Baqarah 30
30- AND AS YOUR LORD SAID TO THE ANGELS: “I AM PLACING A VICEROY ON EARTH”. THEY SAID: “ARE YOU PLACING THEREIN WHO MAKES MISCHIEF IN IT AND SHEDS BLOOD, WHILE WE HYMN YOUR PRAISES AND SANCTIFY YOU?” HE SAID: “I KNOW WHAT YOU DO NOT”.
This is the beginning of the Ayahs about the creation of Adam, peace be upon him. Allah the Highest informed the Angels of His intention to place a viceroy on Earth. A Viceroy is a representative, a person who should carry out the commands and will of his Lord.
The Angels response to this was a question; no one should assume that it was a criticism, for the angels can not criticize Allah the Highest, but they enquired. Why did they enquire?
Because the Angels are some of Allah’s creation, they do not know what Allah the Highest has hidden in the future, but only what happens and whatever they are allowed to know.
This enquiry however raises two more questions:
- Either the Angels were allowed to know that mankind was going to cause mischief and shed blood on Earth?
- Or that they reasoned this out from prior experience. Meaning that they have seen this happening in another part of Allah’s Kingdom, such as other planets or different world?
We do not know.
Allah’s answer to them was to remind them that the knowledge of the future and what is hidden is only His. Allah the Highest, said in Ayah El-Korsi the greatest Ayah in the Quran “HE KNOWS WHAT IS BEFORE THEM AND WHAT IS BEHIND THEM, WHILE THEY KNOW NONE OF HIS KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT WHAT HE WILLS”. (S: 2 A: 255)
This is Allah’s rules with all including the closest Angels.
This Ayah should make us very weary of those who claim that they know the future and what is hidden for Allah the Highest allows such privilege to very few only. Going to others to seek knowledge about the future or what is hidden is weakness in one’s faith. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him said: “The fortune tellers lie even if what they say turned out to be right”.
Baqarah 31-33
31- AND HE (ALLAH) TAUGHT ADAM ALL THE NAMES (OF EVERYTHIMG), THEN SHOWED THEM TO THE ANGELS AND SAID: TELL ME THE NAMES OF THESE IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL.
32- THEY SAID: GLORY TO YOU, WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT WHAT YOU TAUGHT US, YOU KNOW ALL AND YOU ARE MOST WISE.
33- HE (ALLAH) SAID: O ADAM, INFORM THEM OF THEIR NAMES. WHEN HE (ADAM) INFORMED THEM OF THEIR NAMES, HE (ALLAH) SAID: DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN IN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND KNOW WHAT YOU DISCLOSE AND WHAT YOU HIDE.
What are the names Allah the Highest taught Adam, we can not tell with certainty. Some say it means the names of all angels, and some say the names of every thing. It might even be referring to all knowledge one needs. Only Allah knows.
Then Allah the Highest challenged the Angels to tell Him these names which they could not, because Allah the Highest did not tell them. This is a reminder to us that all knowledge has one source and one only, Allah, Who also said : “HE (ALLAH) TAUGHT MAN WHAT MAN DID NOT KNOW”. (S: 96 A: 5)
Allah the Highest endows some people with more knowledge than others. The most precious knowledge is the knowledge of Allah Himself. Indeed, the more one knows Allah the more he/she will fear him, as He said: “AMONG HIS SLAVES, THE KNOWLEDGABLE FEAR ALLAH MOST”. (S: 35 A: 28)
Allah the Highest also reminds the Angels that nothing in the Heavens or in the Earth is hidden from Him “THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN FROM HIM IN THE EARTH NOR IN THE HEAVENS”. (S: 3 A: 5)
Even our thoughts and intentions which, are not known to any person when we keep inside us, are know to Allah, for to Him we are open books. He said: “AND KNOW THAT ALLAH KNOWS WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, THEREFORE TAKE HEED OF HIM, AND KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST FORBEARING”. (S: 2 A: 235)
And also said: “OUR LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT WE HIDE AND WHAT WE REVEAL; NOTHING IS HIDDEN FROM ALLAH IN THE EARTH OR IN HEAVENS”. (S: 14 A: 38)
And through Jesus, peace is upon him: “YOU KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE ME, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, FOR YOU KNOW WELL ALL THAT IS HIDDEN”. (S: 5 A: 119)
Allah the Highest knew all that is hidden particularly the feelings of Satan who refused to prostrate to Adam when Allah commanded him and the Angels to do so.
Satan is not an Angel; he is a Jinni, who was so close to Allah the Highest that he was with the Angels. Angels can not disobey Allah the Highest for they have no will of their own; they just do what they are commanded to do. Humans and Jinn have choice and have their own will, and therefore they will be judged on the Day of Resurrection.
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