Life and death
Thou causest the night to gain on the day, and thou causest the day to gain on the night; Thou bringest the Living out of the dead, and Thou bringest the dead out of the Living; and Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou pleasest, without measure.”
Chapter 3, Verse 27
In the whole year, the duration of of night and days keeps changing steadily and gradually. Sometimes, nights are long and days are short and sometimes days are long but nights are short. Similarly, we can say that the some part of night gets included in the day and some part of the day gets included in the night. This keeps happening throughout the year.
This verse tells us that this changing of durations of night and day is ordered by The God. Our God is the one Who sometimes makes days long and nights short and sometimes nights long but days short.
This verse contains the word “gain”. This means that the inclusion of the part of day into night or a part of day into night happens gradually and steadily. It doesn't happen abruptly.
We see that whenever the morning comes, the daylight slowly enters and the darkness slowly exits. Similarly when evening comes, the darkness slowly enters and the daylight slowly exits.
Why the duration of days and nights keeps changing?
This is because the earth is axially tilted at about 23.50 degrees in its orbit. This is why sunlight falls at different timings in the parts of earth.
But what is the advantage of this night and day duration changing?
It is due to this System of night and day duration changing that we have different seasons on our planet namely Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring. These seasons affect directly to the minerals, plants and living beings.
The Birth of Living from the dead
Billions of years ago, when life opened its eyes on earth, there were inorganic substances upon earth from which a complex process was started. From this process, the life process was started since then, one living being is extracted or comes into existence from another already existed living being.
The living being’s body is made up of food and the food primarily is made up of a mixture of non-living matter components. A plant absorbs water and other chemical compounds from its roots. It absorbs Carbon dioxide from the air and gathers sunlight with the help of its leaves and other green parts. Then with the help of this sunlight, it prepares “food” by mixing these non-living matter components through a complex and long process.
When a human eats this food, it becomes a part of his/her body after digestion and takes part in the growth and development of living cells.
The Conversion of Living into Dead
When a living being dies, its body undergoes a decay process and splits into the non-living components of matter again.
In every living being (plants, animals and humans), there are two processes which take place. One is called “Anabolism” and the other is “Katabolism”. They are known collectively as “Metabolism”.
In Anabolism, in every cell, non-living components of matter which enters into our body through either digestion or respiration, are converted into living form through a complex process.
While in Katabolism, the living matter in a body converts into non-living form such as water, Carbon dioxide and other nitrogen compounds.
This is the system devised by The God. In this system, the non-living matters are converted into living and the living gets converted into non-living.
In broader meanings, the rule of life and death is followed throughout the universe. A star is born from dust and gases. It passes through different development stages and in the end it dies.
The rule of life and death is also followed among nations. There are many nations in the world which rise from different parts of the world, pass through different periods of time and then fall one day. This process continues.
So my dear friends, don’t you think that our God is extremely powerful. He is the One who converts a dead piece into living and a living piece into dead. There are many people in this world who consider that this life is the only one they have got. The would never live again once they are dead. But this verse informs us that The God is capable to make us living again even after our death. When we will die, our body will be completely decayed even our bones will no longer exist. But even then The God can convert us back into living just like He did before. We were nothing but the non living components of matter. But He converts us into living from that non living. And therefore we should have faith upon this that our God can repeat it again. He would give us the new life for the “Day of Judgment”. When we will be presented in the Court of God and He will decide our eternal place which will be either Hell or the beautiful heavens (Jannat).
If you think that you want to discuss something over this matter then you can always use the commenting section. Remember the God invites you to first ponder and then decide what is correct and what is wrong. I hope that you would accept this “Invitation to Ponder”.
