The Cosmic Cycle of Worlds: A Qur'anic Hypothesis on Seven Planets, Seven Gates, and the Repetition of Creation

This study proposes a speculative cosmological hypothesis inspired by Qur’anic references to the seven heavens, the seven gates of Hell, the transformation of the Earth and the heavens, the repetition of creation, and different measures of cosmic time. The central hypothesis is that the seven planets other than Earth in our Solar System may represent, not seven entirely independent worlds, but a simultaneous snapshot of different planetary states that a life-bearing world could experience over immense periods of cosmic time. In this model, the present Earth represents a habitable phase within a much larger cosmic cycle. In previous or future cycles, another world could potentially occupy the role of the life-bearing planet, while other planets may correspond conceptually to different stages of planetary transformation. The hypothesis further explores a possible relationship between the seven planets outside Earth and the Qur’anic reference to the seven gates of Hell (Qur’an 15:44). The Qur’anic concepts of changing the Earth and the heavens (14:48), repeating creation (21:104; 30:27), and the descent of the Command among the seven heavens and the Earth (65:12) are examined as elements of a broader conceptual framework. This study does not claim that the Qur’an explicitly identifies the seven planets with the seven gates of Hell, nor that a specific planet such as Venus was definitively a former Earth. Rather, it presents these connections as a speculative hypothesis for exploring possible relationships between Qur’anic cosmological language, planetary evolution, recurring cosmic cycles, and the repetition of creation.