Re: has anyone tried
Peace Med911
That reading is not accurate ... No one can look at something and judge what it is going to be like - unless they have a "similar" thing to compare it with ... And this applies to humans who have heaps of intuition ... Now we are talking about angels here ...
Also you are ignoring the response given to the angel by Allah (SWT) "I know that which you do not know" ... and prior to the angels seeing the form of Adam (AS) they had never before seen a "human" ... merely something that resembled us they would be unable to make such an assessment of the human being - flawed as it was ...
In terms of invoking their own example - they said this because according to their understanding (at the time) it seemed reasonable for an angel to be in that position, because they are innocent and praising all the time ...
Your final conclusion is also false - because it necessitates that chimps are also subject to law, good and bad, judgement, sentence and hence will go to hell or heaven too ... it is because you are drawing a similarity with them and humans so much so that you are binding them to a moral framework that in any reasonable sense cannot be applied to them ... they are animals - we are only physically 'animal' ...
My reading is informed by the conclusion that evolution is real and that we are descendants of ape like ancestors, and so my interpretation is naturally within the context of established science. Khair accuracy in this case is in the eye of the beholder.
Ofcourse the angels would compare to themselves, and so they did have something to compare man to, themselves if nothing else.
I assume that angels have existed for an unimaginably long time, and so they are as as wise as they are old. So what they saw in man I don't know, but whatever it was, it wasn't great. Correct me if I'm wrong, but humans have one thing that over all differentiates them from Angels. That being free will and capacity to make choices. Angels understand that creating a being that has the potential for corruption will more then likely be corrupted. Thats obvious.
Although, from an evolution standpoint, the angels may simply have regarded the violence of our non Human ancestors as precedence.
God saying "I know what you do not" I think can imply that God simply knows the potential of mankind. Angels obviously do not have the foresight that God possesses, and so while their conclusions are based on their understanding of the past and the present, God being outside the bounds of time and Space, can see well beyond the Angels, the true scope of man.
As far as the Chimps go. We have discovered much about the conscience of other animals, especially or nearest cousins. They have been found to be capable of not only immense cruelty, but they are also capable of love, of friendship. They are able to communicate, to reason, to understand. As social groups they are very similar to us, as many are generous, many are bullies, they understand the group dynamic. They understand fairness and justice, however rudimentary, they even yearn for revenge as some research as shown. They are more human then we give them credit for.
Perhaps they too will be judged. But I suspect they are akin to children, or people with developmental disabilities. They are innocent to the extent that while they possess those traits for which one can be judged, they lack a certain aspect of the psyche that would make the accountable.
I get ahead of myself, only God knows who is innocent and who is not, or who is fit for judgement and who is not. I think you assume to much when you conclude the chimps are not open judgment.