Chapter XXIX. Eid Day

-The voice: Is he ready?

-Ozcan: Not yet, I think we are one step away.

The day after their meeting at the museum, Ozcan visited him in his room, he was carrying a small bag on his back: How are you, brother?

Ruslan: I am fine, I thought a lot about being here. I think I should go back to Syria.

Ozcan: If you want, I can talk to our friend and he will secure your entry there today, but why the hurry?

Ruslan: I still do not understand why I am here.

He lit a cigarette, and stood in front of the window, not saying a word.

Ruslan approached him, and stood next to him: Brother, I appreciate your caring about me and everything you said, but I am tired of this place, call your friend I want to return.

With all his cold nerves, he grabbed his phone, called him, summoned him to come, he looked at Ruslan, he said: It takes him an hour to arrive, after an hour you will be on your way there, do not worry, do you hear me one last time?

-He shook his head in agreement

-Have you ever thought about determinism?

He continued and did not wait to hear the answer: In the past, humans believed that the eye sends a ray of light to bodies and sees them, then the Arab scholar Ibn Al-Haytham asked a logical question: If my eyes send a ray of light, why do I not see in the dark?

Then he discovered that the eye is blind in its origin, a receiver and not a transmitter, it only sees when the light is reflected from the objects, so it picks up its reflection and does not send it.

We understand determinism as we understand the sense of sight today, we receive it and do not send it, so we see that we are the subject and the deterministic object, we have no power before it, we have to receive it and submit to it, but what if our understanding of it is wrong?! As our understanding of the sense of sight was, while we think we receive determinism, we are in fact sending it.

What if determinism had no existence, no reflection, and we were not designed to receive it but rather designed to make and transmit it.

The general interpretation of determinism, on which all Muslims and non-Muslims agree, is that every event in the universe, including man’s perception and actions, is subject to a logical sequence of causes within a single continuum.

Muslims say that God’s decree and predestination are pre-written and cannot be changed, but they struggle with the eternal question, if this was written for me in advance, then why would God punish me for something that I cannot change? Where is the justice in here!

While unbelievers say it was nature, the laws of the universe, that created determinism, and they run into the zero-cause barrier, what is that cause that does not come from any cause? It resulted in the chain that created all causes.

Muslims answer them, Cause Zero is neither a cause nor a causative, nor even a result, it is God, he was and will continue to exist, and the understanding of His nature is not within the limits of our mind, for it has no nature at all.

The non-believers accuse them, that their inability to understand or know the nature of the Zero cause, made them create the idea of ​​God in their minds, to relieve themselves of the trouble of searching.

The entire dispute is based on the zero cause, assuming that determinism is a series written on us, we cannot change it, and we have no authority over it, but what if determinism is actually written on us, and we are the ones who wrote it in the first place, or perhaps we are writing it now.

Have you read about the Law of Attraction before? His believers say, that a person has what looks like broadcasting and receiving channels, and these channels transmit his thoughts to the universe, and his receivers receive the results and interact with him, he is part of it as everything else, affects and is affected, and the master here is the universe, and the reason is the person, they are his thoughts that decide the response of the universe to him, it will give him back what he thinks, and it will seek to implement it for him.

If you are looking for an answer to a question that has puzzled you for a long time, all you have to do is think about it, and imagine that you will find the answer in some way, imagine that moment when you know it, and then leave it to the universe, it will come to you with the answer, as long as you broadcast the idea.

Based on that, if you think about something that you hate to happen, if you think about it for a long time, it will inevitably happen to you, for the law does not differentiate between good and evil, what you want and what you hate, but rather what you think.

In other words, the subconscious mind is fertile, uncultivated land, and the conscious mind or brain is a seed-sowing machine. What you think about is the kind of seeds that you will sow in your subconscious mind, and your harvest will be the result of what you sow, the more you think, you are like the one who waters and plows the land and nurtures it, and in the end, the universe will be the machine of the harvest, it will inevitably make your ideas a reality for you.

This law has been strengthened in all religions and customs.

In religion, God alerted us to the need to monitor our thoughts well, so he says in the honorable Prophetic hadith, “I am as my servant thinks of me,” meaning that if you think well of God, he will be with you as you think. If think that he will only send you all good, God will send it to you.

In all religions you will find many texts saying like this, although this completely contradicts the law of determinism in religion, God has written everything in advance, and your belief in him will not change anything in your destiny, but even your thoughts themselves, including your good thinking of him It is something he already wrote to you.

As for our ancestors, they said it from the reality of their inherited experiences, they said things like that the one who is afraid of something, it will happen to him. They summarized them in the form of popular examples, which you will find in various cultures.

However, what if the believers in this law understand things from the perspective of the ancient human understanding of the sense of sight, we do not receive determinism, and the universe does not make it and does not respond to us with what we think, and we cannot change it with our thoughts, we have already drawn them in advance, and we have no escape today except for reaping what we sowed. An inevitability we managed at once, in one moment.

He was silent for a moment, then added: Or perhaps, we are drawing the inevitable now, Ruslan, what if I did not exist in this world before you had a need for me? And somehow you made me, and gave me a whole life, with its memories, memories that make me feel like I have lived forty whole years, and make you feel this, you arranged them for me, and you created me, to answer all the questions I have always thought of.

And while I feel like I am forty, in fact, it is one second, maybe a lot less.

What if we had never met in Syria before, if you were not there, and you are still retreating in your hut on the hill, thinking about the empty, the unknown, and what happened next? It is nothing but an arrangement that you did, to transcend the authority of your mind, to get you to know the answers to everything that afflicts you, even if this life is a blank sheet of paper, you are the one who arrange it and draw it, step by step.

When does this happen! What about your conscious mind, your brain, which shows you the truth at its own whims, ignores the data of the senses as it wants, and interprets it as it wants, enslaves you, colonizes you, marginalizes yourself and your truth, to survive in the body and enjoy.

-How does he do it? Do you need me to tell you? After we agreed, my friend, that physical and psychological torment makes you imagine things that do not exist, contrary to the truth, and who is the one who controls the transmission of nerve signals for pain? Who controls the hormones and secretion of those that control your psychological state? Who is capable of subjecting you to the worst kinds of physical and psychological torment, to make you think that the bird is a leaf, who has the full power to do this to you?

If I had a description then, it would not be more accurate than the weapon of your subconscious mind, with which it fights that devil in your head, its way to answer, find me, arrange my whole life, so that it can transcend your brain’s control over you.

Ruslan is silent and does not utter a single letter. Ozcan’s words, although they are closer to madness, even are pure madness, yet they touch something inside of him, something deep.

-After a long silence, he said: But if you are true to what you say, then why all the things that I hate have happened to me, why did I lose Raman? Why did I lose my father? Why has not Eid come yet?

-Ozcan: What is the meaning of white if there is no black? What is the verb if there is no opposite! All things lose their meaning, and even the purpose of their existence, if their opposite does not exist, then this whole world is based on two things that have no third, existence and non-existence, good and evil, the thing and its opposite.

Have you ever thought about what life would be like without death? Is it correct then to call it life?!

We are not alive, Ruslan, nor dead, but immortal. There is no meaning for life or death for us except metaphorically, in this world only, and even God said that in the graves we do not die, there is another life, we keep with our consciousness, death is a metaphorical expression to move from a case to another, no more no less.

He walked towards him and looked straight into his eyes: Who made it so frightening and made it this aura of terror, it realizes that it is mortal, immortality, that without its cells and tissues, it will die, end, and become something that never was.

-Ruslan: You want to say that you are the product of my deep desire to find answers, well, my desire that I want my father back, now, immediately.

-Not before you understand the meaning of zero, and its reality…

He added nonstop: Did you know that zero was not used throughout human history! Until 781 A.D, when it was first embodied and used in arithmetic equations by the Arab scholar Al-Khwarizmi, the founder of algebra.

Algorithms took their name from him, and they are algorithmic arithmetic equations that you have to follow as they are and you will inevitably get the result, the inevitable result. And before that, across tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, humans refused to deal with zero.

While the first reference to it was in the Sumerian civilization, where inscriptions were found three thousand years ago in Iraq, in which the Sumerians indicated the existence of something before the one, they refused to deal with it, define it and give it any value or effect, they refused to consider it a number.

All these civilizations, some of which we are still unable to decipher many of their codes, such as the Pharaonic civilization that refused to deal with zero!

We see them as smart enough to build the pyramids with their miraculous geometry and to calculate the orbits of stars and planets with extreme accuracy, but they are very stupid for not defining zero in a way that they can deal with, and use it in arithmetic operations, how strange this really is!

But in fact, they did not ignore it, but gave it its true value, and refused to build their civilizations on an unknown and unknown illusion, and on a wrong arithmetical frame of reference.

Throughout their history, humans have looked at zero as the unknown, they refused to define it and include it in their calculations and equations, not because it has no effect, but because its true effect is unknown, and remaining unknown is better than giving it a false effect.

Like the wrong frame of reference, if you rely on it, you will inevitably get a wrong result, and you will fall into the inevitability of error, and if you ignore it, your chance of getting it right remains.

Throughout their history, humans have preferred to ignore zero, not knowing its true impact, while we simply decided to deal with it, and even rely on it.

Today we build all our ideas, our civilization, our software, mathematics, physics, everything, on the basis that 1 + 0 equals one, because we need to find the effect of zero so that our equations succeed, and our lives succeed with, but what if 1 + 0 equals infinity?!

Why did we ignore the zero in summation, and did not ignore it in multiplication?!

1×0 equals zero, why not one?

What is the reason? He answered himself: There is no inevitable reason, we are not forced. Humans have lived throughout their ages without zero, and it did not mean anything to them.

Even when we were unable to devise any result that fits our theorems for the quotient of one by zero, then we admitted and said unknown, and ignored it, but we ignored the logic that a thousand pieces of evidence may not prove me right, and one proof that proves me wrong. Not doing our math tables in the case of division, blowing them up completely, and with that, we decided to go ahead and built everything on that foundation. We have separated the arithmetic tables in detail at our will, to fit our calculations, and somehow separate the whole universe around us to fit these tables, despite their obvious flaws.

And if we decide that the result of one multiplied by zero is one instead of zero, and we reconstruct the whole world on this basis, what will happen?

He answered himself: Nothing, we will also succeed, the world, our software, our thoughts, our dealings, and everything around us will be reset according to the new arithmetic tables.

After a few hundred years, humans will no longer be able to understand that one multiplied by zero equals zero, but that it must be one because everything is built on this basis.

Al-Khwarizmi fell into the taboo that humans refused to fall into throughout their history, not because of their stupidity, nor their lack of attention to the presence of a number here that has an impact, but because they preferred not to deal with it at all unless they fully understood it, they ignored it rather than building the world around them on a wrong frame of reference.

So, you have to ask now what if we decided to change the zero and give it its value that we know for sure, which is the unknown.

We do not know it, we do not understand it, and not knowing is better than building everything on the wrong frame of reference

Any number multiplied by zero equals an unknown

The sum of any number with zero equals an unknown

The result of any number divided by zero equals an unknown

The result of subtracting any number with zero equals an unknown

Are you starting to feel the problem and see the size of the unknown that is inside our calculations and our whole life! Infiltrating it without knowing anything about it!

The clear is clear, that zero is not only divisible, but also summation, subtraction, and multiplication, because it is unknown, and no matter how much we try to patch the tables to fit the calculations, the division keeps breaking our back and telling us, you are wrong.

Despite all this, our strongest strength remains, our winning ball, which has never failed us, is the power of creative adaptation.

We are not like viruses, we settle in an environment that we drain and then move to others, nor like animals, we go into an environment and adapt to it and adapt ourselves according to its capabilities.

That is why when we hit zero, we got creative and innovated, and decided to change the law of the entire universe, made it a hypothetical effect inspired by our imagination, and built the world on this basis. And the crazy thing is that everything around us is working perfectly.

And what is even crazier, is that if we decide to change the effect of zero, so that one multiplied by zero equals twenty, then everything around us will reset, and it will work perfectly as well.

Even if we decide to change all the math tables, this universe will mutate to suit our thinking.

-Ruslan: But are not these laws one of God’s creatures? And your words make us the ones who created them!

-Ozcan: No, let’s move away from the word creation. This word is reserved for God only because it means finding something out of nothing. We are nothing but creatures. Our abilities end at nothingness. Let’s use the word creativity or innovation, they really suit us.

Yes, we are the ones who innovated and invented these laws, and not only arithmetic tables, but many things around you.

More precisely, you are the one who created your universe, according to your own brain code, which is unlike any other mind code.

Like colors, we each see them differently, but we agreed on concepts, labels, reactions, methods of interaction, cause and effect, and cause and causative.

Zero is nothing, color is zero, time is zero, and the idea is zero, but as long as we can think of it, it means that the answer is there. Or perhaps our mind deliberately lost it or ignored its data, and while we receive data from it all day long, it simply ignores it, just as it does with voices if it wants to.

And when you decide to deal with it while you are ignorant of it, you are just like the one who decides to shoot the bullet in the head of someone, and you estimated its length based on an object standing next to him that you do not know its length.

-Ruslan: You want to say that everything built around us based on arithmetic tables is wrong based on our misconception of zero? even time?

-Ozcan: Yes, can you imagine time as something scattered all around you, like air, and not as a straight line?

-Ruslan: It does not make sense. Yesterday is behind me, and tomorrow is in front of me. It is a straight line in one direction.

He took out from his bag a glass box, containing a gelatinous liquid, through which small pieces of metal of various colors were scattered randomly.

Put it on the table between them.

-He said: Think of time as such…

He pointed to a random piece: Here is this moment, you and I are now, and time is all around us.

He pointed on a lot far to the right, this moment when you were waiting for your father to come back on the hill.

He pointed to another one behind, here is the moment tomorrow and you are on the plane to Istanbul.

Another one, here when we walked on the bridge yesterday.

Here you are a child playing in Kirkuk.

Here you are sitting under the tree waiting for the car.

Think of the universe as this box, and time is the gelatinous liquid like air is scattered all over it, and the moments, the events are the little balls, randomly scattered in it, this ball at the top is the year 1910, this ball below is the year 450, and on the right is the year 3290, And there away the 1980’s.

All the minutes, the seconds, the days, the years, they are all spread out chaotically, randomly, or at least so they seem to you.

A fabric, not a river, a fabric that surrounds us from everywhere.

Do not think of moments as something that is over, but as inevitable, not because they have happened, or will happen, but because they are happening now, they are all happening now at once.

If you can embody time in your head as they really are, you will know that the past is meaningless, and the future does not exist, everything is present in one temporal fabric.

A temporal fabric in the box of the universe and all the events are scattered in it randomly and chaotically, moving, affecting, and being affected by everything in it, as the atoms of the air.

Tell me now, where is the future? And where is the past? He answered himself: It does not exist, it has no meaning

-Ruslan: Yes, but it is still the present, for my present is the present of all that is in the box.

-Ozcan: Yes, you can assume it like this, only the present, no past, and no future, but in fact, it is not the present, but the unknown.

Time does not exist, the year has become zero, the month is zero, the day and the hour and the second are zero, so all time has become zero, and zero is unknown, and if you manage to get out of this box somehow, you will see everything, at once.

Got close to him: Or maybe you are out of it already, and none of this may be there.

Perhaps this box, with everything in it, is something your mind has made up, created for the enjoyment of itself, and created at once, a painting it drew and finished, and the imaginary timeline is nothing but its means of enjoying it, just as you enjoy drinking a glass of juice that exists all, knowing that the next sip will not taste different from the ones that preceded it, but you enjoy it in batches.

He was silent for a moment, then added: And just like a story whose events were written all at once, you relish reading its pages.

Now answer me, if you were in a dark room, and you had a lot of time, with the ability to innovate, would you rather stay in it until your death, or make up a reality that suit you?

-Ruslan: But if this whole world is an illusion of my mind! What am I and what are you?

Ozcan: Perhaps we are something that swims in the unknown, that time and space have no meaning to us, they do not exist, and all this inevitable universe, the cause, and the causative, are our invention, and each of us created his universe according to his own code, and our understanding of terms, labels, concepts.

Otherwise, how can God hold us accountable for an inevitability that has nothing to do with us?

He answered himself: Rather, we are the ones who created it in the first place. We arranged this determinism. That is why we deserve to be reckoned with.

As for God, He is still outside all these universes, and our essence is still a cause, and our ability to innovate did not exist from nothing, and there must be someone who created it or created it from nothing.

He added: How do you explain the indifferent behavior of humans? We do not care about death, despite all the illusion of our fears of it that our brain portrayed to us, yet our ego makes light of it as if you know it is immortal, a struggle between truth and illusion.

In fact, we are not afraid at all. If we were afraid, we would not do anything useful, we would not marry and have children we love; We know that they will die one day, and they will fear our greatest fear, death, and I have never seen anyone do anything except that he is waiting for his near death and only.

We are not afraid of death, but we know that it is our salvation and not our end, and until its arrival we fight, as one who has been sentenced to prison in this body, fighting our mind, and its desire for pleasure, and enjoyment.

In fact, Ruslan, perhaps many of the beautiful things that you see around you are made by your mind, and its opposite as well. In its fight for freedom.

Your mind wants to have fun, shows you in the girl, her charms, seeks to enjoy her in your bed for long nights, her body, her breasts, her lips, what a beautiful woman, and what a wonderful enjoyment of her a thousand years, and how wonderful the secretion of these hormones that fuel your desire for her, and make your bed a small forest, and makes her a weak prey, submissive in your hands, you turn her as you like, and you do with her what you like.

As for your ego, it fights, resists, and during this battle, it creates the opposite, the opposite of beauty, that might make you wake up from this illusion.

And perhaps death, Ruslan, is your own creation, in the face of the delusion of your mind, to slap you with it, to regain your consciousness.

If it was only the mind, it would not create death, it would hide it completely, but you fight, my dear, deep inside you, you fight there!

As for the animals, they really fear death, so they are resigned, aware of the fact that they are not, they do nothing except that they live what is destined for them, and only, there is no self within them that fights, they wanted to ignore, not know, not think, do nothing but live and it is over.

While, we are not afraid, because we know that death is not nothingness, our self, our truth, are still out there outside the box, despite all the terror and oppression to which we are subjected from our minds.

It is similar to the story of the Prophet of God, Adam, the father of all mankind. He was outside this world, and then descended to it as a punishment for his disobedience to the Creator. However, he was fully aware of himself, his truth, what he was, and the sin he had committed, which deserved this punishment, it was impossible for his mind to manage to deceive him, and so with his children and grandchildren, Adam was still close to them, they heard from him directly, but after that! The game of Satan began in the minds of human beings, and with each new generation, they moved further away from Adam, the mind gained control of them, and Satan controlled them, until it completely concealed our truth from us, and made it deeply lost, enslaved us, and began to manipulate our senses, even those we called zero sense and to ignore all its data, without even realizing it.

-Ruslan: What do you mean that we are outside the box?

Ozcan: Literally and not figuratively, you and I are not here, ourselves are not here, we and those around us, everything, are nothing but the product of its battle with the mind, until the day it returns to God.

-He was silent for a while, then added: Do you want to see Moment Zero, Ruslan?

-yes

He turned his back, walked to the window, closed his eyes, and breathed slowly, for right here at this moment, he lost Khadija forever.