Read : In the name of thy Lord Who Createth ,[1]
Created man from a clot .[2]
Read : And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous ,[3]
Who teacheth by the pen ,[4]
Teacheth man that which he knew not .[5]
Nay , but verily man is rebellious [6]
That he thinketh himself independent .[7]
Lo ! Unto thy Lord is the return .[8]

Read ,my friends ,read !

Read the immensity of the universe and the Arash ,The Throne .The universe is a speck of dust compared to the 'Chair' ,the 'Chair' is just a speck dust within the Arash . Dust upon dust upon dust upon dust . That is what we are !

Read the beauty and splendour of created things .This universe and the heaven started from nothing .Then 'Kun Fayakun' , 'one entity ' ,then the The Big Bang .Heaven ,galaxies of stars split asunder .A 'controlled ' explosion : an ever expanding universe , the Milky Way and millions of galaxy of stars like that,millions and millions of light years apart .Some of the light of stars percolating through space so distant away that the original stars are already 'burnt out' but the ensuing light will keep coming for millions of years to come .The complexities of the universe and heaven are a million times more than life itself . "If all the oceans are ink ,and all the earth trees would be pens ,nothing can justify the immensity of Lord's Knowledge " ..quote unquote from the Glorious Quran.

Read the paradox in the immense complexity and simplicity of life itself :Life is just a 'sea of biochemical reactions separated by billions of cell membranes .Thoughts are just 'electrical charges' at synaptic junctions of billions of neurons ,interconnected into myriads of complex circuits .Yet who are 'we' ,what are these entities called 'myself' ,'me' ,'you' ,'us' and 'them' ?
Where and what are 'souls' ?

Read in the beauty and simplicity of complex mathematical theorem ,photons ,Cern partical ,matter and anti matter- matter .Read in the movement of the stars and planets ,in the nostalgic symphony of life giving rain and sunshine .

Read into the simplicity and finality of this life itself : a sperm journeying up the 'Yangtze River' thousands of 'sperm miles' up to meet an ovum followed by fertilization ,cell division from one to a hundred , blastocoele stage to morulla ,then differentiation into stem cells ,then billions of cells forming tissues ,tissues forming organs and organs forming a group of closely interlinked systems :cardiovascular ,neurological ,digestive ,skin ,musculo-skeletal so on and so forth .Fetus ,baby ,young man ,middle age ,old age and finally death .

"Nay but verily man is rebellious ,[6]
That he thinketh himself independent .[7]
Lo ! Unto thy Lord is the return .[8]"

Yes , indeed ,our journeying has a return , unto thy Lord is the final return !
Inna lillah hiwainna ilaihirojiun .

Dr Nik Howk