Speaker 1: We are going back a long time from today, to
Speaker 1: a period when the pages of history had not even
Speaker 1: started to be rich with animals, plants, and insects. The
Speaker 1: world continues to exist in all its magnificence. Each of
Speaker 1: them is in perfect harmony with one another. But the
Speaker 1: world is too quiet. Where are the humans? Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what's missing here. It is the time has come now
Speaker 1: our eyes turned to the creation of that first human,
Speaker 1: the first prophet, the first one to experience life in
Speaker 1: both paradise and on earth, the ancestor of all humanity,
Speaker 1: Prophet Adam. Peacepe upon him. This story determines our understanding
Speaker 1: of our purpose in life, the way we see this world,
Speaker 1: and the way we think about everything that happens to us.
Speaker 1: But this story is thought differently in Stama Christianity. Today,
Speaker 1: we're going to look at it from the perspectives of
Speaker 1: the Quran and the Bible and compare the commonalities and
Speaker 1: differences between them. What did he go through in Paradise,
Speaker 1: how did the devil deceive him? How was he sent
Speaker 1: to earth? And more? If you're ready, let's start our
Speaker 1: journey back to when it all began. Remember when your
Speaker 1: Lord said to the angels I am going to place
Speaker 1: a successive human authority on earth. They ask, God, will
Speaker 1: you place in it someone who will spread corruption there
Speaker 1: and shed blood while we glorify your praises and proclaim
Speaker 1: your holiness. He responded, I know what you do not know.
Speaker 1: In the Koran, God tells the angels that he is
Speaker 1: going to create human beings and send them to earth
Speaker 1: as khalifah, meaning they will be given the responsibility of
Speaker 1: being in charge the authority of the earth. They will
Speaker 1: have intellect and will be able to make their own choices.
Speaker 1: According to the Koran, God decided to create this khalifah
Speaker 1: from dirt in the same way. The Bible also says
Speaker 1: that Adam was created from dirt. The Lord God formed
Speaker 1: men from the dust of the ground. While the Koran
Speaker 1: says that he was created in Paradise, the Bible says
Speaker 1: he was never in Paradise, never lived there. According to
Speaker 1: Chapter two of the Book of Genesis, he was placed
Speaker 1: in a garden on earth called Eden that he was
Speaker 1: to take care of and cultivate. The angels were waiting
Speaker 1: for this creation to be completed with wonder and curiosity.
Speaker 1: What type of being was it going to be? How
Speaker 1: will it be different from them? What was going to happen?
Speaker 1: But among all this curiosity, there was someone who didn't
Speaker 1: like this new creation at all. He was wondering if
Speaker 1: he would be superior to him. He was thinking why
Speaker 1: was this necessary? Already he was getting uncomfortable. His insigns
Speaker 1: were eating him up. This was a gin named Iblis.
Speaker 1: He was from a different species, but due to his
Speaker 1: reign at that time, he was living among the angels. Later,
Speaker 1: because of his arrogance, he would be known as Satan,
Speaker 1: also known as Chetan in the Koran. His envy is
Speaker 1: found in Islamic sources, but in the Bible, instead of Satan,
Speaker 1: we see a different character in the later parts of
Speaker 1: the story, as feelings of concern and jealousy surrounded Satan.
Speaker 1: The expected moment was about to come. The creation of
Speaker 1: the first human being was now complete. His final shape
Speaker 1: was given. He was now going to open his eyes
Speaker 1: to life. God the Almighty breathed soul into Adam, and
Speaker 1: he came to life. Now it was time to introduce
Speaker 1: and test him in front of the angels. But what
Speaker 1: kind of test would it be? He meaning Allah taught
Speaker 1: Adam the names of all things. Adam peacepeop on him
Speaker 1: was telling the names of everything he was asked, and
Speaker 1: the angels were amazed by each answer. He was giving.
Speaker 1: The knowledge that was not given to angels was given
Speaker 1: to humans, and in this way his superiority was demonstrated
Speaker 1: those who had wanted to genuinely understand, meaning the angels
Speaker 1: found an answer to their questions. But there was still
Speaker 1: someone who was hiding things inside him. By saying, I
Speaker 1: know what you conceal, our master was hinting at the Satan,
Speaker 1: but he still insisted on hiding them. Adam's test of
Speaker 1: giving names was over, but now it was time for
Speaker 1: the others to be tested. And when we said to
Speaker 1: the angels, prostrate before Adam, so they all did, but
Speaker 1: not Iblis, who refused arrogantly. So how was he going
Speaker 1: to explain this to God? By the Islamic version of
Speaker 1: the original, sin Allah asked, what prevented you from prostrating
Speaker 1: when I commanded you? He replied, I am better than him.
Speaker 1: You created me from fire and created him from clay.
Speaker 1: Allah said, then, dissent from this place. It is not
Speaker 1: for you to be arrogant here, so get out. You're
Speaker 1: truly one of the disgraced Satan said, my Lord, then
Speaker 1: delay my end until the day of their resurrection. Allah said,
Speaker 1: you'll be delayed until their pointed day. He said, because
Speaker 1: you have put me in error, I will surely sit
Speaker 1: waiting for them on your straight path. I will approach
Speaker 1: them from their front, their back, their right, their left,
Speaker 1: and then you will find most of them ungrateful. Alas said,
Speaker 1: get out of here. You are disgraced and rejected. I
Speaker 1: would certainly fill up hell with you and your followers altogether.
Speaker 1: Another difference between these two stories is the answer to
Speaker 1: the question what is original sin. Both the Bible and
Speaker 1: the Krant had their answers. Later in the story, Adam
Speaker 1: would violate a prohibition. Christianity says that because of this,
Speaker 1: every newborn baby from his lineage should be considered sinful.
Speaker 1: This is their definition of original sin. Then what about Islam.
Speaker 1: First of all, Islam does not accept that babies are
Speaker 1: born sinful. In the seventh Aya of Zuma, Alas says,
Speaker 1: no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another.
Speaker 1: So in Islam, every baby is born sinless, and regardless
Speaker 1: of their religion, that are not held responsible for the
Speaker 1: test of this life until puberty On the other hand,
Speaker 1: Islam's definition of the original sin is actually the sin
Speaker 1: of Satan, which is arrogance based on racism. He thought
Speaker 1: of him superior because he was created from fire, and
Speaker 1: looked down on Adam because he was made of dirt.
Speaker 1: This was the sin that brought the end of Satan.
Speaker 1: As Adam was being created, Satan saw a different type
Speaker 1: of being. He thought of him as a stranger and
Speaker 1: became cold towards him. Then he began to think that
Speaker 1: he was superior than him. All of these steps were
Speaker 1: actually the order in which racism is formed in someone's
Speaker 1: heart and mind. So the Quran is actually describing the
Speaker 1: psychology of a crime that would be humanity's shame and
Speaker 1: disgrace for centuries, and it is showing this as a
Speaker 1: quality of Satan, that is the enemy of God, so
Speaker 1: that the believers should see the ugliness of this sin
Speaker 1: and distance themselves from it. This prostration of angels was
Speaker 1: certainly not an act of worship to Adam. It was
Speaker 1: a ceremonial prostration, a kind of salute that was done
Speaker 1: to accept his higher rank and authority over them. Also,
Speaker 1: since it was God who gave that command, obeying his
Speaker 1: command is in fact worshiping God in the worldly life
Speaker 1: of human beings. That is to come, the world in
Speaker 1: his entirety, with all its parts, would be at the
Speaker 1: service of humanity for their use. Natural resources, animals, plants, sees, that's, mountains,
Speaker 1: like everything would be made subservient to humanity. At that moment,
Speaker 1: the angels were also commanded to bow down to Humanity's father.
Speaker 1: The angels immediately obeyed this command and prostrated. So until
Speaker 1: this point of the story, what were the other differences
Speaker 1: between the Koran and the Bible. In the Bible, the
Speaker 1: one who named the objects and animals was Adam himself.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the commandment of frustration to Adam,
Speaker 1: the rebellion of Satan, and his expulsion, none of these
Speaker 1: events are mentioned in the Bible. There's also no mention
Speaker 1: of how Satan started to be evil or the reason
Speaker 1: why he is the enemy of mankind. But right after
Speaker 1: this point, the narratives in the Quran and the Bible
Speaker 1: start to talk about the same events, but in a
Speaker 1: very different way. From here onwards, we are going to
Speaker 1: see the struggle between man and the devil, between truth
Speaker 1: and falsehood, which will continue until the day of judgment.
Speaker 1: As the story continues, God creates armad Hawa commonly known
Speaker 1: as Eve, from Adam's ribbone as his wife. The Koran
Speaker 1: tells what happened afterwards, as we said, oh Adam, live
Speaker 1: with your wife in paradise and eat as freely as
Speaker 1: you please, but do not approach this tree, or else
Speaker 1: you'll be from wrong doors. God also gave a warning,
Speaker 1: so we said, oh, Adam, indeed this is an enemy
Speaker 1: to you and to your wife, then let him not
Speaker 1: remove you from paradise so you would suffer. In the Qur'an,
Speaker 1: God said that if they violate the commandment, they would
Speaker 1: become wrong doors, but in the Bible he said they
Speaker 1: would die. At that moment, a pretty big difference, and
Speaker 1: the Lord God commanded the man, you are free to
Speaker 1: eat from any tree in the garden, but you must
Speaker 1: not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
Speaker 1: and evil, for when you eat from it, you will
Speaker 1: certainly die. For Satan. This was a great opportunity. He
Speaker 1: saw Adam as the reason for his expulsion from God's presence,
Speaker 1: and he was ready to do whatever he could to
Speaker 1: take revenge. With all kinds of deceptive words, he tried
Speaker 1: to enter their minds, But Satan whispered to him, saying, oh, Adam,
Speaker 1: shall I show you the tree of immortality and a
Speaker 1: kingdom that does not fade away. He was pointing to
Speaker 1: the forbidden tree, but in the biblical version it was
Speaker 1: the serpent that approached, not Adam. But if according to
Speaker 1: Christian scholars, it was actually Satan who was speaking through
Speaker 1: the serpent. But God did say, you must not eat
Speaker 1: fruit from the tree that is in the middle of
Speaker 1: the garden, and you must not touch it, or you
Speaker 1: will die. You will not search in the die, the
Speaker 1: serpent said to the woman, for God knows that when
Speaker 1: you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and
Speaker 1: you will be like God, knowing good and evil. After
Speaker 1: taking his first steps to lead Adam and his descendants
Speaker 1: away from the right path, Satan finally deceived both of
Speaker 1: them with his tricks and whispers. Adam and Eve momentarily
Speaker 1: forget God's warning about the tree. Both of them listened
Speaker 1: to Satan and tasted its fruit. Immediately, their private parts
Speaker 1: started to become visible to each other, so they felt
Speaker 1: very ashamed and tried to cover themselves with the leaves
Speaker 1: of heaven. They realized that they had been deceived by him,
Speaker 1: But now it was too late. So what were they
Speaker 1: going to do now? According to the Bible, they wanted
Speaker 1: to escape and hide from God. Then the man and
Speaker 1: his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as
Speaker 1: he was walking in the garden in the cool of
Speaker 1: the day, and they hid from the Lord God among
Speaker 1: the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called
Speaker 1: to the man, where are you? He answered, I heard
Speaker 1: you in the garden, and I was afraid because I
Speaker 1: was naked, so I hit And he said, who told
Speaker 1: you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the
Speaker 1: tree that I commanded you not to eat from? In
Speaker 1: the Quran, there is no mention of such an event,
Speaker 1: because in Islam there is no such belief that people
Speaker 1: can manage to hide from God, that God sometimes is
Speaker 1: unable to see them, or that he can become aware
Speaker 1: of events later. He sees and knows everything at every moment.
Speaker 1: After all, by definition, God is a perfect being that
Speaker 1: is all powerful and has no deficiencies whatsoever. For example,
Speaker 1: in the first eye of Sorot Taravun, it is said
Speaker 1: he knows whatever is in the heavens and the earth,
Speaker 1: and he knows whatever you conceal and whatever you reveal,
Speaker 1: for Allah knows best what is hidden in the heart.
Speaker 1: That's why after they made that mistake. In the Quran,
Speaker 1: God directly addresses them, saying, didn't I forbid you from
Speaker 1: that tree? And didn't I tell you that Satan is
Speaker 1: your sworn enemy? So then what would be the consequence
Speaker 1: of their actions? It was now time for them to
Speaker 1: be sent to the world. But according to the Bible, Adam,
Speaker 1: Eve and the serpent would each be given separate punished.
Speaker 1: In the Book of Genesis, chapter three, the serpent was
Speaker 1: cursed to crawl on his belly. Because of Adam's mistake,
Speaker 1: the ground was cursed and as a result, no harvest
Speaker 1: would come without labor and painful toil. And the punishment
Speaker 1: for Eve was described in that chapter like this. To
Speaker 1: the woman, God said, I will make your pains in
Speaker 1: child bearing very severe, with painful labor. You will give
Speaker 1: birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband,
Speaker 1: and he will rule over you. But does Islam agree
Speaker 1: with this view. According to Islam, except Satan, no one
Speaker 1: was cursed. The labor required to get harvest is part
Speaker 1: of the test in this world, and for women giving
Speaker 1: birth is not a punishment, but a sacred duty. Sacred
Speaker 1: because Islam has elevated the value of mothers in many ways.
Speaker 1: Just one haadise of the prophet Muhammad is enough to
Speaker 1: understand this. When a companion who wanted to fight in
Speaker 1: the path of Allah asked him for advice, the prophet
Speaker 1: asked him if he had a mother. When he said yes,
Speaker 1: he said, then stay with her, for paradise is beneath
Speaker 1: your mother's feet. In Nu Koran, Allah reminds the believers
Speaker 1: about the difficulty that their mothers go through as they
Speaker 1: were pregnant, and because of that, he wants them to
Speaker 1: honor and be grateful to their mothers. But beyond all this,
Speaker 1: there was a striking detail that probably most of us
Speaker 1: have missed about what would happen if the commandment about
Speaker 1: the tree was violated. In both the Kuran and the Bible,
Speaker 1: there was something God said and there was something Satan said.
Speaker 1: So what happened in the end and who turned out
Speaker 1: to be right? Let's compare them. According to the Bible,
Speaker 1: God said, when you eat from it, you will certainly die.
Speaker 1: And what did Satan say that would happen? Let's look
Speaker 1: at the conversation in the Bible between Eve and Satan
Speaker 1: when he came in the form of a serpent, Eve says,
Speaker 1: but God did say, you must not eat fruit from
Speaker 1: the tree that is in the middle of the garden,
Speaker 1: and you must not touch it, or you will die.
Speaker 1: You will not certainly die, the serpent said to the woman. Strangely,
Speaker 1: according to the Bible, Satan turned out to be right,
Speaker 1: because the day they ate the fruit, they didn't die.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, in the Kuran, Satan says, your
Speaker 1: Lord has forbidden this tree to you, only to prevent
Speaker 1: you from becoming angels or immortal. But what did God
Speaker 1: say to them in the beginning? Do not approach this
Speaker 1: tree or else you'll be wrongdoers. God also warned them
Speaker 1: in another place, So we said, oh, Adam, indeed this
Speaker 1: is an enemy to you and to your wife. Then
Speaker 1: let him not remove you from paradise so you would suffer. So,
Speaker 1: according to the Quran, naturally God told the truth and
Speaker 1: Satan lied. But even beyond this, there was a secret
Speaker 1: detail that made this story in the Kuran very different.
Speaker 1: Unlike in the Bible, their reason for being sent to
Speaker 1: the world was not because they violated the prohibition. But
Speaker 1: then what was it. Everything was mentioned in the very
Speaker 1: first verse in this video. Let's look at it again.
Speaker 1: Remember when your Lord said to the angels, I'm going
Speaker 1: to place a successive human authority on Earth. Human beings
Speaker 1: from the very beginning were created to be sent to
Speaker 1: the world. Even before the forbidden fruit was eaten, Satan
Speaker 1: asked God for permission by saying, then, delay my end
Speaker 1: until the day of their resurrection. So it was known
Speaker 1: that humans would come to the world, reproduce, die, and
Speaker 1: one day be collectively resurrected, and he accountable for all
Speaker 1: their actions. So what were all these events for? Why
Speaker 1: did it seem like Adam was expelled from Paradise. All
Speaker 1: these things happened to give fundamental messages for the entire
Speaker 1: humanity at all times, including you. Unlike the angels, human
Speaker 1: beings were created with the ability to choose good or evil,
Speaker 1: and this is exactly what would make him superior, choosing
Speaker 1: to do good despite the possibility of choosing evil. That's
Speaker 1: how they could reach the status of being hahlifa that
Speaker 1: God said in the beginning, and Satan did what he
Speaker 1: would do throughout his life in this world and deceive
Speaker 1: the first humans in Islam prophets do not commit sins,
Speaker 1: so this was a slip, a mistake that is not
Speaker 1: considered to be a sin, and it conveyed the message
Speaker 1: that every servant of God could make mistakes. But then,
Speaker 1: what was the solution when that happens. Is it to
Speaker 1: feel hopeless, to feel cursed when you disobey God even once? No.
Speaker 1: The answer to this was also in the story of Adam.
Speaker 1: He speak upon him. Right after Adam and Eve both
Speaker 1: ate from the tree, they immediately said, our Lord, we
Speaker 1: have wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive us and
Speaker 1: have mercy on us, we'll certainly be among the losers.
Speaker 1: So they took responsibility, made no excuses, and sincerely asked
Speaker 1: God for forgiveness. That was the solution when you make
Speaker 1: a mistake. Now it was time to leave Paradise. Allah
Speaker 1: sent Adam and Eve to their new home the earth.
Speaker 1: Both were very sad and confused. They were in a
Speaker 1: completely different and forign that and on top of that,
Speaker 1: they were separated from each other. Allahs sent them to
Speaker 1: different parts of the world. This place was nothing like
Speaker 1: the paradise. They were no longer able to get whatever
Speaker 1: they want instantly. They now had lives that required patience, effort,
Speaker 1: and struggle. Not much later, Adam was given revelation and
Speaker 1: got the happiness of forgiveness from God. The Koran says,
Speaker 1: then Adam was inspired with words of prayer by his Lord,
Speaker 1: so he accepted his repentance. Surely he is the acceptor
Speaker 1: of repentance most merciful. But the Bible does not mention
Speaker 1: that Adam ask God for forgiveness and that his repentance
Speaker 1: was accepted. The comparison what I'm about to give is
Speaker 1: crucial to understand when you look at the story. At
Speaker 1: the very beginning, both Satan and Adam make a mistake.
Speaker 1: Satan does not prostrate, and Adam eats the forbidden fruit.
Speaker 1: Adam admits his mistake, feels regret, and asks for forgiveness
Speaker 1: from God, and his repentance is accepted. But Satan, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, far from admitting his mistake, becomes arrogant
Speaker 1: to the point of even blaming God. He doesn't feel regret,
Speaker 1: gives up hopeing a lot, and closes the door of
Speaker 1: repentance for him forever. This is where the difference in
Speaker 1: the way of looking at life and this world comes out.
Speaker 1: When you learn this story, the right way, you naturally
Speaker 1: come to the right conclusions. So we don't have an
Speaker 1: unjust creator who is angry at all of humanity for
Speaker 1: a mistake that the first humans made and considers all
Speaker 1: of them guilty. We have a creator who is just
Speaker 1: and merciful wants to guide all humanity to the right
Speaker 1: path so that they can enter Heaven. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the final part of the story. Adam still couldn't
Speaker 1: find Eve. They lived separately for many years and traveled
Speaker 1: long distance to find each other. Then finally they met
Speaker 1: each other and got together again. Now humanity's adventure on
Speaker 1: Earth had begun, and silence of the world was broken.
Speaker 1: As years go by, the descendants of Adam and Eve
Speaker 1: were gradually spreading, and the human population was increasing more
Speaker 1: and more. In the world of Tests that would last
Speaker 1: for thousands of years, people would settle and live all
Speaker 1: around the world, establishing tribes and states for centuries. Thousands
Speaker 1: of prophets would come and, just like their ancestor Adam,
Speaker 1: tell people why they were here on Earth. They would
Speaker 1: inform them where they had come from and where they
Speaker 1: were going, and invite them to faith, and the human
Speaker 1: beings would live in this world for a short time,
Speaker 1: take their test and return to the place where they belonged.
Speaker 1: And in the end, those who have believed, with their
Speaker 1: prophets leading them, would go to their real home Paradise. Satan,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, would take the disbelievers behind him
Speaker 1: and offered them nothing but the promised fire. In this
Speaker 1: journey of life, humanity inherited a legacy from their ancestors.
Speaker 1: According to Christianity, it is a sin that is passed
Speaker 1: on to every newborn baby, and according to Islam, it
Speaker 1: is the act of repentance which erases all sins and
Speaker 1: opens a brilliant white page