prophethood & adam

Question 1

what is a prophet?

Answer 1

• God’s chosen people to bring the message of Islam to people

Question 2

Risalah

Answer 2

belief in prophets

Question 3

why are prophets important?

Answer 3

• they provided a method of communication between God and human beings

Question 4

why does Allah use prophets?

Answer 4

• if he came to deliver the messages, our free will wouldn’t exist so predestination and heaven would be meaningless

Question 5

quotes

Answer 5

• ‘every community is sent a messenger’
• ‘he taught Adam all the names of things’
• ‘he created man from clay, he breathed his spirit into him’

Question 6

prophet Adam

Answer 6

• first man on earth and first prophet in Islam
• created by God from the dust of the ground
• father of the human race: treated with reverence and respect
• God taught him the names of all things
• God gave him understanding and in return he passed on his knowledge through his descendants

Question 7

importance of Adam

Answer 7

• first to learn to plant seeds
• first to cook food
• bury the dead correctly
• had many children
• first to repent for wrongdoings
• first to harvest crops
• God told him what food to eat

Question 8

describe the link to angels

Answer 8

• God asked adam to tell the angels the name of some objects they didn’t know
• God told the angels to bow down to Adam out of respect and admiration
• Iblis refused
• he was thrown out of paradise and vowed to tempt humans to sin against God
• he deceived Adam and Eve into eating the fruit from the tree and they were thrown into the garden
• their actions brought sin to the world
• all humans would be judged on day of judgement now

Question 9

link to eve

Answer 9

• in order to prevent Adam from being lonely God created Eve (hawwa) and they lived in garden of bliss
• one rule to follow which was to not approach one tree