"and when your Lord said to the angels:
'Truly I am creating a successor in the Earth'
They said:
'are you creating in it (earth) one who corrupts in it (earth)
and sheds Blood
and we glorify with Your praise
and we hallow You?'
He said:
'Truly I know what you all do not know'"
[2:30]
This is a heavenly conversation taking place between God and the angels.
The angels ask God why would He create humans (not just the first human: Adam a.s.) when they are capable of committing acts of evil (i.e. corruption, killing, etc). They further add that angels are capable to do the good deeds (e.g. glorifying God, hallowing God, etc) already - so how could that be the reason for creating human beings, especially since they are capable of diluting their good deeds with evil deeds.
God's reply to the question implies there is a very good reason that only God knows.
From this verse,
1) we learn about God
'Truly I am creating a successor in the Earth'
They said:
'are you creating in it (earth) one who corrupts in it (earth)
and sheds Blood
and we glorify with Your praise
and we hallow You?'
He said:
'Truly I know what you all do not know'"
[2:30]
This is a heavenly conversation taking place between God and the angels.
The angels ask God why would He create humans (not just the first human: Adam a.s.) when they are capable of committing acts of evil (i.e. corruption, killing, etc). They further add that angels are capable to do the good deeds (e.g. glorifying God, hallowing God, etc) already - so how could that be the reason for creating human beings, especially since they are capable of diluting their good deeds with evil deeds.
God's reply to the question implies there is a very good reason that only God knows.
From this verse,
1) we learn about God
- God created humans after He created the angels and Earth
- God knows all and we do not (implying God always has a good reason for doing anything, it is not just done thoughtlessly without reason, so we should trust His wisdom even if we do not know what it is. When we question God it should be done with the intention that there is a good reason, we simply would like Him to reveal to us the answer. The wrong intention would be to question God as if He made a mistake or did something without reason because He knows all and is Most Wise, yet our knowledge and intellect is very limited. It is like a student who questions a chess grandmaster why he would sacrifice his queen - the grandmaster knows full well why he did it, but perhaps the student is not ready for that lesson)
- Angels can ask questions
- Angels know the possible consequences of humans
- Angels do glorify and hallow God
- humans were created to be successors on Earth (implying that we will stay a while, then die, but a younger generation will succeed after we are gone. It could also mean that Adam a.s. was placed to succeed other beings already living on the Earth - jinn?)
- humans are capable of causing corruption in the Earth and killing (shedding blood)
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