Fire, light, heat, angels, jinn…
The very meaning of the word "jinn" is that which is hidden from perception. Jinn are beings living in a world that we cannot see or experience, and they themselves are beings we cannot see or experience.
That is why the Qur'an says there are creatures and lives created not only from water, air, and earth, but also from fire, light, and heat.
The Qur'an makes it clear that, beyond the human realm, there is a hidden world with hidden beings and lives.
It is the Qur'an's precise statement that the basis of life and living is not only the air, water, and earth that sustain you and the earth's life. It is a precise statement that something else besides these also underlies life and living.
In other words: we do not measure life and living only from within our own dimension, using only our own criteria.
Living and thriving beings are not only humans and those on earth.
Living and thriving beings are not only on earth.
Not just non-humans, not just the living creatures of earth: the Qur'an, and Islam, declare in a clear, firm voice that there are beings and lives existing everywhere in the universe, in all different dimensions and planes.
The Qur'an completely corrects, even turns upside down, the notion that air, water, and earth alone are the basis of life and living.
By giving the concept of the jinn.
By speaking of angels.
By saying, based on knowledge alone, that the jinn and angels prostrated before man.
By stating clearly that there are living creatures created from fire and light.
This means that the search for life and living should not be carried out only by asking whether there is air, whether there is water, whether there is soil/ earth.
The Qur'anic, Islamic meaning is that in the stars, the sun, and the galaxies, beyond our dimension and plane, in ways that do not show up on our measuring scales, there are beings and lives that take fire, heat, and light as their food, drink, or breath.
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