Where do Neanderthals fit in the Islamic story of Adam?

mufti what is where do neanderthals and denisovan fit in the islamic narrative [Laughter] where do the neanderthals fit in what uh what group and denomination is this what we're trying to figure out [Laughter] no neanderthals and denisovans and there's arguably another x um species which we're not sure who they are yet but we know that they've contributed to

our dna as well and so they must have existed and so right where do they fit in i don't know what that means in the sense that um they obviously weren't around when islam is around they fit into the islamic narrative if that's what you mean or if you mean by the question what does islam say about them islam doesn't say anything about them but islam isn't here to to speak as islam isn't an archaeological or an anthropological manual

or a study guide on how to approach the human genome structure or it isn't a book on physics or isn't a book on biology or isn't it's a message to connect people to the divine the quran hints towards um other homonyms that preceded adam ali salam and i thought with this previously i mean there's different ways to look at it so the quran hints towards this that there were other homonyms that

preceded adam alaihissalam it doesn't clearly state it but it hints towards it now some people say well that hint could have no like they don't for let's say they don't feel comfortable with that so they interpret that hint oh you don't need to interpret it's a hint so it's not being very clear in in expressing it because it's not pertinent to the message that islam the quran did not come to teach you know the arabs for example about neanderthals and denisovans and and all

this you know and other hominins or heidelbergensis or you know homo rectus or astrolopithecus it didn't come for these things so well you know there's no point kind of extrapolating on this and plus this these people wouldn't understand that at the time the the arabs of arabia there's no point talking to them about you know and do you know what happened to astrolopythicus it's like what what are you talking about so uh but it hints so allah mentions in the quran that um things about adam

being a type of bashar so see a type of bashar and some people um you know they're not that convinced that the hint is referring to that then this allah mentions in the quran this questioning that there is you know almost this and and and one can ask why is this even mentioned in the quran like what is the purpose that allah mentions the angels ask this question that

that are you creating an insane who will you know uh you've said yes will just spread corruption and just all he will do is just do bloodshed they'll just go about like beasts and the question is that what were they basing this knowledge on because otherwise it doesn't make because if if there's just a new prototype of something that doesn't look like anything like it's it's just new like if i get a cube here or i get something and i say ah so you're not going to say well oh my god have you done that so this great

mischief behind this great trouble now you you'll probably ask what is it so for them to question as their first question that oh this is just another this is just something that will once again spread bloodshed on the earth the question is where were they getting they were basing this on something so some people have said they were basing this on other forms of creation

i the jinn possibly which is unseen creation unseen forces at play that's one way some people said they just based this on creatures so like let's say dinosaurs and other things that have lived and roamed the earth that these things that have just killed each other and just been beasts of prey that's what they're basing it on what seems more apt is that it's actually based on the fact that it resembles other homonyms that this homonym looks like are the hominins before it

even if it's slightly diff but it resembles them so what's so special about this hominin and that kind of seems much more apt also another uh you know amazing and beautiful way of looking at this verse of the quran if you think about it inin and one of the amazing you know this is the arabic language is that

one of the amazing connotations of what this word means because there's no point you see khalifa now means like a ruler but that word of ruler developed after islam so pre-islam the arabs never used to use the word khalifa to mean a king guru ruler but this came this is a post-islamic occurrence so there's no point reading the quran with post-islamic language that's like saying so for example when when the quran was being revealed there were no ulama

like clergy or scholars so when you read the word in the quran you can't think it's referring to clergy i mean by extension it could be so you could say look one of them this is one of the amazing features of the quran that it can by extension be referring to things but by default it couldn't be speaking about the clergy or the scholarly class because there were no scholarly class in the time of the prophet salallahu is being revealed so you have to think how was it when in the prophet's lifetime so in the prophet's lifetime khalifa couldn't have meant king or ruler because the arabs never used it like that

now one thing what it did mean is something that comes after now you see or something that comes at the end of because half the word half in arabic means behind something that comes so this thing comes then behind it or at the end of it khalifa comes this thing and it would make sense that in a chain a series of manifestations the final succession to all of that all of these homonyms is the ultimate which will result in the

cognitive revolution which will result with mankind as we know it i think that's a an amazing beautiful way to read these verses of the quran right so let's move on inject humans with massive bones neanderthals weren't stupid by the way they were i know we used that term to say you neanderthal but neanderthals were you know they were