Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum.
In the following video you will see a piece of metal being levitated by a magnetized coil, the force is so strong that it begins to melt the metal. When you watch the video what you want to focus on is the space between the metal and the coil, you can’t see anything but realize that there is an invisible force emanating from the coil and levitating the metal, this force is the predominant force in ghayb called the electromagnetic force.
The electromagnetic force is responsible for the existence of life, prophets receiving revelation, Awliyah receiving inspiration and just about everything that exists in the physical world, it is the same force levitating this piece of metal and you are watching it in action.
There are four fundamental forces responsible for all things in the universe this force is one of them, and there are four Arch angels dedicated to each of these forces, they are the bearers of the throne, among them sayidinah Jibril (as) is the one responsible for this force.
Allah mentions them in the Quran: “Those (angels) who bear the Throne (of Allah) and those around it glorify the praises of their Lord, and believe in Him, and ask forgiveness for those who believe (saying): “Our Lord! You encompass all things in mercy and knowledge, so forgive those who repent and follow Your Way, and save them from the torment of the blazing Fire! (It is amazing once you understand what Allah is referring to how you see that at every turn He is teaching us about subatomic space in the Quran, encompass with knowledge here refers to the Kursi which is responsible for quantum entanglement. “Kursiyuhu Ilmuhu” and it is the thing encompassing all things with knowledge that shapes how they are created) (Ghafir, 7).
Understand the throne is not subject to gravity it does not need to be held up nor is it floating in space and needs to be held in place, the Arsh is the subatomic foundation of the entire universe, like the shell of an egg, upon which everything else is built, it supports everything;
The Sahaba Abdullah Ibn Masud – May Allah be pleased with him- said: “Between the lowest heaven and the one after it is the distance of five hundred years (this possibly means as Angels travel, because that distance is dependent on how fast you are traveling and the universe is large), and between every two heavens is the distance of five hundred years, and between the seventh heaven and the Kursi (footstool) is the distance of five hundred years, and between the Kursi and the water (the subatomic ocean that created all living things) is the distance of five hundred years, and the Throne (Arsh which is the outer “shell” of the universe) is above the water, Allah the Almighty is above the Throne (fawqa Al-Arsh) (This means Allah’s real nature is outside this universe, He is not bound by what He created, it does not mean there is a space where Allah is. It is also a direction Allah ascribed to himself because His creatures rely on direction, so He chose up to represent Him and outside what He created to find Him). And nothing is hidden from Allah of your deeds.” In another narration: “He knows what you are upon”. Its grading is hasan.
The origin of the word Arsh is as thus:
Al-Khalil said: “The ‘arsh’ of a house is its roof” and the roof of the universe is the Arsh, but because it surrounds it on all sides we can also say it is its foundation.
Ibn Faris said: “The roof of a house is called ‘arsh’, Allah –Ta`ala- said: “Or (consider such an example) as the one who passed by a township which had fallen down upon its roofs (`urooshiha/plural).} [2:259], the meaning is that the roof falls and the walls fall (collapse) upon it.”
Abu Abdullah Al-Qurtubi al-Maliki (d. 671 H.) said: “The Throne is a great, noble and honorable creation, there is no creation (existing) above it. Above its upper most part is nothingness (i.e. There is no creation above the Throne, outside the universe), and below its lowest part is Paradise; as it is its roof, according to the hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurairah –Radiyallahu anhu- that the Prophet –Sallallahu alayhi wa Sallam- said: ”If you ask Allah, then ask him the (Paradise of) Firdaws, for it is in the middle highest point of Paradise (the middle of the highest part of Jannah), and above it is the Throne of the Most Merciful, and from it burst the rivers of Paradise.” (That increase Jannah in purity and Happiness) (Bukhari, Ibn Majah and others).
“And you will see the angels surrounding the Throne” [39:75] Four Arch Angels are responsible for the four forces that created everything while Mala’ikat al Arsh surround it meaning they are between us and it, no Angels are literally holding up anything of the Arsh, Allah says this indirectly in the Quran.
If the Arsh has poles to hold it up are the Angels around the throne then closer to Allah than the ones further away holding the poles? “Those who bear the Throne and those around it glorify the praises of their Lord” (40:7) How is that possible when one of them is Mika’il, the greatest Angel, and He is near earth responsible for it, while another is the Angel of death who moves through the universe taking the life of all creatures, and another is Israfeel who does not move from the trumpet, and another is Jibril who is responsible for coming to earth with revelation.
So, Understand, the word pillar is not literal it is like the five pillars of Islam and those who hold them up, the pillars of the Arsh are the pillars of the universe, and the four pillars of the universe are the four fundamental forces that created all things.
If you think this argument is too much Abu Sa’eed Uthman Ad-Darimi (d. 280 H.) said similar to the khawarij who said the Arsh is the entire universe, He said: “And the angels will be on its sides, and eight angels will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them.” (69:17), do they (also) carry the heavens, the earth, and what is in them?” certainly, the entire Arsh is enormous in comparison to the heavens and the earth and they are no more capable of that, Angels are created beings with limits. (Ya’qub al Qarrab said: “I have not seen the like of Uthman b. Sa`id neither has he seen the like of himself. He studied Literature under Ibn Al-A’rabi, Fiqh under Abu Ya’qub al-Buwaiti, and Hadith from Yahya bin Ma’een and Ali bin al Madini. He was leading in these sciences, may Allah have mercy on him.”)
Being one of the Pillars of the Arsh means one of the four forces of the universe revolves around your life, like people revolve around the Kaaba and like baraka revolves around it and like Rasul Allah (saws) was a prophet to the entire universe even though He (saws) did not visit all places in it and like the electromagnetic force responsible for all life revolves around Jibril (as).
“The Owner of the Throne” (40:15) this verse indirectly means all of this, the throne is for Allah to sustain and support because He istawa upon it, and not the Angels who cannot even enter it to know what is in it, like mankind can.
This verse tells us the small number of Angels bearing the throne in this life “and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them” (the verse means four Angels, the ones in this life, and four prophets along with them in the next.) (69:17)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “The people will become unconscious on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first to gain consciousness, and behold, I will Find Musa clinging to one of the pillars of the Throne. Then I will not know whether he regained consciousness before me or he has been exempted because of his unconsciousness at the mountain of Tur (at Sinai) which he received.“. (Bukhari) Musa (as) is one of those prophets who will bear (hold) a pillar of the Arsh in the next life like the four Angels in this one, if you have no context to the prophets (saws) words your assumptions fill in the blanks, and translations become very subtle.
The prophet (saws) says the universe has seven regions, these are the seven levels of Jannah, as a person’s heart matures he is granted inspiration from the first level to the last, the more spiritual growth and wisdom you have, your inspiration then comes from a deeper place in ghayb, until you reach prophethood or complete wilayah and you receive inspiration from the Arsh itself.
The deeper the inspiration the more you are able to complete the picture of life in the universe, now consider that Allah said He istawa on the Arsh, is established on the Arsh.
Understand, in the universe the limit of Angels is the Arsh itself, while man has no limit He can go into the Arsh and received inspiration from what Allah created in it, now consider the size of the Arsh in comparison to the rest of the universe, “like a ring inside a desert”, that is what Allah has exclusively reserved for man, these are the things that are between him and Allah that no other creature can reach, the Arsh is also a hijab between the deepest part of man and Allah’s spiritual creatures who have access to everything else in his life.
Our heart began life understanding the lowest of the low and it can reach to the highest of the high, we are the only creature capable of having a complete picture of the universe, this is why Allah said:
ما وسعني أرضي ولا سمائي، ووسعني قلب عبدي المؤمن…
“My earth and My heavens cannot encompass Me, but the heart of My believing servant encompasses Me.”
As the heart reaches deeper into ghayb it also commands more of its forces, like you saw the force levitating the piece of metal.
“And Allah sets forth parables for mankind, and Allah is All-Knower of everything.” (24:35) such is the heart and soul in relation to the magnetic force found in metal.
A Metal when brought to red heat is no longer magnetic it loses this property because its atomic structure that is channelling magnetic forces is being deformed, but it will become magnetic again if allowed to cool while pointing the metal North-South.
The atoms in metals like iron are grouped in magnetically similar regions called domains. When the domains of a material align in the same way, the material itself produces a net magnetic field because atomically it is arranged accurately.
While metal is cooling and facing north atomic-level magnetic domains in the metal rearrange themselves into a magnetic field. “Since the planet’s iron core produces its own magnetic field, these miniature magnets rearrange themselves to point north. Once enough jostling has occurred, all these miniature magnets pointed in the same direction create a magnetic effect.”
The magnetic force of metal is in fact the metal channelling the earth’s magnetic force which is why magnets show north and south, the metal at a subatomic level has now rearranged itself so the earth’s magnetic field is being focused though it and it is now strong enough for us to notice it.
Like the human heart magnets are an example of a physical object channelling a subatomic force.
The spiritual heart of man when nothing hinders its connection to the soul, like the nafs or sin (subatomic filth), likewise channels subatomic forces and man is able to do some amazing things with the help of Mala’ikah who lend him their strength and take advantage of his state.
Understand Karama (saintly miracles) is not a requirement of wilayah it is a by-product, a person can still have faults and be wali who does not perform miracles, we have seen many such stories from the awliyah’s, Allah does not throw away a person if they commit sin, only the prophets are sinless, and the awliayh after them are the most deserving of Allah’s mercy, everything is placed on the Mizan (scales) and your place with Allah is determined thus.
Our spiritual heart is created by the electromagnetic fields the human body creates, it interacts with something else that is subatomic in the human body but at a much deeper level and takes direction from it just like the brain directs the functions and organs of the body and that is the human soul.The soul is our connection to the depths of subatomic space, to the depths of Jannah and the Arsh.
“He is indeed successful who causeth it (the soul) to grow, And he is indeed a failure who stunteth it”. (91:9-10)
The human soul is our first point of contact with the subatomic world, everything that occurs around us sub atomically it senses and gives feedback to our body and its electromagnetic fields to process.
Just like there is an invisible force in the video holding up the piece of metal there is an invisible force inside man guiding him, the spiritual side of his physiology.
Allah describes the major subatomic influences which affect and shape the human soul in surah al Shams, which He asks you to consider in relation to it and think about why.
Allah says: “BY the sun and its radiant brightness (By the suns subatomic influence), By the moon as it reflects the sun! (reflects the suns solar activity at night) BY the day as it reveals the (sun to the) world, By the night as it veils it darkly! (Day and night are cycles of increased and decreased solar activity, Imam Rumi famously said Allah gave man two wings to fly, light and darkness, these cycles are the cycles of change that shape us) BY the sky and its wondrous make (the atmosphere is created because of the earth’s magnetic field shielding it from the sun and space, creating its own independent cycles of weather that also shape us), By the earth and all its expanse! (The expanse of the earth is affected by gravity, it creates the atmosphere and different weather patterns that exist around the world) BY the Soul (which is made from subatomic particles), and how it is formed (from these particles) in accordance with what it is meant to be (it is subject to the Laws of physics, this is the fate Allah is referring to in the verse, the laws of the universe is the half of fate we have no say in, the other half is how the universe reacts to our actions, hence Allah tied this subject of the soul to the previous verses in order to teach us where our influences come from…), And inspired it (through these forces that are the context of this surah) with what is wrong for it and right for it (Allah’s hand works through the subatomic forces of the universe).
To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self/soul] to grow in purity (human flourishing and creativity is part of this process and corelates to the period of the suns increased solar during its solar cycle), and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].
TO [THIS] TRUTH (that previous civilizations already knew of and worshiped) gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud (They denied that Allah was behind this and worshiped the object of space)” (91:1-11).
When a person grows in purity he can channel subatomic forces with clarity because His heart is clear of subatomic clots (filth, that hinder the “coherence of waves”), Rasul Allah (saws) called them rust and Allah called them Ran in the Quran.
“Nay! But on their hearts is Ran (the covering of sins and evil deeds) which they used to earn.” (83:14)
Here is the verses context, “[and so,] whenever Our messages are conveyed to them, they but say, “Fables of ancient times!” (83:14) meaning they are unable to perceive the insight in Allah words.
Rasulullah (saws) said, “The hearts get rusted as does iron with water.” (natural magnets are made of iron) When someone asked, “What could cleanse hearts again?” Rasulullah (saws) said, “Frequent remembrance of death and recitation of the Qur’an.”
Hasan al Basri (Rahmatullah alaih) said, “People of earlier times believed the Holy Qur’an to be the Commandment of Allah, they contemplated over it (dedicated themselves) throughout the night and acted upon it during the day. Whereas today you exercise particular care to pronounce its words and vowels correctly, but do not take it as the Commandment of Allah (live by it), and do not contemplate over it (dedicate yourself to it).”
“and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord above them” (69:17) the prophets through their hearts have a great influence on the universe, in the next life four of them will bear its pillars and allow mankind to see and know Allah from under their influence.
I will end this with a hadith that shows everything, even stones, have a subatomic side to them, that benefits or harms man, this is the ghayb, Unseen Rasul Allah (saws) spoke about.
Abu Sa`id (ra) said: I performed Hajj with `Umar, and when he began Tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka`bah), he faced Al-Hajar Al-Aswad (the Black Stone) and said, ‘I know that you are a stone that can neither harm nor benefit anyone. If I had not seen the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) kissing you I would not have kissed you.’ Thereupon, `Ali said, ‘No, O Commander of the Believers, it can benefit and harm.’ `Umar said, ‘How?’ `Ali answered, ‘With the Book of Allah, as Allah (Exalted be He) states: And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam’s loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): “Am I not your Lord?” They said: “Yes!”
Allah created Adam, passed His hand over his back, made them testify that He is his Lord and he is His servant, took his covenant (from them) and wrote it on a paper (this is not literal paper but metaphor). This stone had two (spiritual) eyes and a tongue (this is also metaphor). Allah ordered it to open its mouth, put the paper in it and ordered it to testify for the sincere people on the Day of Judgment (much of this hadith is metaphor).’ `Ali added, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) saying: Al-Hajar Al-Aswad will be brought on the Day of Judgment with a slippery tongue (a tongue that will speak freely) to testify for whomever faced it and was a believer. O Commander of the Believers, now you know that it can benefit and harm.’ `Umar said, ‘O Abu Al-Hasan, I seek refuge in Allah to live among people you are not one of them.’ (the translation is poor, a version of this can be found in the oldest manuscripts of sahih Bukhari).
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.
RE:
Holding A Pillar Of The Arsh
Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum.
Above I deliberately did not site Imam Ibn Arabi as the opinion I was giving tafsir upon regarding the bearers of the Arsh to see who would say what to me, I received the usual “we understand why you thought that, but”…from the kind of people who cannot handle normal science…so why do You think your comprehension matters when you have done no work in yourself to be able to process such subjects?
When you add excessive referencing a person’s attention is drawn to affirming the reference and baraka is lost in the process. On top of that you begin to think you can expertly tell the sahih from the fabricated, a trick the salafi sect (Arabic masons) use…and yes, I received comments from some of them, hence the intro.
Let’s consider this hadith a little further, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “The people will become unconscious on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first to gain consciousness, and behold, I will Find Musa clinging to one of the pillars of the Throne. Then I will not know whether he regained consciousness before me or he has been exempted because of his unconsciousness at the mountain of Tur (at Sinai) which he received” (Bukhari).
“Musa (as) is one of those prophets who will bear (hold) a pillar of the Arsh in the next life like the four Angels in this one”, If sayidinah Musa (as) was literally holding on to a pole that supports the entire Arsh, by this logic there are four in existence now and eight in the next life, considering the size of the Arsh how huge will this pole have to be to support the largest things Allah ever created and how would it possible for Musa (as) to hold it.
Its size will be so large it is more accurate to say He (as) was leaning against a wall, can any person say he is able to hold a large wall, your arms can not reach around it and all you would be doing is pressing yourself upon it.
Its one thing to say Angels can do anything, despite that being false and established in ahadith, that they live by the laws of the universe and have limits, but you can’t say that for a human especially since the Quran clearly says prophets are humans like us chosen from mankind.
Our scholars did not go to excess when interpreting ahadith that is why Imam suyuti was able to say these people of earth are yajuj wa majuj while moderns scholars are lost on this subject, and the companions could say lets travel and find the wall of dhul qarniyan, find it and report back to Rasul Allah (saws) who affirmed in ahadith that they did find it, just by normal travel in a northly direction, while today modern shuyukh raised by Disney cartoons give interpretations to ahadith like something from the scifi channel.
Interpretations have to be grounded in reality, Haq and that means science as we know it, the famous Ihya Ulum al Deen (literally the Revival Of Religious Science) is not a spiritual/esoteric work it is a work explaining Islam in the vocabulary of science in the time of Imam Ghazali, only people who don’t realise this think the Imam is saying something magical.
If you want to hold on to fantasy you have no place trying to refute something realistic.
Insha Allah think upon that, wa Eid Mubarak.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.