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Thanks for your post :) Islamic philosophy of creation & evil are very interesting topics!!! Definitely two I'd like to learn more about. I hope you don't mind me asking (tough) questions.

I'll do my best to answer in accordance to my knowledge inshaAllah.

Oh I see! You're taking "image" to mean physical appearance. Not the case. Besides, being sons & daughters of God has nothing to do with resemblance.

What does 'image' with another wording then mean?

Amen! I strongly believe that too.

Do you believe that Jesus pbuh is begotten?

What was Allah doing before He had slaves? What was He Master of? Why aren't brutes (animals) slaves too?

To me it is not farfetced to compare slave and servant. It is one that adhere the call of the Creator and follow, meaning does His will. Just as can be read in NT


Mat 10:24 ''The disciple is not above [his] master, nor the servant above his lord. ''


Also animals follow their given laws, the will of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. They get hungry, they hunt and eat. BUT in difference to humans they just DO it, they do not reflect or ponder on WHY they do it.

Adam's sin must've affected the human race in one way or another otherwise we all would've been born in Paradise the same way our first parents were. Does Islam teach that all human beings are equal? Why was Adam granted special privileges?

Yes, since both Adam pbuh and his wife made something they should not have done. Adam pbuh did not blame his wife, as he does in Genesis? instead they both admit their mistake, they both repent and they both ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for forgiveness. And it is given to them. Both.


What special privileges are you referring to?

Also, how is it even possible that temptation occurs in Paradise? How can the presence of evil exist in Heaven?

Why not? We are tested wherever we are, aren't we? According to Islamic teachings it was Iblis/Shaytan that was present and he never left us since then. He is always around. Wherever we are. If Shaytan is not created, what is he?


We do have only One Creator - yes?

But if Allah's omniscient, He's already aware of who's going to follow His guidance & who isn't. Why test us? He already knows the result. What's the Master getting out of all this?

He Subhanahu wa Ta'ala <b>knows</b> as you say, since He is the the All-Knowing. He knows what choices we are going to do before we do them. But He has left the job to be done by us. Even when you cross a road you have to take your responsibility and look if it is ok to pass over the road. You cannot just walk without looking first only because 'it is already known'. The choice you make are yours, even if they are known to our Creator.


Would He not have given us a free will on the other hand, it would be totally different of course. But He did chose to give us one. So we can reason and take steps from that. It is our privilege and our responsibility. With free will there comes responsibility. Don't you agree?

But we're living in Allah's world. Is there a force more powerful than Allah? Does Allah want evil to occur?

Yes we are. His creation all of it, we included. He is the Powerful. He gave us the knowledge of good and evil, it is up to us what we do with that knowledge. If we look around it seems we have chosen the bad path....

Wow! I can't believe I just wrote a whole response without including Christian apologetics :blink: I hope we manage to stay on track.

Keep up the good work! :) InshaAllah.

Thanks in advance for your answers :thumb:

Hope I can clarify some issues inshaAllah.