Question Regarding Creation of Adam

[Your_Everyday_Hurr]

Labbaik Ya Husain!

I was going through Surah Al Baqarah and came upon the creation of Adam (عليه السلام). [2.30]

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And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know."

Can explain how the Angels knew creation of Adam would lead to corruption and bloodshed if the only source of Evil was Iblis, who hadn't turned evil yet and was residing with the Angels in the Heavens.

Maybe I have the chronology wrong. I wait for some guidance in this matter.

 

 

[Cherub786]

5 minutes ago, Your_Everyday_Hurr said:

Labbaik Ya Husain!

I was going through Surah Al Baqarah and came upon the creation of Adam (عليه السلام). [2.30]

Can explain how the Angels knew creation of Adam would lead to corruption and bloodshed if the only source of Evil was Iblis, who hadn't turned evil yet and was residing with the Angels in the Heavens.

Maybe I have the chronology wrong. I wait for some guidance in this matter.

According to my understanding, Adam was not the first human (homo sapien), but the first human who was chosen by God into whom God breathed into of His Spirit. God announced to the Angels He is going to make Adam (and by extension the progeny of Adam) His vicegerent on the Earth. The Angels questioned this, in other words, they questioned why God was making a human His vicegerent on the Earth when humans were, evidently, involved in corruption and bloodshed. So they were observing the the pre-Adamic humans, who were purely animal beings and not spiritual beings.

According to my understanding, Bani Adam is not identical to Ins or Insan, the latter is broader, while the former is a lineage within Insan

[Ashvazdanghe]

3 hours ago, Your_Everyday_Hurr said:

Can explain how the Angels knew creation of Adam would lead to corruption and bloodshed if the only source of Evil was Iblis, who hadn't turned evil yet and was residing with the Angels in the Heavens.

Before creation of prophet Adam (عليه السلام) Jinns we’re living on earth that they caused corruption and bloodshed also based on shia narrations through Imam Sadiq (عليه السلام) stated that before expanding humans from children of prophet Adam (عليه السلام) millions of human like races created & destroyed on earth.

[randomly curious]

3 hours ago, Your_Everyday_Hurr said:

Can explain how the Angels knew creation of Adam would lead to corruption and bloodshed if the only source of Evil was Iblis, who hadn't turned evil yet and was residing with the Angels in the Heavens.

Maybe I have the chronology wrong. I wait for some guidance in this matter.

Imam al Baqir (عليه السلام) said,

 

Perhaps you think that Allah has only created this single world, and you think that Allah has not created anyone other than yourselves! Nay by Allah, verily Allah has created a million worlds and a million Adams and you are in the last of these worlds and of the last Adams.

 

Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 234

 

(Masoomeen (asws) are hujjah (proof) upon each and every creation whoever it be)

 

And when your Lord said to the Angels: I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth. They said: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief  therein and shed the blood, and we Glorify with Your Praise and we extol Your Holiness? He said: I Know what you do not know [2:30]

 

And He Taught Adam the names, all of them, then presented them to the Angels, and He Said: Tell Me their names if you were truthful [2:31]. 

 

They said: Glory be to You! There is no knowledge for us except what You Taught us; surely You are the Knowing, the Wise [2:32]

 

He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names. Then when he had informed 
them of their names, He said: Did I not Say to you that I Know unseen of the 
skies and the earth and I know what you are manifesting and what you have 
been concealing? [2:33]

 

 

Ali Bin Al-Husayn (asws) regarding His Words, And when your Lord said to the Angels: I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth. They said: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood [2:30] ‘They responded upon Allah (عزّ وجلّ) and they said: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood. And rather, they said it for the creatures of the past – meaning the (Clan of) Jaan, father (ancestors) of the Jinn. And we Glorify with Your Praise and we extol Your Holiness?

 

So they hoped upon Allah (عزّ وجلّ) with their worshipping Him, so He (عزّ وجلّ) Turned away from them. And He Taught Adam the names, all of them, then Said to the Angels Tell Me their names if you were truthful [2:31]. They said: Glory be to You! There is no knowledge for us [2:32].He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names [2:33]. So he (Adam) informed them. Then Said to them: And when We said to the Angels: Perform Sajdah to Adam! [2:34]. So, they performed Sajdah to Adam, and they said during their Sajdah, within themselves, ‘We never thought that Allah (عزّ وجلّ) would Create a creature more prestigious to Him than us. We are the treasurers of Allah (عزّ وجلّ) and His neighbours, and the closest of the creatures to Him’.

 

So when they raised their heads, He (عزّ وجلّ) Said:

‘Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Knows what you are manifesting [2:33] from your response to Me and what you have been concealing, ‘We never thought that Allah (عزّ وجلّ) would Create a creature more prestigious to Him than us’.

So when the Angels recognised that they have fallen into an error, they sought refuge with the Throne – and it was a group from the Angels, and they are those who were around the Throne. They did not happen to be the entirety of the Angels, those who said,

‘We never thought that Allah (عزّ وجلّ) would Create a creature more prestigious to Him than us’, and they are the ones who were Commanded with the Sajdah. 

So they sought refuge with the Throne and they said by their hands’ – and he (Imam) indicated by his finger, circling it–‘and they would be seeking refuge around the Throne up to the Day of Judgment’’.

So when the error hit Adam (a), Allah (عزّ وجلّ)Made this House (Kabah) for the ones from his children who are hit by the errors. So they should come to it, and seek refuge with it, from the children of Adam (a) just as they did with the Throne.

So when Adam (a) descended to the earth, heas performed Tawaaf of the House (Kabah). So when it was during the rescuing, he approached the House (Kabah) and raised his hands towards the sky and he said: ‘O Lord! Forgive meas!’ So He (عزّ وجلّ) Called out: “I have Forgiven you”. Heas said: ‘O Lord! And (what about) my children?’ So He (عزّ وجلّ) Called out: “The one from yourchildren who comes to Me, so he acknowledges his sins at this place, I shall Forgive him”’

 

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Hisham Bin Saalim said that Abu Abdullah (asws) said: 'And what did the Angels know by their words: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood
[2:30] – Surely, they had seen the ones who made mischief therein and shed the blood (the Clan Of Jaan on the earth)’.

 

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – Ch 2 H 4

 

From Isa Bin Hamza who said, 

‘A man said to Abu Abdullah (asws), ‘May I be sacrificed for you! The people are claiming that the world, its age is of seven thousand years!’ So he (asws) said: ‘It is not as they are saying. Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Created for it fifty thousand years, so He (عزّ وجلّ) Left it empty of its inhabitants for ten thousand years.

Then Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Began its beginning, so He (عزّ وجلّ) Created in it creatures who were neither from the Jinn, nor from the Angels, nor from the human beings, and Measured out for them ten thousand years. So when they came near to the end of their term, they created mischief therein, so Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Destroyed them with a damaging Destruction. Then He (عزّ وجلّ) left it empty from its inhabitants for ten thousand years.

 

Then He (عزّ وجلّ) Created in it, the Jinn, and Measured out for them ten thousand years. 

So when the end of their term came near, they were mischievous therein, and shed the blood. And these are the Words of Allah (عزّ وجلّ) (the Angels said) Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood [2:30], just as the Clan of Jaan had shed?’ So Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Destroyed them.

 

Then Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Began the Creation of Adam (a), and Measured out for him, ten thousand years. And, from that, seven thousand two hundred years have passed from that, and you all are in the end of the era’.

 

تفسير العّياشي 1 :31 /8

 

 

The Imam (Hassan Al-Askari (asws) said):

 

‘When it is said to them He it is Who Created for you the entirety of what is in the earth [2:29] – the Verse, they are saying, ‘When was this?’ So Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Mighty and Majestic Said when your Lord said to the Angels those who were in the earth along with Iblees (l.a), and the Jinns from the Clan of Jaan had been expelled from it, and the worship was light (easy) - I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth as a replacement from you all and will be Raising you from it. So that was grievous upon them, because the worship during their return to the sky would have become heavier upon them.

So they said: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood – just as the Jinn of the Clan of Jaan had done, those whom we had expelled from this earth and we Glorify with Your Praise – we are far above from what is not worthy of Your Attributes and we extol Your Holiness – We cleanse the Your earth from the ones who disobey You.

Allah the Exalted Said I Know what you do not know – I Know from the correctness of the existing beings among the ones I would Make him as a replacement from you all what you do not know. And I Know as well that among you all there is one who is an unbeliever inwardly - what you do not know – it, and he is Iblees, may Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Curse him.

 

Then He (عزّ وجلّ) Said And He Taught Adam the names, all of them - The names of the Prophets of Allah (عزّ وجلّ) and the names of Muhammad (saww) and Ali (asws) and (Syeda) Fatima (asws) and Al-Hasan (asws) and Al-Husayn (asws) and the goodly from their Progeny and good Shias of theirs and their hardened enemies then presented them - presented Muhammad (saws) and Ali (asws) and the Imams (asws) to the Angels – i.e., their resemblances, and they were ‘Anwar’ Lights in the shadows.

 

And He Said: Tell Me their names if you were truthful – The entirety of you are glorifying and extolling the Holiness and you are neglecting over here the suitability of the ones after you – i.e., so just as you are not recognising the unseen – the one who in your midst (Iblees) – it is appropriate that you will not be recognising the unseen which has yet to come into existence, just as you are not recognising the names of the  of the personalities (asws) you are seeing.

 

The Angels said: They said: Glory be to You! There is no knowledge for us except what You Taught us; surely You are the Knowing, the Wise [2:32] the Knower of everything, the Wise, the Correct in all His Deeds.

Allah (عزّ وجلّ) the Mighty and Majestic (Said): O Adam! Inform them of their names - The names of the Prophets and the Imams (asws). Then when he had informed them of their names, they recognised them (asws) and the Pact was Taken upon them (asws), and the Covenant, with the believing in them (asws) and of preferring them.

Allah (عزّ وجلّ) the Exalted Said during that Did I not Say to you that I Know unseen of the skies and the earth – their secrets - and I know what you are manifesting and what you have been concealing? – and what Iblees (l.a) believed in from the refusal upon Adam if I were to Command with obeying him, and his destroying him if he (l.a) was to (allowed to) overcome upon him, and from your beliefs that there would be no one coming after you all except and you would be superior than him. But, Muhammad (saws) and his goodly Progeny (asws) are superior than you all, those whom Adam (a) informed you with their names.

 

Tafseer Imam Hassan Al Askari (asws)– S 100

 

 

Al Hassan Bin Muhammad Bin Saeed Al Hashimy, from Furat Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Ibn Ali Al Hamdany, from Al Abbas Bin Abdullah Al Bukhary, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim Bin Ibrahim, from Abu al Salt Al Harwy, 

‘From Al-Reza (asws) from his forefathers (عليه السلام), from Amir Al-Momineen (عليه السلام) having said: 

 

‘Rasool-Allah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said:

 

‘Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Merited His Mursil Prophets over His  Angels of Proximity, and Merited me over the entirety of the Prophets and the Messengers, and Merited you after me, O Ali (عليه السلام), and the Imams (عليه السلام) from after you’ – and continued the Hadeeth up to he (عليه السلام) said:

 

Then Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Blessed and Exalted Created Adam (a) and Deposited us into his forehead, and Commanded the Angels with the Sajdah to him as a reverence to us and a prestige, and their Sajdah was for Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Mighty and Majestic as worship and to Adam (a) as an honouring and obedience due to us being in his back. 

 

So, how can we not happen to be superior than the Angels and they had done Sajdah to Adam (a), all of them in their entirety?’’

Bihar Al Anwaar – V 11, The book of Prophet-hood, S 2 Ch 2 H 6

 

 

And from him who said, ‘My father narrated to me, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub from Amro Bin Abu Al Maqdam, from Sabit Al Haza’a, from Jabir Bin Yazeed, from Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Al Husayn, from his father, from his forefathers,

(It has been narrated) from Amir Al-Momineen (asws) having said: 

‘Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Blessed and High Wanted to Create a creature with His own Hands, and that was after the expiry of the Jinns and the Nisnaas in the earth by seven thousand years. And it was from His Decision to Create Adam (a). So He (عزّ وجلّ) Uncovered from the layers of the skies and Said to the Angels: ‘Look at the inhabitants of the earth from My creatures, from the Jinn and the Nisnaas”. 

 

So when they saw what they were doing therein from the (acts of) disobedience, and shedding the blood, and the corruption in the earth without the right, that was grievous upon them, and they got uneasy and regretted upon the inhabitants of the earth and could not control their unhappiness.

 

They (the Angels) said, ‘Our Lord!, You are the Mighty, the Powerful, the Compeller, of Magnificent Glory, and these are Your creatures, the weak, the humiliated. They are turning in Your Judgment, and are living by Your sustenance, and they are enjoying by Your well-being, and they are disobeying You with the like of these great sins. You are neither Regretting upon them, nor Wrathful, nor Vengeful for Yourself from what You Hear from them and Seeing, and it has been grievous upon us we consider it grievous regarding You!’

He (the Imam) said: ‘So when He (عزّ وجلّ) Heard that from the Angels, Said: I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth, who would happen to be a Divine Authority for Me in My earth upon My creatures’. So the Angels said, ‘Glory be to You! Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood in it, just as the Clan of Jaan had made mischief, and they would be shedding the blood just as the Clan of Jaan had done, and they would be envying each other and hating each other? Therefore, Make the Caliph to be from us, for we neither envy, nor hate, nor shed the blood, and we Glorify with Your Praise and we extol Your Holiness’.

The Mighty and Majestic Said I Know what you do not know. I Want to Create a creature with My own Hands, and Make Prophets (a) to be from his offspring, and Mursils, and righteous servants, and Imams (asws) of Guidance, and Make them as Caliphs upon My creatures in My earth, forbidding them from disobeying Me, and warning them of My Punishment, and guiding them to obeying Me, and travelling with them the path of My Way, and Make them as Divine Authorities for Me, and as pardoners and warners upon them.

 

and My creatures, and My good ones, and Settle them in the atmosphere and in the outskirts of the earth, and they will not be in the vicinity of the offspring of My creature, and I shall Make a veil to be in between the Jinn and My creature. So, neither will the offspring of My creature be seeing the Jinn nor would they be sitting with them, nor mingling with them.Thus, the one who disobeys Me from the offspring of My creature, those whom I Choose, I shall Settle them in the dwellings of the disobeying ones, and Resource them with their resources, and I don’t Care!”

 

He (asws) said: ‘So the Angels said, ‘O our Lord! Do whatever You so Desire to There is no knowledge for us what You Taught us; surely You are the Knowing, the Wise [2:32].

 

He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Distanced them from the Throne to a travel distance of five hundred years. So they sought refuge with the Throne and gestured with the fingers. So the Lord Mighty and Majestic Looked at them and Sent down the Mercy, and Placed the Bayt Al-Mamour for them, and He (عزّ وجلّ) Said: “Perform Tawaaf around it and leave the Throne, for it is a Pleasure for Me!” So they performed Tawaaf with it, and it is the House in which seventy thousand Angels enter every day, not returning to it ever. So Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Placed the Bayt Al-Mamour as a repentance for the inhabitants of the sky, and Placed the Kabah as a repentance for the inhabitants of the earth’’.

 

تفسير الق ّمي 1 :36

 

 

(Al Sadooq) Narrated from Ali Bin Hatim from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad from Hamdan Bin Al Husayn from Al Husayn Bin Al Waleed from Abu Bakr from Hannan Bin Sudeyr from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly,

From Ali Bin Al-Husayn (asws), said, ‘I said, ‘Why did the Tawaaf (of the Kabah) come to be of seven circuits?’ He (asws) said: ‘Because Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Blessed and High Said to the Angels I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth , so they responded upon Allah (عزّ وجلّ) the Exalted and said Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood, and we Glorify with Your Praise and we extol Your Holiness? He said: I Know what you do not know [2:30].

 

And it was so that they were veiled from His Light for seven thousand years. So they sought refuge with the Throne for seven thousand years, and He (عزّ وجلّ) Showed Mercy upon them and Turned to them, and Made the Oft-frequented House (Bayt Al- Mamour) for them, which is in the fourth sky, and Made it as a model and Placed the Sacred House (Kabah) beneath the Oft-Frequented House, and Made it as a model for the people and a Sanctuary. Thus, the Tawaaf came to be of seven circuits, Obligatory upon the servants, for every thousand years (of the Angels), one circuit’’.

Tafseer Abu Hamza Sumaly – Ch 2 H 13

 

Ali Bin Ibrahim from his father from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr and Bin Mahboub together from Al Fadhl Bin Saleh from Muhammad Bin Marwan who said,

'I heard Abu Abdullah (asws) say: 'I was with my father (asws) at the Rock (Hajar Al-Aswad) and Praying. So while he)(asws) was standing offering Salat, a man came over to him and sat near him. So when he (asws) finished, he greeted upon him, then said: ‘I want to ask you about three things. No one knows it except you and the man at the end (of time - Imam-e-Zamana)’. He (asws) said: ‘What is it?’

He said, ‘Inform me, which thing was the cause of the Tawaaf of this House (Kabah)?’ So he (asws) said: Allah (عزّ وجلّ) the Exalted, when He (عزّ وجلّ) Commanded the Angels that they should perform Sajdah to Adam (a) , they responded to Him and they said, Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood, and we Glorify with Your Praise and we extol Your Holiness? [2:30]. Allah)(عزّ وجلّ) Mighty and Majestic Said: I Know what you are not knowing.

So He (عزّ وجلّ) was Wrathful upon them. Then they asked Him for the repentance, and He (عزّ وجلّ) Commanded them that they perform Tawaaf of ‘Al-Zaraah’, and it is the Oft- Frequented House (Bayt Al-Mamour). And they remained performing its Tawaaf for seven (thousand) years and seeking Forgiveness of Allah (عزّ وجلّ) the Exalted from what they had said. Then He (عزّ وجلّ) Turned towards them from after that and was Pleased from them.

Thus, this is the origin of the Tawaaf. Then Allah (عزّ وجلّ) Made the Sacred House (Kabah) parallel to Al-Zaraah (Bayt Al-Mamour), as a repentance of the ones from  the children of Adam (a) , and as a cleansing for them’. So he said, ‘You (asws) have spoken the truth’’.

 

Tafseer Noor Al Saqalayn – H 78

Edited August 31, 2020 by randomly curious