The Stages of Creation & Evolution in the Quran
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Just as the Big Bang in reality is an unwinding of the Universe, in the same way it will role up again.
um...no it won't. Astronomers recently discovered that there isn't enough matter in the universe for it to start contracting. It'll keep on expanding.
And...all humans are different shades of brown. Adama doesn't have to mean the black race.The thing is, Arnold, what you have said is based entirely on interpretation, and on current scientific knowledge and theory.
I wouldn't choose to interpret the quran in this manner. Because, 1. this scientific interpretation requires that you already believe the Quran to be a special book authored by God. That belief in divinity has to be there. Now, most people who read the quran, don't already believe that. 2. All this scientific stuff I don't really understand, let alone learn from. I don't know exactly how evolution or the big bang worked unless I study biology and physics in depth. And even if we do understand all of that, how does it help us? It doesn't. The quran's not like a dictionary or an encyclopia where it just gives out a bunch of facts. It's not an explaining of it's divinity either. It's a book of spiritual guidance. How do I get that from knowing that my ancestors were fish? -
Err... so you are saying that Adam and Eve are actually more like monkeys?
No, if you read carefully, the word doesn't appear in the Quran. The Quran talks about Adam and his spouse. And thus is a metaphor for Man and Woman in total. Adam were the first Homo Sapiens, Modern man and woman.
The earlier species of man-apes from which modern man originated from do not fall under the term Adam, Intelligent man.
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Peace Phoenix,
There are a lot more forces in the Universe then just matter, the Quantum Field also decides on this. The internet is a poor resource for science Phoenix.
Adam has several meanings, it refers metaphorical to Man and Woman in total, Adam and his spouse. Adam also means Ancestor or Black skinned person, and thus refers to Ancient man from Africa, and in Arabic it is also used for Mankind in total, and does not refer to any colour.
I interpretate the Quran based on current knowledge, and just as the scientifical theories and my theory is not binding to the Quran. And I wrote this article with the concept in mind that I believed in the Quran, it was not about proving the Quran being Divine. If my interpretation turns out wrong, then the Quran would not loose its status, only my interpretation does. Please seperate these two from another.
The Quran is a Guide to Reality, and helps you in creating a correct relationship and behaviour to Reality. This is why we are urged to research Nature . As for you do not understand the scientifcal stuff or learn has nothing to do with my article, the article doesn't head with 'specially for Phoenix', it is meant for all those who are interrested, nothing more.
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wasn't adam created in heaven? and then had to exit it and come to earth.
Well, the term heaven in Adam story, I believe, is janna, not al-janna, and janna is used elsewhere in the Quran clearly to mean earthly garden.
so it is possible to infer that Adam lived in some kind of garden, forest area before being ordered/made to leave to a more desertic region.Mohamed~
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so it is possible to infer that Adam lived in some kind of garden, forest area before being ordered/made to leave to a more desertic region.
Evolutionarily speaking, Adam had to leave the trees and strike out on the ground, bipedal and moving across plains and fields and deserts.
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well this is one example
20117 Then We said "O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery.4370 Enter ye the Garden, ye and your wives, in (beauty and) rejoicing
in 20117 the garden mentioned here is the one which adam was in.
in 4370 the garden mentioned here is the one we'll go in after we die20117 Faqulna ya adamu inna hatha AAaduwwun laka walizawjika fala yukhrijannakuma mina aljannati fatashqa
4370 Odkhuloo aljannata antum waazwajukum tuhbaroona
they're both al-janna
unless there's a difference between aljannati and aljannata,
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they're both al-janna
unless there's a difference between aljannati and aljannata,
i'm not an arabic language expertYou are correct and I was wrong. I am writing without looking things up.
The argument is that "the janna" mentioned in Adam context is really an earthly one. It sounds and feels very much like other "janna"/gardens described elsewhere in Quran where the context clearly is about earthly things. It does not sound like "The Janna" of eternal reward.Again I am not looking things up... Let me know if you want me to.
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but the words is the same, at least in those two ayahs.
and if it still is like you say, then we would enter earthly garden after we die.
but i don't think earth will exist then anymore.Yes it is the same word but what is referred to is not. sometimes janna is referring to an earthly garden, sometime it refers to the eternal one. and one can tell which is being referred to from the context. For example in chapter 1832 and the next few verses, it is clear that the word janna is not referring to the next world's, eternal garden. Instead it is a talking about a janna, and even two of them.... gardens.
Other verses talk about janna as being the promised garden, and describe life in it as being eternal.
The two concepts have things in common... but they surely are not the same. There is food in both gardens, there is satisfaction to be found in both... etc. But one of them is vastly superior.
Adam's janna is described, it seems, in pretty modest way in 22117,118,119
22117 "You will have in it that you will not go hungry nor need clothes."
22118 "And you will have in it that you will not go thirsty nor suffer from heat."That could well describe some kind of tropical forest, with a lot of shade and with abundant food and fresh water. then Satan will case him to leave this paradisaic life to a more tougher one 20117, the next step in Man's evolution....
Mohamed~
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Salaam Aleikum,
I must say that you take the term Jannah very literally while the Quran clearly says it is metaphorically
4715 In allegorical terms the Paradise that the righteous are promised is this
Therein are rivers of ever fresh water, and rivers of ever fresh milk, and rivers
of delicious wine, and rivers of clear-run honey. Therein are all kinds of fruit (of
their good deeds), with a life secure from deterioration bestowed upon them
from their Lord. Are they like the ones who abide in the Fire and are given
drinks of burning despair that tears their insides? ('Maghfirah' here denotes
protection from deterioration)I have written a small article on the matter
http//19.org/index.php?id=91,420,0,0,1,0&PHPSESSID=4f1f5c565f3d0328884385983c6fec65
As far as I have understood Jannah stands for a state of Bliss and fulfillment. In this life we create this Bliss by creating the Deen, this is where we make sure there is no hunger anymore as given in the verses you mention, also running water as the rivers underneath mentioned. In the Next Life we inherit it forever and we will then have much more capabilities.
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so are you saying that adam and eve were in a garden on earth and in a state of bliss and then they disobayed God and were thrown out of the garden and were not in the state of bliss anymore?
and after we die, the believers who did good work will enter the garden on earth and be in a state of bliss?
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Salam Brother Yasin,
I am reading your article on 19.org...
11108 The happy ones on that Day will enter the Garden and live there as long as the New Universe endures, that is time beyond count; until your Lord opens for them the way to further evolution, a gift unfailing.
Where did you get "until your Lord opens for them the way to further evolution" from?
Mohamed~
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Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
Hazrat Adam (alaihi salaam) and his wife were living in Paradise, until Satan deceived them, then they were expelled down to the Earth
Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said "get ye down, all (ye people), with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood - for a time." (236)
Also, humans did not evolve from any other species. It clearly says in the Holy Quran The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him "Be". And he was. (359)
Jazak Allah Khair.
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so are you saying that adam and eve were in a garden on earth and in a state of bliss and then they disobayed God and were thrown out of the garden and were not in the state of bliss anymore?
and after we die, the believers who did good work will enter the garden on earth and be in a state of bliss?
Salam nerspi,
Yes. that is very much how I currently understand the Adam story verses, though I tend to see Adam and Eve as representing mankind at a specific stage in human evolution.
In the hereafter, I believe, we shall all be back... in a new Universe, one with laws that allow and account for the new features therein displayed, such as eternity.
1448 The Day the Earth is replaced with another Earth, as are the heavens, and they will appear before God, the One, the Irresistible.The Janna of reward will "take place" in that Universe.
Mohamed~
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peace
Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
Hazrat Adam (alaihi salaam) and his wife were living in Paradise, until Satan deceived them, then they were expelled down to the Earth
Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said "get ye down, all (ye people), with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood - for a time." (236)
Also, humans did not evolve from any other species. It clearly says in the Holy Quran The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him "Be". And he was. (359)
Jazak Allah Khair.
if they weresent to earth, that would imply that he wasn't here before. so where was he?
or canthe translation of those verses be interpreted differently?
or translated differently?and if those verses are indeed mistranslated, who did that? didn't the translator have knowlage of arabic language?
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if they weresent to earth, that would imply that he wasn't here before. so where was he?
Adam (alaihi salaam) was in the Paradise/Garden We said "O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the garden (al-Jannata) (235)
The translation of the verses I have provided are by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, and as far as I know there is no mistranslation.
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I suggest to read my article....
In 11106-108 it is clearly mentioned that a new Universe will be created for us in the Next Life. This concides with Quantum Physics who say the same thing.
Also it is not Adam and 'eve', the name 'eve' does not occur in the Quran. The story relates to Adam and his spouse, thus metaphorically referring to Man and Woman in general. They threw themselves out of the State of Bliss and Progress by dividing mankind into factions, which is represented by the tree.