Zahra Besharati; Ali Sharifi; Mohammad Reza Besharati
Abstract
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.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 ...
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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.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.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.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)
