In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. For the past two episodes, a very powerful and, to a great extent, mysterious question has repeatedly come before us: What exactly is the connection between the gates of the sky and water?
Look, there is a connection. Because if you observe, the presence of water will be found in every place where strange and mysterious events have occurred. By strange and mysterious, I mean events for which we still have no explanation today.
For example, Surah Hud states that before creation, Allah’s Throne (Arsh) was on water. Or Al-Anbiya states that Allah created every living thing from water. Creation took place somewhere within water. By the way, one point regarding this creation: I know that here, the water of creation implies a specific fluid, but wait just a little, because further ahead in the video, you are going to see with your own eyes that water is a bit more than that.
Because if you observe, there are some living beings whose creation did not happen with water. For example, Angels and Jinn. Regarding them, there is a Sahih Hadith narrated by Hazrat Aisha (RA) where the Holy Prophet (PBUH) stated: Angels were created by Allah from Light (Noor), and Jinn were created by Allah from the flame of fire, and humans were created from that which has been described to you.
Now we know that Jinn and Angels are living beings, and we also see that they were not created from water. But as I said, wait a little; further ahead in the video, I am going to share some very amazing things with you.
Then, this same point about creation is repeated in Surah An-Nur: that Allah created all moving creatures from water. Then in Surah Al-Kahf, which is undoubtedly counted among the most mysterious Surahs of the Quran. Nowadays, many researchers are interpreting Surah Al-Kahf in amazing ways according to modern sciences. I myself made a whole season on the incident of Gog and Magog in Surah Al-Kahf, and InshaAllah, there is a plan to work more on this.
Anyway, there is an incident in Surah Al-Kahf regarding Hazrat Musa (Moses) and Hazrat Khidr (AS), where Khidr takes Musa with him, and while staying with him, Musa (AS) sees such astonishing things happening that are completely beyond his comprehension. And after seeing all that, he could not remain patient, and he repeatedly stopped and questioned Khidr. In fact, upon his stopping and questioning, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) gave his remarks, saying: “May Allah have mercy on Musa (AS). Would that he had shown patience that day, so Allah would have told us more amazing events of this series.”
So, that Khidr (AS), who is undoubtedly the most mysterious character of this event—and today, at this moment, ultimately no one has the answer to where Khidr came from and where he went—he was also found by Musa (AS) near the water, sitting wrapped in a sheet. According to the words of the Quran, it was the place where “two waters met.”
Then, according to the Hadith of the Prophet (PBUH), when Hazrat Isa (Jesus) (AS) returns—meaning before the Day of Judgment, when his descent happens once again—he will descend at the white minaret of Damascus. And at that time, three signs will be visible in him. First, he will be wrapped in two garments, yellow-colored garments. Second, he will have placed his hands on the shoulders of two angels. And third, drops of water will be falling from his hair, shining like pearls.
And here, let me add one more thing: whenever the Holy Prophet (PBUH) saw Hazrat Isa (AS), he always noticed that drops of water were falling from his hair, even though his hair was not wet. This point is very important. And InshaAllah, I will definitely come back to this: that the hair is not wet, yet water is falling from there.
These are the words of a Sahih Hadith, that the Prophet (PBUH) saw Hazrat Isa (AS) in a dream. He saw that Isa has a wheatish complexion, but an extremely beautiful wheatish complexion. Later, when he (PBUH) explained his dream, he said that whatever beauty could exist in a man of wheatish complexion, I saw it in Isa. In the dream too, Isa (AS) had placed his hands on the shoulders of two men. And I was told that this is Isa, son of Maryam. And the man who was watching them while hiding, that is the False Messiah (Dajjal).
And then, the Prophet (PBUH) noticed that behind Isa (AS), there is another man who is watching Isa (AS) secretly. A man with a red complexion and extremely curly hair, who is observing Isa (AS) while hiding. And that is Dajjal.
And regarding Dajjal, there is a very famous Hadith which I am sure you all must have heard. The Hadith of Tamim Ad-Dari, in which a group of companions got lost somewhere while traveling in the sea. According to the Hadith, those people remained trapped in that storm for one month. Severe winds and heavy stormy rain. And Tamim Ad-Dari himself says that the waves of the sea were lifting us from here to there and smashing us from there to here.
And let me tell you, the storms you see on land are nothing more than a puff of air compared to a sea storm. A sea storm is a monster. Gale force 10 and gale force 11 winds used to be enough to tear ancient ships into shreds.
So, trapped in such a storm, Tamim Ad-Dari and the other sailors on the ship—regarding whom I have read in Hadith and other books and narrations that it was a team, a party consisting of about 30 people—finally, after the storm ended, these people reached an island. Now, this point is also very important. I might come back to this in the next video.
Tamim Ad-Dari says that at that time the sun was setting. We were shattered by fatigue, faint from hunger. Searching for some food, we went deep into the dense jungle inside the island. And there, we saw a strange creature whose body had so much hair that it was impossible to tell which side was its front and which was its back.
And those people asked it: “Ma Anti?” meaning “What thing are you?”
So it said: “Ana al-Jassasah.”
And they asked again: “Ma al-Jassasah?” meaning “What is Jassasah?”
So it gave no answer further, but only said this much: “You people go towards that monastery/place of worship that is visible in front of you. Apart from this, I will neither ask you anything nor tell you anything. But yes, inside that place of worship, there is someone who wants to meet you.”
Upon this, Tamim Ad-Dari and the party present with him got scared. And they say that we started thinking that perhaps this is some devil. By the way, the information I am giving you is all present in Hadiths. The only difference is that instead of reciting just one Hadith, I am narrating data taken from 11 different Hadiths reported on this incident in the form of an uninterrupted and continuous story. And as always, you will see the numbers of these Hadiths written on the screen InshaAllah.
One more thing, I know this is a very famous incident, and you must have heard it many times before. But there are some finer details, some finer points hidden in this incident, that if you ponder over them, doors to new worlds will start opening before you. And that is why I am narrating this incident to you in my own style. And wherever I say that “this is an important point,” you have to keep that specific point in your mind. Because if not this one, then at least in the upcoming next video, that point will definitely bring the answer to some question of ours to the forefront.
Okay, ponder this: First, Tamim Ad-Dari looked at Al-Jassasah very closely. And described thoroughly what it looked like. Yes, Al-Jassasah was some kind of a female creature. That is why those people asked: “Ma Anti?” meaning “What are you?” (using the feminine form). “Anti” is used for females. Apart from this, they said that it was crawling. Its body had so much hair that its physiology, its shape, could not be understood. It was black in color. Its eyes were not visible. There were a lot of clothes lying on its body, as if some sackcloth was placed over its waist. And it was tearing at its hair in such a way as if it was trying to pull them off. You have to keep all these details in mind.
Anyway, when Tamim Ad-Dari and his people reached that monastery, they saw a strange-looking but physically very strong human there who was tied up with extreme severity. Tamim Ad-Dari says that the man was so large in size that we had never seen a human of such great stature before this. Both his hands were tied to his neck. And from both ankles to both his knees, iron chains were tied. And he was also pulling at his hair, and jumping up and down as if he was trying to free himself. And just by looking, it was evident that he was very upset, sorrowful. These are Tamim Ad-Dari’s words.
And there, those people greeted him in some way, or you can say, offered him Salam. By the way, this incident is from before Hazrat Tamim Ad-Dari became a Muslim, when they used to be Christians. And at that time, those people did not say “Assalam-o-Alaikum” but used to greet by saying “Hayyak Allah” or “An’am Sabahan”.
Anyway, those people greeted him. But instead of replying, he directly started asking them questions. And I want you to listen to his questions because they are very important questions.
First of all, he asked: “Who are you people?”
Then he asked about a certain garden: “Do date palms still grow there?”
Then he asked two questions regarding waters.
One regarding the water of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias). The Sea of Galilee is in Palestine.
And second, regarding the spring of Zughar. Zughar is a small spring, but there is one spring of this name in Iran and another spring in Lebanon. Most scholars believe this is the Zughar of Lebanon. But that’s beside the point here.
Just think. First, Tamim Ad-Dari and his party reached Dajjal’s island by passing through waters. And then the questions Dajjal asked them—among them, the question he repeated, he asked twice—was regarding waters. Then finally he asked: “Has the Prophet of the Arabs arrived?” We said: “Yes, he has arrived.” So he asked: “Do people go towards him?” So we said: “Yes, rapidly.” Meaning, in simple words, he asked: “Do people listen to what he says?” So we said: “Yes, with great attention.”
So Tamim Ad-Dari says that upon this answer of mine, he jumped with such force that we felt as if he had broken the chains and was just about to be free. And then he screamed three times and said: “The day I get out of here, there will be no such part of Allah’s earth that I will not trample under my feet, except Taybah.” Allahu Akbar.
And reaching this point, it comes in the Hadith that happiness became visible on the face of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and he said: “Taybah is the name of Madinah. Allah has forbidden the presence of Dajjal in my Haram (Sanctuary).”
“Is he in the sea of Syria or Yemen? No. Rather he is in the East, he is in the East, he is in the East.” Three times the Prophet (PBUH) stated that Dajjal will emerge from the East. And reaching here, these 11 Hadiths are completed.
Between Dajjal and us, there is also a water present. Dajjal’s questions were also regarding waters. Then, regarding waters, there is that famous Hadith narrated by Hazrat Ibn Umar and Ibn Abbas (RA): That before the creation of humans, Jinn inhabited this world. And when Allah decided to send Adam here, Iblis (Satan) brought a whole army of angels here, leading them. Then those who fought battles with the Jinn and killed them, and the Jinn that survived, they pushed them towards the jungles and islands. Towards islands. Crossing the waters, towards the lands that come after. Just like Dajjal was also on an island.
I am saying it once again, this is a very important point. You have to keep it in your mind.
Then regarding waters, I will tell you one more incident. Hazrat Imam Zubair bin Bakkari (RA) has taken a very tremendous narration from Imam Kalbi (RA) in his book Al-Muwaffaqat. This narration is a bit long, but it is worth listening to.
Imam Kalbi says that once the Roman Emperor Heraclius (who is called Harkul in Arabic/Urdu) wrote a letter to Muawiyah (RA), in which he asked 17 very difficult questions. In the form of riddles. If those questions were presented before me and you, perhaps you and I would just hold our heads and sit down. I will give you an example of one of those questions. For instance, one question was: “Who is that man who has no nation?” For instance, another question: “What is that thing which breathes but has no soul?” For instance, “Which is that grave that moved along with the one buried inside it?” Did the answer to any one of these questions come to your mind?
So, Heraclius sent 17 such very tricky questions. And of course, due to lack of time, I cannot tell all 17 questions now. Anyway, the people present with Muawiyah (RA) said to him: “Muawiyah, it is better that you send these questions to Ibn Abbas. Because if you give a wrong answer, Heraclius will mock you.” And Muawiyah (RA) actually sent those questions to Hazrat Ibn Abbas (RA).
Now, one of those questions was this: “What is Majarra?” So Ibn Abbas (RA) wrote the answer to this question: “Majarra is the name of a gate in the sky. And it is such a gate that further ahead from it, many more gates open. And it is this type of gate that without permission, nothing can pass through it, not even heat.”
I am sharing this answer because it is relevant to our series. Then regarding this same Majarra, it is found in another narration that Majarra is made of such a water which is “Living Water”. Imagine. Living water.
Currently, in the largest dictionary of the Arabic language, Taj al-Arus, four meanings of this word “Majarra” are written. Among which, according to Astronomy (Ilm al-Hay’at), meaning the study of the sky, Majarra means a celestial object present in the sky. Meaning, according to Taj al-Arus and the explanation of Ibn Abbas (RA), a divine gate made of water present in the sky. An object made of living water. Amazing.
And hearing this answer, Heraclius said: “Such answers can either be given by a Prophet, or by someone from the Prophet’s household. An ordinary man cannot give answers of this kind.” And it was so, because Abdullah ibn Abbas was the cousin of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by relation. And I have told you many times what the level of Ibn Abbas’s knowledge was and how his training took place.
Okay, regarding waters, one last narration. Which essentially isn’t the last, but obviously, time has to be considered. A video longer than half an hour then creates difficulty for viewers.
In Al-Mu’jam al-Kabir by Tabarani and Sunan Ibn Majah, a narration is found from the Companion of the Prophet, Hazrat Abu Umamah (RA). There is a little discussion on its authenticity (Sehat). Some scholars call this narration Sahih (authentic) and some scholars call it Da’eef (weak). Although remember that Da’eef does not mean a fake narration.
Anyway, the narration is something like this: The soul of every living being is captured by an angel. Who is called Malak al-Maut. The Angel of Death, Hazrat Izra’il (AS). He captures the soul of everyone, except those who die in water. Because the soul of those who die in water is captured by Allah Himself. (Mu’jam al-Kabir Tabarani).
By the way, think about this for just one minute. That the souls of all are captured by an angel. But the soul of those dying in water, Allah captures Himself. Once you grasp the grandeur of this point, you will get a strange feeling that perhaps no one can explain.
Water. Allah’s Throne on water. The beginning of creation from water. The creation of living beings with water. The creation of the first sky with water. The meeting of Khidr and Musa near water. The descent of Isa with dripping water drops. The existence of water between two skies. The fleeing of Jinn towards islands while leaving the main land, crossing waters. The path to reach Dajjal, crossing waters. The questions asked by Dajjal, regarding waters. Majarra, the presence of waters inside the gates of the sky. After all, there is something in these waters. But what?
What exactly is water? Look, water is a natural chemical element whose formula is—and you all must have heard this formula—H2O. Which means two atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen meet to make water. Which in simple language means that water can be created, and water can be destroyed too. And in fact, in the past, it has happened that water vanished.
When this world was completely new and its mass was very little, it didn’t have enough power to hold the water present on it in liquid form. The radiation was very high, water molecules would break. Hydrogen would separate and Oxygen would separate. And the Hydrogen that separated would fly into the air and get lost somewhere in space. I am not telling too many scientific details because the topic would become very dry. But the important point is that now we know that wherever there is Hydrogen and Oxygen, water can be formed there, and can finish too. And both these gases are spread everywhere in this universe. Hydrogen is anyway the most abundant in this universe, and Oxygen is the third most abundant. Which means that water exists everywhere in this universe.
And you might remember that in the year 2011, a very big discovery happened. The laboratory making this discovery was named NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The name of the scientist leading it was Dr. Matt Bradford. And this discovery happened in Pasadena, California. Where those people observed with an extremely powerful 33-foot telescope that about 12 billion light-years away from our world—12 billion light-years away, very, very far away—there is a massive ocean of water. Suspended in space. Just floating in space. And we only know this much, that it was wrapped around something extremely, extremely, extremely hot. Perhaps to keep it cool? No one knows this.
Now, since water is wrapped around that hot thing, we are unable to see it. Obviously, water is obstructing the view. That is why we don’t know exactly what that hot thing is, but seeing its temperature, our guess is that it is a Quasar. An extremely hot light.
Now the interesting thing is that the water wrapped around that light is not some 10-20 liters, not some small lake. Rather, even if you combine all the oceans of our world, it is an ocean 140 trillion times larger than that. There is no way that we can even imagine how massive that ocean is. Why is it there? No one knows. How did it get there? No one knows. Is it keeping something cool? Allah knows best. But could some creature be swimming inside that ocean? I will come to this a bit later. Perhaps at the end of this video or in the next video.
Water exists in places in this universe. This, you can now understand, is considered almost an established fact. It is 100% possible for this to be. But the thing we want to know regarding water is: after all, what is it in this that appears in every mysterious place, or in the paths of the sky? Or in common words, say, what are the characteristics of water? What are its properties?
Some properties of water we know. For example, when it comes to a certain point, almost everything dissolves in water. Every element, whether in living things or inanimate things. That is why water is called the “Universal Solvent” or “Solvent of Life.”
Now since everything dissolves in water, therefore nowhere in the world is water found in its purest form. Something or the other is always dissolved in it, something is mixed. And to make water chemically pure, it has to be passed through different processes. For example, capacitive deionization, UV oxidation, etc., etc. And then the price of pure water, free from everything, becomes very, very high.
I’ll give you an example. Right now in Pakistan, the price of clean water is perhaps 120 rupees for a bottle. Then the price of ultra-pure water is perhaps around 500 rupees. But do you know the price of Cell Culture Grade pure water? Approximately 900,000 rupees per liter.
But despite so much investigation and research on water, there are some properties of it that perhaps we haven’t figured out to this day. For example, you all must have heard in school that water is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless substance. But no. Water has a smell. Which only a frog can smell. Frogs smell water. How they smell it, we don’t know. But for a frog, the properties of water change.
And here, I want to bring you back to one point which is in a Hadith and which a common person misses very easily. Silsila As-Sahihah, Hadith number 3140. Abu Huraira (RA) says that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) stated: “Isa (AS) will come once again. When you see him, recognize him. He will be of medium height. His complexion will be reddish-white. He will be wrapped in two yellow-colored garments. And from his head, water will be dripping. Even though there will be no water on his head. His hair will not be wet.”
How is that even possible that there is no water on his head, yet drops are dripping from his hair? Just think how this is possible, that something isn’t wet, but water is dripping from it.
Now what I am going to tell you, you will enjoy hearing it. In Astrophysics—meaning the study of skies and stars—and High Energy Physics—meaning the study of the most powerful things in the universe—a term is found: Superfluidity.
This means that if specific types of liquids, specific types of substances, when they are in the form of water, if their temperature is made very, very cold—as cold as it can possibly get—then that water will become a thing named “Superfluid.” And at that time, no law of our physics will have any effect on it.
I’ll give you an example and show you a picture too. If you bring a gas named Helium to cryogenic temperatures—meaning make its temperature extremely, extremely, extremely cold… to the point where Helium atoms stop moving… it will become a strange water. And if you are thinking why this picture looks old, then be thankful that at least we have a picture. Because at the temperature at which this Helium is right now, no camera works at this temperature.
You can see that Helium has become water. And it looks as if the bowl in which this water is present is leaking. But this bowl is not leaking from anywhere. Rather, our physics has finished on this water. This water has become a superfluid. A part of which has passed right through the bowl and come out. How it passed, no one knows. And some part has started climbing upwards from the walls of the bowl. Exactly in the form of a thin layer. Ordinary water never does this, that it starts flowing upwards. But superfluid… it is free from the prison of our physics. This water is flowing upwards from the walls of the bowl. And forming drops, it is dripping downwards. And this water will keep flowing upwards until the bowl becomes empty.
And this is that water, that if it is present somewhere, then its presence indicates that at that place, our regular physics is not working. For example, a path of the sky. Inside which there is some superfluid type of water. Which looks like water, flows and drips like water, but it is some other thing entirely. And wherever it is present, its presence is proof of the fact that surely some path opens there inside which our physics stops working. For example, those paths of the sky from where things come and go. And that is why, whatever thing passes through those paths and comes, somewhere on them, traces of this superfluid are visible. Which looks exactly like water to the eye.
But is it exactly this water? This, we will probably never know.
Now Ibn Abbas’s (RA) point makes sense that the water of Majarra is a kind of “living saliva” (fluid). It acts on its own. Its behavior, the physics applying to it, is not our ordinary water. But the laws under which it works, we have probably not even seen those laws yet.
Khidr (AS) met Musa (AS) at the place of the meeting of two waters. Who knows, maybe one of them was the water of the River Nile, and the second water was that superfluid which was coming out of that path from which Khidr (AS) came into this world. The meeting place of two waters.
Surah Al-Kahf. According to Hadith, a closed wave in the sky, a closed wave. It is very possible that closed wave is made of some superfluid that looks just like water to the eye. But is it this water? This, we will probably never know.
When I started this series on the secrets of the universe, I thought that gradually I would share with you all that research which I have done in this regard. My research work on skies, distant spaces, planets present in them, stars and galaxies.
But this series of mine will remain incomplete until I discuss this point: Can there be life in the far-off, unknown parts of this universe? Can we find some other life through this great network of paths present in the sky?
I guess that many people do not take interest in this topic. For example, among the 44 Tafseers (exegeses) I have read, one Tafseer is also by an Egyptian scholar, Syed Qutb. And if you have read Syed Qutb’s Tafseer, you would know his style, his interest. For example, apart from the topics of Jihad and System, whatever verses there are—for example, verses about contemplation in the skies and earth—in their Tafseer, Qutb often writes one thing, and which many of my viewers also say to me: “What secrets are hidden in the skies and earth? We will not be questioned about this in the grave. We are not obligated to know this. Therefore, it is only necessary to have faith in them; however, there is no need to discuss their secrets much.”
But you know that when I made this channel, my intention behind it was to express the greatness of my Lord, His power, and His might. And when it comes to the things created by Him, to His creation… then as I go on telling about His creatures present in this universe, I feel that I am going on expressing His great power and His praise (Tasbeeh).
Therefore, from this point forward, I am going to discuss with you all those possibilities of what lies beyond these mysterious waters. Are there any islands beyond these waters where creatures live? Island, by definition, is that piece of land which can only be accessed after crossing water. That piece of land between which and us, there is water.
I am sure you have understood my indication. But even if you haven’t understood, no problem. Because the next chapter, InshaAllah, is going to be about these lands. That after crossing this barrier of waters, how will the land that comes before us look? Who would be living there?
