I am a non-Muslim with an interest in understanding how the world is seen from the Islamic perspective, I’ve been wondering about the implications of Surat Al-'Aĥzāb 33:72 and hoped to learn more by asking here. Here’s the Surat for context:
Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.
Is this Surat meant to be understood literally?
When ‘man’ is mentioned, is that an ancestral human or is it each person individually?
If it’s each person does that mean that the souls of all humans that will ever live have already been created and asked prior to being born?
Asking of the heavens, the earth and the mountains implies they have some kind of spirit, intelligence or consciousness, is this correctly understood? Does it apply to other things too?
Hopefully this doesn’t come across as provocative, these were just thoughts I had.
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