And If, As Is Sure, There Comes To You Guidance From Me.

By: Maged Taman

2:34 And behold, We said to the angels: "Bow down to Adam" and they bowed down. Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith. وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ اسْجُدُواْ لآدَمَ فَسَجَدُواْ إِلاَّ إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى وَاسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ

2:35 We said: "O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden; and eat of the bountiful things therein as (where and when) ye will; but approach not this tree, or ye run into harm and transgression." وَقُلْنَا يَا آدَمُ اسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ الْجَنَّةَ وَكُلاَ مِنْهَا رَغَداً حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلاَ تَقْرَبَا هَـذِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ الْظَّالِمِينَ

2:36 Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down, all (ye people), with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood - for a time."
فَأَزَلَّهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ عَنْهَا فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا مِمَّا كَانَا فِيهِ وَقُلْنَا اهْبِطُواْ بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ وَلَكُمْ فِي الأَرْضِ مُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ إِلَى حِينٍ

2:37 Then learnt Adam from his Lord words of inspiration, and his Lord Turned towards him; for He is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful. فَتَلَقَّى آدَمُ مِن رَّبِّهِ كَلِمَاتٍ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّهُ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ

2:38 We said: "Get ye down all from here; and if, as is sure, there comes to you Guidance from me, whosoever follows My guidance, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. قُلْنَا اهْبِطُواْ مِنْهَا جَمِيعاً فَإِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّي هُدًى فَمَن تَبِعَ هُدَايَ فَلاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

2:39 "But those who reject Faith and belie Our Signs, they shall be companions of the Fire; they shall abide therein." وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرواْ وَكَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا أُولَـئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ

The question is do you believe the Adam-Eve story of the Bible and Quran or not. If you red the Quran and the Bible and believe they are true or too difficult to disprove and nothing else stand as the truth you have to take the matter seriously. From these verses we find out that:

1- God has honoured our father Adam and ordered the angles and Satan to bow down to him. The rejection of God order is one of the disbelieve considered by God. You can sin but to consider the order of God not to sin is not his right is disbelieve or kofr.
2- God warned Adam about Satan and his temptation.
3- Adam did not obey God, unlike Satan his sin was not of arrogance but of weakness and listening to the temptation of Satan.
4- God let them out of the garden, He knew that Satan will continue to tempt them as they fall to earth and their offspring. God knew the future and knew that we will be enemies to each other and Satan will be our greatest enemy.
5- God has the right as the creator to decide when and what guidance he has for us. If he says the ten commandments and write them with his hand it is over. He has created us and know what is the best for us. You have the right to sin but you do not have the right to decline the orders of God that are to make us happy in this life and afterlife.
6- No one identifies God better than himself. In the Quran the verse stated clear "God warns you of himself". He is the one who makes the rules and we are the one who have to obey him. He can be very compassionate or glorious with wrath. After you obey God and live for him your obedience grow from fear to respect and your praise from a material purpose to love. The more you give to earn his love the closer you becomes to you. Abraham was not mentioned as his close friend except for his sincere devotion and obedience. Even the parent who loves his good children the one closet to his heart is the one who try to please him the most. To know God best is to read his scriptures the Bible and Quran.
7- Muhammad had the Quran as a revelation from God. It is not status of deep thinking, spiritual experience or reading human history. It is a revelation from the supreme being and one of us he had chose like he did over history. He did not come with no signs but with a great sign of the miracle of language and the glory of words that humans could not match.

People tried to allege he copied from the bible, these are the problems for these allegations:
1- There were no bibles in Arabic at that time. For sure he did not have one, every little thing recorded for him.
2- The stories in the Quran are not a copy from the bible, many differences are in them.
3- He was faithful and not doubtful or suspicious to the people around him.
4- No one saw him copying the bible or having encounters with Bible scholars.
5- He did not bring ideas or verses of the Quran before he suddenly received the first inspirations from the angel Gabriel.
6- If he copied the Bible he described the mighty God of Israel. Do not you think he would be fearful of this mighty God from his punishment to bring a book and say it is from him.
7- No one in the Arabs was a prophet they knew of at that time so he was looking to take over his job. It was very sudden and astonishing to his people.
8- No wander that he was not linguistic brilliant known before the Quran was sent to him. In fact he was illiterate. The most important to have people to believe his is to be unable to write or bring like the Quran and to be honest so people would believe him and that was what happened.
9- No one alleged or tried to take credit for helping Muhammad with the miracle of the Quran.
10- Not even Muhammad took the credit to himself.
11- Muhammad did not ask people to worship him, the fact is they were seeing him in long hours of prayers and fasting for significant times in the year more than any Muslim.
12- He did not encourage Muslims to read the Bible, since his revelation is the most up to date from God. However, respect and honour to the Bible was stated in the Quran with the knowledge that some differences from the true words of the prophets given at their times.
13- He did not negotiate with the people of the book to reconcile the Bible and the Quran.
14- He asked the people of the book to be Muslims but he did not compel them. God asked them if not to follow the Quran is to submit to the God commandments they have in the Bible. If he is a liar and copying their book he would try to avoid them. The fact is the Quran came to correct some of the errors in their book, the larges is to take Jesus as God's son and not his prophet.
15- The Gospels of Luke adn Mathews can be traced to Mark, while John is less you can not find that with the Quran. The way of telling the stories and the difference of the Sharia law from the laws of Moses are clear evidences there is no copying.
16- How the copy (Quran) would be more preserved than the original (the Bible).
17- The Arabs at that time used this allegation against the prophet and God answered them that the one who they alleged was not even Arabic and the Quran was in Arabic.
18- The Quran descended in 23 years they have long time to observe Muhammad if he was having a source that he is copying or receiving the verses of Quran from. He was not observed thinking of the verses of the Quran and writing them down. The Quran have every word in the right place that is unimaginable that someone will just think about the verses and write them down. There are over 6000 verses one would many mistakes or at least some of the verses will not match the others or contradict them. Besides he would repeat the verses again and again in different prayers. At personal level people would memorize the word of God more than their own. If you see some Muslims are memorizing songs more than the Quran it is their fault. Early Muslims the Quran for them was more important than songs or poems.
19- The Bible had many authors but the Quran had only one person that had received the Quran. Do you think one person would do a job in 23 years better than God in the Bible that came down over thousands of years.

If you believe in the Bible you will have hard time in the day of judgment to tell God why you denied the Quran.

2:41 And believe in that which I reveal, confirming that which ye possess already (of the Scripture), and be not first to disbelieve therein, and part not with My revelations for a trifling price, and keep your duty unto Me.
وَآمِنُواْ بِمَا أَنزَلْتُ مُصَدِّقاً لِّمَا مَعَكُمْ وَلاَ تَكُونُواْ أَوَّلَ كَافِرٍ بِهِ وَلاَ تَشْتَرُواْ بِآيَاتِي ثَمَناً قَلِيلاً وَإِيَّايَ فَاتَّقُونِ (2:41)

If you believe there is no God, angles, Satan or inspirations from God this is another story. Just be prepared in the day of judgment to prove to God that the elephant was an ant.