Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #159 – Allah Teaches Us Through The Story of Adam

			Another lesson from the story of Adam is the thing that Allah says in the beginning of sorts of
Bukhara about how we're going to make the first thing he says to the angels, we're going to place on
earth a Khalifa. And we've talked in many other videos about what it means to be a Khalifa Khalifa
is basically the person who's left in charge the person who's left to manage things, right, not by
their own whims, but according to the instructions of you know, the boss, right? How Allah subhanaw
taala wants it to be managed, we're supposed to execute the will of Allah or the wish of Allah but
better the things that Allah likes we're supposed to facilitate and bring about and encourage and
		

			the things that Allah dislikes or hates, we're supposed to discourage and stamp out and try to get
rid of that's our role. And it's super interesting because in Islam, we have that clear, clear
historical sort of information that that was the plan from the beginning. There's no possibility of
sort of some sort of idea like Adam staying in the garden with his with his wife forever and ever
and there never being any fall, right. The Fall was planned from the beginning. The first thing
Allah says, I'm gonna place on Earth, meaning that we weren't created for the garden, we were
created for the earth in the sense that you know, we're going to return Inshallah, to agenda in the
		

			afterlife, or we're talking about that for the time that we're alive. We were made to be on earth,
and that were made to be on Earth to fulfill a certain role and to do a certain job, part of that
job is wrapped up in the idea of what it is to be a Halifa. And part of that job is what happens
next. Okay, so are in the process of how does Adam and her work get removed from the garden through
Adam sin, Allah Spano Dada says you can eat from this that that that everything as much as you want,
except for this one, it's a pretty good deal. There's only one thing he has to say. But Adams, like,
you know, we're like this too. Like he can't he can't satisfy his curiosity, like, what is it about
		

			that one thing? What is it What's so special about that one, and the shaytaan knows his curiosity.
And so he whispers all the only reason he said to stay away from that one, because you're gonna
become an angel, you're gonna get eternal life, whatever it is the promise that she taught me. And
so Adam was ready to believe it because of his curiosity, losing track, losing sight of the
commandment, and the responsibility and the gratitude and the duty to obey and all these sorts of
things. And so he sends, and he's removed, and it was all part of the plan. Why just so Adam could
be humiliated? No, because what happens next because then Allah teaches Adam HOW TO REPENT, Allah
		

			teaches Adam how to repent. And Allah accepts that as repentance. And that is one of the most
central parts of human life, not just for Adam, but for all of us. We're all children of Adam, that
were created to make these mistakes, not for the sake of making mistakes, not being proud of our
mistakes. Now, we're not talking about that so that we can repent because repentance is a
recognition of our own limitations and our dependence upon the perfect creator. And so it's built
into us it's unavoidable. There is no possibility of leading a sinless life and nobody should
pretend that they lead a sinless life. The purpose why every single one of us is in that situation
		

			is because we're meant to repent. Repentance is hardwired into us.