Ali Ataie – Neanderthals & Adam (a.s.) What Makes Human Special Ustadh Ali Ate
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Angels had an interesting complaint.
They said, are you going to create one
who's going to shed blood on earth? Why
would they say this? Because something's happening on
the earth. There are creatures on earth that
are shedding blood. And what are they talking
about? Animals on earth?
Animals killing each other is not necessarily considered
evil. That's their instinct. So it could be
that the angels are referring to some sort
of humanoid creature on earth, possibly the Neanderthal,
Allahu Adam, that looks somewhat similar to Adam
and saying, look, they're killing each other.
Are you gonna create something similar that's going
to kill each other as well? And Allah
says,
I know what you know not. What's the
difference between Adam alaihis salam and a neanderthal?
It's the ability to reason and articulate.
Right? So, it's not necessarily our physical bodies
that make us different than the rest of
the animal kingdom, but what makes us special,
what gives us the
Khalafa of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is our
ability
to
reason.