وَلِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ طَوْعًا وَكَرْهًا وَظِلَالُهُم بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْآصَالِ
To Allah prostrates whoever there is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows at sunrise and sunset.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 13:15
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 13:15] Everyone, high or low, is a created being, and submits to the laws of the creator, whether willingly, as in the case of believers and all other beings in the universe, or unwillingly, as in the case of devils and rebels. Even the shadows, projections from other things and dependent on them for their existence are also subject to Allah's laws and will. Like verse 206 of al Araf, it is implied here also that action is influenced by thoughts and the feelings. Aqa Mahdi Puya says: The absolute infinite reality is the real light- light of lights, by which every being comes into light and in evidence, refer to An Nur: 35. The finite beings differ from each other to the extent of their limitations in the order of existence. He who has the least limitations is nearer to the absolute; and the one, who has more limitations than he, is his shadow, but, in the order of existence, he also has his own shadow- the being who has more limitations than he has. Thus every lower being is the shadow of Us immediate higher being, following in its movement unto the perfect light.