This is another job. We fall often into this mistake if we do not remain within the limits of the knowledge what is given by Allah (SWT) and His prophets (peace be upon them). Of course, a contemporary explanation also requires the literacy of a given place and age, otherwise the thought cannot be put into context. It also can happen that the imagination of a former scientist is rethought and new theories are created. Then the time will come when the latest thought turns against the words of Allah fundamentally.
The question is the thing where trouble starts. For example, what happens to the soul after it leaves the body? The answer is: it enters the Barzakh. It is a condition in which the body returns to the circulation of the material world, but the soul is waiting somewhere. This somewhere is called Barzakh. It is the place or condition where the soul is waiting for the judgement of Allah. So far, the Book of Allah and the hadith of Prophet (peace be upon him). Anyone who goes further in mysticism is fantasizing and will inevitably be trapped by his own words. We do not know what Barzakh is. We do not know what is waiting for the soul there, nor do we know how long it will last. We have to stop here.
I don’t to say at the same time that one has to rely on just one book, because it would produce a terrible result. Whoever stops by one book, becomes a bigot, extremist mind who cannot be convinced about other people's truths. Because of the one-book knowledge he comes to the point where he regards himself as a revelator of Allah and is able to project his own fantasy to Allah. We need literacy and we have to read as much books as we can in order to reach the level where others have already reached in the comprehension of the world. Let us not discover banal things and present them as huge innovations. At the same time, literacy helps to find the boundary from which fantasy and imagination separate the concepts from reality. In English: let us not state stupid things about God's creation that are the products of our own mind and having no authentic explanations for them.
Imagination takes us far, which is often good, but often wrong. Good, because if it is rooted in proper knowledge. It helps e.g. to imagine Mars, planets, or a simple atom. But if we cross the border of the world of mysticism and trying to imagine God, we are on the wrong path. We are humans and many would imagine God to be a very big man. Because He creates with two hands, we would endow him with eight hands, since according to human logic it is easier to create with eight hands. And behold! We get to the depiction of the Indian deities. But if we were cattle, we would imagine God as cattle, with up to eight horns. Unlike many others, I am not suggesting that we should not ponder our brains about this, but rather we have to find out how other cultures have come to these depictions through these fantasies. But we should be aware that all this is the product of fantasy. God's appearance cannot be justified, neither theologically nor scientifically. His existence can only be justified by the result that stands before our eyes! The Universe itself!The concept of lightness and darkness can also mislead us. For man, daylight is the light, but for an owl the darkness of the night means the light where it can hunt and find the provision from God. So, with human perception, we know what light means in its own physical reality. But in a Holy Scripture its meaning is different. The light of the spiritual world means enlightenment.
It is decisive beyond the explanations that what sort of fire burns within us! What is feeding the burning fire within us? This is perhaps the most important issue. Hatred? Placing ourselves above others? Inferiority complex? Material interest? Self-defense? Outraged mind? Honest teaching desire? Love? Until we don't see this clearly in ourselves and on the side of the listeners, we cannot position our thoughts the way we want. So, one makes mistake if he/she gives answer in which he/she has no capacity of knowledge or responds to people for whom is unnecessary to give any reply. In addition, he/she can be motivated by something that creates an antithesis of a thought.

For a plant to emerge from the seed, viable seed must reach fertile soil. And a poppy seed knows that it's not going to be a nut tree. And as human beings, we go beyond our own limits. Hey man! Learn to stop and say: I don’t know! Excuse me, I have something really messed up! I was wrong! My knowledge takes me so far and no further! I once learned from masters who dared to say, "au Allah a'alem", in English: “or, if not, Allah knows best”. Today I hear this less and less.