Today I will narrate the story of Prophet Adam, the first human being Allah created.
The Qu'ran says, " Note that occasion, when your Rabb said to the angels,"I am going to place a vicegerent on earth." They said, "will you place here one who will create mischief and shed blood while we sing Your praises and glorify Your name. Allah said, " I know what you know not." He taught Adam the names of all things; and then He presented these things to the angels and said, " Tell Me the names of these, if what you say is true." (Allah did this to show Adam's special qualities of learning and memory). "Glory to You", they replied, "We have no knowledge except what You have taught us; in fact, You are the One who is perfect in knowledge and wisdom." Allah said, "Did I not tell you I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you conceal."
When We ordered the angels, "Prostrate before Adam in respect," they all prostrated except Iblees (Shaitan), who refused in his arrogance and became a disbeliever. To Adam, We said, "Dwell with your wife in Paradise and eat anything you want from its bountiful food from wherever you wish, but do not approach this tree, or you shall both become transgressors."
But Shaitan tempted them with the tree to disobey Allah commandment and caused them to slip therefrom (paradise) and get them expelled from where they were. We said, "Get down from here, some of you being enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and provisions for a specified period."
Them Adam received appropriate words from his Rabb and repented, and Allah accepted his repentance. Surely, He is the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful."
"Get down from here all of you.'' We said at the time of Adam's departure from Paradise. "Henceforth there shall come to you guidance from Me, those who accept and follow that guidance shall have nothing to fear or to grieve. But those who reject and defy our revelations will be inmates of Hellfire, wherein they shall live forever."
When We ordered the angels, "Prostrate before Adam in respect," they all prostrated except Iblees (Shaitan), who refused in his arrogance and became a disbeliever. To Adam, We said, "Dwell with your wife in Paradise and eat anything you want from its bountiful food from wherever you wish, but do not approach this tree, or you shall both become transgressors."
Them Adam received appropriate words from his Rabb and repented, and Allah accepted his repentance. Surely, He is the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful."
"Get down from here all of you.'' We said at the time of Adam's departure from Paradise. "Henceforth there shall come to you guidance from Me, those who accept and follow that guidance shall have nothing to fear or to grieve. But those who reject and defy our revelations will be inmates of Hellfire, wherein they shall live forever."
I took this picture of the Easter Lily ( lilium longiflorum, its Latin name) in our home)
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