We are all searching for the origin of the universe, and all religions have an understanding of the origin of creation, some of which are scientific and some of which are not. Some of us believe in what our different beliefs have brought, and some of us do not believe in them. In this article: We will learn about Islam's perspective on the origin of creation. Let's start
Who is Adam and how was he created?In the hadith, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
((God created Adam from a handful that He took from all the ground, so the children of Adam came according to the ground; so among them came the white, the red, the black, and the one in between, the easy and the rough, and the bad and the good, and the one in between.))
It was also reported that God created Adam with His hand
And he shaped it in the form in which He created it, so it was a model, and it remained like this, clay like pottery, for forty years. Then Satan would tap on it with his hand, and it would make a sound as if he were tapping on a pottery jar, then God breathed the soul into him, and it spread through his body until it reached his head. Adam sneezed and said: Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds. God Almighty said: May God have mercy on you. In another narration: May your Lord have mercy on you, O Adam.
It started from dust, it was wetted and became clay
Then it was wetted and became sticky, cohesive clay. Then this clay was left until it dried and became clay, Then he was left for a long period of about 40 days, as Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with him, says, and then the soul was breathed into him. As soon as the soul passed through his head and before it reached his feet, he tried to get up, but he fell down immediately after he got up. That is why it was said that man was created in haste.
The Stages of creation in order1 - The dust Stage
Allah says
(إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَىٰ عِندَ اللَّـهِ كَمَثَلِ آدَمَ خَلَقَهُ مِن تُرَابٍ)
(Indeed, the example of Jesus before God is like that of Adam. He created him from dust.)
2 - The Clay Stage
Adding water to the soil and forming clay
Allah says
الَّذِي أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ الْإِنسَانِ مِن طِينٍ
- In Surat As-Sajdah: (Who has perfected everything He has created and began the creation of man from clay
3 - The stage of clay solidification
(إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُم مِّن طِينٍ لَّازِبٍ)
In Surat As-Saffat: (Indeed, We created them from sticky clay), and sticky means solid.
4 - The stage of changing clay into smelling change mud
Allah says
(وَلَقَد خَلَقنَا الإِنسانَ مِن صَلصالٍ مِن حَمَإٍ مَسنونٍ)
(And We have certainly created man from clay from altered black mud.) The black mud is the smelly black clay, and altered means changed.
5 - The Pottery Stage
By combining the third and fourth steps, the pottery stage is called Pottery stage.
6 - Forming it into the form of a human being and breathing life into it
Allah says
(وَإِذ قالَ رَبُّكَ لِلمَلائِكَةِ إِنّي خالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِن صَلصالٍ مِن حَمَإٍ مَسنونٍ* فَإِذا سَوَّيتُهُ وَنَفَختُ فيهِ مِن روحي فَقَعوا لَهُ ساجِدينَ)
(And when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I am going to create a human being from clay from an altered black mud, Then when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My soul, So they fell down in prostration to him.
This is the final stage and the most important factor: breathing the soul into him.
The Specifications of Adam and his ageThe height of Adam, peace be upon him
The angels looked at this amazing statue, and it was large (60) cubits in the sky, and the cubit: is about half a meter, meaning thirty meters.
The angels were amazed by this strange creature, as they had never seen anything like it before. Among those who were terrified by it, in fact, was Satan, who was extremely terrified. He began to walk around the statue of Adam, kicking and hitting it with his foot, and saying: (For a reason I was created), then he entered its cavity and came out of it and said to the angels: Do not be afraid, this is hollow. He entered through its mouth and came out of its anus and said: This is hollow, this is a creation that does not hold together, weak, This is a creation that does not cohere weak.
The Age of Adam (PBUH)There is a discrepancy in Islamic sources about how old Adam was when he died, but the prevailing opinion is that he lived for a very long time:
A thousand years: Some sources state that Adam's life span was a thousand years. It is also said that God increased his life span by forty years at his request.
Less than a thousand years: Some other sources indicate that Adam's age was less than a thousand years, with estimates ranging from 930 to 960 years.
This variation in estimates shows the diversity of narratives and interpretations about the details of the lives of the prophets in Islamic heritage.
What was our mother Eve created from?She was created from Adam’s left rib from behind him while he was sleeping. He woke up and saw her and she pleased him, so he felt comfortable with her and she felt comfortable with him. On the authority of Qatada, on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: Woman was created from man. End quote from “Tafsir Ibn Kathir” (2/206).
Eve was created from Adam, peace be upon him
from one of his ribs without a womb. This type of creation is from the fluency of the power of God Almighty. The meaning of the word Eve in the language, and the reason for naming her with this name: The word Eve in the language carries the meaning of brownness, as well as redness mixed with blackness, Al-Jawhari said: “Al-Hawwa: the darkness of the lip. It is said: a man is ahwa, and a woman is hawa. Ibn Manzur said: “It is said: a woman is hawa and she has become hawa, and Ibn Sidah said: the lip of hawa: red tending towards black, and it was common in their speech until they called every black person hawa, Al-Zamakhshari said: “Ahwa: a color that tends to be slightly black, and our mother Eve was named after the skin she had. The reason for naming Eve with this name: A group of sayings were mentioned in the books of interpretation regarding the reason for naming Eve with this name
Satan's jealousy of AdamThe beginning of Adam’s creation was not on Earth, but rather in Paradise. In the noble hadith narrated by Muslim on the authority of Anas, may God be pleased with him, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ((When God created Adam in Paradise, He left him as long as God wanted to leave him. Then Satan began to circle around him to see what he was like. When he saw that he was hollow, he knew that he had created a creature that could not control itself.))
Satan did not act arrogantly towards Adam at first, but rather he was jealous of him, and out of his jealousy he became jealous of everything that Adam loved, such as his presence in Paradise and his not working, He will go down to work hard on the earth, he and his wife, not just him. Everything that used to make Adam happy now makes him miserable and sad because of envy. Envy eats away at good deeds and leaves nothing behind. Satan has no good deeds, so his enmity towards Adam and his offspring is an enmity that has no peace. Then comes arrogance after that in other verses that we may talk about in this file,
How did Satan whisper to Adam and his wife?
Allah says
﴿فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ لِيُبْدِيَ لَهُمَا مَا وُورِيَ عَنْهُمَا مِنْ سَوْآتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَاكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ إِلَّا أَنْ تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ الْخَالِدِينَ * وَقَاسَمَهُمَا إِنِّي لَكُمَا لَمِنَ النَّاصِحِينَ﴾ [الأعراف: 20، 21]؛ أي: خدعهما.
Then Satan whispered to them that he might make apparent to them that which was concealed from them of their private parts, And he said, “Your Lord did not forbid you from this tree except that you should become kings or become of the immortals, and he swore to them, “Indeed, I am to you among the sincere advisers.” [Al-A’raf: 20-21]; that is, he deceived them.
Satan whispered to them
Satan first whispered to Eve, until he convinced her to eat from the tree, so she ate from it, and nothing happened to her, so she said to Adam: Eat from it, for I ate from it, It did not harm me. So Adam ate from it, and then their private parts became apparent to them, and they were deemed to have committed a sin. So God Almighty commanded them to leave Paradise and descend to Earth, this was mentioned in Al-Qurtubi’s interpretation and others. Accordingly, the reason for their expulsion from Paradise was the transgression that was caused by Satan’s whispering to them, It doesn't matter how the whispering is, sometimes we feel the inner talk and sometimes it is more painful than self-flagellation, and we think that we should do what we think, so the whispering of Satan is like this inner talk that thinks that we should do what he orders us to do. Eve had no experience with whispering before that, so he deceived her.
To show them what was hidden from them of their private parts
The letter ( Lam:L ) in Lyobdi... is the causes lam, It is as if Satan, by the will of God Almighty, whispered to Adam and his wife the first trial on earth, which was exposing their private parts as a form of punishment. And to this day, some primitive peoples still expose their private parts, and they do not have a religion or custom among themselves or even a type of civilization that prevents this.
And he said, “Your Lord did not forbid you from this tree except that you should become Kings or become of the immortals.”
Man should not be deceived, whether he is Arab or non-Arab, unless he is greedy. If he is ascetic, nothing will harm him. Imagine the scene, they live in a paradise where everything in it is answered, and they live a happy life, and they are in agreement with each other. There are no problems like couples these days, as there was no one on earth but them, and the idea of death has been very frightening since the beginning of humanity, the idea of leaving everything around you with death is a scary idea, and this is what Satan worked on, so he dreamed of kingship and immortality, and immortality and we understood it, but kingship over whom? That they should be kings above the angels and devils, for example, God knows, but look at us: Families who raise their daughters in a positive way to increase their self-confidence say: You are a princess, and she magnifies this in herself as if the most we want in this life is to be kings or the sons of kings, and the greatest goal is immortality. May God have mercy on our father Adam and our mother Eve, for we did not take this for granted. As for the third idea that Satan worked on, it is: casting doubt on God Almighty. Yes (Your Lord did not forbid you from this tree except...) then he made an exception, so casting doubt on the words of God Almighty is from the work and whispering of Satan.
And he swore to them, "Indeed, I am to you among the sincere advisers
He did not say this to them while explaining that he was a devil or tempting them to expel them from Paradise. No, no, he is a trustworthy advisor, and this is the word that reassures the arrogant in this life. Whoever tells you that he is an advisor: listen to him, unless you are aware of what is going on around you and know his advice from his deception.
The story of Adam with the angels on the tongue of Qur'an Allah says
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً ۖ قَالُوا أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَن يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِكُ الدِّمَاءَ وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ لَكَ ۖ قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ (30) وَعَلَّمَ آدَمَ الْأَسْمَاءَ كُلَّهَا ثُمَّ عَرَضَهُمْ عَلَى الْمَلَائِكَةِ فَقَالَ أَنبِئُونِي بِأَسْمَاءِ هَٰؤُلَاءِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ (31) قَالُوا سُبْحَانَكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَنَا إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ (32) قَالَ يَا آدَمُ أَنبِئْهُم بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ ۖ فَلَمَّا أَنبَأَهُم بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ غَيْبَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَأَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْتُمُونَ (33) وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ اسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَىٰ وَاسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ (34)
And when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will place upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who will cause corruption therein and shed blood, while we exalt [Allah] with praise and sanctify You?" He said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know, And He taught Adam the names - all of them. Then He showed them to the angels and said, “Inform Me of the names of these, if you should be truthful.” (31) They said, “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise.” (32) (30) He said, “O Adam, inform them of their names.” And when he had informed them of their names, He said, “Did I not tell you that I know the unseen of the the heavens and the earth and that I know what you reveal and what you concealed?” (33) And when We said to the angels, “Prostrate to Adam,” they prostrated, except for Iblis. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers. (34)
And when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will place upon the earth a successive authority
God Almighty made a decision to make a successor on earth. Is there in this verse guidance for the angels regarding the decision or consultation - if the expression is correct - or rather a decision?
They said, "Will You place therein one who will cause corruption therein and shed blood, while we glorify You with praise and sanctify You?
The angels, who are created to obey the command and not disobey Allah the Almighty, spoke. Is this speech considered a rejection of the divine decision, or a discussion and review, or a question? The truth is that it is an attempt to understand, but how do they say that and what is their prior experience to produce this thinking? Their experience with what they saw of the jinn in their corruption on earth and the shedding of each other's blood. The strangest thing is that they explained the reason for their questioning about Adam and his offspring: that they are better because they are more deserving of the succession of the earth than Adam, so they said (And we glorify You with praise and sanctify You). What is this? Do the angels have the idea of entitlement? It is possible that this happened for a moment, but they taught us that returning to the truth is a virtue, while Satan knew the idea of entitlement in its entirety without trying to return to the truth.
He said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know." (30)
Who said this? Allah, Lord of the Worlds: What is this? Is the discussion over? Yes, it is over. This is a decision and only a notification of what Allah Almighty intends, but it is out of respect for one of His creations who is honored by Him. He did not oppress them or say to them, Glory be to Him: How do you argue with Me about a decision? Or I will not allow you to speak at all or anything else. Rather, He left them the freedom to express themselves and then carried out the decision as it, Glory be to Him, wanted. He explained that by saying that He knows what they do not know.
And He taught Adam all the names
The angels stepped aside from the scene for a while, as if they had not attended the teaching scene. The question here is: What are the names that God Almighty taught Adam so that he could control his life, which is the beginning of learning language, such as seas, birds, mountains, etc. No, no. Rather, the pressing question here is: Why did God Almighty teach Adam Himself? Why did He not assign the angels to do this? He says to the thing, “Be,” and it is. So why was there no method of teaching without a teacher through visual scenes or otherwise? I seek God’s forgiveness. Do I have the right to say that the first person to practice the educational process on the face of the earth was God Almighty? Even if I had the right to say that, what is the message behind that? The value of teachers, and Adam’s knowledge is not a scientific abbreviation, but all the names, meaning he did not skimp on knowledge. I seek God’s forgiveness for saying that.
Scholars are the heirs of the prophets - that is, what they learned - that is, what they explained - that is, what they understood - they are the heirs of the prophets.
Then he presented them to the angels and said, “Inform Me of the names of these, if you should be truthful.” (31)
Then he stepped aside from Adam and spoke to the angels, saying to them what came in the noble verse: And he concluded his statement (if you are truthful) that you are more deserving than Adam to be the successors on Earth. And here is a doubt: This is a favor and a gift from God to Adam (knowledge). Why did he ask the angels about a gift from which they did not take anything from it? Does Allah the Almighty teach us how to raise our children? When we say to one of our children: I gave your brother a gift and you did not, but tomorrow I will give you another gift and your brother did not, would you accept it? This leads us to a somewhat philosophical question: Is equality just in all cases? No, but as a firm father or mother you have the right to give a gift to one and withhold it from the other for a while. Allah the Almighty created angels - devils - humans at the beginning of creation, and each of them has a different material of creation, and each of them has a purpose for its existence.
They said, “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise.” (32)
Returning to the truth is a virtue, as we said before, and this virtue (returning to the truth) is only performed by the knowledgeable. They did not discuss or argue like us as humans, but rather they surrendered and remained silent and returned the truth to its people (Indeed, You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise). This is from good manners with God Almighty.
He said, "O Adam, inform them of their names." And when he had informed them of their names, He said, "Did I not tell you that I know the unseen of the heavens and the earth and that I know what you reveal and what you conceal?" (33)
When he informed them: It seems that Adam has now become educated and not ignorant, and now he in turn teaches the angels the names of things on earth. It seems that Adam was preferred over the angels in knowledge, and you are an expert that before and after knowledge your choices for things differ, so it is like glasses that show us the truth of things. Then God Almighty asked the angels again: He said, Did I not tell you that I know the unseen of the heavens and the earth and I know what you reveal and what you conceal?
The letter Fa indicates speed: So it is a good surrender, acceptance and implementation, Except Iblis, he refused and was arrogant and was among the disbelievers (34)
Here came the idea of arrogance, but the idea of envy preceded it
God Almighty said before he descended to earth, that he would live in heaven without paying any bills or personal demands from him or his wife, so to speak - but life would be comfortable without costs or fatigue, except for one condition: not to approach a certain tree... And here is a pause: Why did God Almighty want to test Adam? Wasn't He the one who created him, taught him, and distinguished him from some of His creation? Why is he testing him? Are you the owner of a multinational company? If so? Do you treat your employees from all countries the same way? And if you wanted to know someone's loyalty to you, would you leave him alone and just distinguish him among the employees, even if there was favoritism? If you did, then you are an unjust manager. But to give him a signal that this is a danger in your relationship with him, and if he transgresses it, then there is nothing wrong with you removing him and looking for someone else, right? But Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, never throws away His workmanship, but rather preserves it, so He repents, forgives, has mercy, and accepts the apology in order to complete the journey for which he was created in the first place.
(35) Then Satan caused them to slip from it and removed them from that in which they had been.
We have already explained this previously
And We said, "Descend, some of you as enemies to others
Why? This is the first trial of Adam and his descendants on this earth. The earth was created with the idea of trial and heaven was created with the idea of enjoyment. If you enjoy yourself in the house of trial, you will forget the house of enjoyment and refuse to go to it. Therefore, enmity is one of the most difficult things for the human soul. You are told that the work environment is more important than the job itself. Why? No, enmity kills talents and suppresses them and does not allow them to pass easily. Enmity from family, relatives and acquaintances is more painful to the soul than from others. Enmity from people of your religion is more severe for you than enmity from another religion... except that it is the way of life.
And for you on the earth is a place of settlement and provision for a time (36)
What is stable: calm, stability and stillness. It is said that the eye is happy with a certain situation, such as seeing a baby who has just been born in a happy family. You do not like, as a mother or father, for your eyes to turn away from this beloved scene. However, if you are not happy, then there is no comfort in the eye, as during times of turmoil and hardship, God forbid, the pupil of the eye moves to the right and left.
We return to the earth and our stability in it: We are in our homes - in our houses - in our factories and in our stores, settled far from wars and armed conflicts, but this stability is tainted by being merely (enjoyment) for a while, i.e. temporary, and either it will be taken away from you or you will withdraw from it. Is this easy for the soul? No, and that is why you find the sincere believer before his death, either due to illness, loss or even a bad psychological state, he loses interest in what is in front of him and around him, so he begins to accept the idea of heaven as compensation, and other than loss, enmity and affliction, he did not think at all about compensation, nor about heaven, which is a permanent, fixed place where there is no fear for the beloved in it, unlike this abode in which we devote ourselves to existing in it.
Adam received from his Lord [some] words, and He pardoned him. Indeed, it is He who is the Accepter of repentance, the Most Merciful (37)
It is as simple as that: the type of supplication, the method of supplication, or the words of the vessel do not matter. Leave this for a moment, just think: about the creation of Allah, the Blessed and Most High. When we disagree with someone once, we only mention the faults and never think about the advantages, and we say: It is over, the relationship is over and there is no going back. As for Allah, the Blessed and Most High, He has another matter: where the doors are open as long as the person does not gurgle and does not associate anyone with Allah... This is Allah, the Blessed and Most High - and this is what we understand from Islam.
The suspicion that Adam was the reason for his offspring being expelled from ParadiseWe cannot say: How did Adam and his wife get involved in eating from the tree? And how was Satan able to tempt them with his whisperings and seduction? It was reported in the noble hadith on the authority of Abu Hurairah: The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ((Moses argued with Adam, peace be upon them both, and said to him: You are the one who expelled the people from Paradise due to your sin and made them miserable. Adam said: O Moses, you are the one whom God chose with His messages and His speech. Do you blame me for something that God had written for me before He created me, or had decreed for me before He created me?)) The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ((So Adam argued Moses)); narrated by Al-Bukhari, Muslim and others.
From the previous hadith
We can ask a philosophical question: Are we driven or free to choose?
We are both together: we did not choose our name, nor our mother and father, nor the color of our hair or eyes, we did not choose our homeland or to come in a certain era of history, but we choose right from wrong, we choose to be good or evil, we choose to believe or to disbelieve... We are immersed in imposes, and the last is a choice. We cannot say about our father Adam that he is the one who expelled us from Paradise: these are things that were destined for us, since the beginning of creation: to be tested with choice. It has been said: whoever is fertile: chooses or is confused, so forcing someone in front of you to do something is much easier than bearing the consequences alone for his choices, isn't that so?
Suspicion of the existence of worn bones before Adam among the layers of the earth
There are those who say that Adam was preceded by more than one Adam, and that he was not the first human on Earth, based on the discovery of human bones estimated to be more than a million years old. This is a grave mistake; the text of the verses is clear that the Prophet Adam is the first human being created by God Almighty, and He created for him his wife in Paradise, and from them came the human lineage, and there are no indications from near or far of the existence of a human being before Adam, and he is a recent arrival on Earth if compared to other creatures. As for the geological estimates of the age of man, they are not an argument, and they are approximate, and earthquakes may occur that move the bones to layers of ancient rocks; therefore, the age of bones is not measured by the age of the layers formed that contain the bones, and if we follow the traces left by man, they will indicate the time of his true existence; researchers have found that Egyptian traces are the oldest thing left by man; since the first creation, man has left evidence and fingerprints indicating his presence wherever he settled and wherever he traveled, and since he walked on Earth, he has been a speaking, educated human being.
The Caveman Suspicion
Whoever thinks that the first human being on Earth was the caveman who lived like an animal and did not know civilized life, or did not know fire and the industries appropriate for it, has made a big mistake. As for the cave dwellers who did not know language and how to communicate with it, and who lived like animals eating raw meat - they are among those who later deviated from the human group and dispersed on Earth, so their distance affected them by losing the components of a decent life, and forgetting what their ancestors were like, so they lived the life of animals. The greatest example is what we find in Central Africa and the unknown regions of Australia of primitive peoples in everything, and around them at not very distant distances are peoples at the peak of progress. If a stranger from space - for example - landed his vehicle in Central Africa and witnessed the people and their livelihood, then returned to his homeland and told them what he saw, they would say: The inhabitants of the Earth are a type of animals that live a backward life. If another landed in the middle of Europe or the United States and saw the people and science, he would say: The inhabitants of the Earth are in the best condition. From science and knowledge, and they are at a high level of progress. Whoever wrote about the first man only saw stone tools, but how could he see science and knowledge?
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