IHCS Science and Religion Studies 38306462 Articles in Press 2020 10 03 Recgnition of the relation of heaven cities (مدائن سماء)and columnof light( عمود نور) in the tradition: "These heaven stars have cities…related every city to a column of light" Recgnition of the relation of heaven cities (مدائن سماء)and columnof light( عمود نور) in the tradition: "These heaven stars have cities…related every city to a column of light" 5603 FA Zahra Besharati Allame Tabatabaee University Ali Sharifi allameh tabataba&#039;i university 0000-0002-3550-7974 Mohammadreza Besharati Shahid Beheshti University Journal Article 2020 07 06 In a tradition from Imam Ali (as), existence of some cities in heaven which related each of them to the column of light were mentioned.<br>Some scholars believed that these heaven cities ((مدائن سما are similar to our world cities but at the heaven, and some of them equals them with different earth in the universe and finally some of them believed that these traditions were fabricated.<br>Regarding these diverse opinions about this tradition, this article goal is to clarify the meaning of tradition in the base of textual and documental (chain of transmit ion) analysis, emphasizing on the critical methods of traditions.<br>According to this method regarding the comprehensive meaning of cities مدائن)) and stars (نجوم) in the text, we can realize that "cites" equals the "orbits of planets" and "attractive force of sun"equals "the length of light column" in the text of tradition and the tedious of solar system (i.e.: destination of kuiper belt from sun regarding border of planet section) In a tradition from Imam Ali (as), existence of some cities in heaven which related each of them to the column of light were mentioned.<br>Some scholars believed that these heaven cities ((مدائن سما are similar to our world cities but at the heaven, and some of them equals them with different earth in the universe and finally some of them believed that these traditions were fabricated.<br>Regarding these diverse opinions about this tradition, this article goal is to clarify the meaning of tradition in the base of textual and documental (chain of transmit ion) analysis, emphasizing on the critical methods of traditions.<br>According to this method regarding the comprehensive meaning of cities مدائن)) and stars (نجوم) in the text, we can realize that "cites" equals the "orbits of planets" and "attractive force of sun"equals "the length of light column" in the text of tradition and the tedious of solar system (i.e.: destination of kuiper belt from sun regarding border of planet section)