CREATION OF AN ADAM!

- THE BIBLE – CREATION OF AN ADAM

Then the Lord took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Then the Lord God made the man fall into deep sleep, an while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said,

“At last, here is one of my own kind- Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh.

‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of a man.”

(GENESIS 2 : 7, 21 – 23)

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– THE HOLY QUR’AN AND SUNNAH –

The Final Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:

Allah created Adam from a handful of clay which He took from the whole of the earth; so the children of Adam are in accordance with the earth, some red, some white some black, some a mixture, also smooth and rough, bad and good. (Mishkat)

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Allah Almighty Says: And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, “I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud. (Qur’an 15:28)

The clay was brought to Allah at His command by the Angel of Death and from this clay Allah created the first human being, Adam.

Adam, the father of all mankind.Several hadith mention the day on which Adam was created.

The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday. On it, Adam was created and on it he was made to enter Paradise on it he was cast out of it. And the Last Hour (Judgement Day) will not take place on any day other than Friday. (Muslim)

And what more blessed day for the most perfect and developed of Allah’s creations!

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) also said: “When Allah had fashioned Adam in Paradise, He left him as he willed to leave him. Then Satan went around him to see what he was. And when he found him hollow, he recognised he has been created with an uncontrolled disposition. (Muslim)

Allah then breathed life into His creation. The breath came from the front of Adam’s head, narrated Ibn Abbas (RA), and everything that flowed from it within his body became flesh and blood.

Allah Almighty Says: ALLAH! It is he Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them in SIX DAYS. Then He rose over the THRONE in a manner that suits His Majesty. YOU MANKIND HAVE NONE, BESIDES HIM, AS A LORD OR AN INTERCESSOR. Will you not then remember?

He arranges every affair from the heavens to the earth..That is He, the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen, the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful.

Who made everything He has created good, and HE BEGAN THE CREATION OF MAN (ADAM) FROM CLAY.

Then He made his offspring from semen of no value fluid (male and female sexual discharge).

Then He fashioned him in due proportion, AND BREATHED INTO HIM THE SOUL, and He gave you hearing, sight, and hearts. LITTLE IS THE THANKS YOU GIVE!

(The Holy Qur’an 32: 4 – 9)

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CREATION OF HAWWA (EVE)

With that, Satan’ was cast out of Paradise, an abode filled with blessings and favours beyond imagination. Our forefather Adam was settled in Paradise, with everything he could desire, every kind of pure pleasure and wholesome satisfaction was his. No hunger or thirst, fatigue or boredom, cold or heat, just

comfort and pleasure. No burdens or responsibilities, no sufferings, pain or sadness.

In Ibn Abbas’ narrations, Adam fell asleep in Paradise. And when he woke, he found a woman, whom Allah had created from his rib, sitting beside his head.

Allah Almighty Says: It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate that he might dwell in security with her. (Qur’an 7:189)

To test the extent of Adam’s knowledge, the angels asked him, “What is her name, O Adam?”

“Hawwa,” he replied

“Why is she called Hawwa?” the angels asked

“Because she was created from something living (hayy ),” Adam replied, meaning that she been created from his own living self.

And thus Adam and Hawwa(Eve) began their life together in the blessed Garden, like innocent new‑borns, they knew nothing of evil or sin.

They hadn’t the slightest idea of what lay ahead, that their Lord would soon be testing them and that their lives would change dramatically.