A075
Surah: 056 - Ayah: 075
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56:75
Souls of Stars
Q. 78. If every small or big thing has a soul and if this great universe has a Universal Soul, does this mean that the planet earth, moon and stars also have souls? If so, please furnish a cogent proof of this?
A. I wonder why this question appears very pleasant and beautiful to me. Hopefully there is some Divine favour in it. My dears! everything in the universe is immersed in the encircling ocean of the Soul of souls and so are all the planets and stars, externally and internally. Therefore, a spiritual form of each one of them becomes determined. For instance, the spiritual form of the planet earth is exactly like the earth, as if a great angel, by the command of God, has made a wisdom-filled and living film of it. This is a cogent example of the soul of the earth.
The air itself has no fixed form, but if it is in the water-skin, it is like the water-skin; if in a bottle, it is like a bottle and if it is in a tyre, it is like a tyre. The same is the case of the spiritual form of everything and every star. But a very great difference between the two is that the spiritual form is a living and speaking soul, while the air, wherever it may be, is devoid of spiritual qualities.
The Lord of the world, in His Mighty Book, has sworn by the falling of the stars (56:75). These are the souls of the stars, which fall upon a mu'min in individual resurrection and they are only in the form of particles.
Mawaqi (Places of falling)
In verse (56:75) it is said: "But nay, I swear by the setting of the stars." Stars are cosmic angels, and their representative particles together with the angels of the world of particles fell down for the prostration to Hazrat Adam. It should be noted that there is the renewal of similitudes of all spiritual and intellectual things related to Prophets and Imams in the personal world.
This verse has been referred 5 times.