Na karanta A Brief History of Time na Stephen Hawking a makarantar sakandare, kuma na ji daɗinsa ƙwarai. Na kuma sami damar ganinsa yana magana da idona a lokacin da nake makarantar sakandare. Ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin masu yaɗa ilimin kimiyya da suka tada min sha'awar karatun ilimin physics, wanda daga ƙarshe ya kai ni ga samun digirina a wannan fanni daga Jami'ar Harvard.

I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time in middle school and thought it was great. I also got a chance to see him speak in person when I was in high school. He was one of the populizers of science who sparked my interest in studying physics that eventually led to receiving my degree in the subject from Harvard.

Abin da ya kasance a fili koyaushe game da Hawking shi ne cewa mutum ne mai imani mai girma. Amma ba imani ga Allah ba. Shi mai musun Allah ne mai tsayin daka. Ya sanya imaninsa ga ikon hankalin ɗan adam na gano "Ka'idar Haɗin Kai ta Komai". Shin irin wannan ka'ida tana wanzuwa? Hawking ya yi imani sosai cewa tana wanzuwa, kuma kamar Einstein da sauran masana kimiyyar lissafi da yawa, ya sadaukar da rayuwarsa wajen ƙoƙarin gano ta.

What was always clear about Hawking was that he was a man of great faith. Not faith in God, though. He was a staunch atheist. He put his faith in the human mind’s ability to discover the “Grand Unified Theory of Everything.” Does such a theory exist? Hawking strongly believed so, and like Einstein and many other physicists, he dedicated his life to attempting to discover it.

Bagaimana muka sani cewa irin wannan ka'ida tana wanzuwa? Kuma ta yaya muka sani cewa za a iya gano ta kwata-kwata? Waɗannan tambayoyi ne da suka dame ni a matsayina na ɗalibin ilimin kimiyyar lissafi. Kuma babu ɗaya daga cikin malamaina da ya ba ni amsa gamsasshiya. Mafi yawan abin da za su iya cewa shi ne cewa duniya tana da sarƙaƙiya sosai, tana nuna tsari mai girma da kyau, saboda haka dole ne akwai wani abu da yake ginshiƙin dukkan abin. Dole ne akwai wata gaskiya mai zurfi! Dole ne akwai dalilin da ya sa wannan tsari, wannan "Tsarin Girma" yake wanzuwa! Kuma dalilin, kamar yadda Hawking 1 2 The Modernist Menace to Islam ya yi zato, shi ne cewa wata ka'ida mai ƙunshe da komai, watakila ma lissafi ɗaya mai bayyana komai, "lissafin Allah" kamar yadda wasu masana kimiyyar lissafi ke kiransa, ita ce ginshiƙin komai.

How do we know such a theory exists? And how do we know it can be discovered at all? These were questions that troubled me as a student of physics. And none of my professors had compelling answers. The most that they could say is that the universe is so intricate and demonstrates such complexity and sublime order that there must be something that underlies it all. There must be a deeper truth! There must be a reason why this order, this “Grand Design” exists! And the reason, Hawking 1 2 The Modernist Menace to Islam surmised, is that an all-encompassing theory, perhaps even one all-explanatory equation, a “God equation” as some physicists call it, underpins it all.

Shirkin da ke cikin wannan tunani a bayyane yake, musamman ga irin su Hawking waɗanda ke ƙin Allah da ƙarfi saboda irin wannan hasashe na ƙarya game da duniya da tarihinta. Maimakon su fahimci cewa tsari na duniya da yadda hankali ke iya fahimtarsa tun farko suna samuwa ne saboda wani Mahalicci mai iko duka, wanda ya halicci duniya da hankalin ɗan adam, Hawking ya ƙi karɓar abin bayyane, ya kuma dage a kan wani abu da tunaninsa ya ƙirƙira, wato abin da ya kira "ƙa'idar Allah" da sunan da ya zama saɓo. Abin takaici ne a yi tunanin cewa hankalin mutum yana da ƙarfi har zai iya fahimtar asirai da girman duniya kaɗai, har ma ya tsara ta a cikin tsarin ka'idoji na kansa! Wannan ba komai ba ne face bautar kai, irin shirkin da aka gani daga wajen Iblis da Fir'auna.

The shirk explicit in this mentality is clear, especially for those like Hawking who militantly reject God in lieu of this kind of metaphysical speculation about the world and its history. Rather than recognize that the order of the universe and its comprehensibility to the mind in the first place are due to an all powerful Creator of both the universe and the human mind, Hawking obstinately turned away from the obvious to insist on a figment of his imagination, the blasphemously-named “God equation.” What folly it is to imagine that one’s mind is powerful enough to not only comprehend the secrets and grandeur of the universe but also to systematize it in a theoretical framework of one’s making! This is nothing but self worship, the kind of shirk seen from the likes of Iblis and Pharoah.

Ina ganin cewa ayoyin farko na Suratul Mulk suna da alaƙa sosai da Hawking da mutuwarsa, da kuma mutuwar irinsa waɗanda ke bin son zuciyarsu, suna zaton cewa su masu basira ne masu haske, amma ba su ruɗar da kowa sai kansu.

I find the first several verses of Surat al-Mulk in the Quran very relevant to Hawking and his demise and the demise of those like him who worship their whims, thinking they are enlightened geniuses, but deluding none but themselves.

Al-Mulk (Q67:1-6)

Al-Mulk (Q67:1-6)