The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Adam In God’s knowledge, although total freedom will result in a jungle of oppression and corruption in the human world, there would also be exceptions. In this wilderness of oppression and perversion, extraordinary individuals would appear like the divine flowers amidst thorns. God wanted to pick these divine flowers, and He, therefore, assigned the angles to prepare a record of every human being. Based on this record, the good will be separated from the evil to be settled in the eternal gardens of Paradise. Paradise is not a ‘luxury resort’ in any simple sense. Paradise would be the finest society of chosen individuals from the whole human race. There, they will have the best infrastructure. These select individuals will bring into existence a super civilisation with the support of the angels. In the present world, the civilization has been produced by the partial discovery of the laws of nature. In contrast, in the Hereafter, the super civilization will be formed through the total unfolding of the words of God. This matter is further explained in other verses of the Quran. One verse is as follows: If all the trees on earth were pens, and the sea [were] ink, with seven [more] seas added to it, the words of God would not be exhausted: for, truly, God is Almighty and Wise. (31:27)