7 skies

The creation of 7 skies is mentioned many times in the Quran. What are the 7 skies?

From a atmospheric point of view, earth’s sky is built of 7 layers:

The exosphere relates to the furthest layer of the atmosphere which is basically the begging of the empty space above earth.

It is believed by many people that this is what the 7 skies (or the 7 heavens) is referring to, but this is WRONG.

Lets look at Verse 5 from Sura “Al-Mulk” [67:5]

“And We have certainly beautified the nearest sky with stars and have made [from] them what is thrown at the devils and have prepared for them the punishment of the Blaze.”

Allah says he has “beautified the nearest sky with stars” , which is basically the entire universe that humans view with telescopes. There are no stars within the earth’s atmosphere as shown in the picture above, the nearest star to Earth is our Sun, which is about 150 Million Kilometers away from us, therefore, 7 skies cannot possibly refer to 7 layers of atmosphere. It is referring to 7 dimensions.

The entire universe, billions of stars, billions of galaxies and an infinite amount of space that is stretching and extending itself by the second is just the FIRST sky, “subhanllah”. There are 6 more of them that cannot be seen by human eyes. The fact that the skies are layered does not mean that they are stacked on top of each other. Lets say you build a rocket that can travel upward with the speed of light. Rocket might travel vertically forever but never reach another sky! why? because the second sky is not up there somewhere, it is in another dimension. In physics, it is called “Parallel Universes” , it’s a universe that can exist at the same place you are sitting right now, but it is in another dimension, where time and matter does not exit, therefore you cannot see it with your eyes or feel it with your body that are designed to view and feel matter in this dimension.

What are these 7 skies for?

As mentioned in the Quran, humans are not the only creations of Allah. He also created Jin (from Fire) , Jin could be living in in one of those skies (or dimensions) . Also, the “Meraj” of our prophet, where he visits each sky until his distance from Allah is an arrow, shows that other heavens are where you go to after death. The purgatory , or “Barzakh” is where your spirit goes until the judgment day, the day that all heaves (including all these skies) will come to an end and the only dimension left is where you will be judged of who you where and what you did.