adam, not the first human being, the koranic theory of evolution.
unlike bible, koran says that human beings were created gradually, step by step, in degrees. this would shock some readers to an extent of believing that i am going against the koran. but i will prove hereby that the molvis’ opinion of man being created from clay and god blowing a spirit into it, is extremely wrong, unscientific, unbelievable, illogical, unkoranic and unislamic. so in chapter 71, Noah, allah says,
“wakad khalakakum atwara”
thus telling us that we were created by developing from one degree into another one. the human mind havent evolved at once either. it too has developed in degrees.
koran tells us, that there was a human race before adam, but was not capable of understanding the laws of allah. that human race lived in caves and jungles. koran called them “jinn”. jinn, in arabic means those who stay hidden. some molvis have translated these jinns as ghosts. but korans explanation does not fit to this translation. it is clearly stated in the koran, that when adam was thrown out of the gardens, his people were told to stay away from iblees, ( who also was a jinn ) and his companions. thus there will be two groups in the world. those who follow adam, and those who follow iblees. ( read chapter 7, the battlements, verse 26 to 28) adam called people to logic, to thinking, and thus, to god, and iblees told them to keep stuck to what their fathers and forefathers believe in, and not to use the brain. this story has been repeating ever since, and two groups exist, those who follow adam, and those who follow iblees.
this story makes it clear, that iblees, the jinn, and his companions were from the human race. otherwise, if some molvi argues that they were jinns, as found in fairy tales, then he/she will have to a) give a proof over existance of such creation b) make it clear why such jinns were living together with human beings. thus those jinns as in fairy tales, are to be blamed at those who tell tales, while the jinns explained here in the koran are from within the human race. they lived on the earth before adam, and did not possess completely developed brains. when time came for a completely developed brain, adam was sent with rules and teaching. those who were not yet wise enough got up against adam. such a thing happened when the next prophet came, and has been happening to date.
adam came as the first development to the human brain, followed by a series of prophets each coming for a new degree of evolution of brain. the rules stated by those prophets are talked against, and are not followed, by those who follow iblees and his companions. those who follow adam, recognize the prophet of their time, and submit their lives to his teachings.thus koran tells us that human beings have been created by evolution, with a step-by-step development of the brain.
when koran talks about adam, allah dos not say, i want to create a human being. he states that he wanted to have an assisstant on the earth. this reveals that there already were human beings on the earth, but no prophet. adam therefore is the first prophet, but certainly not the first human being.
the next verse related to a more important point,
" we created you, then we shaped you through an evolution ( sawwarnaakum ), and then we told the angels to bow to adam."
this verse makes it more clear that there had been many human beings before adam. the word “sawwarnakum” tells us how they passed through very very long stages of evolution, and when they reached a suitable shape, god send adam to teach them, and ordered the angels to bow before him. it was after reaching this stage that adam was sent.
thus if any molvi still argues that adam was the first human being, then this would be unfair of him/her, and would show his support towards the unscientific views of bible, rather than the real story as told in the koran.
So be on watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke
covering the people; this is a painful chastisement. ‘O our lord remove thou from us, the chastisement; we are believers.’ How should they have the reminder? seeing a clear Messenger has already come to them, then they turned away from him, and said,’ A man, tutored, possessed!"
( the koran, verse 11-14, chapter 44, Smoke, the nuclear explosion.)