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Question Regarding Creation Of Humans
Sir why did Allah create human beings in the first place. What was the need to make Adam. Did Allah create humans because he wanted to create a new creation or is the reason something else.
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Question Regarding Creation Of Humans
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Allah choose to be a Creator. So the Creator created. That’s what a Creator does.
He also choose to be Merciful, Loving, Generous. So He made a creation to bestow kingship of Paradise upon them as a favor.
He does whatever He wants. And considering Jinn already existed and were only mentioned because they were sharing the same existence with us, it means there are possibly other countless creations we do know not of. So the Creator creates.However the problem in these questions always is this assumption that there is some ‘reason’ that existed before Allah, that ‘compelled’ Him to do something. That’s how we work, Allah does not work like that. Nothing exists before Him and nothing can compel Him. He has no needs.
Allah does not need a reason to do anything unlike us, He makes the reason. While we live with reasons and needs because we are a creation, cannot really understand what it means to be a Being without needs.
So no reason compels Him but He compels all reasons.
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The question that why did Allah create humans (or anything at all) can be approached in two ways:
1- Based on what Allah revealed in the scripture(s).
2- Philosophical reasoning
I’d leave the one based on revelations from Allah to religious scholars to explain.
Philosophical approaches to this question go like this. If there is a Creater, He/She would face a choice to use power to create or not. When it is presented as a choice, decision to create can be considered an act of benovelance to bring other beings especially conscious ones into existence to be able to experience both existence and creation.
It then becomes a demonstration of creative, moral, and aesthetic values; power of knowledge and value of wisdom, need for balance and justice, comparison of good and evil and so on. It becomes an exhilarating experience of manifestations of intellect, beauty, and profound pleasures.
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