My secret belief

zer01 · September 17, 2008, 5:12pm

Beh Ismehi Ta’Allah!

All praise is due to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds (Quran 1:2)

There are other verses in the Quran that suggest the existance of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. These are just a few;

“Say: None in the heavens or on earth, except God, knows what is hidden: nor can they perceive when they shall be raised up (for Judgement).” (27:65)

“Among His (God’s) signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the living creatures that He has scattered through them : and He has power to gather them together when He wills.” (42.29)

Few important things to note about the verse 42.29:

The word used highlighted is “them”, which suggest that there are living beings in the heaven as well.
The word used for living creatures in arabic is “dabata”, which is used for legged animals and humans, which suggest presence of intelligent beings, though they may not be as intelligent as us.

Everything that Allah (swt) has created has a purpose. So it would be a an awful waste of space if humans were the only inhabitants among the hundreds of billions of stars in the infinite expanse of space.

The sixth Holy Imam, Imam Jafar Sadiq has said: Perhaps you think God has not created a humanity other than you. No! I swear to God that He has created thousands upon thousands of mankinds and you are the last amnong them."
-Bihar al Anwar, vol 14, p 79

When asked if there were other lifeforms on other planet, Imam Jaffar As Sadiq replied “Like this world there are 70,000 other planets with each of their peoples believing they are alone in the universe.”

I posted above because I partially agree with your theory. As for the Miracles of Ambiyah mentioned in the Quran. Those were purely by the will of Allah (swt).

Allah is Aadil. He has made humans Ashraf Al Makhlookat. It is against Allah’s Adal tha He sends an inferior living being to guide us.

Asif ibn al-Birkhia was a companion of Hz. Sulema (as). It is mentioned in Quran that he who teleported the throne of Queen Sheba almost instantaneously. Please reffer to chapter 27 verse 38 to 40. But not because he was a super human or from another planet. It was because he possessed a little knowledge of the book of Allah as mentioned in those verses.

Please also read Tay al-Ard

Following is a quote from a Blog on Magic and Religion:

However, whereas performing miracles in Islam is reserved for a prophet (“Nabi”), some schools of thought within Islam believe in a form of metaphysical training in which the seeker can obtain the power to perform miracle-like events (called “keramat”). This is however not regarded as magic but rather psychic power. During the golden age of Islam, there was an influx of Hermetic and Chaldean thought due to the translation of many texts into Arabic. Magic based on angels, properties of the 99-Names of Allah, verses from the Quran, and the power of the Arabic letters became accepted as an alternative to sorcery between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. One of the most famous books of this era was the Shamsu al-Ma’aref al-Kubra, by Ahmed al-Buni. This book was later banned by orthodox Muslims as heresy, but continues to be read and studied. This kind of magic was called, instead of Siher (Sorcery), Ilm al-Hikmah (Knowledge of the Wise), Ilm Shem Yah (Study of the Divine Name), and Rouhaniat (Spirituality). For example, in Islamic tradition, as well as in Judaism, King Solomon, could communicate with the animal kingdom. That is believed to be God given, a miracle and not regarded magic. But then we read of a mysterious person in the circle of people around Solomon by the name of Asef ben berkhia, who is said to have been able to outperform the angels with his knowledge of the Divine Names. Magical power through Divine blessings (“keramat” e.g.) is therefore attainable by man; it is iktisabi, to put it properly.