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Najah Kadhim*
Two states exist in our world. In other words, it is a binary state that rules the
dynamics of society. It is duality that governs our world. It is the positive state
and the negative state; it is the measure and the countermeasure; it is conformity
and diversity.
These two states meet at times and separate at other times, thus creating the
basis of balance and motion in the world. It is the positive versus the negative at
one moment, and the positive born of the negative at another moment.
In the digital world of the binary logic of electronic circuits, there is one
state (ON) versus the other state (OFF), or according to its mathematics
(Boolean algebra): ones versus zeros. It means that the possibilities or states
Yet in the principles of quantum mechanics that are being applied to the
development of quantum computers, the two states of positive and negative (or
This situation has implications for the possibility that diversity leads to
possibilities.
The probability of whether an event will occur or not does not mean
even if the mathematical versions or patterns that underpin its theories are not
The presence of uniformity and diversity at the same time in some states
and one versus the other in other states leads to new probabilities. The relativity
of an event not happening does not negate its absolute happening. The relativity
of recognizing and understanding new situations does not negate the origin of
the absolute.
polarization of the positive and negative charges. It is the flow of these opposing
charges in the electrical circuits which gives it the required coordination. Atoms,
the basis of life, cannot exist unless there is a balance between the electrons
(negative charges) surrounding the nucleus and its protons (positive charges) of
negative charges are happening at the same time in optical computers as a result
charges.
وترى المؤمنين في توادهم وتراحمهم كمثل الجسد الواحد اذا اشتكى منه
عضو تداعى له سائر الجسد بالسهر والحمى2
The believers in their affection, compassion and kindness are like one
body. If one organ complains, then the whole body suffers from fever
and insomnia.
Does the first hadith contradict the second? No, apparently not, since
diversity in human society is not only meaningful but necessary. The uniformity
and diversity of its motion give birth to the factors of its development. Diversity
renewal as the situation demands from time to time, not only produces a society
that breeds stagnation and useless traditions but is also contrary to Allah’s
Sunnah, for it has been shown that duality is the basis of the functions of the
world.
Let us apply the concept of duality to some practical examples for
Muslims.
• Muslim communities resident in the West could easily adopt the duality of
living and feeling both East and West, that is, living and feeling as Muslims
modern life.
• Muslims could live and feel today’s world, which is just as important as
living and feeling the past. Indeed, living and feeling the future is equally
important, for the Holy Qur’an highlights the future trend in some of its
verses.
For example, Surah Yusuf (12) tells the tale of Prophet Yusuf, whose
management planning for the future saved Egypt from an acute economic
crisis. Or Surat al-Rum (30:1–4), in which the Holy Book tells the Muslim
defeat the Persians in a few years’ time, thus referring to the future with
Alif, Lam, Mim. The Romans have been defeated in a nearby land.
However, although they have been defeated, they will be victorious in
a few years’s time. Allah’s is the Command in the past and in the
future. On that day, the believers will rejoice.
Living and feeling the self-respect that generates respect for the
intellectual philosophy with the Islamic creeds (aqā’id). It is not the same today,
for the dialectics of the modern intellect is aiming to create a single integrated
world. Muslims should face this huge challenge with peaceful coexistence with
Book. In other words, the acceptance of faith (imān) and intellect could meet at
some points and diverge at others, rather than each trying to annihilate the
identity of the other. A reading of the Qur’anic verses indicates that there is
room for unbelievers (atheists) or kuffar. The Qur’an states, for example: