Re: Request for explaination
Peace bro Code_Red
You are using my bad language as evidence against me. Please realise that I am trying to portray an understanding so you can try to join the gaps rather than finding the holes in the way I have tried to communicate the point. Your concerns are of course true but not because of the scripture but because of the way I have failed to communicate the passages to you.
Also remember that the Qur’an will give misguidance in sync with guidance so prepare yourself to receive an understanding beyond ‘ego’.
Now you are asking that I am implying that man is morally corrupt by nature. If you understood the nufs then you know that the allegation is true. It is indeed mans nature to be killers, rapists, polytheists, arrogant and liars, if it was not in our nature then you would not see it in the world, rather Angels are pure from this and rationale dictates that they should be better than us. However, Allah (SWT) is Wise. Even the angels could not understand why Allah (SWT) made us to be representatives and above all creation when we would be doing all these sins.
Humans however, also have another nature, to be good, worshipping, seeking of forgiveness and mercy which are loving to Allah (SWT). We have a choice to submit to our animal natures or to our angelic natures. We are indeed like both animal and angel in a single form. The man who chooses to be like an animal is WORSE than the animal and the man who choose to be like the angels is BETTER than them, because he has exercised a choice that both animals and angels do not have.
To clarify your statement of ‘best of creation’ it is also to add that it is our form i.e. the body that some refer to as ‘the best’ … also with regards to the ability to choose. It does not mean that our inherent natures are the best, because we know this to be angels because they cannot sin and they choose only to worship as it is their sustenance.
By the statement you say “God’s QA/QC department needs …” is a problematic statement and demonstrates the type of glasses you are wearing whilst approaching this subject.
Also I did not say that all other creatures refused, nor is that implied in the verse. There are other places such as hadith that clarify that both Jinn and Mankind were the greedy ones and wanted to be sent to Earth for a chance to go to Jannah.
If there are discrepencies I would like you to know that they are created by me, in the quality of my discourse, but I assure you there are no discrepencies in this subject matter. Let me add that if we do not try to be good we will be bad that is our natural course, but we need to rise above our sense gratification desires and our emotional ones and rely more on the ones that are grounded in reason.