My Two Eyes are Two Cameras...
Chairman of TRT Broadcasting Supervision and Coordination Board, Üsküdar University Faculty of Communication Department of New Media and Communication Asst. Prof. Adem Özkan wrote about "Media, Religion and Communication" in the October issue of Zafer Magazine.
Here is Özkan's article...
From the point of view of communication: “Maaliki Yawmid-Deen (Master of the Day of Judgment)”
I have been teaching "Media, Religion and Communication" to the students of the Faculty of Communication for 5 years. This course is a first in Türkiye. Every year, more Generation Z than I ever expected is electing this course. For the past two years, students from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences have also been involved in this course. It makes me happy that the course is being shown interest by the students and it always keeps my hopes high for the future.
When I ask my students why they chose this course, they say that they want to know and understand the Media-Religion relationship closely, and even wonder what it might have to do with.
"How does God communicate with us?"
"The place of the Holy Books and the Prophets in our communication with God"
"What is the role of religion in communicating with life?"
Our courses, which start with such titles, conduce to the formation of new openings with new questions and approaches.
In our expansions of "The Way of Communication in Surah Basmala and Fatiha", I explain that the Creator did not communicate pedantically, that He created an element of 'love and trust' in communication by presenting Himself as the possessor of 'compassion and mercy' at the very beginning, because of the value he gave to human, that He talked to him with a grand Book for both the world and the eternal life and offered road maps, and that He approached with the most basic arguments of communication by choosing the most reliable person as a prophet to be an example and model. These expressions, which they heard for the first time, open the doors to a warm communication with my students.
With the language of communication for 'Reminder and Preparation', I offer them a new perspective from the window of 'Maaliki Yawmid-Deen' that communicates beyond the borders of the world and that the continuation will come: "Yawmid-Deen”. It is a day of resurrection and reckoning, in which all kinds of good and evil we do in the world will be reciprocated, regardless of whether they are big or small. "Maaliki Yawmid-Deen" "Allah is the owner and ruler of that Day." In the world that is a guesthouse, every person is a passenger. Rich-poor, supervisor-official, oppressor-oppressed pass through here. Saying your goodbyes and paying off old scores are going without or without being made. Isn't that a lack? Shouldn't everyone be compensated for everything they do? All minds and consciences are, of course, in the direction of this question that 'everyone should see the rewards of what they have done'.
The Creator has taken every precaution to ensure that the rewards of what have been done are seen fairly. Our two eyes are like two cameras, that is, a lifetime records x24-hour footage completely in our 'flash disk’ memory.
As of today, the human eye has a much higher resolution than the highest-resolution camera. It is estimated that our eyes could ideally recognize about 2 million different colors. Since the camera sharpness settings have been adjusted, our recordings are extremely clear and smooth. There is no blur. Two gorgeous eye cameras and memory cards are delivered to everyone for the shoot.
On this occasion, it is necessary to mention a miracle in our eyes, which is looking at a single object with two eyes and seeing it as a single image is a great work of God's compassion that we never thought of and a seal of tawhid set on the eye. This has always been the case since the first man and will continue to be so until the end of time. Nowadays, camera technology giants have only just started to try this. However, they still have not managed to get two cameras to look at the same image and get one image at the same time.
Shots of our two eyes as two cameras are our audiovisual documents in which we always play the leading role. We can also call it our own film or documentary.
“The Day that the Spirit and the angels will stand forth in ranks, none shall speak except any who is permitted by ((Allah)) Most Gracious, and He will say what is right. That is the day of Judgment…” (Nebe, 38-39)
On that day, when the reckoning began and the button of our film was pressed, the story of a lifetime with all its vividness, clarity and colorfulness will be followed by the people of last judgement as quickly as in the 'time-laps’ technique.
To be unfair to anyone for 'that day', another shot was made besides our 'two-eyed camera'. He was also by the 'Recording Angels'. In the past, it was only possible to record by writing. That's why they were called 'Angels of Writing'. Today, the visual technology produced by the modern age has changed this characterization. Inspired by human creation, camera recording systems that mimic the relationship between the eye and memory evoke a new name for 'Angels of Writing': 'Angels of the Record'
'Angels of the Record' are angels specially assigned by the Supreme Creator for this work. From the age when good-bad, right-wrong, and profit-loss are well understood, they record for us day and night until the last breath. The reason is clear and unambiguous. No one will be held accountable for anything he has not done, nor will they be compensated. With this reality, human beings will continue to live with the peace and confidence that the Creator will never allow the slightest injustice to be done to them or to anyone else.
From the beginning credits to the roll caption at the end, this film belongs to us, and its audience, its reward, and its reward are incomparable to what is happening in the world because this film has never been released in front of such a large audience, without being called in front of the camera and without censorship.
Even in this world, those who want to receive awards by being appreciated by the jury committees in national and international film festivals and reach the most audience records. For this success, they work with great care and unbelievable efforts without skipping even the smallest detail and leaving nothing to chance. Result is to have people like and applaud and to have a material reward.
The jury and the audience of our film are Allah, the owner of the heavens and the earth, the prophets, the guardians, the angels and all the people who have come and gone.
The award is an eternal Paradise. Its beauty has never been seen by the eye, nor heard by the ear, nor has it even passed through the imagination of any human being.
The punishment is Hell that makes it uneasy and hurt like its name.
Until the final, no one was put under the slightest pressure, and the door was opened to the mind and the old man was not taken away. Everyone has freely aspired to both the reward and the punishment. In this case, it can be said that "Heaven is not cheap, even Hell is not inessential."
Now turning to ourselves, it is obvious how carefully and delicately we need to prepare our film for that 'watch day' and 'finale' that challenge our minds and dreams.
If a movie we watch at home or in the cinema ends with a 'happy ending', it is enough to make us happy. We enjoy it even though we know it is scripted. The fact that our own life movie ends with a 'happy ending' on 'the Day of Judgement' will make me and you the happiest. If it is the opposite, it will again upset me and you the most.
As a result, we can say that the fact that the Almighty Creator reminds us of the final scene with "Maaliki Yawmid-Deen” in Surah al-Fatiha on the very first page of the Holy Qur'an, the book of communication with man, is nothing but His immense love and compassion for human beings because He considers the man whom He says, "I have created in the most beautiful way," worthy of Heaven. Heaven, on the other hand, expects a 'movie' worthy of it.