Tafsir 2:29-33

B) The Ancient World Was Ruled By The Angels And Their Ways, The Reality Of Science Was Revealed To The World To Establish The Reality Of Man Above The Reality Of Angels, Their Limit Was The Natural World, While Man’s Encompassed All Aspects Of The Universe Right To The Finite!!!!!

Allah Established This When He Said To Them I Know What You Bring To The Surface And What You Take To The Depths, And Man Was Created From The Secrets Of The Universe To Be Master Over It!!!!

In Other Words To Be Master Over The Secrets Of The Universe Beyond The Control Of Angels. They Use The Forces Of The Universe Like An Artist With Paint, While Man Today Uses The Forces Of The Universe With The Scientific Instruments He Created To Greater Effect, And Angels Have No Capacity To Such Finite Depths!!!!

Science Is The Meaning Of “All Things” In The following Hadith; On the authority of Ibn Umar (Allāh be pleased with them) the Prophet (Allāh bless him and grant him peace) said:

“I was given the keys of all things except the Five: truly Allāh, with Him is the knowledge of the Hour (the future)” to the end of the verse (31:34) (narrated by Aḥmad and al-Ṭabrānī with an authentic chain)

وفي الصحيحين عن حذيفة قال : قام فينا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم مقاما ما ترك فيه شيئا إلى قيام الساعة إلا ذكره , حفظه من حفظه ونسيه من نسيه وإنه ليكون منه الشيء قد كنت نسيته فأراه فاذكره كما يذكر الرجل وجه الرجل اذا غاب عنه ثم اذا رآه عرفه.

The Scientific Method Comes From The Work Of The Muslim Nation, The Prophet (saws) Is The Opener Of Science And Science Is What Is Meant In The Following Verse; “In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages [through what they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves [the microscopic and subatomic], so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth.” [Qur’an 41:53]

When The Angels Pretended To Know The Future In Regards To Adam (q) And Mankind After Allah Created Them, Allah Said to Them I Know What You Don’t Know, I Know The Secrets Of The Universe;

2:30 AND LO! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: “Behold, I am about to establish upon earth one who shall inherit it.” They said: “Wilt Thou place on it such as will spread corruption thereon and shed blood -whereas it is we who extol Thy limitless glory, and praise Thee, and hallow Thy name?” [God] answered: “Verily, I know that which you do not know.”

2:31 And He imparted unto Adam the names of all things; then He brought them within the ken of the angels and said: “Declare unto Me the names of these [things], if what you say is true.”

2:32 They replied: “Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! No knowledge have we save that which Thou hast imparted unto us. Verily, Thou alone art all-knowing, truly wise.”

2:33 Said He: “O Adam, convey unto them the names of these [things].” And as soon as [Adam] had conveyed unto them their names, [God] said: “Did I not say unto you, `Verily, I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you bring into the open and all (surface of the universe). that you would conceal (into its depths)’?”

In Other Words, Man’s reality Is From A Place Beyond You, In the Secrets Of The Universe, And What Was It That Allah Demonstrated To The Angels To Prove Man’s Superiority Over Them To Such An Extent That They Should Fall Prostrate Before Him And All But Worship Him???

Man’s Ability To Know All Things The Angels Are Not Able To Know!!!!

C) The Biggest Problem With AI Is That It Can’t Recognize What You Haven’t Taught It To Recognize, That is Pretty Much The Problem With Animals And Angels Who Have Taken On The Reality of Animals, While Man Can Walk Around And Recognize Things He Has Not Seen Before, Animals And Angels Give You Myopic Opinions Because Of This!!!!

2:29  He it is who has created for you all that is on earth (So You Can Recognize it), and has applied His design to the heavens/Space and fashioned them into seven heavens (Solar System, Galaxy, etc.); and He alone has full knowledge of everything

2:30  AND LO! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: “Behold, I am about to establish upon earth one who shall inherit it.” They said: “Wilt Thou place on it such as will spread corruption thereon and shed blood -whereas it is we who extol Thy limitless glory, and praise Thee, and hallow Thy name?” [God] answered: “Verily, I know that which you do not know.”

2:31  And He imparted unto Adam the names of all things (The Ability To Recognize Them); then He brought them within the ken of the angels and said: “Declare unto Me the names of these [things Oh Angels], if what you say is true (About Man, That He Is Unable To Recognize Above The Violent Animal World On Earth).”

2:32  They replied: “Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! No knowledge have we save that which Thou hast imparted unto us (We Don’t Have The Ability). Verily, Thou alone art all-knowing, truly wise.”

2:33  Said He: “O Adam, convey unto them the names of these [things].” And as soon as [Adam] had conveyed unto them their names, [God] said: “Did I not say unto you, `Verily, I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth (What Is In Man), and know all that you bring into the open (Ignorantly) and all. that you would conceal (From The World Ignorantly)’?” (How You Balance Justice, Your Mismanagement Of Karma)!!!!

1. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty

D) The Insanity Of The Angels: 2:33 Said He: “O Adam, convey unto them the names of these [things].” And as soon as [Adam] had conveyed unto them their names, [God] said: “Did I not say unto you, `Verily, I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you bring into the open and all. that you would conceal’?”

a. The Angels See Realities But Don’t Understand Them, Because They Don’t Live In The World Of Anyone, They Live Above All Worlds; When The Angels Accused Man Of Injustice While Allah Was Establishing His Superiority Allah Brought Forward Their Own Weakness In Rebuttal, ” I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you bring into the open and all. that you would conceal’?””, Allah Said To Them You Have No Ability To Understand The Reality Of Anything, And You Rearrange Reality In A Convoluted Manner Because Of It, This Is The Meaning Of This Verse, Today Allah Is Establishing To The World And Reality That Angels Are Monkeys, They Will Prostitute The Reality Of Anything To Get What They Want And This Is The Basis Of All The Occult We See In The World Today!!!!

b. 2:30 AND LO! Thy Sustainer said unto the angels: “Behold, I am about to establish upon earth one who shall inherit it.” They said: “Wilt Thou place on it such as will spread corruption thereon and shed blood -whereas it is we who extol Thy limitless glory, and praise Thee, and hallow Thy name?” [God] answered: “Verily, I know that which you do not know.”….How Dare You Accuse Man Of Injustice And Blood Shed When All The Injustice And Bloodshed In The World Was Because Of You!!!! Your Convoluted Understanding Of Reality Compelled Man And Confused Him And Today You Are Taking Away His Freewill So He Isn’t Able To Make Any Choices In Life, By Allah, By Allah, By Allah, You Are Cursed And Mankind Will Leave You Behind In The Next Life!!!!

“It is Allah who has sent down to you the book: In it are verses clear (muhkamat), they are the foundation of the book, others are unspecific (mutashabihat).” (Quran 3:7)

“As for those in whose hearts is deviation [from truth], they will follow that of it which is unspecific, seeking discord and seeking an interpretation [suitable to them]. And no one knows its [true] interpretation except Allah. But those firm in knowledge say, “We believe in it. All [of it] is from our Lord.” And no one will be reminded except those of understanding (those who Allah guides to understand it).” (from verse 3:7)

When I wrote my first book, Who Was Al Khidr, Rasul Allah (saws) came to me and said this book in its tafsir has reached the 6th depth of the Quran’s meanings (on this subject). I then looked at where I started with this work, with the story of Al Khidr, and where I ended up by the end, with a tafsir on the soul and how it is inspired, because it was only at the end of the work that this depth was reached.

This was our initial opening in the science of the soul and since then our other works have been tafsir’s that surpassed it reaching into the seventh and final depth of the Quran Rasul Allah spoke of, this was around the time Allah opened the Arsh (Allah’s Reality In The Universe) to us and we reached the final stage of spiritual openings!!!!

Before anything else Allah has made us a Mufasir of the Quran and opened its meanings to us so that they are not hidden. I Am the Mufasir mentioned in this verse and this is My work; “In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages [through what they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves [the microscopic and subatomic], so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth.” [Qur’an 41:53]

The Quran first mentions an ‘inner meaning’ (ta’wil) in 18:65–82 in the story of Moses and Khidr (rah), when Khidr performs strange acts, Moses (q) questions him about them but Khidr (q) gives him the ‘inner explanation’ (ta’wil) of his actions and not the external explanations Moses (q) is after.

In 56:79, the Quran says: “This is an honorable Quran, in a book hidden, which none can touch (understand) except the purified.”

So what does this inner depth actually mean and what does it look like?

The Prophet (saws) said “The Quran possesses an external appearance and a hidden depth, an exoteric meaning and an esoteric meaning. This esoteric meaning in turn conceals an esoteric meaning so it goes on for seven esoteric meanings (seven depths of hidden depth)”, the eternal meaning of the Quran relates to the world and the subjects that govern life, like Law, while the internal hidden meanings relate to the science behind everything, their seven depths correspond to the seven depths of heaven, subatomic space, which the heart dives into to gain deeper understanding of things, at the end of which is the Throne/Arsh of God, His reality!!!!

Imam Jafar Sadiq (ra) said: “The book of God comprises four things: the statement set down, the allusions, the hidden meanings relating to the supra-sensible world, and the exalted spiritual doctrines. The literal statement is for the ordinary believers. The allusions are the concern of the elite. The hidden (scientific) meanings pertain to the friends of God (who can delve into the spiritual world to learn the science of the universe). The exalted spiritual doctrines are the province of the prophets.”

Because I have seen this kind of tafsir from the prophet (saws) first hand, who taught us its nature, I can tell you what the seven depths look like.

In this video a Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA

The explanations in order are to a: 1) Child, 2) Teenager, 3) An Undergraduate, 4) Grad Student, 5) A Professional (Physicist/scientist).

Without even watching you can see what the 7 depths of the Quran look like, because they follow the schooling system and what it teaches each year about the same subject, except in increasing levels of difficulty, they are exactly this, levels of increasing complexity that deal more and more with in depth science about how the universe works and how Allah combined them in the Quran to teach Man, Rasul Allah (saws) absolutely understands the universe at a scientific level and I am a Shaheed/Witness to this.

“His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what is between them [the subatomic]…What is secret [at the surface level] and what is more hidden [Akhfa, in the subatomic depths]” [Qur’an 20:6-7]

“10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables (only)?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them”. (Mathew 13:10-11)

“14 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them”. (Psalm 25:14)

There is an immense amount of knowledge in each depth of ghayb about everything in life and each of the prophets that Muhammad (saws) saw on the night of Isra wal Miraj, in the different levels of Jannah, was an expert of that depth (that type of knowledge).

“The Prophet (saws) ascended until he reached the first heaven. When the Prophet and Jibril arrived at the first heaven, Jibril requested the gate to be opened. The angel assigned to that gate asked Jibril, “Who is with you?” Jibril answered, “It is Muhammad.” The angel asked Jibril, “Was he dispatched? Is it time for him to ascend to heaven?” Jibril said, “Yes.” So, the gate was opened for him, and the Prophet Muhammad entered the first heaven.”

“There, Prophet Muhammad saw Prophet Adam. To Adam’s right, the Prophet saw some bodies, and to Adam’s left, other bodies. If Adam would look to his right he would laugh, and if he would look to his left he would cry. Adam was seeing the souls of his descendants. Those on his right were his descendants who would die as believers and those on his left were his descendants who would die as non-believers.” (Adam the first man was an expert of the first spiritual depth mans heart would ever perceive after being created. This is the beginning of man’s spiritual journey through time).

“Then the Prophet ascended to the second heaven. In this second heaven was the Prophets Isa and Yahya. Isa and Yahya are cousins; their mothers were sisters. They welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.” (The place of each prophet from here has to do with their life story, His specific mission from Allah for humanity, and the state of the people He was sent to, and how spiritually advanced or simple they are because He was sent to cure and elevate them. Isa (as) was sent to materialistic people who only understood simple spiritual things, every time He (as) shared His (as) wisdom with them rather than dissect the wisdom or even challenge it with their own wisdom they made fun of His (saws) words like children, this was their mental state. Isa (as) said “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” they were lost in materialism and thus shallow, which is why He (as) and Yahya (as) were experts in the second heaven).

“The Prophet then ascended to the third heaven, where he found the Prophet Yusuf. The Prophet Yusuf was extremely handsome. Allah bestowed half of all beauty on Yusuf. Yusuf received the Prophet with a warm welcome and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.”(Isa (as) knows how to cure materialism which is why when the Dajjal comes to spread it on earth Allah will send Isa (as) to kill him. Being lost in Materialsim stops you from sensing deeper than the second depth of ghayb, but the beauty we see on this earth, the beauty of nature and the things Allah placed in it, perceiving that and loving it is from the third Jannah and Yusuf was a master of that knowledge. Allah opened for mankind everything relating to the beauty Allah gave to the prophet Yusuf (as) so they can know it and experience it completely, hence beauty as we know it today is because of Him (as). The wisdom in Beauty is that attraction leads to knowledge, maarifah of that thing and from there deeper wisdom is gained about the world as it is carefully studied. Which leads to the kind of knowledge inspired by the next depth, or Jannah, and that is science and the Prophet (saws) responsible for it).

“Then the Prophet ascended to the fourth heaven, where he found the Prophet Idris. Idris welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.” (Allah gave Idris (as), who was one of the first prophets, knowledge of outer space, writing, mathematics, the calendar with knowledge of all things relating to it, knowledge of the seasons and many other things we take for granted today. From this we can understand the kind of spiritual depth required for people to master these and similar scientific subjects).

“In the fifth heaven, the Prophet encountered Harun, the brother of Prophet Musa.” (He was the advisor to the prophet Musa (as) who was the master of spiritual openings, so the fifth heaven or depth of subatomic space is where true spiritual openings begin. These prophets are singled out, even though all prophets reached the Arsh in their hearts, because it was through them that Allah introduced these things to the world for the first time.)

“In the sixth heaven, he encountered the Prophet Musa (saws).” (kalam Allah, the one Allah spoke to directly and sent him to al khidr to learn and master this subject we are discussing in this work, He is an expert of one of the deepest spiritual depths. Reaching the sixth depth of Jannah is where regular spiritual openings occur to a person, that is the meaning behind the story of Musa (as) and al Khidr in the Quran, after learning from al Khidr Musa (as) would have surpassed Him (as) because He is the master of this knowledge in Jannah).

“Each of these Prophets received the Prophet Muhammad with a warm welcome and made supplication (dua’) for him for good things.”

“Then the Prophet ascended to the seventh heaven, and that is where our Messenger saw the Prophet Ibrahim. The Prophet Ibrahim is the best of the prophets after our prophet, Muhammad. The Prophet saw the Prophet Ibrahim with his back against al-Bayt al-Ma’mur (which is like the Kaaba for Angels).” (Ibrahim (as) is the master of the deepest spiritual depth before the Arsh because He became Allah’s friend, so reaching this depth means you are granted friendship with Allah, and the term wali in reality means the friend of Allah. Your heart is now able to put the real picture of what life is meant to be, together to see it clearly, and from that see Allah’s hand in the universe working. Reaching this means you are now able to worship Allah as if you see him, which is the meaning of the word Ihsan (human perfection) that the prophet (saws) gave to Jibril (as) when the Angel asked Him (saws). From Ibrahim (as) would come the Jews and Arabs, the two people that would achieve the most in the way of Allah from the children of Adam).

“Then the Prophet ascended to what is beyond the seven heavens (into the Arsh, Angels and their knowledge stops at the Arsh, but mankind does not because of the kind of soul Allah gave them).” (Our prophet Muhammad was the beloved of Allah, He (saws) was a master of all spiritual depths and their knowledge, because through him Allah would open for mankind the science behind all things in the universe which was then granted to mankind; “In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages [everything they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves [the microscopic and sub atomic], so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth.” [Qur’an 41:53] There are some from mankind who Allah allows to reach past the seven heavens and into the Arsh with their heart, which in its depth is larger than the seven heavens combined, this is also what the prophet (saws) saw on the night of Isra wal Miraj, He (saws) saw a youth run ahead of him into the Arsh, reaching this far with your heart means you are now one of Allah’s beloved people.)

“Say, “We have believed in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction (in rank) between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.”(3:84)

“The messenger believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do the) believers. Each one believeth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His (prior) messengers – We make no distinction between any of His messengers – and they say: We hear, and we obey. (Grant us) Thy forgiveness, our Lord. Unto Thee is the journey.”(2:285)

The Source Of Each Knowledge

Here are the 8 spiritual depths (corresponding to each level of Jannah/space) that the heart is inspired by as it moves closer to Allah.

1. Allah – Each person is born on a fitrah, Allah has placed in their heart that He exists, and to know Him you have to know what He created so you can see His qualities in order that when you finally see Him you have certainty of what He is like from your experiences in life.
2. Materialism – Perception and knowledge Of the Physical World around you, (learning how to live and survive).
3. Beauty – Perception of the Universes Natural Beauty (the first type of spirituality man experiences), love and Attraction is the source of all openings in the heart.
4. Science – Attraction leads to in depth study of what you’re interested in or love, about a third of the Quran is Allah asking man to study the world and the universe more closely, “Who hath created seven heavens in harmony. Thou canst see no fault in the Beneficent One’s creation; then look again: Canst thou see any rifts (faults)? Then look again and yet again, thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim (by the amount of what you will find exists).”(67:3-4).
5. Insight – Beginning of Inspired and deeper thoughts, Wisdom begins here and comes from knowing the details of how things work.
6. Inspiration – Wisdom is mixed with experience, true Wisdom is gained and your thoughts are guided to the truth by the Angels.
7. Sainthood – Wilaya, you become the friend of Allah and the Angels walk with you in life, shaping your perception so it is prepared to see Allah. Here you gain spiritual insights into matters and see them coming from a distance, thus you begin to put the complete picture of life together from its many spiritual and physical parts, using the knowledge of the previous levels to see the highest form of science (truth, knowledge, the actual reality of matters) in the universe. The closest thing man has to this today in the world is the study of subatomic space and the universe, how it works, how it was created and what it looks like. In the old world this was the highest aspect of Aqeedah that only the scholars and awliyah studied or understood. “Blessed is He in Whose hand is the Sovereignty (control of the Universe), and, He is Able to do all things (in it). Who hath created life and death (the systems that make them work) that He may try you which of you is best in conduct; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving. Who hath created seven heavens in harmony (the seven regions of subatomic space). Thou canst see no fault in the Beneficent One’s creation; then look again (into subatomic space): Canst thou see any rifts?(tears in the harmony) Then look again and yet again, thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim. And verily We have beautified the world’s heaven (Beauty leads to science, so study what you are attracted to)”(67:1-5)
8. Allah’s Beloved – Your heart and soul have now entered the Arsh, a place Angels can’t go, you have completed the picture of the universe, understand what Allah created from the inside out and consequently see Allah in it and worship Him as if He is next to you, as if you see Him. Once you complete this path Allah makes you one of His mercies to the worlds, the universe, because its spiritual creatures will now learn from you. This is a description given to the prophets (as) in the Quran but its meaning is the reality of anyone who reaches this far, the prophets reached it with complete perfection and that is their distinction. At this point, the Angels take advice from you because your heart takes input from a place deeper than their existence. The great wali of Allah Abdul Qadir al Jilani said, there are shaykhs to people, shaykhs to Jinn and shaykhs to Angels, those who lead the Angels, and this is the meaning behind Allah asking the Angels to prostrate to Adam and mankind, the Angels now follow His lead in life because Allah demonstrated that He surpassed them.

One thing we can see from this is that irrespective of how shallow a person’s heart is, they can still be knowledgeable and shallow at the same time, to what ever extent, but the things they are knowledgeable about are not deep matters because they have no real sense of them.

A person to whom Allah gives wisdom his heart can sense deeper into ghayb, sub atomic space, to gather knowledge about the things he is focusing on in life, and as a result, his decisions have more insight, are more accurate, reveal the truth more often, have more consideration and are wise.

“He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp the Message but men of understanding (men who have depth).”(2:269) pay attention to the phrasing, wisdom comes from the heart and His gift is overflowing, pouring out of the heart, pouring out of what it senses in ghayb.

This is why when Allah grants prophethood to someone he expands their heart (to ghayb), this means he allows their heart to reach to the deepest depth in ghayb, or sub atomic space, so it can gather information and sense from the depths of the universe about everything spiritually attached to an object or person.

Musa (saws) understood this and asked for it specifically when Allah granted him (saws) prophethood, “(Moses) said: “O my Lord! expand me my breast; Ease my task for me; And remove the impediment from my speech, So they may understand what I say.”(20:25-28)

Allah similarly said to the prophet (saws); “Have We not expanded thee thy breast?- And removed from thee thy burden.”(94:1-2)

As a result of this opening of the heart to new subatomic depths people gain insight and wisdom, but when you reach even deeper your insight becomes so straight and correct it becomes firasa, inspiration about the truth of matters.

You see our actions in life shape our future and how we will “look” as we age, “Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved.”(2:286) this is all a result of our deeds in life, the effects (results) of our actions attach themselves to us spiritually or sub atomically shaping us as we age. This happens to everything in existence as it ages, what it did or occurred to it, its effects are attached to it shaping its appearance and qualities, so Angels, Jinn and those who have firasa can see the truth about matters, its true nature and qualities, that exist in ghayb because of that…Insha Allah, you can see this is all from science and the systems Allah created in the universe.

There are many ahadith and verses that explain this, but we won’t write a tafsir here; “We shall seal your mouths on that Day, and let your hands speak to us and your feet testify to what you had achieved.”, “That Day, We will seal over their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn.” (36:65) what your hands used to earn or what your hands used to achieve from your work is exactly how your actions shaped your limbs as you aged.

The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said, “Ittaqo firasatal Mumine, fa innahu yanzuru be Noorillahi”, “Beware of the intuition (firasa) of the believer. Verily, he sees with the light of Allah.” Then the Prophet recited the verse, “Verily, in that are signs for those of discernment (lil mutawassimeena, those who discern between truth and illusion, fancy, those whose insight is only the truth about matters).” (15:75) (Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3127)

Allah describing all of this said in a hadith Qudsi said; “…My servant continues to draw near to Me with voluntary acts of worship so that I shall love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him…”

This “is a light that Allah bestows in the heart of his servant by which he distinguishes between truth and falsehood, advantage and disadvantage, and the honest and the liar”, and when the heart reaches the Arsh in its depth it gathers the most amount of information about a thing before drawing the picture for the person.

The Prophet (saws) himself taught us the science behind all of this;

Imam Abd al-Razzaq narrates that Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) said:  “I said: O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, tell me of the first thing Allah created before all things”. He said: “O Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet from His light (all light is made of particles, so the prophets light was the first particle to come into existence from which Allah created the rest of the universe), and that light remained (lit. “turned” as all particles spin) in the midst of His Power (control) for as long as He wished (shaping it and influencing it. In modern scientific terms entangling it as he wished), and there was not, at that time, a Tablet (that preserves everything) or a Pen (that records and sees the future path of everything, quantum entanglement as we know it now did not exist yet) or a Paradise (that displays Allah’s blessing) or a Fire (that displays Allah’s punishment) or an angel (that works and creates for Allah) or a heaven (sub atomic space) or an earth (any physical thing) or a sun or a moon or a jinn or a man (any creature. This is the first moments of the universe before it expanded and created everything in it).

And when Allah wished to create creation, he divided that Light into four parts (this is exactly as physics calculates today, that particles split and created each other and the first particles were four in number which came from one single particle) and from the first made the Pen (before the Arsh, the boundary of the universe), from the second the Tablet (was created before the Arsh, meaning the shape of the universe we know did not exist yet), from the third the Throne (Allah creates the outer boundary, shape and edge of the universe. The Pen observed everything created after it, and the tablet preserved everything it witnessed after its creation, so they came first and the shape of the universe last), and then he divided the fourth [particle] into four [other] parts and from the first he created the bearer of the Throne (first Angels), from the second the Footstool (Kursi, the second boundary of the universe after the Arsh, or the second sub atomic depth of the seven Allah created, or the location of the 6th Jannah), from the third the rest of the angels (exactly as science teaches today, everything is created from subatomic particles, but the prophet (saws) taught this in the language of the arabs 1400 years ago).

Then He divided the fourth into four other parts and created from the first the heavens (sub-atomic space as we know it, the universe was cooling at this point and changing, which is why the light particle we know today, the photon, could not exist until after it cooled to this point. This change is also why some ahadith seem to overlap in what they are referring to, but in reality they represent the same thing changing into something else), and from the second the earth (physical matter), and from the third the Paradise (everything in the seven Jannah’s is created after the space that it will exist in, is created first) and the Fire (black holes), and then he divided the fourth into four parts and created from the first the Light in the believers visions (the images we see in our mind, the brain creates its own light), and from the second the light of their hearts (the heart also creates light, an electromagnetic field) which is knowledge of Allah (how the heart knows Allah. The heart gathers knowledge about the world using this electromagnetic field just like animals use it to sense their prey. But this is so we can ultimately know Allah…through the same way we have explained in this article about how the heart works), and from the third the light of their inner harmony (Uns, living harmony between the spirits, the soul of man the light of the Angels and the light of Allah, in physics this is called the coherence of waves. The inner most light inside the heart) which is the Tawheed (the light that allows us to connect with the light of the Angels and His light to receive revelation, inspiration or maarifah, so we can know that) ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, etc…”. (Abd al-Razzaq (d. 211) narrates it in his Musannaf according to Qastallani in al-Mawahib al-laduniyya (1:55) and Zarqani in his Sharh al-mawahib (1:56 of the Matba`a al-`amira edition in Cairo). There is no doubt as to the reliability of `Abd al-Razzaq as a narrator. Bukhari took 120 narrations from him, Muslim 400).

“Allah is the Light (particles) of the heavens and the earth (that our heart senses. His will is carried by the events of the universe and the heart learns from that)…Light upon light (particle within particle). Allah guideth unto His light (Allah guides the heart to see the correct picture) whom He will (the heart achieves correctness as Allah wills, based on our actions). And Allah speaketh to mankind in allegories (to explain science), for Allah is Knower of all things.”(24:35)

إِنَّ الدِّينَ عِندَ اللَّهِ الإِسْلَـمُ

وَارْكَعُوا مَعَ الرَّاكِعِينَ

Sayyid Rami Al Rifai.

 

Researchers have scientifically shown that historically, bursts of human creativity correlate with solar activity. The periods of greatest levels of human flourishing and creativity in science and the arts recorded in history were clearly shown to occur during peaks of solar activity.

Solar Activity was mapped by the Suns solar cycle which lasts for 11 years, in 1610 the first European observations of Sunspots were made, the number of sun spots indicates how much solar activity their is, in simple terms how strong the sun is shinning. From that time continuous daily observations were started at the Zurich Observatory in 1849 and earlier observations have been used to extend the records back to 1610. Monthly averages (updated monthly) of the sunspot numbers show that the number of sunspots visible on the sun increases and decreases with an approximate 11-year cycle, the peak of solar activity by the sun is roughly in the middle of the cycle (and weakest at the start and end of the 11 year period). Solar activity first affects the fields surrounding the earth, the ionosphere (upper regions of the atmosphere) then life on earth through the electromagnetic field that all creatures on earth produce and sense through.

The increase in solar activity in simple terms is an increase in energy which the Lataif (sensitive points) in the human body are receptive to (Issue #5 of the Journal is about the Lataif of Islam, which are similar to acupuncture points in the nervous system), they open the heart to deeper states of perception and creativity (it is clear from ahadith the prophet (saws) knew about the role of energy in the body and mans nervous system and used both, an in depth explanation is given in the journal). It was discovered that this increased solar activity increased creativity and inspiration in humans which was witnessed by the creative endeavors of mankind during the peak period in the suns solar cycle.

The Lataif al Sita (the six points of Lataif) in the body deal with mans body and psychology from his soul first and their role is to open the heart to greater depths, it is because of this that when ever Allah grants prophet hood to someone he says to them “Alam Nashrah Laka Sadrak” we expanded thy breast meaning the depth of the heart. Ultimately the heart is expanded so it can finally perceive (the word here is synonymous with sustenance) from the Arsh (throne) of Allah as the prophets (as) did whose role is to allow the Universe to know Allah. 

By simile, the human soul also possesses “vital organs” like the physical body through which it acquires its knowledge, “food” and energy. In simple terms the soul performs various roles for the Human body all relating to how man learns and gains knowledge from his environment and experiences in life helping him grow as a person. Allah says “By the soul and how He fashioned it (sawwaha)” (97:1) Allah took an oath by the soul and said it can be moulded and changed, “Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in spirit”(80:3).

 

According to Allah in the Qur’an, the “soul” has two universal dimensions it can turn to. The first dimension is called “fujoor” (Immorality) and the second one is called “taqwa” (morality); Immorality is the lower reality of the “Nafs” (self), “Man has been created weak” (4:28). Morality is the higher reality of the “Soul”, “And how He inspired it (the soul) with its Fujoor (Immorality) and its Ta’qwa (morality)” (91:8)

In relation to this Allah said “To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes it (the soul) to grow, and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]”(91:9-10) the person doesn’t allow the soul to experience good in life, the soul of man knows good through Allah and knows evil through the self (nafs) and Allah said in surah al shams He inspired the soul to recognise what is evil and good in life through the ecosystem that exists in space and on earth and the cycles they create.

Allah says: “BY the sun and its radiant brightness (Electromagnetic field), By the moon as it reflects the sun! (It 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! (The day and night cycle is the period of increased and decreased solar activity/energy on the self) 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 seasonal cycles that condition/move us), By the earth and all its expanse! (The expanse of the earth, its Mass, creates gravity, which creates the reality of its ecosystem, and its different weather patterns that exist around the world) BY the Soul (made from subatomic particles, as all things are, affected by the subatomic forces of the universe), and how it is formed (under these conditions) in accordance with what it is meant to be (it is subject to the Laws of physics), And inspired it (through the subatomic universe) with what is wrong for it and right for it. To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity (human flourishing and creativity is part of this process), and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].

TO [THIS] TRUTH (that previous civilizations understood, that Allah guides man by the reality of the celestial bodies) gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud”(91:1-11).

“A large variety of animals possess a magnetic sense. Migratory birds use magnetic clues (in addition to light polarization, star signs and position of the sun) to find their way south in fall and north in spring. Salamanders and frogs use the magnetic field for orientation when they have to find the direction of the nearest shore quickly, e.g., when they sense danger”. Many creatures like sharks, bats, homing pigeons have dedicated organs to sense and in reality see with the electromagnetic field.

If one thinks about how magnetic fields can be perceived in principle, three mechanisms immediately come to mind: Mechanical Reception – This is the principle behind a compass needle. A magnetic field exerts a torque on a ferromagnetic material. Electric Induction – Movement in a magnetic field (this can occur because of the sun) will result in an induced electric field. Many creatures can sense and perceive electric and magnetic fields with high accuracy. Man’s body is similar in this way because both the heart and brain produce an electrical and magnetic field, called the electromagnetic field, and these organs are the centers of mans sensory perception.

Chemical Reception – Chemical reactions that involve transitions between different spin states can be influenced by magnetic fields, so that one of the possible products (outcomes) in a chemical reaction is favored due to the influence of the magnetic field. In other words the magnetic field can influence chemical reactions in the body, or rather the body will produce chemical reactions according to the field, and scientists think a chemical compass exists in many animals.

When we consider Quantum Mechanics, which is the physics of particles smaller than an atom, other mechanisms based on the laws of physics can be enumerated such as the coherence of waves, when waves are in sync and pass on information from one to the other, and quantum entanglement, because of this law particles can affect each other over great distances. In the Human Body, our electromagnetic field will interact with other fields around it and our perceptive organs will be influenced by sensing the world around us. Scientist are beginning to realize that human consciousness (the self or nafs) is a state of matter, it is made from matter like a Liquid, Solid or Gas is, but from subatomic particles and like them it is subject to the same laws of physics that govern the rest of the universe. 

What we know as consciousness is the result of the bodies interaction with the universe around it on all levels from the subatomic to the physical world, because the brain and our nervous system are a distributed parallel processing system (like a computer CPU with multiple CPU’s), it can compute multiple things at the same time and act on each simultaneously, so consciousness (the self or nafs) is born out of the sum of those interactions in the body, including what it can sense at the quantum level.

Who we are is what our body has recorded from the results and effects of our actions in life, the Prophet (saws) said “Your body has a right over you”(Bukhair), and Allah said on the day of judgment, “This Day, We shall seal up their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their legs will bear witness to what they used to earn.” (36:65) meaning we will be judged according to the different parts of our body, Allah breaks down the human body into it’s various parts and will judge us by them because our self is a result of the various parts of our body. The term earn is unique because it is akin to the term record in this context, how we use our body is how it will be molded and shaped as we age.

It is very significant that it was in Surah al Shams (The Sun) that Allah took one of the most important oaths in the Quran, only less important than the oath He took by the prophets (saws) own soul. The intent of the verses is to consider the things been sworn by in greater detail and how they relate to each other in context to the soul and self, Allah then mentions that this relationship the Tribe of Thamud (7:73) which the Prophet Saleh (saws) was sent to guide, knew of, lied about it, and ignored the reality between the things Allah swore by, consequently they where destroyed because of their evil. 

‘Their depth of knowledge regarding the celestial bodies and their effect on humans shouldn’t be surprising since nearly all ancient cultures around the world had an advanced understanding of these celestial bodies and their effects on the human self, this reflected in their religion and the elaborate structures they constructed and left behind in perfect alignment with the celestial bodies that marked their elaborate movements through the sky, meaning they understood how the movement of the stars, sun and moon affected humans on earth and what it meant. Allah in surah al Rahman (55) affirms the influence of the stars on humans, we should keep in mind that when it comes to subatomic particles distance is not an obstacle or relevant, particles can influence each other over great distances in space.

But some took to worshiping these objects in space instead of Allah because they saw them as the source of inspiration, power and influence on human life, which Allah condemned because He was their creator and said that through them He inspired the soul (with conscience of) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it (91:8).

[This tafsir was taken from Issue #5 of The Islamic Journal, as with the tafsir of surah al Rahman it was writen according to the themes of each verse.]

By simile the trees of earth are numerous and countless like the stars, this is there relationship in this picture Allah is painting for us, in this verse Allah is mentioning the most distant thing from us in space, the stars, and the closest thing to us on earth, the trees, in relation to the greater context of the surah, this is because He is drawing a picture of how the ecosystem of outer space and the ecosystem of earth are connected through subatomic fields like the electromagnetic forces of the sun hitting the earth, all these objects Allah is mentioning are influencing each other and ultimately us.

Allah says, after referring to how the sun and the moon influence man through their defined paths in space which shape our seasons and days, that it is not just them that do this with their subatomic fields, but both the stars and the trees have a role to play. This is because He mentioned their obedience to him in the verse, meaning their role in the balance that Allah set up in space, they are part of the greater ecosystem and He uses them to inspire man from the subatomic level of the Universe. The stars are each like our sun ending out rays of light and influencing us at night when the sun is least active, while the trees are crucial to life on earth and it’s atmosphere, they are the last piece in this puzzle and in contrast to the sun and moon one of the smallest part in it that has a significant influence on our planet.

This picture of space and earth needed to first be drawn because it leads to what is in the next verses, where Allah talks about how He created space and placed a balance and harmony in it, Allah then says the depth of space and it’s balance is directly related to the balance on earth, “the Firmament (space) He has raised high, and set up its balance (this was done) In order that ye may not transgress (the due) balance” on earth, meaning they are connected to each other. Allah is saying the order we see in space through the movement of the sun and moon it is also present on earth in it’s atmosphere and ecosystem that the trees help create and maintain.

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Allah is teaching us that the balance He placed in the Universe and on earth in their ecosystems create a balance in man’s self who lives in them, because the surah begins by teaching us about the ways in which man is inspired in life and learns knowledge. So inspiration and mans speech being mentioned together is a reference to his psychology and state of mind, hence the order and balance that exist in space and nature is why man can feel harmony and be at peace with the earth and it’s natural ecosystem, Allah is connecting mans nature to the ecosystem he lives in and informing him about what influences it because it influences him.

Allah then warns that if man destroys the balance in nature it will cause his self to become unbalanced, because the balance that exists in nature no longer exists so it can not help man’s self stay balanced as he lives his life, if we live in the city we feel our lives are chaotic if we live close to nature we feel at peace all because of the environment we live in that shapes our day. This is why after mentioning the balance in space, in the next verse Allah warns man about destroying the balance that exists on earth, “and fall not short in the balance”.

These verses first required man to learn knowledge of the universe in order to understand them because they were intended for a time when man would have the ability to destroy the balance on earth.

Method – How This Tafsir Was Written: This tafsir was written according to the themes of each verse which outlined the topics Allah was mentioning, this then made the picture Allah was drawing for us very clear. Allah taught the Quran through revelation which was revealed to mans heart, how man is able to receive revelation in scientific terms I have written about in detail elsewhere, but understanding the how makes the connection between each verse very clear and the larger picture obvious. Allah in these verses goes from talking about giving man revelation to teaching him speech because this knowledge relates to how each person is inspired in his everyday life by various sources, his daily inspiration is the source of what he chooses to speak about to others.

This is related to the sun and moon because Allah in surah al shams (91) explains how He inspires man through them, but in this surah He talks about how the ecosystem of space is connected to the ecosystem of earth, the trees essentially create our ecosystem for us through the oxygen they produce and atmosphere they clean. The subtext of the Quran here is how this influence occurs through the subatomic part of our universe, it’s forces and particles, Allah explains in the verse of light (24:35) more directly that He inspires mankind through these means.

 

After then drawing this picture for us Allah tells us the important lesson we should learn, that if we ruin the ecosystem of earth we will imbalance man in his life and self permanently, we will not only ruin how he is inspired each day and the source of his peace in life we will reduce his intelligence which we will see and witness in his speech and vocabulary as it degrades. This is because if the ecosystem that Allah created to keep man balanced, at peace and in harmony with the universe can no longer function in this role man will suffer psychologically and spiritually, which will decrease his intellectual capacity, intelligence and speech, all these are related to each other physiologically, the most obvious way is in mans breadth of knowledge and capacity for things in life.

Mankind has witnessed all this already, with the dumbing down of man over the past one hundred years as he destroyed the earth, we witnessed this in the way language has changed during this time, linguists, historians and academics have all attested to this change in their works. We no longer have the capacity to speak as our grandfathers and their fathers once did with the same breadth and vocabulary, we have shortened our sentences because our mental capacity lacks the strength it once had, and man gains his strength from nature.

Light in the verse of Light is a simile for subatomic particles, each particle is created from even smaller particles, hence the number of veils refers to a subatomic depth in space.

It is significant that Darkness is mentioned along with Light as a veil of Allah, usually darkness, even the darkness of space, is perceived as a color and not a substance or veil, hence this Hadith is saying the dark matter and energy of space is also a veil of Allah.

Allah created everything in the Universe from what he termed by simile Light in the Quran and this is stated in many narration’s, but Light in the context of the verse of Light is a simile for all subatomic particles because light itself is one of the only visible subatomic particles in the Universe.

Regarding what Allah revealed of himself to all his creatures, the heart of Man is the only thing that can encompass the qualities of Allah because the heart is the part of us that senses the subatomic world around us, we can see this through it’s physiology and it’s role in the nervous system of the body, hence Allah said in the Quran that when the veils upon man’s inner vision are removed on the day of judgment, “Some faces that Day shall be Nadirah (shining and radiant), looking at their Lord” (75:22-23), the Hearts will be allowed to see Him.

The heart can perceive the qualities of things, and the quality of anything is a summation of it’s nature, the way it is, the heart encompasses what it looks at in terms of qualities we can perceive, understand and feel, this influences man’s inner vision (his imagination) because mans heart through emotions influences mans mind and what he perceives about things and the heart does this through the electromagnetic field (light) it generates.

Allah said the example of his light in the Universe is like a niche, a crevasse or something similar to a hole in the middle of a wall. In this hole is a lamp, the lamp is in glass, the glass is like a pearly white star, lit from the blessed oil of a blessed olive tree, the fruit of this tree is neither of the east or of the west, and it is fueling itself, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. This light has a depth and it is light upon light, through this reality in creation Allah guides whom He wills, and Allah presents examples for people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.

The Prophet (saws) said, “Indeed, there is an external meaning and an internal meaning to the Qur’an, a scope and a point.” `Ali, pointing to his breast, said, “Indeed, herein lies abundant knowledge; would that there were some to (comprehend and) transmit it.” The Prophet also said, “We prophets were ordered to communicate with everyone according to his ability to understand.”, and “Indeed, knowledge has a branch which resembles a hidden thing; no one grasps it except those who know Allah.” He also said, “If you only knew what I know, you would laugh a little and weep much.”

It is significant that Allah ends the verse by saying, “and Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things” here Allah is directly connecting the example He just set with His knowing of all things in existence, this is a rule in the Tafsir (exegesis) of the Quran, that any two things mentioned together are connected, Allah often uses descriptive imagery to convey an idea followed by a statement regarding it’s significance or the nature of it’s existence, in other words the example He just set in the verse of light relates to knowing all things in existence bnecouse all things in existence are made from particles, and particles are Allah’s light before they take on form physically and become atoms.

The verse of Light is the literal representation of the quantum world and the manner by which subatomic particles are created. Physics has discovered that this Universe is made up of small particles called atom’s and these atoms are made up of even smaller particles and they in turn are made up of even smaller particle’s and this goes on and on. Physics has also discovered that each of these particles exists in different fields spread out through space at each level (or subatomic depth), layered one upon the other, a more accurate description would be to say the fields are within each other spread throughout space since we are going deeper into the subatomic world. There are also forces, very similar to gravity, acting at each depth of these particles, they act upon them to bring them together forcing them to make up the larger particle’s until we reach the Atom, once matter forms solids, gas’s and liquids that is when the force of Gravity influences them.

This is how something small makes up something larger and eventually in this hierarchy atoms come together to make molecules and molecules and compounds come together to make up the world around us, but before this occurs particles are called Light in the Quran because that is the most descriptive and accurate image of them for a people living 1400 years ago.

Allah’s Light has always been understood as a simile, and in fact he begins the verse of Light by saying “the example of His light is like a niche”, hence his light is structured like a niche in which is a lamp so from the start we know we are reading about an example of something tangible that exists in the Universe.

 

From here Allah tells us what it is made of, it is lit from a blessed tree, the tree just like a family tree tells us about the genealogy of a person, it is a simile for the hierarchy of particles in the Universe, scientists similarly use the term genealogy to describe this hierarchy of particles. The lamp is lit by Oil that fuels it, the tree is like an Olive tree that produces oil that lights the Lamp (the machinery of the universe). Olive oil comes from Olives hence Ibn Abbas (ra) and Imam Suyuti (among others) both said the words “neither of the east or of the west” refers to the trees Olive, the fruit it bears in this case the particle. Allah is then telling us He isn’t talking about literal fruit it is the example of something that this Hierarchy (tree) produces, the particle, from which it’s oil (the forces of the Universes) come from and which fuel the Lamp, this is the simile for His light.

Allah goes on to say the Oil would glow even if it isn’t touched by fire, meaning this isn’t normal oil that glows or burns because of fire, it glows or burns by itself, because this is how the Universe is created to work. Allah is again reinforcing the point that He isn’t talking about normal Oil but a simile for oil through which we would know it’s meaning by understanding it’s role. Real oil allows the lamp to burn creating the light hence the oil from the blessed tree allows the Light to glow or fuel the reactions in the Universe creating the particles.

Allah is teaching us that his light isn’t simply what we know about light from observing it, that it simply shines and allows us to see, He is saying there is an inner structure to it and this verse describes that inner structure. His light has an inner structure that is like a niche in which is a lamp, the light or particle is like a lamp that is in a glass, and it shines like a pearly white star in the night sky.

Allah then tells us the example for His Light is “Light upon Light”, showing us it’s complexity because a normal lamp is not light upon light, it is simply the light coming from the fire that is burning, so the light or particles have depth in space. Allah then says He guides to His light whom he wills, this proclamation is connected to the example of the Universe because Allah in His next words encapsulates and concludes the entire verse with the words “Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things” hence Allah guiding people to his light is part of the simile for His light in the universe, then the verse ends.

In Summation: The verse begins by asserting that “Allah is the Light of the heavens (the Universe) and the earth” – The simile of the Particle is Light, both are subatomic substances. Allah then says “the example of his light is like a niche”, light is the particle existing in the field around it, this is like a sea of similar particles together, physics has discovered that particles in space only become a “solid” particle, or round, when they interact with something, normally though they are spread out in space all together like the surface of the sea. A niche is like a crevasse in the middle of a wall, and the wall is the similitude of the field that particles exists in, spread out in space as if a wall.

“Within which is a lamp”, the particle itself, “the lamp is within glass“, the particle creating its own outer shell or field as it spins, or becomes a round particle when it interacts with something.

“The glass as if it were a pearly [white] star“, it’s shine is caused by its excitation that causes it to react to other things around it, as well as want to make up larger particles in the universe.

“Lit from the blessed oil”, particles are created (Lit) from the fundamental forces (Oil) of the Universe, “of a blessed olive tree” the simile for the tree is like a family tree, it is the hierarchy of particles and essentially the Universe itself.

The Olive, (particle), of the Tree “is neither of the east or of the west”, the fruit the tree bears, is the source for the Oil (ibn Abbas), this is the process by which the Hierarchy of particles create larger particles, as the verse explains the fruit is not from any direction we know the east or the west they are created from the depths of subatomic space. The smaller particles create the force’s (similar to gravity) that cause larger particles to come together in a hierarchy of particles until we reach Atom’s.

“Whose oil would almost glow even if unattached by fire”, the forces don’t have a source causing them to react (glow or burn) like normal fire or anything else we know.

 

The reaction comes from the way the Universe is created (the Tree) and it’s expansion, which causes or drives the reaction’s, basically the movement and expansion of the Universe creates what is in the Universe. The particle has depth in space, and it is like “light upon light” layered on top of or within each other, each particle created from smaller particles in an ongoing hierarchy. Through this reality of space “Allah guides to His light whom He wills”, through this blessed Tree Allah guides man to Him.

As Man’s consciousness and imagination is a state of matter, like a solid or liquid is made from matter, it to is made of quantum particles, it is born from the very same laws that govern this Universe and Allah guides man through it to Himself, “Those who strive hard in Us, We shall most surely guide them in our Ways” (29:69), this is the significance of the verse of light to the nature of man and how Allah guides him, this is why Allah mentioned this at the end of the verse He was saying man is guided to him through the subatomic part of our universe and this is what that Universe looks like. “Allah presents examples for the people and Allah is Knowing of all things”, this is the simile of the Universe, how it works and how Allah guides man through his own self and physiology, Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth that we should connect our self to. Allah said “Consider the human self, and how it is formed in accordance with what it is meant to be, And inspired it (with) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it. To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity (Zakaha), and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].” (91:7-10)

The fact this similitude for the Universe exists in the Quran is mentioned by Allah elsewhere, “We have explained in detail in this Qur’an, for the benefit of mankind, every kind of similitude: but man is, in most things, contentious” (18:54)

[This was taken from my book “The Light Of Allah In The Heavens and The Earth”, the tafsir was written according to the theme and context of each verse.]

As the bonds between molecules and atoms have no effect solid matter will become like dust, and when the seas are set on fire as the bonds between (H2O) hydrogen and oxygen no longer exist, the hydrogen gas will burn as it is fuelled by the oxygen (air).

“and when the heaven is stripped off, torn away from its place, just as the skin of a sheep is stripped off;” (Tafsir al Jalalayn) as it vanishes like the mountains, Allah says about these forces in the universe which will stop working when the trumpet is blown, “Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and earth (the particles in them are held together by forces, very literally) preventing them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no one could then keep hold of them. Certainly He is Most Forbearing (this act is a quality of Allah’s forbearance), Ever-Forgiving (placing forgiveness for man in every part of creation, a subtle reference to how forgiveness is tied into creation from the fabric of what it is made of).” (31:45)

As Imam al Ghazali explained this is Allah’s figurative speech in the Quran, Allah doesn’t literally have a hand holding space, the forces of the universe are honoured with being called His hand because of how crucial they are to all life in the universe, and because they are crucial to life and act as a direct agent of His will when He decrees something they are given the honorific of being called His hold on creation and His Hand.

In the verse of light (24:35) Allah explains how He is the Light of the heavens and the earth (the Universe) with a simile for how His light exists in the Universe, in the Verse He calls all subatomic particles His light because they represent His complete will by moulding themselves into what He decrees. Just as everything proclaims His will by obeying His command is the meaning of the verse “There is nothing that does not proclaim His Praise (obey’s His will)” (17:46) (Foundations of Islamic Belief, Imam al Ghazali).

The simile Allah gives in the verse of Light is of the Atom and how subatomic particles are created, behaving according to His will and are then used by Allah to guide man in life (this is explained in detail in my book The Light Of Allah In The Heavens and The Earth).

Allah honours these particles by calling them His light in the heavens and the earth because it was from them He created everything as He willed it, in this simile He makes specific mention of these forces calling them the oil of the Lamp (Atom), then in verse 31:45 He mentions how the entire Universe is being held by Him through them because these forces are what keep all Atoms and objects together, even literally saying in the Quran they prevent everything from vanishing away.

As the Quran describes in many verses everything will disintegrate and turn to “dust” eventually disappearing when the trumpet is blown because Allah will no longer hold the Universe together it’s forces will slowly disappear.

These forces are likened to Allah’s actions in the universe because they only exist because of the expansion of the Universe and Allah said He is the one expanding it, ascribing the process to himself;

“And it is We Who have constructed the heaven (Universe) with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it”. (Qur’an, 51:47)

In the verse of Light Allah mentions that these forces (oil) are produced by the Universe so they exist through Him because He is expanding it, hence in the language of the Arabs living 1400 years this is an accurate characterisation.

Elsewhere Allah gives another description of the day the Universe will end, “Assuredly, what ye are promised must come to pass. Then when the stars become dim; and the sky is torn apart; When the mountains are scattered (to the winds) as dust, (70:7-10). This theme of matter coming apart is repeated often in the Quran and is central to Allah’s description of events on that day.

[This was taken from Issue #3 of The Islamic Journal, the tafsir was written according to the theme and context of each verse.]

Mans imagination manipulates subatomic particles to create the image we see in our mind and dreams, these particles exist at the most outer layer of space (or the subatomic world). Allah swore by the outer most layer of space itself (the nun) which is made from these particles and other matter. Then He swore by the first intellect He created (the pen) which saw the entire universe and wrote down it’s future, the human mind is an archetype of this intellect (pen), Allah says “all (things) have We registered in a prototype (Imam in arabic, the Imam is someone copied in prayer, literally Allah creates things from archetypes, Man was created in Allah’s image, DNA is another perfect example of this), the archetypal Book”(36:12).

Man’s intellect (similar to the pen) gathers information then attempts to forecasts what should be occurring in the future, the future is something mans intellect is always trying to discover. Allah then swore by the most certain thing in the universe relating to the intellect of man and what it does, and that is the sealed fate of all things which the first intellect (the Pen) saw and recorded.

The conclusion is, that a mind which has certainty of what is going to occur, like the pen, can never be mad, this is the relationship between the nun, the pen and what it inscribes in relation to madness and the prophet’s (saws) mind. 

It is a tremendous standard for the prophet’s mind to be compared to, because they are perfect at what they do, which Allah states clearly in the next verses (68:4) “And lo! thou art of a tremendous nature.”

For more information on this subject Issue #5 of The Islamic Journal quotes the Hadith on the “nun” (pronounced noon) in full along with a detailed explanation, in the section on Ahadith about life on other worlds. This issue also discusses what Islam says about the subatomic depth of space.