What are the capacities of the Devil & the Angels? | Mufti Abu Layth

you said Shaitaan at best is simply insinuations and thoughts how then do you interpret the verse wife pollen allele Malaika this Jew duly Adam for such a do Allah please about was stuck about our car nominal caffeine right okay that's an interesting one what do I think of the story of Adam of the bowing of the Angels to Adam you see

I feel that when it comes to right okay the story of Adam aleihsalaam this there's many parts of his story okay of Adam for example him being you know Allah saying oh we're gonna have this type of human that's going to be different and this and this I think that's all real and that was all literal that he was unique in the sense he was that he had this unique cognitive

capacity as Allah mentions and he and then obviously his offspring and so on I I feel personally that that that was a real understanding but I feel that there's certain things certain stories in the Quran some especially to do with Adam some aspects are kind of layered with they kind of they have realism to them but they layered with symbolism as well so some are symbolic as well they

kind of like an allegory for what for life and things like this so when it came to the Angels were told to bow down to Adam and they did except Iblees that part is that literal was that like Adam was stood there and then all the angels came and they bow down to him is this what we think happened you see because if you think of it like remember I previously I have a segment a clip on how to view stories within the Quran that you have this zoom in and zoom out effect if you want to take you

just as the story it's fine but if you want to take it as literal then you zoom in you find does it still stand is the consistency so when you take it in zoom in you see that wait a minute there's a lot of problems here so for example Adam ELISA Lam the question of okay so where are these angels bowing to him is it on earth is it in the heavens wasn't his heaven in earth anyway so the angels came to earth all the angels this is all the Angels that that were they all came

around him but they were instructed what what you know when Allah said was true duly Adam what was this command was it a - sure AE Orta Queeny so - sure a a means was it legislative so Allah was giving an instruction a commandment and that is it's like God is asking you would you like to obey me like it's a surely it's like a Sharia it's a commandment if that be the case but then angels are available caliphs they they don't have to SHINee and if it was to Queenie God was commanding as an imperative as in he was he was setting

it into motion like Allah says be and it is like this or he says to this you know - the heavens above let baby rain and there was rain and things like this now if you mean in that sense then then that they were just being programmed then how does a decent or disobey because if it's tak weenie then he has is unable to disobey and if it's specially then the Angels don't really have a Sheree and they don't have any Turk leaf and they don't and we was this taking place and

we would so what I find that there's a lot of inconsistencies so in my understanding that this in parts of Adams story that are just mentioned as symbolism and some parts that were real now so it's a bit like imagine I was to speak to you about somebody that you knew like oh let's say us us to speak about somebody who's like a hero I don't know of the recent past and I was to say that Oh like imagine he was an ancestor of eul's the great grandfather or somebody and I was

recalling an event that one day you know he got in trouble let's say with the system the authorities and they tried to put him into trouble or something but he got away with it has it not got away with it but they they failed in their plot now I might say oh and on that day the forces of evil were hell-bent on doing him over you know but but good overpowered evil in the end now I might say that the forces of evil or the forces of good but really I was just talking about let's

say of speaking about an ancestral views and or and I'm just giving an example of some kind of incidents that he's going through so language like this is used at times now I feel that the angel thing and about Iblees disobeying this thing was more symbolic about forces that Adam was told that God had kind of is telling Adam that there are many forces of good that are kind of subdued that have kind of succumbed and they are subordinate to

man but yet there will be some forces of harm that will work against him that refuse to subordinate that refused to succumb to to man and I think this was just a kind of a story a symbolic story an allegory that described that best that man will that humans will always have a struggle in life that they although they will kind of overcome there will be many good things in their favor but there will always be some things opposing them that's what I think that that particular part of the

story represented and you find people like scholars like Maulana Abdul Karim al a 30 in east of Seattle who are also kind of girls this way describing this event to do with the forces the who are of higher and the who are sure and stuff like this and so that's how I see that part of the story now I'm not saying the whole story of Adam is an allegory some scholars have felt the whole of Adam is an allegory some have felt that everything is literal I kind of myself am in the middle so I feel that there

was this you know that there was reality to several aspects of it and some aspects were allegorical that's my understanding Allahu Alem right so what Carly said is this a confident black eye confidently done now