RE: Speed of Light

[Khazeh Fananapazir]

May I request Dr. Khazeh and other friends in this forum to shed some light onto the verse of Quran and the conclusion that this Egyptian scholar is trying to prove.   Best regards, Firouz   Dear Firuz Anaraki my dear brother i was away from my PC so i did not see your letter until today [Saturday]. I saw that some of my dear brothers whom i have very very much missed [Gliberto Simpson and Max Jasper] have already replied, and Hasan, and Susan and Marleen have replied. Dear Firuz i am a lowly fallible medical doctor [not with any knowledge of Physics at all]. But it is kind of you to start an interesting thread. The Divine Holy Books have incredibly vast nuances, predictions, significances, and mysteries, and truths. The Holy Qur'an has so many truths, significances, precious gems, and pearls. There are prophecies that many of these pearls and gems will be discovered, unravelled, and revealed in the Day of Baha'u'llah. If you kindly re-visit the section in the Sacred Iqan on the "City of God" this is mentioned by the Divine Pen there.   But in respect of the verse 32:5 **Yudabbiru al-AMRa mina alssama-i ila al-ardi thumma yaAAruju ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu alfa sanatin mimma taAAuddoona ** He directs the AFFAIR from heaven to earth, then it goes up to Him in one day, whose measure is a thousand years of your counting.   This verse is a reference to wonderful Dispensation of Islam. AMR is the Cause, the Affair, the Ordinance. 260 years were the number of the years of Its Revelation and Elucidation by the Holy Prophet and the Imams [the last one passed away in 260 AH]. Then the Cause "goes up" [=thumma yaAAruju] ] ascends in the process of Progressive Revelation until the year 1260 AH [=1844] the Dawn of the Day of Fulfilment.   The reason this approach makes sense is that in a similar verse wherein **Yudabbiru al-AMRa** is revaeled by God, He, exalted be His Glory, states that its purpose is that ye may be certain of attaining the Divine Presence =the Liqaa Allah   ***yudabbiru al-amra yufassilu al-ayati laAAallakum biliqa-i rabbikum tooqinoona *** 13:2 He directs the AFFAIR; He distinguishes the signs; haply you will have faith in the encounter with your Lord.   In the verse 32:5 [which was offered as light velocity etc] we must not forget ever that the WORD AMR was used. Amr refers here to the Revelation [not so much literally to the light]. Recall for example the verse wherein God says to the Prophet Muh.ammad that He [the Prophet Muh.ammad was not there when "We revealed to Moses the AMR]   And thou (O Muhammad) wast not on the western side (of the Mount) when We expounded unto Moses the AMR, and thou wast not among those present; Wama kunta bijanibi algharbiyyi ith qadayna ila moosa al-AMRa wama kunta mina alshshahideena   and finally AMR being part of God's Promise They say: "When will this promise (come to pass) if ye are telling the truth?" Wayaqooloona mata hatha alwaAAdu in kuntum sadiqeena Say: "The appointment to you is for a Day, which ye cannot put back for an hour nor put forward." [34:29-30] Qul lakum meeAAadu yawmin la tasta/khiroona AAanhu saAAatan wala tastaqdimoona   And they will bid thee to hasten the chastisement. But God cannot fail His threat. And verily, a DAY with thy Lord is as a thousand years, as ye reckon them! 22:47   So i beg you to consider this other perspective, namely that 32:5 is about this Day, that AMR is more to do with the Divine Revelatory Process as the AMR in relation to Moses, and that even light [nur] how much so ever marvellous it is bows to the Light of the Manifestations of God, to Baha'u'llah, the Quintessence of Light.   ****Assuredly the visible sun is but a sign of the splendour of that Day-star of Truth, that Sun Which can never have a peer, a likeness, or rival  (Baha'u'llah:  The Kitab-i-Iqan, Page: 34) *** when He, Who is the Quintessence of truth, the inmost Reality of all things, the Source of all light, is made manifest, they cling unto certain passages of the Book, and inflict upon Him that which was inflicted in the Dispensation of the Qur'an.  (Baha'u'llah:  The Kitab-i-Iqan, Page: 92)   Consider, that even the year in which that Quintessence of Light is to be made manifest hath been specifically recorded in the traditions, yet they still remain unmindful, nor do they for one moment cease to pursue their selfish desires.  According to the tradition, Mufaddal asked Sadiq saying:  "What of the sign of His manifestation, O my master?"  He made reply:  "In the year sixty, His Cause shall be made manifest, and His Name shall be proclaimed."  (Baha'u'llah:  The Kitab-i-Iqan, Pages: 253-254)             The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. 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