Allah in the Qur’an emphasized the spiritual effect and impact of achieving perfecting our self, Allah says in the Qur’an;
“O Prophet! Inspire the believers to fight,
“For the time being, [however,] Allah has lightened your burden. for He knows that you are weak: and so, if there be one hundred of you who are patient in adversity, they will overcome two hundred; and if there be one thousand of you, they will overcome two thousand by Allah’s leave: for Allah is with those who are patient in adversity.”.(8:66)
This is a very is significant in indicating the worth of a person who practices what Allah instructed in relation to people who are incapable of understanding and bent on denying the truth. Allah says to the companions (ra) of the prophet (saws) during war, a time when the matter of life and death, Allah’s decree on each person is almost black and white, that twenty who are patient during war will overcome two hundred, and one hundred will overcome one thousand, the reason given for these number is related the character of the enemy mentioned at the end of the verse, “they are people who cannot grasp it” and “are bent on denying the truth”.
Conquering fear of death while fighting means it does not enter your heart what so ever, it doesn’t mean you shrug it of at that point in time. We are referring to what is really in a persons heart, not the delusion he wants to believe about himself at that moment, this quality is gained by man because of how he lived his life up to that point and our daily practices which we keep the heart attached to. The prophet (saws) himself because of his life, his heart was tested with the wonders of Jannah near the lote tree of furthest limit and Allah praised his heart saying it never wavered from Allah nor was his sight even bold staring at anything.
In similar manner ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (r.a) narrates that Rasulullah (saws) said: “Indeed Allah relieves difficulties for 100 neighbors due to a pious Muslim living near them”.(al-Mu’ajjam al-Kabir, Tabrani; Mu’alim, Baghawi)
Anas (r.a) narrates that Rasulullah (saws) said: “When Allah wishes to do good with a person, He uses the person to remove difficulties from the people”.(Shu’b al-Iman, Bayhaqi)
These verses in the Quran ring true with what once said regarding Shaolin monks, it was believed that “One Shaolin Monk was considered to be worth one thousand soldiers”, they were known for there spiritual practices and martial arts training.
Islam has been in china from the earliest days of Martial arts as we know them, where the two spheres of spirituality and combat are combined. In 651 CE, during the Tang Dynasty, a delegation was sent to China by the Khaliph Uthman Ibn Affan (r. 644-656 CE) from Madina, led by S’ad Ibn Abi Waqqas (d. 674 CE), from tribe of Bani Zuhrah, the clan of Aminah daughter of Wahb, mother of the Prophet Muhammad (saws), they arrived at the port of Guangzhou to deliver the peaceful message of Islam. Another delegation was sent “When a military commander An Lu-Shan revolted against Emperor Su T’sung in 755 CE, an urgent plea was made to the Abbasid Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur who immediately sent a contingent of 4000 soldiers who eventually quelled the unrest and recaptured the city”.
“The city of Chang’an, (present day Xian in Shaanxi) retained its normality once more and continued in its splendour under the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE). During the Tang period a variety of different cultures, knowledge and spiritual beliefs, all interacted with each other; thus attracting many keen Japanese and Korean scholars who wished to learn and observe Chinese arts”.
“Many Abbasid warriors who helped the Emperor accepted the invitation to stay and settled in China, they trained in the martial arts, and married Chinese wives thus beginning a natural process of integration into Chinese society while maintaining their Islamic identity and stressing a common lineage and descent from venerated Muslim ancestors. These ancestors were colloquially known as “Hui Hui” down the centuries, and founded one of the longest lived and rarest of all Muslim minorities in the world”.
Muslims added much to the already rich Chinese culture, Syed ‘Umar Shams-uddin (known as Sayyid al-Ajall, d.1271CE), a noble figure and descendant of the Prophet (saws), among his many achievements was his study of three ancient Chinese books, called the “Books of Changes” dating back to 909 BCE, which are understood by only a few scholars today, Shams-uddin was responsible for the origin of the “Tai T’si”, the Yin and Yang symbol.
The Ability to understand and expound on the spiritual systems Allah placed in the universe is rare, of which there are many theories around the world because it is the scientific study of the universe, but all come from our understanding the Human body (our Physiology) and how the energy created by it through it’s organs and nervous system interacts with the energy flowing around us in the world, seen in the various electromagnetic fields (of different wave lengths) presents on earth.
Allah stressed the importance of understanding the human body in the very first verse revealed in the Qur’an and the importance of understanding the quantum universe that these fields exist in, in the first verses of it’s second chapter.
Allah says “Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created-Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood” and Allah says this religion is for those “Who believe in the Unseen, (and) are steadfast in prayer” (2:3), believe in the Unseen means to understand the unseen.
The system Allah created in the Universe impacts the Nafs (self) because the spiritual world is a reflection of the physical world, and the physical world is a reflection of the spiritual world what occurs in one impacts the other (now long established in physics).
Many scholars studied this relationship and wrote theories about how it existed although with the limited scientific knowledge available to them at the time, the Yin and Yang is one theory which was applied to the human body to cure it through acupuncture, which mapped the flow of energy through the body and how energy affected specific organs, essentially we know this today as the nervous system which sends electrical impulses (energy) to each organ of the body, this science spread throughout Asia while in the Islamic world the Lataif were developed and adopted.
To illustrate this relationship between energy in the world, the electromagnetic field around us created by the Sun, Earth, mobile phones and broadcast stations, and energy in our body created by the brain heart and nervous system, children living underneath high-powered voltage lines which radiate energy have an increased chance of developing cancer and nervous system related illnesses as adults. The science behind acupuncture is well established today but what was missing for a long time from the equation was a recent scientific vocabulary and our modern understanding of physics and physiology, because it is physics which tells us how energy, in waves or fields in the world behave.
Because this relationship between energy in the universe and the human body is becoming increasingly apparent a new field of science has emerged that uses the laws, methods and theories of physics to study biological systems from the molecular scale up, called Biophysics.
It is closely related to Biochemistry and can even be called biochemical physics because any chemical reaction requires a specific amount of energy to occur and at the molecular level the human body is more closely linked to the energy in the world around it, seen most clearly in how the energy in light particles fuels the chemical reaction in our eyes allowing us to see, and again energy is the domain of physics.