Quranic dialogues in the story of Adam, peace be upon him
- Author:
- Haider Hassoun Hamad Al Bayzani
- Level:
- Master
- Field of study:
- Quranic Studies
- Language:
- Arabic
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Quranic Studies
- Year:
- 2022
- Publisher:
- URD Press
The Holy Qur’an is a book of guidance for all human beings, and all of its verses are either legal rulings, morals, sermons, instructions, or beliefs, and among those verses are Qur’anic stories, including dialogues. And the aim of this research is to identify the Qur’anic dialogues in the story of the creation of Adam, peace be upon him, and to interrogate them in an analytical way and take lessons from their content. In this research, I followed the descriptive analytical approach to the subject of the Qur’anic dialogue. The most beautiful thing that the Noble Qur’an spoke about is the story of the creation of Adam, peace be upon him, because it contains the beginning of creation, the statement of the greatness of the creature, and the issuance of the caliphate order. A beautiful and gentle dialogue took place in it between God Almighty and the angels, as well as the dialogue of God Almighty and Adam, peace be upon him, and after that we witnessed the divine dialogue between him and the cursed Satan, and then the dialogue of Satan, Adam and Eve. Dialogue is a type of conversation between two or more people that is negotiated between them in some way and is dominated by calm and away from antagonism and fanaticism, unlike the argument that is dominated by verbal quarrels between the two parties. We note that the Qur’anic dialogues in the story of the creation of Adam, peace be upon him, were predominantly calm. So God began the dialogue with the angels in a beautiful manner, showing them what is required of his dialogue with them. A great matter was presented to them, and he is God’s successor on earth. Their response was to inquire about this Caliph who will succeed God on earth, and God Almighty made it clear that Adam was entitled to the caliphate from them. He told them that my successor on earth must be knowledgeable in everything and have the ability and scientific ability to understand the things that the angels lack. Then, after that, God, the Blessed and Exalted, taught Adam, peace be upon him, the names and presented them to the angels. And then he commanded them to prostrate, and they all prostrated except for Iblis, so he said to him: Why did you not prostrate to Adam, and I commanded you? So Iblis answered: “Prostrate to the one whom I created clay, for I am better than him. You created me from fire.” From the mercy of God, the divine order was issued like a thunderbolt on the devil, when he told him to descend from it. Then he directed the words to Adam and Eve that they dwell in Paradise and eat of its bounties, if you wish, but do not approach one tree, which is a tree that belongs to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad upon him, and upon them be the best of prayers and complete peace. The location of this paradise, as explained by some scholars and commentators, is a paradise of an isthmus between heaven and earth. Here, Satan exploited this forbidden tree in order to seduce Adam and Eve to disobey God, as he asked God, the Blessed and Exalted, to give him time until the day they will be resurrected, and that God Almighty accepted his requests, but for a known time, and swore by the Lord of Glory that he would seduce them all, except for the faithful servants of God among them. God Almighty said: My servants have no authority over them except those who follow you, and I will fill Hell with you and from them. At that, he became very angry and whispered to Adam and Eve that they would eat from that forbidden tree, and he kept decorating them for them, and then he swore to them that he would be one of the advisors to them and that if they ate from that tree, they would become kings or they would be immortals, and when Adam and Eve heard the harsh faith of Satan, they ate from that The tree became apparent to them, and their sins became apparent to them, so they knew that they had wronged themselves, so they hastened to return to God in order to forgive them and repent for them.