QUR’AN: astounding clue to the planet of the “GARDEN OF EDEN”

“Fever Pitch” is how I describe our present scramble to search for other life forms in the universe. NASA promises that within a decade or so, we will find habitable planets that harbor life with certainty of accuracy. Within 15 to 20 years, NASA promises to send a man to Mars, but private enterprise may beat NASA to that human adventure within a decade or less. Hurray!

Some time ago, I was dumbfounded when Scientific American Magazine, in a special issue, published the advances made in mapping the human genome that scientists refer to as a “Book of Life” that parents can buy for a price before their child is born. In that book is your child’s predetermined future: the color of his/her hair, eyes, and skin, level of intelligence, diseases he/she will be born with, what illnesses he/she will have in later life, and whether he/she will be prone to accidents, drug abuse, and tendency to commit crime and so forth and so on including failures and success. I was dumbstruck because I am one who didn’t believe in predestination, although the Qur’an says that you can only be what God decreed you to be in your “Book of Decrees” (Book of Life). Wow!

Time Travel is not only possible; we were already there, but I have no doubt that humans will one day stumble upon it with a great surprise and maybe with a resounding laughter, something like – yeah, why didn’t we think about that before. One of the most elaborate stories ever told in the Qur’an is about a group of youths who were transported by God 309 lunar years into the future together with their dog. Another was a traveler that God time transported 100 years into the future with his donkey, food, and water.

…here goes my latest discovery.

There was a very specific numbers mentioned in reference to the day of creation and the day of chastisement.

Qur’an 32:5 - He directs the affairs from the heavens to the earth, and then it ascends unto Him in a day, the measure of which is a thousand years of your reckoning.

In another verse referring to the judgment day:

Qur’an 70: 1-4 - A questioner asked about a chastisement to befall. The unbelievers of which, there is none to ward off, a penalty from Allah, Lord of the ways of ascent, the angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a day, the measure thereof is fifty thousand years.

This 1,000 and 50,000 years has been to this day a subject of debate, especially to those who accuse the Qur’an and Muslims of untruth and inaccuracies with these differing values as proof. “One day” in this debate is constant, and while we can only guess how the angels and the spirit “jump space and time,” the distance becomes immaterial whether 1,000 – 50,000 or 100,000 years away is of no significance. The value of ‘one day’ remains the same. When you jump time, distance does not matter. 

While pondering these Qur’an puzzles, we missed an astounding message in the debate. God gave us (I can hear the angels laughing) in very specific terms where to find the Garden of Eden – our planet of origin. It is barely 1,000 years away, but hey, 1,000 light years away is still far, but for certainty, we can find it if we look within that directional range. With the next generation of space telescopes scheduled for launch in 2018 that will retire the Hubble, we may, in the not-so-distant future, have an accurate image of our dream planet pasted on our walls – THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 

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