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With the Name of Immortal, All-Merciful, Wellnigh Merciful
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Bismillah. So, RIP Prof. Stephen Hawking, often called “the greatest physicist since Einstein,” who returned to his source yesterday.
Here is a brief history, in time, of my encounters with him, intellectually & physically:
- An early copy of A Brief History of Time, 1988
Hawking’s famous bestseller was originally published by Bantam Press in 1988. That same year, by the grace of God, I achieved a silver medal in the British Physics Olympiad after being entered into it by my school, the City of London School for Boys (CLSB), aged around 17. (Dozens of students from around the country each won gold, silver or bronze medals, and the very best would be selected to represent Britain at the International Physics Olympiad.) My prize was a hardback copy of A Brief History of Time, and it is still a prized possession.
For some reason, they wrote my name in the presentation sticker as “V. Hasan” – perhaps they thought I was an Ancient Roman or something. A classmate, Keith Eyeions, won a gold medal – his prize was a large sum of cash, book tokens or possibly a microcomputer, but in hindsight, my prize was possibly more valuable. Keith also read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and took the History & Philosophy of Science course in the second year – he encouraged me to st
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Epistemic status: Divine revelation, subject to peer review.
Spinoza's God
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
— Genesis 1:1
O Allah, Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will.
— The Qur'an 3:26
He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things.
— The Qur'an 57:3
Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
— Proverbs 19:21
When Albert Einstein was asked whether he believed in God he responded "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world." Spinoza's pantheistic God is the God of natural law as best described by science. That is the God Eliezer Yudkowsky tells us to think like, to worship, to bind ourselves to and to take joy in. It is the God that is mere reality, the timelessuniversal law, the underlying beauty, the "most holy and beautiful [...] sacred mundane."
It is the God that we need to accept, for we don't have a choice. "Nothing will ever befall us except what Allah has destined for us." (The Qur'an 9:51) All resistance