Mufti Menk – Did Adam AS Defy Allah

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Speaker 1 discusses how Allah Almighty created Adam and Hwa, but ultimately created a garden called Jannah Tubtila, which was designed to prevent Adam from eating from. Adam spoke to Allah better than he knew, creating a tree and stone, but not allowing him to eat from it. He defied Allah's command to not eat from it, and he was eventually created by Allah.

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			You and I know that Allah Almighty created
		
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			Adam
		
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			and told him don't eat from the tree.
		
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			Agreed?
		
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			Him and his wife, Allah
		
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			says, don't eat from this tree. That's it.
		
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			So in that place where they were made,
		
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			and there is a
		
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			big discussion as to where exactly it was.
		
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			Was it the Jannah that we are going
		
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			to go back to or was it a
		
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			different Jannah?
		
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			The more correct opinion is it was a
		
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			different garden that is called Jannah Tubtila.
		
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			It was a garden wherein which Allah wanted
		
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			to test
		
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			Adam and Hawa.
		
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			And he knew
		
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			that he is going to prohibit one thing,
		
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			and He knew what was going to happen,
		
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			but the broader purpose
		
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			was that Allah Almighty
		
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			send man to earth
		
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			in order to test them similarly knowing
		
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			that the best from amongst us will be
		
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			the one who repents immediately.
		
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			So therefore,
		
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			Adam
		
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			having spoken with Allah, created by Allah,
		
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			exactly as he was, in the sense that
		
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			he wasn't a baby who was born, no.
		
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			He was created already an adult.
		
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			Adam alaihis salam
		
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			was created already an adult.
		
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			And Allah says, We taught him all
		
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			the nouns and the names and everything he
		
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			needed to know to communicate.
		
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			We taught Adam
		
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			the names of everything. This is a tree,
		
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			this is a stone, this is this and
		
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			this is water and everything he already knew.
		
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			He came into creation, there was only one
		
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			thing that was prohibited. 1.
		
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			What was that?
		
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			The tree. Don't go close to this tree.
		
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			Don't eat from it.
		
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			And guess what happened? That's exactly what He
		
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			did.
		
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			You thought of it?
		
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			One thing, just one thing not allowed and
		
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			that's exactly what he did.
		
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			He did not defy Allah because he knew.
		
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			He had spoken to Allah. He knew Allah
		
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			better than you and I. You and I.