SUPERMAN IN ISLAM (Part 1)

The book was published by the Research Center at Strasburg, France. This was the result of research work performed by 25 scholars from Europe, United States of America except 2 scholars who were from Middle East. The book was originally compiled in French, but subsequently was translated in other languages including Persian and Urdu. It has 55 chapters covering various scientific, astronomical, religious, and social aspects. The book was written with a pure scientific background without any regard to religious affiliations as majority of scholars are non-Muslims. The scholars have called Imam Jaffer AlSadiq, the superman of Islam. I will Endeavour to select topics of general interest.

Eating & Diseases:

To protect life, avoid excesses in eating and drinking. Excess in eating may cause a person to die prematurely before the natural death. Imam Ali had said,”Do not make your stomachs the graveyard of animals”. The Imam advises people not to eat excessive meat as this may lead to premature death in some cases. A person apparently looks healthy but he is sick inside and he may become unconscious and die. People who eat meat or other heavy foods in excess may still feel hungry and without feeling pain may develop sleeplessness. Accidental death is of three types;

Diseases of brain, heart and blood. In the end the accidental diseases are caused by sickness of blood which attacks heart, and brain. This sickness of blood is caused by eating too much meat or other heavy (saturated fats) foods. Modern science also confirms death by heart diseases, stroke affecting brain and blood cancer. People who eat such food in moderation may live longer.

Imam Jaffer AlSadiq said that there were two types of death; natural and accidental. A man meets his natural or fixed death when he leads a normal life and does not resort to excess in eating and drinking and when the ascertained time of death arrives he will die. The other type of death is that when a man by his own folly of excesses in life brings his own death prematurely. In reply to a question as to what is death, the Imam said that death is the stoppage of bodily functions specially the heart and breathing. Death is the transformation from one condition to the other and nothing in this world remains in one condition.

Human body:

All materials which are found in the soil are found in human body but in varied quantities.

There are four items found in large quantity and then there are eight items that are comparatively in lesser quantity and lastly there are eight items which are in very small quantity.

Modern biology confirms Imam’s statement. The four elements found in large quantity are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Next elements found in comparatively smaller quantity are magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, chlorine, sulpher, and iron. The trace elements are molybdenum, selenium, fluorine, cobalt, manganese, iodine, zinc, and aluminum.