Ignore my previous comments. I sincerely apologise for offending you in anyway with my choice of words. I have taken your criticisms into consideration and will improve upon and revise my research.Feedback is what I am looking for anyway. And I have it now.Regards,SuRvIvOr
You didn't offend me. Thanks for your apologies, but you have to apologize to revert al yunani, not to me.
But still, glad you've decided to change your tone.
Your work is too long to respond to everything, but i can try to respond to it generally.
First the answers in your first post:
Why did Allah decide to create a new creation (humanity) when He was already being worshipped by the angels in the heavens?
You said yourself in your work that Allah is Almighty. That He is in no need of ANY help. He does not need anything or anyone. Not even strong, powerful and obedient angels who never get tired, sleepy, sick, hungry or whatever.
So we know Allah does not create out of need. Creating is simply just one of Allahs attributes. That is what He does, creating.
It is somewhat a bad comparison, I'm sorry for that, but,
you do not ask a painter why he paints
you do not ask a child why it builds a sand castle
They do not (usually) do that out of need. Allah created us out of mercy, out of love. He created us because that is what He does.
And He also said that we are the best of creation.
The part about clay being better than fire because of humility was a good point, I didn't think about it like that.
That could be one of the reasons why we are the best of creation.
However, another reason is our free will.
You see, angels just do what they are programmed for. They are very very powerful, but they have no choice.
They do not have the option to refuse, to rebel, to be lazy or whatever.
We humans do have all those options, and that is why we are the best of creation.
We use our free will, to voluntarily obey and serve Allah.
We are not that powerful like angels, (but then again, Allah does not need any powerful creatures anyways) we choose to be good. We choose to serve Allah
That is why free will is so important for us.
That is what makes us better than the angels.
- Why did He create Humanity according to His Image, and if so, why did He create them out of clay?
- Fire is naturally more powerful than clay/sand, so why was the action and justification of Iblis wrong?
You already answered these questions in your work. Thanks for the answers, I have nothing to add.
About the justification of Iblis:
Allah gave a direct order to bow and Iblis refused, which is wrong from every point of view.
Besides, there is no such thing like one element being better than another....because what does that exactly mean? better in what?
The word "better" need to be defined.
In the emission of heat and light, yes fire is better than clay.
In destruction of stuff, maybe..
in creating a shelter from danger, cold and rain, clay is better than fire.
and so on.
- Iblis promised Allah that he would lead most of humanity to the hellfire. Despite Allah sending over 100,000 prophets and messengers, Iblis fulfilled his promise. Iblis "challenged" Allah and he has seemingly won in his challenge. This an insult to Allah, so how would He respond to Iblis and exact His retribution on him?
- Is there a connection between the response of Allah to Iblis, and Doomsday (The Hour/Day of Destruction)
Iblis did not win anything. There is no contest going on. If Allah wanted, He could create us all as believers, but He wanted us to use our free will to do good, to find the right path...to find Allah.
We are the ones in contest here, not Allah.
It is not like most non-muslims think, God represents everything that is good and satan represents everything that is bad.
We muslims do not support that. We believe that good and bad are both creations of Allah.
About your work, I did not read everything...it was way too long.
I've read the first 10 chapters, after that, scanned the document, read some chapters in the middle that seemed interesting, and finally your summary and conclusion.
You think that the successor is a person amongst us, from the past or from the future, already chosen or yet to be chosen and not neccessarily Muhammad sas.
I am not convinced of that. I always thought Successor was meant as a group of people.
To be more precise, the part of humanity that used their free will to serve Allah and therefore passed the test (in other words everyone that reaches Heaven)...and not just one person.
Those group of humanity is the best of creation, and therefore successors of Allah.
There are some other points that I did not agree with. I can't remember all of them, but one point was in chapter 24 That the successor should have knowledge about the unseen.
I am still wondering how you get to this conclusion when there are verses, crystal clear, (verses which you even yourself mentioned by the way) say:
((عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ فَلَا يُظْهِرُ عَلَىٰ غَيْبِهِ أَحَدًا))
“(He is) Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His (knowledge of the) unseen to anyone.” [72:26]
((قُل لَّا يَعْلَمُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ الْغَيْبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ ۚ))
“Say (O Muhammad), ‘None in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah” [27:65]
I do not understand how you can still come to the conclusion that:
Therefore, the Successor would be the only creation whom Allah would disclose His knowledge of the unseen to, and the Successor would never disclose any of His knowledge to any of His creation.
That doesn't make any sense.
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ear AgoSuRvIvOr123, thank you for you scientific topic.Please do not be offended for my words. I'm not that good in English and it is anonymus. You seem masha Allah to have put some sincere and serious effort, without any malignant intentions.You seem to me that you are maybe good person, a revert from christianity or a christian (or maybe other religion or scientific based) scholar. You seem to lack some basic understanding that are very spread, I think so, among general muslim population.Please read: