Seven Heavens Reply

SEVEN HEAVENS REPLY

Creation of seven heavens is described in several verses of Holy Quran. One of them is Chapter 2 verse 29;

"He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth, and He directed Himself to the heaven, so He made them complete seven heavens, and He knows all things."

Reagarding this verse wikiislam,s author claim that this verse matches with common Greek opinion of skies that they are like the skin of onion in layers compacted together so it is an error.Islam does not mean onion layers by seven skies because several haidths quoted in TAFSEER DURR E MANSOOR VOL1 under this verse show that Holy prophet described the distance between two skies as 500 years.The second thing is that Islam considers Earth as sphere(it will come in later sections) and how can it is compatible with Greeks who considered earth as flat and Seven skies on it like layers of onion compcted upon each other. It is not an error because The author of wikiislam.net himself does not know what is the meaning of seven heavens in Islam. There are several interpretations of this verse out of which most often are SEVEN PLANETS OF SOLAR SYSTEM which was based on the scientific knowledge of old interpreters.In modern era some Muslim Scholars try to describe seven heavens by SEVEN LAYERS OF ATMOSPHERE but it also does not make much sense.The best interpretation which I found the best is as follow:

"The thing which appear the best is to take that the words SAB'A SAMAWAT actually mean SEVEN SKIES.The repitition of these words in the Holy Quran indicates that this word is not in the meaning of majority but actually describes the digit 7.However the verses of Holy Quran indicate that all the regions ,stars,planets, and everything we see are the part of first sky and there are SIX MORE HEAVENS other than this which is beyond our sight and knowledge as well as inventions and in this way there are seven heavens.

Holy Quran provides this thing as:

"We adorned the lowest sky with lamps" 41:12

at another place:

Indeed we adorned the lowest sky with stars"37:6

These verses clarify that all we see is the part of first sky and we have no reach to other skies still....................It is possible that coming generations will tell about the six skies..........................................................It is better to see this discussion in the words of a big observatory of world:The observatory of Palomar :

"Until the formation of telescope of observatory of Palomar  the massiveness of Universe was no more greater than 500 light years.But this telescope made us able to to find the magnitude of Universe as 1 Billion light years.This thing resulted in the discovery of several new galaxies out of which some are at a distance of 1 Billion light years from us but after 1 billion light year distance we found a dark region of space where nothing is found.It shows that light cannot cross it.But indeed there are several hundred Galaxies there but our Universe is safe from the gravity of those galaxies.

The big universe which appears to us containing several Hundred Galaxies is a small part of the Large Universe.And now we cannot still  say with belief that there is some other universe above this second Universe." Majallah "FIZA(SPACE) number 56 month of Farwardeen,351 

From Tafseer e Namoona Vol 1 page 151-152

Moreover we read in Bihar Ul Anwar vol. 55 page 78

" The probability that strikes my mind is that all the firmaments that have been established by celestial objects are referred to as the lower heaven."

and also:

"Until this juncture, the astronomers are of the opinion that presently they have only managed to proceed halfway towards the 'visible' fringes of the colossal universe........they still need to seek out the undiscovered space!"  Newsweek year 1964
above two references are from 180 Questions enquiries about Islam page 143
Above discussion clears the meaning of seven skies according to broad visioned Muslim interpreters.These verses provide us a point to think,to ponder,to research ,to find and to examine.It is a great interpretation of this verse.

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