Due to comprehensive disposition He was enabled to be God’s vicegerent on earth.
It was the teaching of countless sciences, all embracing branches of knowledge about the universe, and extensive learning about the Creator’s attributes and qualities.
“Teaching of the Names” afforded human beings superiority over not only the angels but also the heavens and earth and mountains in the question of the supreme trust.
If you are endowed with the qualities to appreciate and uncover all the manifested forms of the names of God only then are you superior to the angels (because they are only able to uncover 1 manifested name)
– But we have to uncover these names and not arrogantly assume superiority and not do anything with what we have been given by the creator.
– Human beings can glorify their Lord with all the various forms of manifestations of the names of God
We should not be ‘bragging’ about it BUT rather we have a huge capacity
– Ask yourself, are you using this capacity or are you wasting it?
– I should be ashamed of myself because I am wasting my capacity in search of worldly gains
Remember, whatever you do, use that opportunity to discover the manifested names of Allah
– And within each event, if you are able to live in this consciousness, then you are superior to angels.
Angels’ prostrating before Adam and Satan’s refusing it:
“And when We told the angels, “Prostrate yourselves before Adam!”-they all prostrated themselves, save Iblis, who refused and gloried in his arrogance: and thus he became one of the disbelievers. (QURAN)
Do you think God is mentioning this just to curse Iblis?
– What is the benefit in cursing Iblis FOR ME?
– We have every right to ask of the verses in Quran, what is the relevance of a verse for me?\
– If God is telling me this, it has to have something to do with me
– We have every right to ask this question and expect it to be a perfect guide for me.
Most of the physical beings in the universe and their representatives and appointed beings are subjugated to human beings.
Evil matter and its representatives are serious obstacles in the path of the human beings’ progress. They corrupt human being’s nature and drive them down wrong path.
By narrating this minor event, the Qur’an warns all human beings about who their friends and enemies are.
– ‘Their representatives’: Angels are the representatives of the qualities manifested in the Earth
– They declare and glorify the names of God manifested in things
– When you look at the objects and you say it is ‘amazing or sweet’
- What are you talking about?
- The qualities, awesome, sweet, etc are qualities of the matter
- How do you extract meaning from the matter?
- This is described in the Quran as angels
- The angels are transferring the meanings to you and ARE delivering the manifestations of names of Allah to you