A019
Surah: 084 - Ayah: 019
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84:19
Tarkabunna (You will definitely ride)
It is said in verse (84:19): "That you shall definitely ride from plane to plane." That is, you definitely have to climb the (ladder of) ranks. In this verse there is an allusion to all material and spiritual ranks. Indeed, man is on the great journey of the study of the universe for the sake of knowledge and recognition or spiritual science.
Tabaq (sing. tabaqah)(Layers, categories, classes, levels, planes)
It is said in verse (84:19): "That you will certainly pass through one plane (tabaq) to another." This is the mention of man's travelling through the heavens/universe, because tabaq is linked with the verses "saba samawatintÌibaqa (the seven heavens one above the other)" (67:3; 71:15). That is, the seven heavens are the seven big layers or planes, and if we count the seven earths as well (65:12), they become fourteen layers or planes under which there can be their countless subsidiary layers.
It is a law of true Islam that if a Muslim does not have the knowledge or the experience of a thing, he should not stop searching for it. For, our ears, eyes and heart, all these organs are accountable. Nowadays there is the problem of a mysterious creature by the name of Flying Saucer about which apparently nothing is mentioned in a religious book. Nothing is known about it except that some people have seen it several times from far and near, flying with extreme rapidity in a small, disc-like aeroplane. According to some reports, it is a creature in human form. Such a creature may indeed be mysterious!
Before venturing to divulge the secret of the reality of this mysterious creature, I have also thought about its consequences, of how dangerous it is to do so before its time and to utter a word without [weighing it on] the right balance and above all to disclose a secret without the approval of the supreme authority (mukhtar-i bartar) of religion. If someone fears such dangerous consequences and has not yet attained the satisfaction of verifying his problems by [weighing them] on the balances of realities, then in keeping with “man samata naja (i.e. he who remained silent is saved)”, he should remain silent.
After the expression of this firm certainty, let us raise the question: "What is the reality of these heavenly creatures and where do they come from?" The answer is that they come from a planet whose inhabitants are those human beings who have passed through the stages of science and art and reached the peak of ascension. You may call them angels, spiritual beings or luminous or atomic human beings, etc. For an angel or a spiritual being does not come into existence from anything other than the human who has attained perfection. The atomic man or the man made of something else was, in the beginning, none other than the same human being. However, the difference is that the former has attained the atomic attire, whereas the latter is still in the terrestrial attire. In the following verse: “That you shall be caused to climb one plane after another plane” (84:19), God, the Wise, Who is the absolute King of the entire universe, not only addresses the atomic or celestial man and the terrestrial man, that the former should come down and the latter should go up, but also issues the command concerning the ascent and descent of all planets, in fact the entire universe. For, in the universal kingdom of the absolute and matchless King, the same one law is applicable to the part and the whole.
Further, it also means that you will be transformed from one state into another state, both of which mean the same thing. According to the Qur'anic description, the meaning of man’s transformation from one state into another state is that man passes from the stages of earth, vegetable, sperm, clot (of congealed blood), lump (of flesh), bones and flesh and reaches the present state (23:12-14). If human nature changes due to diet or any other wisdom, there should not be any surprise, because he has come to this by already being created and transformed from many things. If man will be able to attain the atomic or spiritual food and eat it, then certainly he will be liberated from the force of natural gravity. That is, a nourishment which does not contain wetness, dryness, heat and cold. It is only through such an atomic or spiritual diet that the human being can be liberated from the pull of the planet earth and be saved from physical death. For, physical death occurs due to the deterioration of the temperament. That is, the physical death of man occurs due to the discord and disunity of the four adversaries i.e. four elements.
This verse has been referred 6 times.