بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّ حِيْمِ
After Allah
created the entire universe and He had perfected the earth, then He created
man, with the capability and capacity of becoming His representative on earth. Because of the fact that man was a new
species in creation, the angels and jinn were unable to assess his capacity and
capability. When it was announced to
them that Adam was to be Allah’s representative on earth, they were shocked and
surprised.
Adam was
specially blessed by Allah in many ways. On one hand, he was to manifest the Divine
Attributes in the dealing with the rest of the creatures; and on the other
hand, he was given some knowledge which was unknown to the others.
In addition to
all these blessings, it was made possible for him and his progeny to meet his
Lord as a human being with both body and soul. This was made evident by Prophet Muhammad
(pboh) on the night of Miraj.
Although the
names of all created things were impressed in the knowledge of Adam it is left
for his progeny to discover and use them as they see fit. Perhaps, that is one of the reasons why it is
believed that science discovers names of things as each name gives a concept of
something that is existence.
New discoveries
of things in nature confirm the Message of the Qur’anic verse in which Allah
says that every day He is manifesting Himself in some form of Glory (55:29).
At the beginning
Adam was not fully aware of the effect that prohibited things were to have on a
person. It was only when he tasted the
tree that he realized the reason for remembering the Commands to uphold the
do’s and avoid the don’ts.
With the coming
of Prophet Muhammad (pboh) Allah gave clear and complete guidance regarding
believers’ indulgence in permissible and avoidance of prohibited. Allah re-enforced the message with examples of
events, etc. of bygone times to help us comprehend the message in a more
meaningful way.
Satan does not
like the status of man in the universe and his capability of ascent back to the
Creator. As a result, he vowed to
prevent this from happening by making man forget the commands, and by
decorating the evil in order to divert him from the Right Way.
As indulgence in
evil creates a weight on the doer of the act, he or she will not be able to
rise up on the way to the Lord. Such actions will also restrict the penetration
of the light of the soul in the cells of the body, so that the person will be
resurrected without any light in the body and will ultimately be confined to
hell.
Transcript
of discourse delivered by
Maulana
Dr. Waffie Mohammed
