A040
Surah: 011 - Ayah: 040
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11:40
Prophets and the World of Particles: The stories of all the Prophets are related to the world of particles. Thus the angels who prostrated themselves to Hazrat Adam, in zahir were mu 'mins and in batin, particles in the world of particles. One ark of Hazrat Nuh was a symbol (mithal) and the other the symbolised (mamthul). The two pairs of countless things which he took into the ark were the spiritual particles of all minerals, vegetables, animals and human beings and the ark itself was his own soul (11 ;40; 23:27).
Hazrat Nuh, as the Treasure of God: Hazrat Nuh, may peace be on him, was the treasure of God in his time. He was the treasure of God in the sense that, in his time in the background of the physical Deluge, a spiritual Deluge had to take place also, due to which, all the particles of intellect, soul and the subtle body would have to be destroyed. Therefore the Sustainer of the world commanded Hazrat Nuh to take a pair of all the different things of the world of particles into the ark of his personality (11:40; 23:27). Thus a voice of Resurrection rose from inside Hazrat Nuh, upon hearing which, all the particles of soul gathered in him and thus, he became the treasure of God. And this status is held by all the Prophets and Imams.
Tannur (Oven)
In verse (11:40) God says: "And the oven gushed forth." That is, the dhikr or remembrance of ism-i aczam became fast and automatic and the flood of spirituality started. Thus, by the tannur is meant the remembrance of ism-i aczam.
Mountain has many ta’wils, one of them is the mountain of soul and another is the mountain of intellect. There is a difference however in the meaning of them being smashed. Soul has innumerable particles all at the same time, but intellect is an example of oneness, and therefore it is only one pearl in the personal world. Nevertheless, the way the chain of manifestations of knowledge of it continues one after the other, it can be said that the Pearl of Intellect also represents innumerable intellectual particles. The proof of God having manifested Himself twice is the two mountains of soul and intellect. Also everything other than God is in pairs, so if we accept that God has many manifestations then as a principle we have to accept that fundamentally there are two manifestations. One should remember that the law of oneness is first, then comes the law of duality, and then the law of multiplicity. The concept of oneness is universally accepted and the concept of multiplicity is obvious. Let us then see what the Wise Qur’an says about the law of duality:
1. Hazrat Nuh took pairs, not only of animals, but also of all other things into the Ark (11:40; 23:27).
2. God has created all things in pairs and nothing is excluded from this law (51:49; 36:36).
3. The fruits of Paradise are in pairs and none of them is single (55:52; 13:3).
4. All these fundamental and final realities are in pairs: Throne and Dais, Pen and Tablet, Universal Intellect and Universal Soul, Adam and Eve, this world and the next, heaven and earth, good and evil, Natiq (Prophet) and Asas (Foundation), Imam and Hujjat, father and mother, day and night, intellect and soul, etc.
The Noble Qur’an teaches three things with the same significance and in the same way: To worship God alone (1:4), to seek help from God alone (1:4) and to fear God alone (2:40-41; 16:51). The reason for this is that seeking help from God is a part of worshipping Him. Similarly, fear of God is a condition of worship as well as worship itself. We should really say that the fear of God is the spirit of every worship and this is clear from the Divine Command: "And remember your Lord in a low voice and within yourself, humbly and with fear, in the morning and in the evening; and do not be of the negligent." (7:205). In this verse attention is drawn to the great secrets of remembrance and worship.
The greatest and all-embracing flood of Hazrat Nuh had taken place spiritually. At the appropriate time God commanded him to take a pair of all things (i.e. a male and a female from the particles of souls of minerals, vegetation and animals) into the ark (11:40). Thus Hazrat Nuh took a pair of the souls of all things in the ark of his personal world (world of particles), so that after the flood of destruction, a new world could be created and in which everything is from the treasure of God (15:21), which at that time was kept in Hazrat Nuh. It is amazing fact that is this way, the representative souls of all things are gathered together in the Perfect Man, who is the Divine treasure (15:21), from which everything spreads in the world.
This verse has been referred 9 times.