Math is absolute. In many occasions it consists of points arranged in a random pattern, but always the result is a straight line. That’s good about it. However, sometimes it proves how stupid or inflexible math is. It’s always 1+1=2, this is boring. In my field, medicine, and in many occasions, it’s hard to prove that 1+1=2. It would be much easier if it were that way. Results, even in most controlled circumstances, can’t be predicted. Life itself, is it mathematics or medical equation? Can we apply strict rules that never break? Is it just a bunch of chaotic events?
Some oriental cultures believe in Karma. It’s the cycle of cause and effect. Simply, you do something good, you gain something good, in current or later life. To tell the truth, karma reminds me of 1+1=2. On the other hand, some Muslims believe that good people always end up with bad things. Job is a good example for this. Some say more Allah/God loves his worshiper, more tests, difficult once, has this poor believer to pass.
If Job were taken back to his initial state, being rich and healthy, what’s the possibility of the recurrence of same condition? Well, Karma presumes that doing something good, he may miss doing, may change the result. Islam will keep saying since he’s a good guy, bad events would keep happening to him. Yet, let’s take it one step deeper, and make it more complicated. Let’s take a peek to the big picture, it consists of many tiny components; one of them could be a butterfly or mosquito wing flapping. For some stupid reason, like the mosquito was killed by a young boy, the chain of events in Job story would change in a dramatic manner. Again, this could be expressed in a mathematical equation to predict the behavior of a point in the space.
Butterfly effect, or the chaos theory studies a dynamical system that is highly sensitive to initial conditions. So, it’s not good or bad things we do. It’s how things happen in our life. How we act, respond, and do stuff. It's not why, it's how. And as long as it’s judged by an equation, I think it’s justice and fair. So, can we predict the future using the chaos theory?
Let’s forget about the rubbish I just mentioned. I have a friend, an enlightened, educated, inspiring, and cute guy. These feature qualified him to know a lot of girls, in Saudi Arabia. Most of you know that it’s really difficult to contact or be in a relationship with an individual from the opposite sex. Sometimes, I think Saudi Arabia is a paradise for homosexual people. I can spend days and sleep over in my friend, or who is called a friend, and nobody would question me. Even if we suppose that the family knows about their child homosexual attitude, most families would ignore it. Back to my friend, in these harsh conditions we live and suffer, he managed to know like dozen of girls in a short period. I don’t care about the aim of his relationships. Yet, the outcome of those relations was awesome, many of those girls changed their life style to better one. To tell the truth, I think my friend made of his girls, better females, enlightened, smart, and ready to survive in the wolves’ world.
I would like to apply the 3 assumptions I mentioned in the beginning of the article on my friend case. According to Islam, this man should be punished, in current and later life. And most likely, these relationships effect would follow him when he gets married. They say; who knocks other doors, people would knock his door. A guy briefly with prohibited relationships should expect his sister, mother, wife, or daughter, even granddaughter to be involved in a prohibited relationship.
This may take long time explanation, and I wanna end it early. Logicians say; whatever is based on wrong establishment, must end up with wrong result. That’s why Muslims don’t justify his initial actions by the results. Yet, karma, the lovely karma would go another way with him; he caused good things to those girls, so the effect he gains would be good. In the fact, I’m concerned about him when he gets married. What do you think he would end up with, a wife with millions of relationships before him?
I think the last resort for this troubling issue is chaos theory. Let’s hope a prayer from one girl or one drip of saliva would change the whole equilibrium in his dynamic system.
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