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THE SECOND RESEARCH

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The Marvel and the long age

We have already known until now that the long age truly is scientifically possible but for example we suppose it is scientifically impossible, and the law of the senility is strict, and it is impossible for the humanity to overcome on it today, and on it’s long line, and to change its situations and conditions, so what does that mean? It truly means that the prolonging of the human age – as Nuh or al Mahdi (A.S.) for several centuries, is opposite to the natural laws which the science proved by the modern tools of the experience, and the induction, therefore this case becomes a Marvel which maimed a natural law in a specific case to keep on the life of the person whom entrusted with keeping on the heaven’s mission, and the Marvel is not the single from it’s kind, or a strange on the Muslim’s belief which is obtained from the text of the Quran, and the sunneh (Holy tradition).so the law of senility is more acuity than the law of the heat transmission from the hot body to the body which is less warmth until they will be equal. And this law is already idled to keep on the Ibrahim’s (A.S.) life,  while the single way was to keep on the prophet Ibrahim’s life, so it said to the fire when Ibrahim (A.S.) was been thrown in it (We say: O, fire! be cold and peace to Ibrahim) Al-Anbia verse No 69, So He (A.S.) went out of it intact as He entered before, without any harm.

 The examples of this are many in the natural laws that are vacated just to save the personality of the prophets, and the witnesses of God(S.W.) on the Earth. The sea was been tear asunder to Mosa (A.S.)[1], And is been imitated to the Greek that they captured Isa[2] {Jesus}, while they didn’t Captured him, and the messenger Mohammad (s.w.) went out of his home while it was surrounded with the crowds of Quraish who remained for long hours waiting for him in order to attack him, then Allah(S.W.) hidden him from their sights while He was walking among them[3] All these cases are like natural laws which were idled to protect a person, since the authority of God seeked to keep on his life, so the law of the senility as one of these laws.

Perhaps it is possible for us to deduce from that with a general meaning that is when keeping on the life of Allah’s Authority “Hujjatul-lah” on the ground is contingent on the natural law idleness, and the continuity of that person life is necessary to carry out his mission for which He is prepared for. The divine providence interfered in the idleness of that law to realize that, and on the opposite is some one finished for which He was prepared by the divine, so He would die or would be martyrized according to what the natural laws would suggest.

According to this general Conception we usually face the following question:

How is it possible to idle the natural law?[4]

And how could the necessary relationship which takes place among the natural occurrences be broken? And wasn’t this unless opposition for the science which invented that natural law, and it abstracted this necessary relationship according to empiricism and inductive basics?!

The response: the science itself already answered this question by the surrender from the necessity opinion in the natural law .and the explanation of that is: The natural laws truly that the science discovers them according to the trial and the regular notice, so when a natural occurrence happening could be even after another occurrence, by this evenness it would be deduced that the natural law, and that is truly when the first occurrence is found, the second occurrence is found after it, but the science did not suppose a necessary relationship in this natural law between these two occurrences which resulted from the essence of this occurrence, and it’s subject, and the essence of that occurrence and it’s subject; since the necessity is a metaphysical case, It is impossible for the test and the agencies of the scientifical and the inductive researches to improve it, for that the response of the modern science insisted that the natural law – as the science illustrated it isn’t resulted from a necessary relationship, even from a continuous junction between two occurrences[5], so if the miracle happened and separated the two occurrences from the other in the natural law, and that wasn’t a separation for a necessary relationship between two occurrences.

In fact the miracle with it’s religious connotation, is already became batter understandable as it was under the classical point of view for the causal relationships.

So the previous point of view was already supposed that every two occurrences which the linking between them is evened, so the relationship among them is necessary, and the necessity means that it is impossible to separate one of the two occurrences from the other.

But this relationship is changed in the style of the modern science into the coupling law or the sequenced continuance[6] between the two occurrences without supposing that invisible necessity.

And for that, the marvel becomes extra ordinary case for this evenness in the coupling and the sequence without the opposing with a necessity or leads forwards the impossibility.

As for the logical fundamentals of induction[7], We agreed with the modern scientifical point of view, that the induction truly didn’t improve the relationship of the necessity between the two phenomenons, but we see that it shows the shared interpretation availability for the evenness of the assembly or the sequences between the two phenomenons continually, and this common interpretation as it is possible to be informed according to the supposition that a wisdom is prompted the arranger of the cosmos to combine specific phenomenons with other phenomenons continually, and this wisdom itself some time invite to the exception so that the miracle could be happened.



[1] A mention to his (s.w.) saying: (Then we revealed to Musa: Stick the sea with your staff, so it had cloven asunder, and each part was like a huge mound). Ash-Shuara 63.

[2] A mention to his (s.w.) saying: (And they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but is appeared to them so (like Isa)) An-Nissaē:157.

[3] Please review the book seerat-Ibn husham vol.2 p.127, he already related this event while it is accepted by the whole narrators.

[4] It is perhaps said: that the law as a law it is certainly to be steady, so the idleness and tear is unimagined, and already some of them noticed that the tear truly must be in other law, as the matter as for the magnetism law, which necessitate the tugging of the things to words the center, although that the water ascend by the absorption operation in the plants from the root to the top by the capillaries, and this according to other law that is {peculiarity} please review the book: Al-Quran asry for a contemporary understanding by Dr. Mustafa Mahmood.

[5] The martyr Sadre is already simplified the saying in this matter in his book our philosophy so, please review the p.295 and 299.

[6] Please review Our philosophy :p. 282 and the other following pages.

[7] Please review the explanation and the illustration of the theory in the “logical fundamentals of induction”, so the martyr Imam Sadre “may God be pleased with him” came to an important and momentous invention in the field of the knowledge with a general manner.

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