A Flute of a Girl's Bones - SF Novel (Chapters 4, 5, 6 of 10)
The Novel was Awarded the Prize of the Story Club in Egypt for the Year 1986
They were keen on making me learn and know their sciences and their culture. They used to take me in a small capsule that flew and landed on a cultivated area that looked like a garden and I was admitted to a huge hall that looked exactly like an auditorium. I used to sit among a huge number of "Mitsuians" in the same age, and one of their scientists used to come and begin talking to us. He used to talk about the "Mitsuian" civilization and the sciences they have established. I knew a lot of their culture, and I realized actually that they are of a solemn race.
I knew that planet "Mitsu" is very similar in nature to Earth. The same Oxygen ratio, Nitrogen, and Carbon exist in both of them, but there is a slight difference between them, on planet "Mitsu" temperature can not exceed 22 degrees centigrade therefore the inhabitants of this planet are found to be very similar to man. There are also birds and abundant vegetation, as well as many other animals.
The "Mitsuians" race is an advanced race, and they have a great deal of intelligence. They were created on planet "Mitsu" 11 million years ago, and they passed through various phases of evolution, until they reached a remarkable level of technological progress, even technology that - we - the inhabitants of planet Earth understand became a backward age of the ages they have passed through during their evolution phases. They are now passing through a phase called "Post Technology!", or "Super Technology!". They can travel through space at the speed of lightning or more, and travel through it to explore and find raw materials lacked by their planet dearly as a result of using up all that was stored in the planet in industry.
I have noticed that their sciences do not differ greatly from ours, to us science is the base whereas science to them has developed immensely but it is based on the same principles we are still studying. Their science is so advanced that when it is applied it gives the impression to any man that they are using magic! Despite that every thing they do is based on advanced and accurate scientific principles and bases!
They depend on the comprehensive sight in analysis. They have a comprehensive and general look at the phenomena. They are found to use different sciences in different branches of science to evaluate the phenomenon and realize its essence.
They placed two small metal rings inside my ears` cavities they were an extremely accurate gadget that can convert their sound waves into other waves expressing what they say in a clear Arabic language, when they talked in their language - I - heard it in Arabic!, this enabled me to join their society and join the students of their planet's sons in the same halls.
I have actually studied "two sciences" in their scientific institutes which are considered by them to be the base of all sciences in the entire universe - they are really two comprehensive sciences - I suffered from the difficulty in understanding in the beginning, but they used to give me strange injections after which I feel that my mind is clear and open to understanding and perception, afterwards I could do without these injections as my mind was accustomed to continuous understanding of information. I was very enthusiastic for studying unique sciences in a unique adventure that has not been known to humanity before!
The first science I studied is a science that they call "The Existence Arithmetic". They discovered huge area in the universe, and landed on thousands of planets, and they have found out that universe is but a remarkable and ancient system controlled by certain laws that can not be deviated from or exceed in any way. These laws control and dominate everything existing in this colossal universe, and they have reached the main laws from these laws which are two.
The first law and it is called the law of "Rotationalism". This law states that everything rotating, comes back to where it was, everything in the universe moves towards the direction of its origin, till reaching it, hence it begins moving again away from it and directed to it in the same time, and so on to infinity. There is nothing perishable, everything comes back once more, and this is applied to matter, action or a living being!! All the actions and incidents that happen due to nature or us are recorded in huge "Archives" called "the Ancient Time Archives". This archives present these actions again and display them when their due time comes to present them or when the due moment comes to present them!, hence an action or an incident that took place hundreds or thousands or millions of years age comes back again clearly, and in detail, into life!
This is applied to living beings; all the living beings in the universe do not perish. They are immortal and eternal. Death is but an ending of a vital system by the occurrence of a defect in its activated and its elements of survival. But "The Ego" or "The Self" which is the result of this "Very" vital system that remains and does not perish and this is due to according to the first law - the rotationalism. This self or spirit - and its equivalent in their language is "Pama" when it is translated literally - must be returned and come back again according to this law when its due time comes and when its chance of appearance takes place!
The second law that they have discovered is the law of "Opposition". They have found out that everything in the universe has an anti-thing, opposite, that reflects it in its formation and shape and characteristics and behavior. This opposite is there, in a distant place, in the extremities, where nobody dared to enter or even come close to. This place is called "Anti-Universe", it is an opposite universe that includes all that existing in our universe, all its planets, suns and galaxies, as well as all its creatures but in an opposite way!. It is a materialistic universe but it is made of an anti-matter.
They realized the existence of this law through a little remark made by one of their young scientists. He has noticed that we do not realize something unless its opposite is there, light is not realized until there is darkness, life is not known until there is death, health is not known till there is an illness, and existence of something without its opposite means that it does not exist, and so long as the universe is known and realized and very certain there must be found an "anti-universe" which is distant, in a remote place of this generality. Definitely it is not possible for any item to move from the universe to the anti-universe as this simply means atomic explosion between two matters of opposite composition, so each of them annihilates the other and energy is given off in the form of a huge explosion!
One of their scientists has gone on to say in an original paper of his that every living being has an anti- living being! Who is living in anti-way in this anti-universe, and does anti-actions that are opposite to the actions of the original creature in the same moment. He has also said that the universe and the anti-universe move in two opposite directions i.e. one of them moves from right to left and the other moves from left to right, therefore they will definitely meet. Each of them will annihilate the other and this will be the "Perpetuity", and a huge energy will be released due to this giant explosion. Then an new "Eternity" will begin in which this energy will be converted into a matter and an anti-matter that will form a universe and an anti-universe anew and they will move towards one another till they meet and explode!. And so on the cycle continues like that in an everlasting ceaseless eternal becoming. We note that this complies with the first law - the rotationalism - which states that everything rotates!
There is something else included in this law which is if there is an anti-universe there will be also an opposite to the universe. This latter opposite is not materialistic but it is immaterialist, in which the essence and meanings of this existence exist. Each existent has a "nonexistent" that is special and belonging to him alone, it is opposite to it, not only in formation, but in essence as well. Similar to the reaction of all existents with each other to form an "existing universe" all the nonexistents react in turn to form a "nonexisting universe". This nonexisting universe generally balances all generalities!
These are strange laws they reached with exhausting effort and tens or hundreds of years of work and thought. It is the outcome of thought of people who opened heavens, landed on Earth, and their sciences and culture contained the whole universe!
The second science I have studied there is the science of "Universal Races" which studies the intelligent living beings that exist in the universe, in any site in it. They arrange the universal races in hundreds of levels of intelligence, any intelligent race discovered by them are to measure their intelligence quotient and place them in their proper degree, and they study their intelligence factors and their intelligence future.
In front of me a board was lit - during the lecture in the grand auditorium - and which classified universal races according to their intelligence. I searched with my eyes immediately for man, I found him classified in the sixty place within two hundred intelligent levels, i.e. there are 59 universal races that are more intelligent and progressed than man, as well as 140 universal races less than man in civilization and intelligence. For them they come in the second place in the universal intelligence order, which means that there are race discovered to be more intelligent than they are! They say that this intelligence difference between them is slight!
They have "economic" relations with these other race who are as intelligent and progressed as they are. They also have continuous scientific and cultural exchange between the both of them, and they travel or move from their planet to that planet of the other race very easily and simply and in a few moments, as there are good transportation lines between the both of them. Thing that I have found and have been very astonished at is that there are wars between them, and there are also wars between the other advanced races following them in intelligence. There is also a bitter rivalry for survival, as long as possible, the stronger race stay longer, which means that all - and in all the intelligent levels - struggle for survival. This struggle - only - gives survival. Fear and panic from the future create work and creativity, to continue is to work, no work no survival, work and struggle gives life a great value, that makes a being keen on it, and love to live it, that is what I learned from the inhabitants of planet "Mitsu".
I knew from the lectures I had in that distant world, that the inhabitants of planet "Mitsu" have discovered planet Earth in the year 753 A.D. which is 1222 years ago, and they have realized that man is an inventive intelligent creature who is able to grow and flourish. He can - in a short time - conquer heaven, control, occupy and may be destroy. So they paid us a lot of attention. They set up thousands of apparatuses and scientists to study us, and throughout the years they have been watching every move we do, and for hundreds of years and without being bored or lazy for a moment they have been doing this eternally watching, because this benefits them very much.
These people want to know their past of evolution that they have passed through accurately. The science of "Universal Races" states that all races and nations in the universe pass through similar phases of surrounding circumstances that develop their intelligence. Man on Earth, "Mitsuians" on "Mitsu" and any other race on their planet pass through similar environmental circumstances to some extent, which develops their intelligence. Since intelligence is the same, therefore what creates and generated it in the being are similar circumstances.
"Mitsuians" watch the development of human civilization to know the evolution of their intelligence in the remote ages, therefore they can understand the pattern of their intelligence evolution, consequently they can intervene in the phases of this natural evolution so as to make it faster to grow up faster, and gain more sciences, and their sciences flourish greatly.
They intervene from time to time to limit human activity on Earth, as if man developed greatly he will compete, challenge and stand up for them. Therefore they evaluate every invention reached by one of our scientists before its announcement and applied on Earth. If they find it affecting social, cultural and intellectual life of man properly and making human mind make reasonable natural progress they will let it be announced and applied and effective to human civilization, and if they find that the invention will make a huge intellectual confusion or sudden intellectual wakefulness, this will make human race evolve rapidly, which means that "a break through" in human intelligence, which will make them miss a phase of their evolution phases of the past! That means that will fail their ancient research!
So they work to prevent the spread and application of this invention by all means, even if this leads murder, burning and destruction!
In this way they have been recording every day a part of their intellectual history very accurately. In the same time they do not give man a chance to progress and flourish, but this is a crime, but their justification is that they are preventing an intellectual confusing from happening which is man can not pass through it peacefully, he may destroy himself by his progress, that is what they are very objecting to happen!
They have intervened a number of times to repair what was spoilt by man due to his progress. In the year 1945 A.D. and after the explosion of the two atom bombs of "Hiroshima" and "Nagasaki" flying saucers or space vehicles come from them have spread, and they have absorbed the atomic dust that spread after the explosions and that would remain for hundreds of years with its extremely dangerous effect on the living on Earth. In this way they have repaired that folly made by man.
And there are "Mitsuian" bases on Earth about which and whose places they told me, there is a base for them on the plateau of Pyramids in "Giza" which is a whole city hidden in the sand and comprising gadgets for eavesdropping and watching, information and astronomical communication, as well as a huge store of arms, and there work tens of their scientists!. There are also similar base in "La Paz" in "Bolivia", and a third one in "Gothenburg" in "Sweden", they are both embedded in Earth. These bases are centered for their existence on Earth.
All this information I was know through my daily lectures in the huge auditoriums with the "Mitsuians`" race sons.
"Mitsuian" do not live in communities, they are one single community, they live in one planet, and in one single way, and one single style. They consider work a sacred thing, and they always have a soft quiet smile. Everything is done accurately. They have no emotions or rather their emotions have died, or they are still dying. I will never forget seeing a girl was reading a book about love in our Earth's world and I have seen her tears flouring hot and heavy from her eyes!
CHAPTER 5 OF 10
But there is no harmony with these people, and there is no merging into them, although they are extremely tender, but they are not of my race, I am a stranger, I am not psychologically harmonized with them, and I will not be. There is hardly a connection between me and them, which is life, we are living beings, and we can not escape this truth, pulse of living is the only common thing existing between me and them!
That was what I thought of when I was in my room which I was given at "The Scientific Commanding Complex". My thinking was interrupted by repeated knocks at the hidden door, and the door opened, and "Gresolia" appeared with her very sweet quiet smile, she came in quietly, and she spoke - without using the gadget - and I heard what she said in Arabic, and it did not go with her lips movements.
- You will be present at the sixth meeting of the founding group tomorrow in the circular meeting hall, we shall come tomorrow to take you there.
She went out amazingly tenderly and closed the door and I heard the whistle once again!
A meeting, they have meetings, it must be scientific, and why is it held?. For a certain subject, which is me, they must be in need of something from me, the reason of holding this meeting must be my coming to this planet, and what will a meeting here be like?. Tens of questions knocked at my mind violently, and I feel a terrible headache invade my head.
I recalled Earth, the compassionate planet; I come from it, from its dust. I was extremely intoxicated when I imagined myself there now anywhere, on top of a mountain, in any forest, in the middle of the ocean, just on its beloved surface. I closed my eyes with the killing feeling of expatriation spreading inside me awfully slowly!
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"Gresolia" walked slowly before me in an elegant silvery dress, and I walked after her along a cold long corridor, which had fresh nice air, till she stopped at a white door and waited a little time, the door opened and she got in quietly and I got in after her.
I found myself in a huge circular hall containing about one or two thousands "Mitsuians" sitting in grandstand having huge semicircular shape, and there was a big desk in front of this grandstand and in front of it there was number of seats with a huge deluxe seat amidst them which was seemingly for the chairman of this meeting, and there was a single red stool placed on a small circular mound which had four steps leading to it.
"Gresolia" headed for this single stool and stopped at it, she made a gesture for me to sit, so I climbed the steps and sat down. "Gresolia" disappeared delicately and smoothly.
I became in the middle of the hall and in front of the big desk and surrounded by hundred of the "Mitsuians". I had a strange remark which was that they did not saw astonish or astound at me, I do not belong to this planet nevertheless, no one scrutinized me or at lest stared at me, as if I were one of them, or they were accustomed to seeing us and my appearance was not new to them!
About one minute passed slowly before a huge door opened behind the big desk and a number of "Mitsuians" came and sat on the seats behind the desk, a short bald man with very intelligently looking eyes sat on the huge seat amidst his other colleagues, I found out that this man is the president of planet "Mitsu"!
Suddenly, everyone was absolutely silent, they all stopped moving completely, no one shake, no one move his eyes one movement, then a deep sound said loudly:
Salutation to work,
to creativity,
to the fresh new experience,
to the living will in its persistence in presenting the new .. Whatever strange it may be.
This seemed to be their slogan or a national anthem of planet "Mitsu" which is said in the beginning of any meeting or celebration, just like we have on Earth!
As soon as finished saying this anthem the scientists seemed normal and stillness vanished. A soft feminine voice filled the hall saying loudly:
- O scientists!, in front of you is the Earth scientist "Aref Abdellateef Amer" who have developed the improved method of traveling in space, that method which has been discovered by one of our scientists since thousand years and which enable us to explore space and unveil a lot of the ambiguity of the vast universe.
We have evaluated this invention and found it necessary to interfere to stop it in such intellectual stage of mankind, and actually, we have prevented its execution on Earth and brought the Earth scientist to work with us.
Just then I found that all the scientists around me are looking very deeply at me and extreme scrutiny. They are not looking at me, rather they are looking in me, and this is frightful.
I was embarrassed and my face which turned very congested was filled with sweat. However, I controlled myself and looked around me challenging everybody.
The soft feminine voice said loudly once again:
- Mr. "Aref" is a talented person, intelligent, and capable of creative working, so he is a man who has outdistanced the age he was living in there in the distant world. Therefore he must be moved into the age that suits his thought and his imagination's release, because if he remains in a time that does not suit his thought then this thought will die or it will commit suicide, or those around it will kill it. Therefore the right place to grow such a creative thought is in the future, with us, on our planet.
And when he works with us his talents will create and create, and add up new discoveries to the existence. So that it will unveil many unknown ambiguous secrets which we still ignore, and these are many.
The voice paused for a moment and then went on to say:
Man has many creative, originative talents, so he is capable of distinction and genius. Mankind has uniquely intelligent. They are even extremely intelligent, but unfortunately they do not make use of all their intelligence, they make use of a very little part of this intelligence. The things that hinder the release of this intelligence are customs or traditions that belong to human communities. They fight the new ideas, as every new idea is not traditional, so it will prevent thought from being released and liberated. Therefore we found that their ideas are weak, traditional which are afraid of producing something new that opposes mores. We can rarely find a new daring idea. All their ideas which they consider new do not affect their lives much, and does not change it radically, and there are very few people who have had such advanced, daring ideas.
There are also hindrances to the release of human thought such as: Instincts which still control human behavior. The instinct of control, possession, lust and paranoia, each of them pushes man hard to be fulfilled so he exerts a great effort to do so, whereas lofty ideals and the mysteries of the existence are left unknown throughout the years.
Solving these mysteries develops intelligence, or in other words it makes man full use of "all" his intelligence.
Because of this man has become underdeveloped in terms of civilization progress, he is in the sixtieth place among the other races of the universe, and he fight each other, and suck blood for the sake of leadership, and what a horrid thing for an individual to kill another individual who belongs to his race!
Then I spoke, and my voice release from my larynx and to my surprise it was loudly amplified enough to fill the whole hall, as if there were waves all over the hall that pick it up and amplify it, I said:
- But you do fight also.
The voice replied me while I heard whisper amidst of the rows of those were present.
- We fight other races.
- But we have not detected other races up till now.
- If you do, you will unite, and fight them.
- Unite!
- Yes unite, there will be no international union in your planet unless you face another universal civilization, then you will be afraid of the future. You will feel the ethnic difference between you and this civilization. You will find no other way but union, you will be one league, you will distribute the outcome of your planet among all individuals justly, you will not discriminate between an individual and another, racial discrimination as you call it will actually disappear for ever, and you will find out how closely you are connected and how much you love each other and care for each other.
That is what happened to us two thousand years ago, when we found out the first intelligent universal civilization, the advanced civilization of the "Tonatwa" race.
Then a very different and strange looking creature stood up amidst the rows of the scientists. He is not surely be one of them, he has a huge black head and swollen popped out eyes, and thick lips. He stood up and opened his mouth and said a few words that were not translated by the gadget that was places inside my ears as they did not belong to the "Mitsuian" language. He seemed to be announcing of his presence, I knew that this creature belongs to the "Tonatwa" race!!
If you were there in the hall you would see an unique scene that you would never forget all your life ever after. This creature sat in his seat and I found that "Mitsuian" girl sat beside him and their hands entwined, they are married!!
The soft feminine voice said loudly once again in the hall:
- Now the president of the planet is welcome to speak.
I heard a calm solemn voice which belonged to the President of planet "Mitsu" saying:
- Dear "Aref" I have allowed you to work on our planet, and you will be highly respected and honored, and you will have all the care and attention, do you agree?
I found myself say:
- Yes!
A murmur was heard amidst who were present in the hall and most of them were delighted and satisfied with this agreement.
The voice shouted:
- As Mr. "Aref" joined us as an active member on our planet we gave him card No. "6E" to be recognized on the surface of our planet.
Now the seven eminent members who have contributed a lot to the development of "Mitsuian" civilization are to advance to shake hands with the Earth scientist.
The voice said louder:
- Mr. "Memil Fetroyes".
An old man comes towards me and climbs the steps and extends his hand and shakes hands with me with a cold smile.
- Mr "Suzami Freps".
Another bald man comes and shakes hands with me and goes away.
- Mr. "Kramen Arab Mai".
A third man comes towards me quickly and shakes hands with me tightly and goes away.
- Mr. "Isaac Newton".
Suddenly the grand Earth scientist who has discovered the famous law of gravitation appears, and comes towards me steadily with sad still looks and climbs the steps and extends his hand to shake hands with me. I could not lift my arm, my eyes propped out, my mouth opened, and I fell unconscious!
CHAPTER 6 OF 10
"Newton" has died, yes died, the world knows that well. He died in 1727 A.D., and was buried in the cemetery of the great people in Westminster Abbey in "London". But this man whom I saw, it is him, in the flesh, his look at me confirms that he knows me well as I am from his planet's sons, and once he appeared I realized that he belongs to my race. Yes, he is the genius scientist "Isaac Newton" as my feeling assures me! and as I saw him in the pictures!
The world thinks that "Newton" died, finished, was forgotten, but I saw him myself, and was certain that he is alive and living as we are. He is not dead yet, rather he lives there, above, in the depths of this universe, in a mysterious world that is greatly unknown to us. He lives in the arms of the "Mitsuian" community.
But he died 248 years ago. How could he live such a long time?!, like an age, the time difference between Earth and planet "Mitsu" must be huge.
They kidnapped him as they kidnapped me, to make use of him, those criminals, savages, without principles.
- O criminals, O means, O ignoble, woe be to you, woe be to you.
I hit the door of my room in the "Scientific Commanding Complex" violently with my hands, feet and head, and I shouted:
- Means, ignoble.
The door opened revealing a number of "Mitsuians" girls and men, they entered the room, encircled me from every side and let me insult them as I wish, till I cooled down, and I came back to my mind, then I said:
- I want to meet "Newton"!
The quiet smile filled the faces of all the "Mitsuians" and I surprised that a girl said quietly unlike the tension of the situation:
- We do not object to your meeting the Earth scientist "Newton".
My meeting with "Newton" was agreed upon too easy to expect!
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I walked on my feet along a twisted zigzag road, the giant huge trees - which cover more than half of the area of planet "Mitsu" - on both sides of the road, their branches entwined high above forming a marvelous natural shade that veils the light of the distant star.
Everything was calm, still, there was no wind, no movement, everyone is silent, anticipating, awaiting this unprecedented historic meeting.
But everything seemed to me as if they were singing and dancing, playing a wonderful, wild, symphony. I am about to meet a supposedly dead man, but I will speak with him and I must do, he is very dear to me, he belongs to Earth!
In the distance I saw the grand scientist sitting in the vicinity of a huge tree trunk, looking deeply and attentively. I approached more till I became just in front of him exactly. I looked at him, and he looked at me, and I do not know exactly what happened after that!
In one moment we embraced each other exceptionally warmly and eagerly. I felt his back and shoulders very tenderly and eagerly. This matter comes from Earth, it belongs to Earth, it is from the dust of my beloved planet whose parting has become unbearable.
I sat on a prominent root in front of the grand scientist and started talking - we talked in English which is the native tongue of the grand scientist - and I will write the whole conversation in the following lines.
I: Are you "Newton"?!
He: Yes.
- But you died!!
- Are you dead now!
- Then you experienced what had happened to me.
- Say that I had experienced what happened to you, I have been here for a long time.
- But I was kidnapped because I made a new great invention, why were you kidnapped?
- For the same reason, I developed strange and original mathematical equations that you have not yet developed. I developed equations that generate energy out of matter - you know that matter has a confined energy - I managed to find out the way by which this energy can be generated and how to make use of it easily, that is done by using anti-matter in the anti-universe!
- But we know that on Earth and we have already generated atomic energy and nuclear energy out of matter.
- I know that but you could not generate energy by using anti-matter. You have not so far approached anti-universe, either, you are not even certain that it exists!. I could develop certain equations that gives man the chance of dealing with this anti-universe and exploiting its immense wealth and mainly atomic explosion that takes place between a matter from our universe and its counterpart from anti-universe and taming the generated energy and using it in life. Those people prevented the execution of those researches strongly, that was in the year 1727 A.D... Therefore they had burned my papers, and kidnapped me here, and got the world under the delusion that I died!, they perfected this delusion so much that my own family buried me themselves in the cemetery of the great people in Westminster Abby in "London", but they did not bury me, rather they buried a very accurately made artificial body!. As far what you call generating atomic and nuclear energy that you managed to do, this was a part of my research, and it was a great miracle in the time I was living in on Earth. If it were carried out it would make people fall in a hard intellectual confusion that is not easy to pass, so they prevented that too.
- Then they let our scientists later after two hundred years to carried out this discovery because we have developed well enough to understand such discovery!
- That is correct!
- What an intelligent race.
- They are more intelligent and informed than you think, and they consider the Earth scientists who are here as intelligent as they are, and that ..
I interrupted him and asked with amazement.
- There are other Earth scientists here?!
The grand scientist opened his mouth smilingly a little smile, and looked through the entwined roots as if he were looking for a certain unknown aim and said:
- Many!
- You say many, who are they?!
- The most eminent figures known to humanity along its history, and who have contributed greatly to the progress of human civilization. Each figure of them used to discover an idea or a new theory to develop humanity and make it advance, but they used to interfere, and prevent its spread, and kidnap this figure to work with them here, they consider it unique talent and intelligence they must make use of it.
- Who are the historical figures found here with us?
- Four else, "Beethoven", "Lenin", "Hitler" and "Einstein"!!
- Yes, I know them well; they are the most eminent figures that have affected our civilization.
- They are still watching Earth, every while we find a scientist or a thinker or a leader coming to live with us here, we know then that he made something new developed on Earth. They give him a card with a serial order, I am the first one to come here so I have card No. "1E" i.e. "1 Earth" and you are the last one so they gave you card No. "6E" i.e. "6 Earth".
- What an exciting thing, astounding.
The grand scientist looked in the distance at the extending far horizon and whispered to himself:
- What are many exciting and really astonishing things in the universe ..
A paused moment passed before I said:
- But you are certainly eager to return to Earth.
- No.
I said astonished:
- How?!
- We do not want to return to Earth any more, dear you will be psychologically harmonized with those people as you live here and many of your habits will change, even your thinking will be changed to go with the way of thinking here.
- But my love for Earth will never die out.
A sand tear overflowed from the eye of the grand scientist and said desperately and sadly:
- We still love Earth, and this love will never die out, but we despair of returning, this is impossible. How can we use a ship made by them to leave, that is difficult, and if we do we will find a great surprise on Earth awaiting us to destroy us decidedly!
- What is this surprise?!
- O my young dear, the difference in time between planet "Mitsu" and Earth in huge, every day that pass on planet "Mitsu" is equal to 100 days on Earth, so I have been here for only two and half years whereas on Earth I have died or disappeared for 248 years. So if I return to Earth now how to God can I live in a time which is considered a future to me!
His words were like merciless hammers that hit my head. Our time has gone away from us and we have to live in another time, and we must be harmonized with it, and it is impossible to return or get back to our original time!. What a horrible thing!
I heard "Newton" saying:
- It passed for your coming to this planet 90 days, this means 25 years or a quarter of a century have passed on Earth!. O my son, this is my destiny and yours so submit to it and live in the kingdom of God, praise God always and worship him, to include you in his vast paradise where life is immortal.
I opened my mouth as I was completely astonished, and said with shivering words:
- Do you believe in God?!
- I sleep and get up with that faith. God is the great solid fact that can not be doubted, or even argued about its existence.
I was attracted by his solemn quiet speech and with curious, intoxication and ardent youth I asked:
- Who is God?!
- He is the whole universe. He is man. He is the "Mitsuians". He is heaven. He is me. He is you. He is the absolute inclusion that includes all existences. He is the lofty meanings. He is good. He is right, truth, honesty, kindness, justice, tolerance ..
A horrible rattle began to appear in the voice of the grand scientist, and it increased, so he stopped talking and began hot and mystical crying.
I could not control myself so my tears overflowed.
An exciting crying moment passed through which we were as if we repent honestly to God. After wards the dark cloud cleared away, and everything seemed beautiful and bright. I saw "Newton" smiling and extended hand and held mine and said very happily:
- Salutation to all the creatures of God either human or "Mitsuians".
He laughed tenderly, he was still holding my hand, and I was pressed it, it belongs to the dust of my beloved planet which I will never forget whatever time may pass!, and which I will struggle from now persistently to get back to it.
To be continue ...
Published by Adel Ghonim
Dipl.- Bw. Adel Ghonim, Egypt. My "A Flute of a Girl's Bones" - SF Novel - was awarded the "Novel Club Prize of Egypt" at the year 1986 (you can read it here at Adel Ghonim's Published Content). I'm member i... View profile
- Science Fiction Isn't Just FictionScience fiction's a fluid genre that changes with the course of time. It's a literary voice that evolves with a generation, the genre borne out of wonderment, out of curiosity, to satisfy the age-old question of "What...
The Funniest Science Fiction Films & Television ShowsSpaceships, aliens and stand-up comics? Science Fiction can be incredibly, even knee slapping funny.
Is Science Fiction Ever Going to Be a Reality?This short article is just an effort to increase your interest in ongoing science researches, ENJOY READING!!!
- Thrills and Chills with the Grandmaster of Horror and Science FictionEvery fan of horror or science fiction knows the name of Richard Matheson, from scripts for Vincent Price movies such as House of Usher, his own The Incredible Shrinking Man, to the classic vampire tale I Am Legend. T...
Review of Christian Science Fiction Magazine Dragons, Angels & Knights M...Science Fiction and Fantasy is a genre on the rise throughout Christian Fiction. For a very long time, Sci Fi and Fantasy novels were often passed over or not well marketed beca...
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