Description of the Creation of Adam by Imam Ali(as)
God
collected from hard, soft, sweet and sour earth, clay which He dripped
in water till it became pure, and kneaded it with moisture till it
became gluey. From it He carved an image with curves, joints, limbs and
segments. He solidified it till it dried up for a fixed time and a
known duration. Then He blew into it out of His Spirit whereupon it
took the pattern of a human being with mind that governs him,
intelligence which he makes use of, limbs that serve him, organs that
change his position, sagacity that differentiates between truth and
untruth, tastes and smells, colours and species. He is a mixture of
clays of different colours, cohesive materials, divergent
contradictories and differing properties like heat, cold, softness and
hardness.
Then God asked the angels to fulfil His promise with
them and to accomplish the pledge of His injunction to them by
acknowledging Him through prostration to Him and submission to His
honoured position. So God said:
"Be prostrate towards Adam and they prostrated except Iblís (Satan)." (Qur'án,
2:34; 7:11; 17:61; 18:50; 20:116)
Self-importance
withheld him and vice overcame him. So that he took pride in his own
creation with fire and treated contemptuously the creation of clay. So
God allowed him time in order to let him fully deserve His wrath, and
to complete (man's) test and to fulfil the promise (He had made to
Satan). Thus, He said:
"Verily you have been allowed time till the known Day." -- (Qur'án, 15:38;
38:81)
Thereafter,
God inhabited Adam (p.b.u.h.) in a house where He made his life
pleasant and his stay safe, and He cautioned him of Iblís and his
enmity. Then his enemy (Iblís) envied his abiding in Paradise and his
contacts with the virtuous. So he changed his conviction into wavering
and determination into weakness. He thus converted his happiness into
fear and his prestige into shame. Then God offered to Adam (p.b.u.h.)
the chance to repent, taught him words of His Mercy, promised him
return to His Paradise and sent him down to the place of trial and
procreation of progeny.
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