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Was Adam's garden of Eden on earth?
muftis koran quraan al-quran ulema ulamaa scholars salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam greetingWas Adam's garden on earth? Jannah simply means garden
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This segment27:58 to 31:14 · 3 min 16 sGeneral teaching
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says Adam lived on earth: jannah simply means garden, and Adam's Eden was somewhere in this world.
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Mufti Abu Layth brushes off a question asking whether the earth was created in six days, then takes a super chat asking whether Adam's garden and tree were on earth. Mufti says of course Adam was on earth, joking that he was hardly on the International Space Station. He explains that jannah in Arabic means garden, not a cloudy heaven, which he says is an idea taken from Christian literature, and that the samawat are the skies and cosmos. He cites the Quran's use of jannah for an ordinary person's garden, and says Adam's Eden was somewhere in this world, a view held by many ulama.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedAdam, the garden and the tree: was this on earth?
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Mufti Abu Layth says the common understanding is that Adam was on earth and that his jannah simply means a garden.
“the common understanding is that adam was on earth okay that his janna just means garden in arabic”
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mufti was the earth created in six days [Laughter] if you seriously are asking that i mean is that is that a real question please for god's sake for the love of god mufti my super chat what's your super chat uh [Music] peace adam garden and tree was this on earth or did i miss a super chat did i
right shukran people for your super chat much love yep there was a super chat by much love much love the question about was adam um on earth of course adam was on earth where else was adam he was hardly in the international space station which did not exist then [Laughter] you know what do you think like what adam was living in some planet or some galaxy or some out there and then he
gets beamed to earth right well you can believe that if you want people can believe what they like but the common understanding is that adam was on earth okay that his janna just means garden in arabic it does not mean you see janna in arabic does not mean this kind of cloudy heaven that's you're taking that from christian literature and you're transporting it across so how they would say like in
spanish cielo heaven now in english heaven as in the heavens above to do with the sama samawat the heavens but in arabic samawat has the heavens as in the skies and the cosmos and up there has never been jannah jannah in arabic means garden like allah says in the quran that he gives a muthal he gives the example of the person who ha who who had a garden and and then he and then it gets afflicted and so on jannah just simply means gardens okay so adam
was in this kind of paradise this eden this garden of eden jannat that does not mean it was out of this world it was in this world somewhere and that is the view by many ulama including and speaking of even i'll be sharing some interesting across some very fascinating things to share but we'll come back to that in just a moment does your brain neurotransmitters affect personality heavily does your does your as
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