Baqarah 30 - 34

Baqarah 30

30- AND AS YOUR LORD SAID TO THE AN- GELS: “I AM PLACING A VICEROY ON EARTH”. THEY SAID: “ARE YOU PLACING THEREIN HE WHO MAKES MISCHIEF IN IT AND SHEDS BLOOD, WHILE WE HYMN YOUR PRAISES AND SANCTIFY YOU?” HE SAID: “I KNOW WHAT YOU DO NOT”.

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This is the beginning of the Ayahs about the cre- ation of Adam, peace be upon him. Allah the Highest informed the Angels of His intention to place a viceroy on Earth. A Viceroy is a represen- tative, a person who should carry out the com- mands and will of his Lord.

The Angels response to this was a question; no one should assume that it was a criticism, for the angels can not criticize Allah the Highest, but they en- quired. Why did they enquire?

Because the Angels are some of Allah’s creation, they do not know what Allah the Highest has hid- den in the future, but only what happens and whatever they are allowed to know.

This enquiry however raises two more questions:

  1. Either the Angels were allowed to know that mankind was going to cause mischief and shed blood on Earth?

  2. Or that they reasoned this out from prior ex- perience. Meaning that they have seen this happening in another part of Allah’s King-

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dom, such as other planets or different world?

We do not know.

Allah’s answer to them was to remind them that the knowledge of the future and what is hidden is only His. Allah the Highest, said in Ayah El-Korsi the greatest Ayah in the Quran “HE KNOWS WHAT IS BEFORE THEM AND WHAT IS BE- HIND THEM, WHILE THEY KNOW NONE OF HIS KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT WHAT HE WILLS”. (S: 2 A: 255)

This is Allah’s rules with all including the closest Angels.

This Ayah should make us very weary of those who claim that they know the future and what is hid- den. Going to others to seek knowledge about the future or what is hidden is weakness in one’s faith. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him said: “The fortune tellers lie even if what they say turned out to be right”.

Baqarah 31-33

31- AND HE (ALLAH) TAUGHT ADAM ALL THE NAMES (OF EVERYTHING), THEN SHOWED THEM TO THE ANGELS AND SAID: TELL ME THE NAMES OF THESE IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL.

32- THEY SAID: GLORY TO YOU, WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT WHAT YOU TAUGHT US, YOU KNOW ALL AND YOU ARE MOST WISE.

33- HE (ALLAH) SAID: O ADAM, INFORM THEM OF THEIR NAMES. WHEN HE (ADAM) INFORMED THEM OF THEIR NAMES, HE (ALLAH) SAID: DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN IN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND KNOW WHAT YOU DIS- CLOSE AND WHAT YOU HIDE.

What are the names Allah the Highest taught Adam, we can not tell with certainty. Some say it means the names of all angels, and some say the names of every thing. It might even be referring to

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all knowledge Adam needed in his daily life . Only Allah knows.

Then Allah the Highest challenged the Angels to tell Him these names which they could not, because Allah the Highest did not tell them. This is a re- minder to us that all knowledge has one source and one only, Allah, Who also said : “HE (ALLAH) TAUGHT MAN WHAT MAN DID NOT KNOW”. (S: 96 A: 5)

Allah the Highest endows some people with more knowledge than others. The most precious knowl- edge is the knowledge of Allah Himself. Indeed, the more one knows Allah the more he/she will fear him, as He said: “AMONG HIS SLAVES, THE KNOWLEDGABLE FEAR ALLAH MOST”. (S: 35 A: 28)

Allah the Highest also reminds the Angels that nothing in the Heavens or in the Earth is hidden from Him “THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN FROM HIM IN THE EARTH NOR IN THE HEAVENS”. (S: 3 A: 5)

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Even our thoughts and intentions which, are not known to any person when we keep inside us, are know to Allah, for to Him we are open books. He said: “AND KNOW THAT ALLAH KNOWS WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, THEREFORE TAKE HEED OF HIM, AND KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST FORBEAR- ING”. (S: 2 A: 235)

And also said: “OUR LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT WE HIDE AND WHAT WE REVEAL; NOTHING IS HIDDEN FROM ALLAH IN THE EARTH OR IN HEAVENS”. (S: 14 A: 38)

And through Jesus, peace is upon him: “YOU KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE ME, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, FOR YOU KNOW WELL ALL THAT IS HIDDEN”. (S: 5 A: 119)

Allah the Highest knew all that is hidden particu- larly the feelings of Satan who refused to prostrate to Adam when Allah commanded him and the An- gels to do so.

Satan is not an Angel; he is a Jinni, who was so close to Allah the Highest that he was with the An- gels. Angels can not disobey Allah the Highest for

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they have no will of their own; they just do what they are commanded to do. Humans and Jinn have choice and have their own will, and therefore they will be judged on the Day of Resurrection.

Baqarah 34

34- AND AS WE SAID TO THE ANGELS: “PROSTRATE TO ADAM”, THEY PROSTRAT- ED EXCEPT FOR IBLIS (SATAN), HE RE- FUSED, WAS ARROGANT AND BECAME A DISBELIEVER.

Allah the Highest, commanded the Angels and Iblis (Satan) to prostrate to Adam, the first human cre- ated. They prostrated, but Iblis did not.

Iblis was not an Angel or a fallen Angel as some people think, but was of the Jinn. Allah the High- est described him as such “EXCEPT IBLIS WHO WAS OF THE JINN AND HE DISOBEYED THE COMMANDS OF HIS LORD”. (S: 16 A: 50)

The Angels do not have a choice or a will of their own, and they always obey Allah’s commands. The

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Jinn have a will of their own and choice, therefore, they are able to obey and disobey.

Iblis (Satan) felt that he was a superior being, be- ing created from fire while Adam was created from clay. This is clear in this Ayah “HE (ALLAH) SAID: WHAT STOPPED YOU PROSTRATING AS I COMMANDED YOU? HE (SATAN) SAID: I AM BETTER THAN HIM, YOU CREATED ME FROM FIRE WHILE CREATED HIM FROM CLAY”. (S: 7 A: 12)

This was arrogance and pride, and Allah the High- est does not accept this from those close to Him, and punishes others for on the Day of Judgement. Besides, only Allah the Highest decides who is bet- ter than whom. “HE (ALLAH) SAID TO HIM: GET DOWN FROM IT (PARADISE) YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE ARROGANT IN IT, GET OUT YOU ARE OF THE DEGRADED”. (S: 7 A: 13)

Satan’s disobedience was particularly bad because:

1. Being close to Allah, his sins are worse than those not so close.

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  1. His pride in the presence of Allah the High- est, was very bad, as he was just one of Al- lah’s slaves “CERTAINLY, ALL THOSE IN THE HEAVENS AND IN THE EARTH WILL COME TO THE MOST MERCIFUL AS SLAVES” (S:19 A:93)

  2. Only Allah the Highest decides who is better than whom of His slaves, and He measures this by piety. “THE MOST HONOURABLE OF YOU IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH IS THE MOST PIOUS” (S:49 A:13)

  3. Instead of repenting and seeking forgiveness after Allah the Highest agreed to reprieve him (postpone his punishment), Iblis swore to take revenge on Adam and his descen- dants by misguiding them. This was a fur- ther act of grave disobedience of Allah the Highest. “HE (IBLIS) SAID: REPRIEVE ME UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE RESUR- RECTED * HE (ALLAH) SAID: YOU ARE AMONGST THOSE REPRIEVED. HE (IBLIS) SAID: BECAUSE YOU LET ME GO ASTRAY, I WILL AWAIT FOR THEM ON YOUR STRAIGHT PATH * AND I WILL COME TO THEM FROM BEFORE THEM, FROM BEHIND THEM, FROM

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THEIR RIGHT AND LEFT, AND YOU WILL NOT FIND MOST OF THEM THANKFUL”. (S:7A:14-17)

Since then, Iblis and his descendants (who follow him, not all Jinn are evil), have become the advo- cates of evil to Adam and his descendants, us. They carry and will carry greater sins than most. They will carry as much sin as those they mislead. This does not relieve those who follow them from any guilt. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Those who call people to guid- ance will have as much reward as those who follow them, without decreasing their reward; and those who call people to misguidance, will have as much sin as those who follow them without decreasing their sins”. (M:Elm;16 & D:Sonah;6 & T:Elm;15 & Ma:Moqademah;14 & Da;Fadael El-Quran;1)

Allah the Highest put Adam and Eve through a test of obedience, just as He did with Iblis.

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