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Exegesis of the Qur’anic verse, {He created the heavens without pillars}, Chapter of Luqman, verse 10.

The He of this verse is allah, or the gathering, and the creation established by this gathering is the assembly, which is not a fixed entity, but rather a continuous process of confluence and contention among the multitudes of illuminated objects within it. This endless dance gives the assembly its color, shape, and velocity in any given moment. That the assembly is “without pillars” signifies the lack of any abiding essence — it is nothing other than the divine absence and the variability among the multitudes of illuminated objects.

So what gives the assembly the appearance of stability? The following verse says {And we cast upon the earth mountains lest it should shift with you}, where the mountains are the dominant values in the assembly. Values are the formations that develop and build consensus and strive with one another for influence within the assembly. The largest of these are the dominant values, and are here represented as mountains. But even those are variable and contingent, as the Qur’an indicates elsewhere; they are “passing away as clouds” (Chapter of the Ant, verse 88).

The lack of “pillars” or abiding structures in the assembly reveals the traces of allah.cipher, the divine absence, the traces which mark the assembly and every formation and illuminated object within it, those being openness, abundance, possibility, emptiness, and the secret. It is this lack of pillar that makes every world and every illuminated object in it a miracle unlike any other.

Among the abiding principles negated by this verse is the notion of a “universe,” a singular world that encompasses every assembly and object, and which has one continuous set of guiding principles. Every assembly, and every formation and object as well (those being themselves assemblies, when considered at their scale), constitute a world, each with its own dominant value that gives it its own shape, color, and velocity.