The Spider – A
Commentary on Chapter 29: Surat Al-'Ankabūt
(Selected Verses)
Introduction
Whoever professes, confesses, or witnesses that there is One Creator
of creation in all its diversity will also experience duality and
the process of interplay between opposites. As with spiritual
seekers of any age, some of the early Muslims in Mecca could not
withstand the pressure exerted upon them to return to the
convenience of their old habits and customs of pre-Islamic times.
This chapter (sūrah) of the Qur`an, The Spider, refers to the
flimsy, insecure structures upon which we tend to depend, comparable
to a spider's web. The only structure which is everlasting and
indestructible is based on the non-structural knowledge of God and
His laws that govern physical existence.
