BREACH THE ASTEROID BELT TO TRAVEL IN TIMES WITH OUT TIME MACHINE|EP 1: ACROSS NILE IN 11TH CENTURY- A STORY

Mystery of a shining stone

Hassan ran to Murtaza house to call him ‘Baba has gone to mosque to offer Isha prayer and forgets to lock the library. Now we can detect that mysterious, shining stone, which is doubted to be fell from sky. Baba has found it during excavation at Taxila.’

                        ‘Oh yes! Let’s go,’ Murtaza got excited. He told his mother and went to Hassan’s house. Hassan’s father was a famous archaeologist. He found different items during digging and sometimes brought it home for research. This time he brought that mysterious stone for research. For many days he and his team couldn’t find any clue about that stone. He always locked his library as this stone was very precious and unique. Hassan could see that stone off and on when his father worked in the library. He always felt, that stone had some mysterious supremacy. He told about that stone to his cousin Murtaza who lived in his neighbor.
            Murtaza’s father was a doctor and his mother runs a beauty saloon.  Hassan and Murtaza spend most of the time together in learning about new inventions in the world. They also had great interest in history. Murtaza mostly read about the Muslim scholars and scientists. Now they were curious about the mystery of that stone.

AN ASTEROID ON SEARCH MISSION

                           They entered the library very quietly and reached to that stone. They were examining that stone inquiringly,

‘It does not look like any stones, found on earth. It’s too much shiny. Don’t you think it looks like a star on earth,’ Murtaza fascinated.

 ‘You are right, Baba and his team are still searching about its origin, and they think it may be a piece of any asteroid fell on earth or a remaining of a shooting star,’ Hassan’s eyes were amalgamated in the shine of that piece of rock.

‘May be any alien would also fell from it. I can see someone’s reflection deep inside it,’ Murtaza threw another idea excitedly when a book fell from the shelf.

‘Oh no, we should leave the library before the baba comes back,’ Hassan pulled Murtaza and turned to the door. Just then the shine of that stone got so bright that it besieged the entire room. They couldn’t see anything around them and after that they remembered nothing.

A TIME JOURNEY WITHOUT TIME MACHINE

 After a while, they found themselves in a big room. In that room, they could see boys of different ages wearing silk gowns and Arabian style caps. They all were busy in studies.

              ‘Teacher is coming in few minutes’ one boy came inside and informed the others.  All the students sat quietly. Murtaza and Hassan looked at each other and realized that they are also in the same dresses. ‘Where are we? Are we dreaming’? Hassan was speculating.

A CLASSROOM OF AL -HAYTEM IN EGYPT NEAR NILE

                  'No! You are not dreaming. It is 1020 AD, Cairo, Egypt and you are in the classroom of famous Muslim scientist Al-Ḥasan ibn Al-Haytham (965 – 1039)’. A young boy around, told them.

‘What! Al Haytham a Muslim scientist who said to the father of modern optics. He was also a great astronomer and a Mathematician. He is recognized for his experiments on optics. He is considered as pioneer of modern experimental methods and originator of modern physics” Murtaza stuck in surprise. That boy was about to answer when Hassan inquired,

‘Wait a second! Where are we? Who are you and how you know about us……?
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                      ‘My name is Zaka,’ Murtaza was also attentive to him.

A FUTURE SCIENTIST EXPOSED THE IMAGES OF TIME IN ASTEROID BELT

 “I am an astronaut and a scientist of future. Last year I was working in the asteroid belt that is present between Jupiter and Mars, just then
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 I hit the asteroid time belt.There I found blurred images and sounds from past. To understand and travel through those images I needed help of anyone from the present world. I sent my asteroid towards earth which reached at your home and you became my partners in my mission. That’s all,’ Zaka astonished them badly.

‘That’s all? Murtaza screamed. How can you say this? Why only we were selected? Is this real past or the images? Do you travel in time machine? If we are present world then what about you.......!

'Stop!Stop! Zaka discontinued a series of questions from Murtaza.

          ‘Your questions will never go to an end, just enjoy your journeys. There is no thing like time machine. All images of times are present in space mysteries. We are just exploring these. Many scientists of my time have become my rivals after this invention. I am on secret mission from my government but I can’t come in front. You’ll explore the journeys and I’ll help you when you needed.’             

‘Mission? What kind of mission.  We don’t understand’ Murtaza seemed worried.

 ‘Don’t worry,’ you’ll not be harmed’. I’ll always be with you….’

‘You mean that shining stone belonged to you,’ Hassan remembered at once.

‘You are right, its work is done, and it will become smaller with time and will disappear.  Archaeologists will forget about that, but you will stay under its influence till I want,’ Zaka solved the mystery as easy as it was nothing for him. ‘How we’ll understand the people around,’ now they looked relaxed. ‘Every one will understand you and you’ll understand them, no matter what language you are speaking,’ Zaka said pleasantly.

‘Friends,’ Zaka gave his hand. They looked at each other and hold his hand

 ‘Yes’.

WOW! PHYSICS NOURSHED IN MUSLIM CRADLES

Just then an aged man in silk gown and Arabian cap entered the room. Behind him were some boys with scientific apparatus entered.  He started the lecture on refraction of light. He was explaining the principles of pinhole camera.

‘I remember al Haytem was the first Muslim scientist to give an idea of photography hundred years ago. Physics actually nourished in the cradles of Muslim universities,’ Murtaza whispered to Hassan.

‘It is evident from his lecture that he was great scientist but look at these students. They’re deeply drowned in the lecture. I can never be this serious in any lecture. Especially the physics lessons about light are too boring and irritating,’ Hassan looked around and replied.

‘We started getting bored in our lectures and our breeding knowledge left our nest and flown to new destinations, where people loves to learn and research,’ Murtaza commented sadly.

‘Don’t acts like a philosopher? I know…,’

‘Quiet!’ one of the students stopped them from talking.

Eager of learning was evident among all students. They had a lot of respect for their teacher. They were focused and attentive towards AL Haytham. They both also took palm leaves and charcoal chalks from the corner and started to write.

STUNNING EGYPTION BEAUTY

Hassan felt thirsty after sometime. He again started to look around to escape from the lecture. He looked at Murtaza who was busy in the lecture; he silently slipped from a class to drink some water. He looked all sides and came in backyard. It was big building made of bricks. A blazing sun and very hot air of a desert welcomed him outside.  He was about to go back when someone called him.

 ‘What are you doing here? Have you bunked your classes’?

 A very beautiful young girl was there. Hassan listened about the beauty of Egyptian girls, but words were less for her magnificent beauty. He was spell bound……

Disclaimer: Names and people in this story are completely fictional. They bear no resemblance to anyone living or dead. 

TO BE CONTINUED

·      1. All images of time are saved in somewhere in space. Have you ever think about it?

·       2.Do you also get bored in your science lectures and find ways to escape like Hassan?

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