THE MESSAGE FROM THE QURAN

God, in His omnipotence, brought all the progeny of Adam before their first father. Then He said to the angels: ‘Look, this is the progeny of Adam. Can you give the name of each one of them, and tell what sort of people they will be?’ The angels, having no knowledge about them, could not tell. God told Adam their names and their characteristics, and then commanded him to pass the knowledge on to the angels. When Adam had explained to the angels the nature of the human race, they realized that, besides wicked and corrupt people, there would also be great, righteous, pious souls among them. No individual or nation has God’s permission to act in a manner that disrupts the order of nature established by God. Man’s greatest crime, next to denial of his Lord, is to spread corruption and cause bloodshed on earth. No individual or nation has God’s permission to act in a manner that disrupts the order of Nature established by God. Man should not take the life of his fellow man. All actions of this sort disqualify people from receiving God’s mercy. Everything in Nature functions according to a norm set for it by God. To follow this norm is to 'make peace', and to deviate from it is to spread corruption. “And when We said to the angels: ‘Prostrate yourselves before Adam.’ they all prostrated themselves except Satan, who, in his pride, refused, and became an unbeliever. To Adam We said: ‘Dwell with your wife in Paradise and eat of its fruits to your heart’s content wherever you will. But never approach this tree or you shall become transgressors.’ But Satan made them forget this injunction and caused them to be driven out of the state of felicity in which they had been. ‘Go down from here,’ We said, ‘as enemies to each other; and on earth you shall have your abode and your livelihood for a while!’ Then Adam received commandments from his Lord, and his Lord relented towards him. He is the Forgiving One, the Merciful. Go down hence, all,’ We said. ‘When Our guidance comes unto you those that accept it shall have nothing to fear or to regret; but those that deny and reject Our revelations shall be the heirs of Hell, and there they shall abide forever.” THE QURAN 2: 34-39