The Location of Adam and Eve's Paradise The location of this Paradise  is unknown to us. The Quran did not reveal it, and the commentators had five different opinions. Some said that it was the Paradise of our refuge and that its place was heaven. Others regretted that statement because if it was the Paradise of refuge Iblis would have been forbidden admission and disobedience would have been forbidden as well. Still, others said that it was another paradise that was created by ALLAH for Adam and Hawwa.  A fourth group said it was the Paradise on the Earth located in a high place.  Another group of commentators accepts that was in the Quran without questioning where this  Paradise was located. We agree with this last opinion as the lesson we learn from its location is immaterial compared to the lesson we learn from the events that took place there. To Be Continued..........................

 Establishing the Islamic Greeting  Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet  Muhammad (PBUH) said: O Muslims! I advise you to be gentle with women, for they are created from a rib and the most crooked portion of the rib is its upper part. If you try to straighten it, it will break, and if you leave it, it will remain crooked, so I urge you to take care of the women. (Sahih Bukhari). Allah commanded Adam to dwell in Paradise: O Adam! dwell you and your wife in Paradise and eat both of you freely with pleasure and delight of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near this tree or you both will be of the Zalimeen  (wrong-doers).   (Ch 2:35 Qur'an) To Be Continued....................................

  Hawwa's Creation Muhammad Ibn Ishaaq and Ibn Abbas related that Hawwa was created from the shortest left rib of Adam while he was sleeping and after awhile she was clothed with flesh.  That is why the Allah Exalted said: O Mankind be dutiful to your Lord, WHO created you from a single person (Adam) and from Him (Adam) He created his wife(Hawwa), and from them both He created many men and women. (Chapter 4:1 Qur'an) ALLAH also said: It is he who created you from a single person (Adam) and then HE created from him his wife(Hawwa), in order that he might enjoy the pleasure of living with her.  (Chapter 7:89 Qur'an) To Be Continued.....................................................  

            Adam Sees Hawwa(Eve) Ibn Abbas and a group of companions of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) narrated that when Iblis was sent out of Paradise Adam was accommodated therein, Adam was alone in Paradise and did not have a partner from whom he could get tranquillity. He slept for some time and when woke up, he saw a woman whom ALLAH had created from his ribs. So he asked her, who are you? She replied A woman He asked: Why have you been created? She said: so that you could find tranquility in me. The angels trying to find out the extent of his knowledge asked him: What is her name, O, Adam? He replied, Hawwa (Eve). They asked: Why she was so named? He replied Because she was created from something living. To Be Continued.........................................................  

Teaching Adam Adam knew the names of everything. Sometimes he talked to the angels, but they were preoccupied with worshiping Almighty Allah. Therefore Adam felt lonely. One day he slept and when he awoke he found near his head, a woman gazing at his face with beautiful tending eyes. The angels asked him her name he replied: Eve (Hawa). (means living things). They asked: Why did you call her Eve? Adam said: Because she was created of me and I am a living being. To Be Continued....................................

  Teaching Adam Allah wanted the Angels to know that He knew of their astonishment when HE had told them about the creation of Adam and that He also knew of their confusion which they had not revealed, as well as what Iblis had concealed of his disobedience ingratitude. The angels realized that Adam was the creature who knew what they did not know and that his capacity to learn was his Nobel quality. His knowledge includes knowledge of the Creator which we call faith or Islam, as well as the knowledge he would need to inhabit and master the earth. All kinds of worldly knowledge are included in this. To Be Continued..............

Teaching Adam The Angels admitted their inability: Glory to be YOU, we have knowledge except what you have taught us. Verily it is YOU the All knower, the All-Wise. (CH 2:32 Quran) Allah Almighty then turned to Adam: O, Adam! Inform them of their names, and when he had informed them of their names, He said: Did I not tell you that I know what you reveal and what you have been hiding?  (CH 2:33 Quran). To Be Continued................

Teaching Adam Almighty Allah granted Adam the power to know the natures of all things and to summarize them by names; that is a bird, that is a star, that is a tree, etc Allah implanted in Adam an insatiable need for and love of knowledge and a desire to bequeath knowledge to his children. This was the reason for his creation and the secret of his glorification. After Adam had learned the names of all things, along with their properties and uses, Allah presented them to the angels and said: Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful. (Ch 2:31 Qur'an) To  Be Continued..............

  The Reason Of Adam's Creation After this lesson about freedom, Adam learned another lesson, one about knowledge. Adam realized that the Iblis was the symbol of evil in the universe and that the angels were the symbol of good. However, he did not yet know anything about himself.  Then ALLAH made him perceive his true identity and the reason for his creation, and the secret of his glorification. ALLAH the Exalted said: He taught Adam the name of everything.  (Chapter 2:31 Qur'an) To  Be Continued..............

      The Meaning of the Angel's Prostration There were many traditions about Iblis at the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Ibn Masud, Ibn Abbas, and a group of  the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that Iblis had been the head of the angels in the worldly heavens. Ibn Abbas said in one narration that his name had been Azazil and in another, he said it had been Al Harith. Ibn Abbas also said that Iblis was a Jinn and that they had once been the keepers of Paradise, with Iblis the most honorable and the most learned and the most pious of them. Another tradition says that he had been one of the famous four possessors of wings (angels) before Allah transformed him into the accursed Satan. Allah Almighty recounts Iblis's disobedience in another Surah: Remember when your Lord said to the angels:'Truly I am going to create a man from clay. So when I have fashioned him and breathe into him (his soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him.' So...