Al-Araf 7:176 So relate the stories, perhaps they may reflect
Al-An'am 6: 90 They are those whom Allah
had guided. So follow their guidance.
Yusuf 12:3 We
relate unto you (O Muhammad) the best of stories through our revelations unto
you, of this Quran. And before this you were among those who were not aware of
it.
These are the best of stories because they are
dealing with the best of creation.
Some of the benefits of talking about the prophets
are:
1. Because our prophet was commanded to do so in
Al-Araf 7:176.
2. Why? So that we may contemplate, not to entertain
us.
3. They are those whom Allah has guided, so follow
their guidance. We need to have role models, especially in early part of life.
If they are not good, then we will be bad, it is in the makeup of human beings.
Otherwise we will find role models somewhere else, human beings must have role
models. If Allah commanded our prophet to follow their way, then what should we
do?
4. To love them - if we do not know someone, then we
can't love them. We all claim to love them, but do not know the details of
their life.
120.000 prophets, 315 messengers
In a narration of Imam Ahmad, Abu Dharr
asked Prophet Muhammad, "O Messenger of Allah, how many are the
prophets?"
He replied, "120,000 and between
their number are 315 messengers."
A messenger is one who is given a law; a prophet is
one who follows a previous law. E.g. Moses is a messenger, because of the
Tarut. Aaron is a prophet, as he is following his brother’s law.
Story
of creation
There was Allah, and nothing before him and his
throne was on water and he wrote everything in the tablet and then created
everything in the heavens and the earth
First thing Allah created was the pen, and Allah
ordered it to write, and it wrote all that will happen till the day of
judgement
Allah wrote down the sustenance of the creation 50.000 yrs before the
heavans and the earth were created
Angels created from light, Jinn created from fire. Iblis was from Jinn,
but because righteous, elevated to angels.
Al-Baqarah 2:30 And
(remember) when your Lord said to the angels: "Verily, I am going to place
(mankind) generations after generations on earth." They said: "Will You place therein those who will make
mischief therein and shed blood, - while we glorify You with praises and thanks
and sanctify You." He (Allah) said: "I know that which you do not
know."
Khaleefa comes from word khalef, to succeed someone else, or to follow.
Humans to apply the law of Allah on earth.
We succeed each other, not like angels who do not procreate.
Al-Baqarah 2:29 He it
is Who created for you all that is on earth.
Then He Istawa (rose over) towards the heaven and made them seven heavens and
He is the All-Knower of everything.
Everything in this world was created for the human
being. Responsibility given to humans to establish this world.
Should not sacrifice the human being for a material
gain, human being is sacred.
Made for us a khalifa.
We are killing human beings and destroying them for
material gain.
The muslim is worth more than the kabah in the eyes of Allah.
Al-Baqarah 2:30 And (remember) when your
Lord said to the angels: "Verily, I am going to place (mankind)
generations after generations on earth." They said: "Will You
place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood, - while we
glorify You with praises and thanks and sanctify You." He (Allah)
said: "I know that which you do not know."
Two explanations as to how the angels knew about
what humans will do in this world. One is that Allah told them beforehand this
is what humans will do.
Second is The creation was also reported by Ibn Abbas (ra):
"Two
thousand years before (mankind) was created, there were Jinn on (the Earth),
and they caused corruption on it and shed blood. Then Allah sent against them a
troop of Angels who beat them and cast them away to islands in the seas. So,
when Allah said: ‘I am placing
(mankind) generations after generations on Earth,’ They (the Angels) said,
‘Will You place therein one who will cause corruption and shed blood’ (Al
Baqarah, 2:30), That is: Just as those Jinn did??
Then Allah said: ‘I know that
which you do not know.’"
There is no Sahih hadith to support
either one of these explanations.
Abi Musa al Sha'arai narrated that the
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "Allah created Adam from a
handful of dust taken from different lands, so the children of Adam have been
created according to the composition of the land. Therefore from mankind we
have white, red, black and yellow ones; we have good and evil, ease and sorrow,
and what comes in between them." (Sahih Bukhari).
Allah created Adam from handful of dirt, taken from
different parts of the earth, so included was red soil, brown soil, some were
taken from mountains and valleys, and then mixed together. Therefore descendants of Adam came out with
different colours, and different personalities and qualities. Because some were
taken from mountains and valleys, some were tough, some were easy to deal
with...They came out according to the material that they were created from.
Adam was created from dirt. However that wasn't the
only name that it was given. Allah used different terms. It’s been called, dirt.
clay, sticky clay, sounding clay, black smooth mud.
In the beginning it was dirt. Then this dirt was
mixed with the basis of every living being, water.
Al-Anbiya 21:30 Have not those who
disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one
united piece, then We parted them? And We have made from water every living
thing. Will they not then believe?
It became mud when mixed with water.
Then it was left for a while, so therefore became sticky clay. Then that was
left for a longer while. The smell of it changed and became darker, becoming
black smooth and smelly clay. That material was taken and Allah created the
form of Adam. That body was left to dry, it turned into clay like pottery. If
dry clay is knocked, it makes a ringing sound, i.e. sounding clay.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created
Adam in His own image with His length of sixty cubits, and as He created him He
told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, and
listen to the response that they give him, for it would form his greeting and
that of his offspring. He then went away and said: Peace be upon you! They (the
angels) said: May there be peace upon you and the Mercy of Allah, and they made
an addition of" Mercy of Allah". So he who would get into Paradise
would get in the form of Adarn, his length being sixty cubits, then the people
who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day. (Muslim Book 40 Hadith 6809)
Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "On
the Day of Resurrection the Believers will assemble and say, ‘Let us ask
somebody to intercede for us with our Lord!’ The people would then go to Adam
and say:
‘You are the father of all
the people, and Allah created you with His Own Hands, and ordered the Angels to prostrate to you, and taught you the
names of all things; so please intercede for us with your Lord, so that He may
relieve us from this place of ours.’
He would say: ‘I am not fit for this
(i.e. intercession for you).’
Adam would remember his sin and feel
ashamed thereof. He would then say, ‘Go to Noah, for he was the first
Messenger, God sent to the inhabitants of the Earth.’
He would say: ‘I am not fit for this
undertaking!’
He will remember his appeal to his Lord
to do what he had no knowledge of, then he will feel ashamed thereof and would
say,
‘Go to the Khalil ur-Rahman (i.e.
Abraham, the One whom God chose for His love).’
They will go to him and he will say, ‘I
am not fit for this undertaking. Go to Moses, the slave to whom God spoke
(directly) and gave him the Torah.’
So they will go to him and he will say,
‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and he will mention (his) killing a person
who was not a killer, and so he will feel ashamed thereof before his Lord, and
he will say, ‘Go to Jesus, God’s Slave, His Messenger and God’s Word and a
Spirit coming from Him.’
Jesus will say, ‘I am not fit for this
undertaking, go to Muhammad the Slave of God whose past and future sins were
forgiven by God.’
Prophet Muhammad then said: ‘They will
come to me and I will proceed till I will ask my Lord’s Permission and I will
be given permission. When I see my Lord, I will fall down in Prostration and He
will let me remain in that state as long as He wishes and then I will be
addressed.’ [Muhammad!] Raise your head. Ask, and your request will be granted;
say, and your saying will be listened to; intercede, and your intercession will
be accepted.’
I will raise my head and praise God with
a saying (i.e. invocation) He will teach me, and then I will intercede. He will
fix a limit for me [to intercede for] whom I will admit into the Paradise. Then
I will come back again to God, and when I see my Lord, the same thing will
happen to me. And then I will intercede and God will fix a limit for me to
intercede whom I will let into the Heavenly Abode, then I will come back for
the third time; and then I will come back for the fourth time, and will say,
‘None remains in Hell but those whom the Quran has imprisoned [in Hell] and who
have been destined to an eternal stay in Hell.’” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari Book
76 Hadith 570)
(The compiler) Abu 'Abdullah said: 'But those whom the Qur'an has imprisoned in
Hell,' refers to the Statement of Allah: "They
will dwell therein forever." (An-Nahl 16.29)
Allah created Adam on his image, meaning the image
of Adam. Meaning created Adam as he was, in his adult form. Adam did not go
through the stages of how we do, embryo, baby, toddler, teenager etc.. He
remained in this image until he died.
Allah blew soul into Adam. Our body without soul is
just earth. When the soul leaves, it decomposes back into the earth.
Taha 20:55 Thereof (the earth) We
created you, and into it We shall return you, and from it We shall bring you
out once again.
We are nothing without the soul. What
puts life in the body is the soul.
Narrated 'Abdullah: While I was going
with the Prophet through the ruins of Medina and he was reclining on a
date-palm leaf stalk, some Jews passed by. Some of them said to the others: Ask
him (the Prophet) about the soul. Some of them said that they should not ask
him that question as he might give a reply which would displease them. But some
of them insisted on asking, and so one of them stood up and asked, "O
Aba-l-Qasim ! What is the soul?" The Prophet remained quiet. I thought he
was being inspired Divinely. So I stayed till that state of the Prophet (while
being inspired) was over. The Prophet then said, "And
they ask you (O Muhammad) concerning the Ruh (the Soul); Say: "The Ruh
(the Soul): it is one of the things, the knowledge of which is only with my
Lord. And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little."
." (Al-Isra 17.85) (Book 3 Hadith 127 Sahih Bukhari)
This question was asked 1400 yrs ago, nothing has
changed since then. It is not our body that keeps us alive. It is the secret
that Allah puts inside of us that keeps us alive, the soul.
Adam had Allahs blessing from the very beginning.
According to Abu Hurayra, the Messenger
said When Allah created Adam and breathed into him the spirit, Adam sneezed and
said 'Praise be to Allah!', and he praised Him with His permission.
His lord replied: 'May Allah have
mercy on you, O Adam'
Then he went to a group of angels who
were sitting together, and said to them: 'Peace be upon you'. They replied to
him: 'And upon you be peace and the mercy of God'
Then he returned to his lord, who said to
him: 'This shall be your greeting and the greeting of your children to each other.'
Then Allah said, keeping his two hands
closed: 'Choose whichever you will'
'I choose the right hand of my lord, and
both hands of my lord are right and blessed'
Thereupon Allah opened it, and there were
Adam and his progeny.
'My lord, who are they?', Adam asked
'These are you progeny', Allah replied.
Each human being had the duration of
their life inscribed between their eyes. There was among them a man with a
light more radiant than the others, or (at least) one of the most radiant.
Adam asked: 'My lord, who is he?'
'That is your son David, to whom I have
assigned forty years of life'
'My lord, prolong the duration of his
life'
'But that is what I have ordained for
him'
'But lord, I have already committed
myself to giving him sixty years of my own term.'
He replied: 'You have, so be it'
Then he stayed in paradise as long as
Allah willed, after which he was cast down. Adam himself kept account of his
years, and then the Angel of Death came to him. Adam said: 'You have come too soon.
A thousand years were ordained for me.'
'Indeed,' replied the angel, 'but you
gave sixty of your years to your son David.'
Adam denied, and his progeny denied. He
forgot, and his progeny forgot.
The prophet added that, since that day,
written proof and witnesses have been made compulsory.
In Arabic the word for mankind is insan and
it comes from the root word nisyan to forget. This is part of human
nature, mankind forgets, and when we forget we deny and reject. Adam forgot (he
was not lying), and God forgave him. Adam then submitted to the will of God and
died. The Angels descended and washed the body of Prophet Adam an odd number of
times; they dug the grave and buried the body of the father of mankind, Adam.
Al-Araf 7:172 And (remember) when your
Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or
from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves
(saying): "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We
testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: "Verily, we
have been unaware of this."
There is an agreement between us and
Allah, a covenant. We witnessed that we will not worship anyone besides Allah.
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said,
"Every child is born with a true faith of Islam (i.e. to worship none but
Allah Alone) and his parents’ convert him to Judaism or Christianity or
Magianism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it
mutilated?" (Book 23, Hadith 467 Sahih Bukhari)
Al-Baqarah 2:31 And He taught Adam
all the names (of everything), then He showed them to the angels and said,
"Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful."
Two translations of this are that Allah
taught him the names of everything, nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. The other is
that Allah taught Adam to identify objects and to designate names to these
objects,
this is a human ability. E.g., if you didn’t have this ability and wanted to
tell your friend about a tree, you would have to take him to the tree. Or if
you wanted to tell your friend about an apple and you didn’t have a word for
it, you would have to bring him the apple.
Ar-Rahmaan 55:3 He created man.
Ar-Rahmaan 55:4 He taught him eloquent
speech.
This is the ability that Allah did not
give to the angels. Humans are constantly coming up with objects and
designating names to these objects, e.g. Microphone.
Then Allah tested the angels
Al-Baqarah 2:31 And He taught Adam all
the names (of everything) , then He showed them to the angels and said,
"Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful."
Al-Baqarah 2:32 They (angels) said:
"Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what you have taught us.
Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise."
Al-Baqarah 2:33 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 Ghaib (unseen) in the heavens
and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you have been
concealing?"
Allah is telling the angels there is a
wisdom for creating man. Whenever we see something that we don't understand, we
should realise there is a wisdom behind it.
An-Nisa 4:1 O mankind! Be dutiful to
your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He
created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and
women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do
not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an
All-Watcher over you.
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah 's Apostle
said, "Treat women nicely, for a women is created from a rib, and the most
curved portion of the rib is its upper portion, so, if you should try to
straighten it, it will break, but if you leave it as it is, it will remain
crooked. So treat women nicely." (Book 55, Hadith 548 Sahih Bukhari)
Adam and Eve were living in paradise,
and they had all of paradise except one tree, its type of tree is knowledge
that does not benefit, which is why Allah did not put it in the Quran.
For e.g., Al-Kahf
18:18 And you would have thought them awake, while they were asleep. And We
turned them on their right and on their left sides, and their dog stretching
forth his two forelegs at the entrance [of the Cave or in the space near to the
entrance of the Cave (as a guard at the gate)]. Had you looked at them, you
would certainly have turned back from them in flight, and would certainly have
been filled with awe of them.
Some people started asking what type of
dog was it, its colour? This is knowledge that does not benefit. The reasons
why stories are mentioned in the Quran are not as a historical account but so
that humans may contemplate, it is lessons for us.
We do not know what type of tree that
was in paradise. This was the only part of paradise that Adam and Eve were not
supposed to touch.
Al-Baqarah 2:35 And We said: "O
Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and eat both of you freely with
pleasure and delight of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near
this tree or you both will be of the Zalimun (wrong-doers)."
Taha 20:120 Then Shaitan (Satan)
whispered to him, saying : "O Adam! Shall I lead you to the Tree of
Eternity and to a kingdom that will never waste away?"
Satan knows our points of weakness and
that is where he attacks from. He did not go to Adam bluntly and say 'Go
disobey Allah', otherwise Adam would not have done so.
We should not think how such an
honourable man could commit such a sin, but instead should look at ourselves.
With Adam, he knew Satan was his enemy, but he had no experience with him. We
know what happened to Adam, and we have seen the long history of mankind, yet
we are committing the same mistakes over and over again. We should question
that, not that how Adam could make that mistake. And Allah did forgive him and
it was a test for him so that he may learn from it and prepare from it as he
was going to be a prophet of Allah. Like Allah was preparing David, after David
made his mistake in his judgement, he came out better after that.
Al-Baqarah 2:36 Then the Shaitan (Satan)
made them slip there from (the Paradise), and got them out from that in which
they were. We said: "Get you down, all, with enmity between yourselves.
On earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for a time."
Allah kicked Adam and Eve and all of us
out of paradise. Allah used the plural form while addressing them, meaning all
of his descendants were included in paradise as well initially.
Al-Baqarah 2:36 Then the Shaitan (Satan)
made them slip there from (the Paradise), and got them out from that in which
they were. We said: "Get you down, all, with enmity between yourselves. On
earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for a time."
Al-Baqarah 2:37 Then Adam received from
his Lord Words . And his Lord pardoned him (accepted his repentance). Verily,
He is the One Who forgives (accepts repentance), the Most Merciful.
The following is the supplication that
Allah taught Adam to say.
Al-A'raf 7:23 They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged
ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall
certainly be of the losers."
This supplication is useful to memorise,
as it is the supplication of the sinners. This was taught by Allah to Adam and
Eve.
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