also see https://thesevenworlds.wordpress.com/category/arabia/islam/

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Hi Obie,

Check this out: http://en.shafaqna.com/discover-islam/itemlist/tag/Adam.html...

'Sheikh Saduq has narrated a hadith in his book "Khisal" from Imam Sadiq (pbuh) in which he says: "When Allah (swt) created the earth, he created seven worlds in it (and made each one extinct); none of those worlds [generations] were of Prophet Adam’s generation. Allah created all of them from the earth’s crust and brought them one after another, and created a world for each one after the other, until He created Prophet Adam and ramified his generation from him.”'

That looks like a translation of the same text.

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Note added at 51 mins (2014-10-30 17:28:24 GMT)
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Or at least quite similar :)

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Note added at 56 mins (2014-10-30 17:33:41 GMT)
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بصراحة أنا لا أفهم مفهوم "العالمين" هنا

الا انني اخترت هذه الكلمة لأني راكتشفته في سياقات مماثلة في الانجليزي.

... وشوف تعليقي السابق كمان

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وأيضا... اذا لم يعجبك كلمة
"worlds,"
يمكنك أن تفكر في استعمال
"planes"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(esotericism)