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In the name of Allah the Beneficent and the Merciful
THE PHYSICS OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENTTHE PHYSICS OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
By Dr. Mohammad Humayoun Khan
A book by this author titled, “Resurrection of Mankind Through the Reversal of Time,”is available at www.islamicity.com/bazar/
Chapter: 50, Verse: 47
When we are dead and have become dust and bonesShall then we indeed be raised again? 
Chapter: 75, Verses: 3 & 4
Man thinks that, We shall not assemble his bonesYes Truly! We are able to restore his very fingers! 
Chapter: 22, Verse: 7
The Hour will come there is no doubt  And God will raise those who are in the graves.
THE AFTERLIFE
The belief in life after death is universal; it is reflected in the teachings of all the major religions of the world, permeating culture and time. Despite tremendous scientific and technological advancement of the twentieth century, wehave no answers to many questions that have plagued the minds of people from time immemorial. What happens to uson dying? What is soul? Does it leave the body to enter the spiritual world, which is beyond human perception in someother dimension? Are the souls reincarnated entering some other body to be recycled again as in the beliefs of someeastern religions? Is the soul captured and kept somewhere until the Day of Judgment to be reunited with the body thatrises from the grave? How can a body that had decayed and disappeared into dust, regain its original shape and form?We can believe what we wish, however the modern world is based on truthful pursuit of science and technology. Truthcannot be decided on wishful thinking or majority vote, if that was the case then Columbus would have surely fallen of the earth in 1492.”We live in a world that demands proof and is not just content with belief. The belief or even the proof however, is only for the believer, and belief comes from within our hearts. Even the greatest of proofs will not satisfy thenon-believer, while the slightest evidence can be a great source of satisfaction for the believer. In this context let us look at the story of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be on him) given in the Qur’an. (Chapter ii verse 260.) Prophet Ibrahim wantedto know how God gives life to the dead. He had the faith of a man who was willing to sacrifice his own son for the sakeof God, yet he wanted reassurance; which then was given to him in the form of a great miracle. Ordinary people like usare also in need of reassurance in a world where science and technology have assumed greater importance than religion.The Muslims are very fortunate in this respect as they posses the final revelation the Qur’an, a miracle for all times.There is only one version of the Qur’an and it is the only religious book that even the critics of Islam admitwas never altered since its revelation to Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) fourteen hundred years ago. Scientificadvancements have provided better understanding of many Qur’anic verses that may have appeared obscure in the past.The Qur’an accurately describes a variety of scientific facts that were discovered in the last one hundred years. This isone of the reasons that the Qur’an stands far above other religious books in its authority as a truly revealed book.The Qur’an in many verses describes the future of the universe and The Day of Judgment. The verses appear to depict some great final catastrophe that will affect the whole universe. Many chapters mention the final earthquake,the opening of gates in the sky and "a time" in which mankind will see what they had done before so that they will become witnesses against their own selves.In this article I explore the similarities between the Qur’anic description of The Day of Judgment and sometheories of cosmology that predict reversal of time in the future with the beginning of the contraction phase of the
 
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universe. You will be surprised to learn that the religious contention that man will rise from the grave is not a myth or wishful thinking but is based on real scientific principles. I would like to however caution the reader that scientific ideaskeep on changing, and my presentation here does not in any way mean that this is the only way for mankind to come back alive. God has absolute power and when He wishes something to happen IT IS.
IS RESURRECTION A PHYSICAL PROCESS?Chapter: 35, Verse: 9
It is God, Who sends the winds and they raise a cloud Then leads it to a dead land and revivesThe earth after its death, Such is the Resurrection
 
The raising of clouds and the growth of plants following rain indeed appear miraculous and were considered as such in the past. Nowwe understand these as due to various natural laws. In the Qur’an the resurrection is compared to the physical processes such as thegrowth of plants after rain; this suggests that revival after death is also based on some physical laws created by God.Following are the main themes of the Day of Judgment that are described in the Qur’an: (1): The final earthquake and thetransformation of the earth into a hollow sphere. (2): Rising from the grave. (3): A time when our hands feet and tongue will becomewitnesses against us. (4): Opening of gates in the sky, through which every one will be removed to some other higher dimensions beyond the dying universe.All of the above events can be explained on the basis of reversal of time and the accompanying reversal of gravity which the physicists believe, has to happen if the time is going to reverse. Sometimes in the future the knowledge of the Day of Judgment that isgiven in the Qur’an might become widely known and accepted as the truth.
Chapter 41: verse 53
We shall show them our signs on the horizons and within themselvesUntil it will become apparent to them, that it is the truthIs your Lord not sufficient since He is witness over all things? 
AN INTRODUCTION TO COSMOLOGY
 
To understand how the future of the universe is linked to the Day of Judgment, some knowledge of cosmology is essential.In the next few pages we will learn, how the universe began, what it is like now and what are the possibilities in the future.Our solar system consists of earth and eight other planets that are orbiting around a star that we call the sun.The sun, along with two hundred billion other stars, comprises our galaxy "The Milky Way." The galaxies are shapedroughly like a disc, with the stars orbiting at various distances around a large central mass.
THE LIGHT YEAR
 
The universe is so vast that the distances between stars and galaxies have to be measured in "light years." Alight year is the distance traveled by light in a year, at the speed of three hundred thousand kilometers per second. Thedistance between the earth and the sun is only eight minutes at the speed of light. Compared to this, the nearest star fromthe earth other than our sun is four light years away. The galaxy we live in, "The Milky Way," is one hundred and fiftythousand light years across. This means that traveling at the speed of light; it would take one hundred and fifty thousandyears to go from one side of Milky Way to the other. The galaxies on the average are separated from each other by tenmillion light years. Many hundred billion such galaxies are part of the truly gigantic universe.
Chapter: 40, Verse: 57
The creation of the heavens and the earthIs definitely a greater thing than creation of mankind,However, most of mankind knows not 
THE RECEDING GALAXIES
 
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The galaxies other than our "Milky Way" are moving away from us at tremendous speeds. This can beascertained, by analyzing the light given off by the galaxies, by an instrument called the spectroscope. The more distant agalaxy is the greater is its speed of recession. This motion of the galaxies is due to the expansion of the universe. Theuniverse began about fifteen to twenty billion years ago with a tremendous explosion called "The big bang" and has beenexpanding ever since. The universe is not just a sphere of galaxies rushing away from each other into unending emptinessof space. It can be compared to a balloon with many dots on it, each representing a galaxy. However, the surface of thisballoon, which is two dimensional, represents all three dimensions of our space, and is expanding into a higher dimension,that is beyond our imagination.
THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
It is not known if the universe will expand forever, or if one day it will begin to contract. In either case, the futureof all the inhabitants of the universe could be rather bleak. If the expansion continues, after billions of years, all the energyof the sun and stars will be exhausted and every living thing will freeze to death. Eventually, only the expanding emptinesswill remain. Alternatively if there is enough mass in the universe, gravity will one day stop the expansion and thencontraction will begin. A contracting universe would ultimately end in a very hot and compressed state called "The BigCrunch." This would also destroy all life forms, as we know them.Besides the above two depressing and purposeless scenarios of the future, there is an another possibility. Somephysicists feel that time may reverse when the universe begins contracting. This prospect has a striking resemblance to theQur’anic description of the Day of Judgment.
THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE AS DESCRIBED IN THE QUR’AN
 
Now, let us turn our attention to the verses in the Qur’an that describe the beginning, the expansion andeventually the contraction of the universe. There is marked similarity between the Qur’anic revelation and recentdiscoveries in cosmology. The Qur’anic verses however, go far beyond modern cosmology in describing the future of theuniverse. The Qur’an gives us insight into laws of the universe that are yet to be discovered, the laws of the contractinguniverse.
THE BIG BANG
The universe came into existence billions of years ago with a tremendous explosion called "The big bang." This is clearlymentioned in the Qur’an in the following verses:
Chapter: 21, Verse: 30
Have not "those who disbelieve" knownThat heavens and earth were of one piece,We parted them and,We made every living thing of water Will they not then believe? 
 
The discovery of "The Big Bang" and that of "The aquatic origin of life" was made by the non-Muslims, ("those whodisbelieve"). When the universe began all matter and space (heavens) was at one point (one piece). Then everything wasseparated in what the physicists describe as "The big bang." The evidence that the universe began in the "The big bang" isso overwhelming that it is now considered a fact and not just a theory.
THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
The Universe has been expanding since its creation. Hubbell, an astronomer made this great discovery, in theearly part of this century. It was also predicted by Einstein's theory of "General Relativity." The expansion of the universeis clearly mentioned in the following Qur’anic verses:
Chapter: 51, Verse: 47
The heavens, We have built with power and, We are expanding it.
THE CONTRACTION OF THE UNIVERSEAND THE REVERSAL OF TIME
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