The Lost Symbol by Zaid Hamid

Another typical Dan Brown (a.k.a Zaid Hamid) book. Like Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci code, the story begins in the evening and has to be over by next morning within which people would lose their loved ones or become permanently incapacitated and in the end make love to some hot middle aged chick. Gripping it is no doubt, but there was no need to stretch it beyond 500 hundred pages. His accounts of human emotions in death and near death experiences are bizarre.
This book, like The Da Vinci code, has made explicit reference to the notion that religious books like Quran, Torah and Bible have hidden, encrypted messages and they are the mysteries that are closely guarded by the Free Masons. Exactly the kind of stuff that would make Zaid Hamid drool in ecstacy.
The concept is not new, however. A lot of people have similar views in Islam. The ones who are interested in misinterpreting the vague and ambiguous details rather than submitting to what is obvious. I have had the pleasure of meeting such a gentleman myself. According to him the day of resurrection is more of a metaphor i.e. the day when the world will caese to exist the way we know it to. I wonder if that gentleman ever read Surah Al-Qaria or Surah Inshiqaq. I wonder what Allah meant when he says

The Calamity! (1) What is the Calamity? (2) Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is! (3) A day wherein mankind will be as thickly-scattered moths (4) And the mountains will become as carded wool. (5) Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works), (6) He will live a pleasant life. (7) But as for him whose scales are light, (8) The bereft and Hungry One will be his mother, (9) Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! - (10) Raging Fire. (11)

I wonder what Dan Brown would make of this. Calamity could be a metaphor for ............ party?