wear a special film
badge which registers the touch of radioactivity. Geiger Counters, cutie pies,
and pee wees will always be engaged in detecting the slightest touch of
radiation anywhere, any time. In Hot Caves
sometimes called Hot Cells------ these are huge closed boxes for radiation
experiments ----no one will be allowed to touch Uranium or breath-air around
it. Artificial mechanical hands will be used to handle the stuff. These
are devices which work exactly like human hands and are used because human
hands are forbidden to touch radio-active things. Every thing will be first tested
for the presence of radiation, and will be entered or touched only after it has
been dead sure, that the radiation is not there. That in short will be an age
of miserable untouchables.

In hospitals radio-therapists will not touch the patient during radiation
treatment, but it will watch the operation of radiations through a water-filled
glass window two feet thick. The patient shall lie under the rays of radium in
an adjacent shielded room as untouchable in an untouchable room under the rays
of untouchable radium and under the supervision of untouchable doctors in a
world of untouchables. A world in which the wife will cry to the husband, you
are Hot, touch me not, keep away. The husband will cry to the wife, you are
Hot, touch me not, keep away. A doctor will be reluctant to enter a ward of
cancer due to unbearable odour and will shun the touch of the patient. The
habit of fearing the touch of anything will be so impressed in the mind of the
every individual member of mankind that they will tread on earth like a people
treading the snake-infested area in the dark, and will be seen suddenly
and frequently jumping in air in imaginary fear of the touch, as if they
constantly walked on an earth bestrewn with hundreds of thousands of booby
traps. You will see them every now and then suddenly startled at the touch of
some imaginary figure and having emitted a low simultaneous scream of fear to
pause and wonder in silent surprise to remind you of a human figure in some
ancient superstitious age in a dark night rushing madly, and panting and
perspiring, and falling and rising and running before some imaginary apparition
of a ghost that would follow him to his house where he would lie in bed sick
with seething fever for about a fortnight to recover or to expire. Indeed a
world of hideous, odious, and loathsome untouchables would furnish a Dante with
a horrifying medley of spectacles though not for a "Divine Comedy"
but a "temporal tragedy".

(B)
ALSAMARI; THE TOUCH ME NOT

The touch me not feature of the age of atomic energy carries our mind back to a
time centuries before the era of Democritus, the founder of the atomic
theory-----in the vicinity of Mount Senai, amidst the songs and outcries of a
people engaged the worship of a golden calf prepared by a person called
Al-Samari in the absence of their Prophet Moses who had ascended the Mount
Senai to receive the statue from his God at the end of a forty day's stay on
the Mount in worship of God.

THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL

The people of Israel had carried with them Ornaments of gold, rings, bracelets
and the like, which they had borrowed of the Egyptians at the time of Exodus,
under pretext of decking themselves out for some feast, and had not returned.
These ornaments they had always thought as unlawful to keep and as the occasion
of much wickedness, and had therefore always felt uneasy about them. In the
absence of Moses, Al-Samari caused these ornaments to be collected, cast them
in fire and threw a handful of dust which he had picked up from the footsteps
of horse of the angel, and lo! a lowing calf came out. And when the calf was
there, it was said, here O Israel ! is your God, but Moses has forgotten. The
people forthwith began to celebrate and worship it as their deity.

When Moses returned from the Mount overwhelmed with wrath and grief at the
catastrophic folly and wickedness of his people, he vehemently reprehended his
brother Aaron whom he had delegated the charge of his people during his absence
in the mount ----for not seconding his zeal in taking arms against the
idolaters, or for not coming after him to the mountain to acquaint him with the
rebellion. Aaron excused himself by saying "I did not take arms against
the worshippers of the calf, fearing lest you should say, that I had raised a
seduction among the people, and I did not go to you lest you should blame me
for abandoning my charge, and not waiting your return to rectify what was
amiss".

Moses then turned to Al-Samari and questioned him regarding his design. To
which Al-Samari said " I perceived which they did not perceive, so I
seized a handful from the foot-steps of the messenger and then threw it in.Thus
my mind commended to me". This is interpreted to mean that he had seen the
angel Gabriel mounted on horse-back and had picked up a handful of dust from
the foot-steps of the horse of the angel, and had perceived that something
strange should happen if that dust were thrown into the molten mass. And so
when he cast the dust into the molten mass, a lowing calf emerged. Upon hearing
the reply of Al-Samari, Moses said "Get thee gone, for your punishment (in
this life) shall be that you shall say (to those who shall meet you) :
TOUCH ME NOT, and there is for you a tryst (appointment) which you cannot break
(hereafter). We will burn your god (the calf) to whose worship you have
continued assiduously devoted, and will grind it to powder and scatter its dust
over the sea". Moses then turned to the people and they who were guilty of
calf-worship were put to the sword. Thousands fell atone the crime.

Soon the effects of the curse of Moses appeared on Al-Samari. It was observed
to the chagrin both of Al-Samari and the people, that any one who was touched
by Al-Samari was infected with fever, and if Al-Samari was touched by anyone.
Al-Samari was infected with fever. Al-Samari was therefore obliged to avoid all
communication with others, and was also shunned by them. He wandered in the
desert like a wild lonely beast. His tent was always pitched alone and away
from others. During the march he was seen trodding far in behind of the column.

The Quran has stated the event as follows:-

"Then Moses went back to his folk angry and sad. He said: O My People,
hath not your Lord promised you a fair promise? Did the time appointed then
appear too long for you, or did ye wish that wrath from your Lord should come
upon you, that ye broke the promise which ye made me? They said: We broke not
our promise with thee of our will, but we were laden with burdens of ornaments
of the folk, then cast them (in the fire) away and Al-samari cast them and
brought forth to them a corporeal lowing calf: and they said: This is your God
and the God of Moses, but he hath forgotten. See they not then, that it
returneth no saying unto them and posseseth for them neither hurt nor use? And
Aaron indeed had told them before-hand : O my people, ye are but being seduced
therewith, for lo, your lord is the beneficent.So follow me and obey my
order.They said : We shall by no means cease to be its votaries till Moses
returns to us.He (Moses) said, O Aaron, what held thee back when thou didst see
them gone astray, that thou followedst me not? He said: O son of my mother,
clutch not my beard nor my head, I feared lest thou shouldst say: thou hast
caused division among the children of Israel, and hast not waited for my word.
(Moses) said : And what hast thou to say O Samari? He said: I perceived what
they perceived not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger
and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me. (Moses) said: Then go , and
lo, in this life it is for thee to say: TOUCH (ME) NOT, and Lo, there is for
thee a TRYST (Appointment) thou canst not break (Hereafter). Now look upon thy
God of which thou hast remained a votary. Verily we will burn it, and will
scatter its dust over the sea".

(Quran XX-86-97)

Regarding Al-Samari, some of the interpreter of the Quran say, he was an
Israelitie, while others say he was an adept of Egyptian idolatry who had
believed for a little while, and half-heartedly in the God of Moses.

Now the first part of the course of Moses to Al-Samari is clear. But as far as
the TRYST (the appointment) is concerned the interpreters of the Quran have
various views regarding it. Some say that by the appointment is meant the
meeting on the day of judgment with God.While some say by the appointment, is
meant that DAJJAL (Antichrist) will rise to complete the mission of
Al-Samari.This second view is fraught with tragically significant meanings as
far as this modern machine-ridden age of gold worship in concerned.

Without going into any discussion regarding the nature of the tryst (the
appointment) of Al-Samari, the fact which it is impossible to be missed by
anyone today is that the genius akin to that which had inspired Al-Samari, in
the wilderness of Senai centuries before the birth of the founder of the
theory of atomism, and indeed the spirit of scientific inquiry and invention
akin to that which Al-Samari had been displayed, and also the mode and the
process akin to that which he then had contemplated and adopted, are one and
all to be found immanent as the basic features and distinctive characteristics
of this modern age of scientific inquiry and invention. Every single detail of
the experiment of Al-Samari from the initial vague perception of the idea of
the application of the dust of the foot-steps of the horse of the angel to the
unexpected emergence of the lowing calf could be seen exactly repeated in the
invention of the talking gramophone. A room containing radio-active
substance, and displaying the sign, Hot, Danger, Keep out, could with
plausibility be likened to the tent of Al-Samari. The Gold calf worship too can
be seen as a common feature.

Indeed the whole of the episode of Al-Samari could be seen repeated in the
modern age, and the two cases bear an analogy as perfect as could be found in
any other two cases in the history of analogy. View the expulsion of faith from
the modern age by the philosophy of atomism against the absence of Moses in the
Mount Senai, mineral sources of earth as against the ornaments of Israel, the
burning desire for the material utility as against the ardent desire of Israel
for a visible, substantial deity, the act of raising the wealth to the status
of a goddess as against the moulding of the ornaments of Israel into the golden
calf for worship, the guiding spirit of atomism as against the guiding angel of
Israel, the reduction of the modern gold-producing machines through the atomic
bombs to ashes as against the reduction of the golden calf of Israel to dust
through fire, the massacre of the modern mankind through either atomic warfare
or atomic radiations as retribution of three evils as against the massacre of
the people of Israel for the atonement of their sin. And lastly the curse of
untouchability in the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace or even after an
atomic war as against the untouchability of Al-samari. A perfect analogy could
be established between the two cases that are separated by centuries.A sacred
inspiration applied to the ill-gotten wealth of ornaments caused the unexpected
emergence of golden calf, and as a result came the grievous calamity to befall
the people of Israel through sword.A genius applied to the minerals of earth
with a view to producing gold, caused the emergence of gold producing-machines
and as a result appeared a grievous calamity that of the destruction through
the atomic bombs and atomic radiations to befall the modern mankind, further
establish the analogy.

The factor of atonement of the sin, however, in the two cases stands at
variance.The people of Israel atoned their sin of calf worship by slaying,
every man his brother, every man his companion, every man his neighbour.But the
case of the modern worshipers of the wealth is different. They too will indeed
slay, every man his bother, every man his companion, every man his neighbour,
and every nation will kill another nation, yet it will in no way be an
atonement of their sin, it shall only be punishment without atonement. Those
who will deserve among them the punishment of the atomic bombs in this world
shall also be cast into the ever-burning hell of Al-Hotama to be broiled
therein to eternity. The removal of the basic causes of the calamity and the
reform may, albeit, eliminate even the necessity of atonement, and both the
impending threat and the existing misery would vanish as if they never had
existed and the carvan of humanity may advance on the path of real peace and
real prosperity rejoicing in the mercy of their creator and chanting hosannas
and alleluias under the moon-lit canopy of heaven in an atmosphere of
paradistical breeze and diffused celestial fragrance.

Al-Samari, the real predecessor of atomism has hitherto been neglected. He has
not ever been so much as mentioned in the galaxy of the worthies in the realm
of atomism. In the west he is not so much as known. His name even has not been
heard there. The modern writers have always lamented the fact that the
scientific side of the theory of atomism after it was advanced by Democritus
was for centuries neglected. The main target of their criticism has been the
sect of Epicureans who, although they had adopted the theory of atomism as
their own due to the atheistic affinity that existed between their own view and
that of atomism, but had completely neglected its propensity for scientific
inquiry and investigation. The point which these critics have hitherto
overlooked is that in case the early Greeks had undertaken the scientific
inquiry and investigation on the modern lines and with the same gusto, and
their researches had continued without interruption, there is great likelihood,
that traversing the path of atom to atomic bomb stage by stage, point by point,
they should have arrived in the given time-----of course in a period far longer
than taken by the modern west----at the stage of atomic energy and subsequently
the atomic bomb, and the world perhaps would have been long since blown up to
deprive these critics of the occasion of criticizing the negligence of
Epicureans in the field of scientific inquiry and investigation. This casual
introduction of Al-Samari may furnish these critics with an instance of
scientific discovery and invention far back into the remote antiquity, at least
centuries before the appearance of Epicureans, and furnish them also with a
fresh cause to lament, namely, that the spirit of scientific discovery and
invention which Al-Samari had introduced into the world in that remote
antiquity was not kept up by the succeeding generations and was allowed to be
extinguished. It perhaps is a little early as yet, but the true recognition of
Al-samari, the touch-me-not shall certainly come to those unfortunate generations,
the victims of atomic radiations in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace, which
will be changed into cancer-ridden touch-me-nots them-selves to deplore their
illuck as miserable untouchables.

This earth then will not be burned with the miserable existence of one
Al-Samari, but rather the whole face of this earth shall be changed into a
chess-board on which millions of figures skating aslant, apprehensive of the
approaching figures on every side, all casting aside glance at each other and
dreading the mutual touch.

EFFECTS OF BACONIAN PROGRESS

A world-shaking and seismic revolution is necessary to
uproot this Baconian philosophy and shake away its logical end, that is the
atomic hell which is now about to consume this entire mankind in a painful
manner. A man who utters such words may well be regarded by this world as one
with something wrong with his mind. Though the fact is that all the four
thousand million people, that now inhabit this earth without any doubt have a
deranged mind and are possessed by the Baconian devil. No less than a burning
atomic hell itself is there the authority to attest this very unfortunate
observation, nor can, I recommend them a visit to the psychiatrist, for, the
psychiatrist himself is the victim of the same Malady. This generation is like
the legendary strangers changed into mules by the magic of the princes, but hey
know it not that they are changed into Baconian mules by the magic of this
Baconian culture.

No doubt the roots of this Baconian culture are so deep in this earth, and
indeed it so overwhelmingly pervades the entire field of human life including
the human heart and mind, that nothing short of severe world-wide earth-quake
in their mind could remove it and its logical consequence; the atomic hell. But
the question is, what kind of a revolution it ought to be, evidently the
question of war is excluded. None is at war against any one regarding this
Baconian progress. The entire world is of one creed in this field. Every one
follows the principles of Baconian progress. Obviously the war of weapons will
make the people more dependent on progress for the necessities of war, food and
weapons. The only possible way to achieve the end is through the revolution of
thought. People have to be acquainted with the true nature of this progress and
all the dreadful hazards that are incident on it. My interpretation of Quran's
prophecy about the atomic hell serves this purpose best being the only guidance
of this kind in the world today or hereafter.

Late Bertrand Russel had started a movement against the atomic war. But that
movement after no great success during the lifetime of Russel died out
completely with his death. Today nowhere a voice is heard against the atomic
war. The world it appears has either acquiesced in the divine decree or has
completely lost the sense of the dire consequences. Russel, however, deserves
hearty gratitude of mankind for his sympathetic attitude toward humanity, and
his great painstaking. The difficulty of the case is apparent. A few years that
have elapsed since Russel's death have produced some noticeable change in the
attitude of the people towards the atomic energy. There appears a great and
ever-increasing anxiety in the mind of the people all over the world relative
to the increase of their knowledge of the astounding hazards of nuclear
science. Yet all this may be regarded as no more than ripples on the surface of
the ocean whose depths are still calm. This world is still engaged incessantly
in the progress. And because Russel's analysis of the case was soft and
partial, and mine is complete, and harsh, this apparent stir and anxiety of the
people against the atomic energy may or may not be expected to favour much my
case. Considerations, however, have to be cast away. The matter is one of great
urgency. The consequences are to horrid to allow considerations. Come what may.
God is my help.

Regarding the necessity of an earthquake to break the frigidity of the present
thought of this mankind, Iqbal has a very vivid impression. He say in a poem:-

(i)
All are imprisoned in the prison which they have themselves built whether they
be the stationaries of the orient or the planetaries of the occident.

(ii) Whether
they be the hierarchies of the Christian Church or whether they be the Sheikhs
of Haram (Kaba), they are devoid of Novelty in word or deed.

(iii) The
politicians are engaged in same old kind of entanglements, and the poet is the
victim of the similar indigence of imagination.

(iv) The world
is in need of that Mehdi-in-truth whose look causes an earthquake in the world
of thought.

(ZARB-E-KALEEM page 44)

To these categories may now be added the atomic scientist. The atomic scientist
now blindly gropes in the darkened labyrinth of nuclear science facing the
fiery labyrinthodom of atomic bomb. Many people do not know that no protection
is possible against the atomic radiation. Few people only know that no
protection is possible against the atomic bomb. The scientist stands in a fix.
His optimism is based on no substantial grounds. The earth-quake necessary to
break this frigidity of thought is enshrined in the prophecy of the Quran about
the atomic bomb. This Baconian progress is based on the love of this world and
its wealth. The revolution being an antidote has to be based on Faqr
(Poverty) and the preference of the next world to this world. Iqbal has a very
appropriate suggestion in this respect. He says in a poem:-

(i)
You have asked me the reality of Immamat (divine leadership), May Allah make
you like me, a knower of mysteries.

(ii) The very
same is the Imam (Divine Leader of the Muslim Nation) in truth, who would
create hatred in your heart for whatever exists at present : That is : Wipes
out the sense of worldly loss and profit from your heart.

(iii) By showing you
the face of the beloved in the mirror of death would make life for you harder
still.

(iv) Would
heat up your blood by rousing the sense of loss (of the other world), in your
mind, and fashion you into a sword on the grinder of poverty.

(v) The
Immamat (Divine Leadership) of any one who would make the Muslim a worshiper of
Kings is a seduction of the Muslim Nation.

(ZARB-E-KALEEM. Page 46).

Iqbal has used the word Salatin (kings). If this word is substituted by the
word Kharatin which fits well with rhyme and rhythm, the picture is changed to
the affair of this Baconian progress, for the word Kharatin means earthworms.
The Baconian people of this age are the worshippers of earth worms. Poverty,
and death advocated by Iqbal for the revolution are the factors which counteract
this Baconian progress. And obviously the worship of this Baconian culture and
its material progress advocated by the Imam (the leader of the Muslim Nation)
is a seduction.

Judging from the difficulties of such a revolution, a point worth remembering
in Iqbal's Works may be cited as follows:-

" Neither schemes nor
swords are of any avail in slavery. If the spirit of certainty appears, the
chains are severed. Resolute, unshakable faith, incessant endeavor and love:
(the conqueror of the world) : are the words of the valiant in the struggle of
life".

A strange allusion is to be found in Iqbal's Work regarding a certain proved
seduction. Read the following:-

(i)
"Open thine eye in the mirror of my word and see therein a faint picture
of the coming age.

(ii)
"Another proved seduction is in the hands of heaven therein. See the
disgrace of the scheme before the decreed destiny".

Now an example of proved seduction is before my eyes quite vividly. The
seduction of Bacon is the same as was affected by Satan that had resulted in
the expulsion of Adam from paradise. The seduction was repeated by Bacon
(1561-1626), that has resulted in casting the posterity of Adam into the atomic
hell. In case of Adam at least there was a possibility for anyone to return to
the paradise, but in the case of this Baconian seduction the end is in this
transient atomic hell, with a transition to the eternal atomic hell of the next
world that is Hotama, the subject of Quran's Prophecy about the atomic hell.
Satan had induced Adam to taste the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil on the promise of a change into an angel, and the prize of eternal
dominion, and the revelation of internal mysteries. Bacon induced the posterity
of Adam to enter the worldly paradise on the promise of the dominion over
nature and material bliss and the revelation of the mysteries of this universe
through science. Adam was expelled from paradise, and his posterity is cast
into atomic hell. This mankind, however, will be saved from the flames of
atomic hell by the mercy of Allah.