Adam Our Father
muslim america God, Majestic is He and Merciful, created all that we see
save man, and in what He created there was none who could be
to Him a companion and friend, to know Him and love Him as
He should be known and loved. All that lived and all that
had sentience which He had created in them knew their Creator
and Lord and all did as He intended for them by the nature
of their creation. But to none could God Open His Mind and
share what He in His Omniscience knew and what He in His
Omnipotence had done in creating the Creation as He had.
None living and breathing and thinking could know the
magnitude of His Mercy or the breadth of His Dominion or
the magnanimity of the gift He had given to each by
breathing into it of Life, while He is The Living. For this
reason He created man.
So just as He had called every thing into existence with
His "Be!" and it was, so then did He create our father
Adam by saying to him "Be!" But the first Adam did not
know Him and love Him as He deigned to be loved and known,
and after thousands and thousand of Adams were created and
with their own volition that He had created in them chose
other than what God would have had them choose, then He
created Adam who is our father. God has said that our
creation in Adam is the finest thing that He has created.
Our father knows no peer or equal since his time among us,
his children. And he knows each and every one of us, our
families, our children, our joys and our trials, our failure
and success. Because that is what God created in him: all
of us. And God Opened His Mind to Adam, that whatever God
knows that the mind and heart of man can know, Adam knew.
Looking at all of us in the Palms of God's Hands, Adam knew
of us what God knows; saw of us what God sees; loved of us
what God loves, in Communion and Companionship with God,as
he was created to do.
And then Adam displayed his singular feature that is man and
human and makes of us what we are and in its operation is
what endears us to God, Who created it in us and brought it
to fruition as the nature of humanity in Adam: he forgot.
And in a forgetful moment, he tripped, partaking of the
argument of the rebellious Satan, his enemy and arrogant
out of envy against God's creation of Adam, entertaining
for the briefest of moments what this liar said of God
and His creation, humanity. And God closed His Mind to
Adam and he fell from Communion with Him and His Knowledge,
taking a hundred years to reach the ground upon which we
walk and in which we will be buried.
The rest, as they say, is History. And this is a poor
sample of its beginning, the story is so much more than we
have placed upon this page. And History, likewise, is
partly shown and mostly hidden, as Satan continues to prove
his case against man that, even though Adam knew God and
loves Him, he is not the better suitor for His Affection
and Friendship than is the Deceiver of man, who tripped
Adam when he was forgetful of His Lord.
And beyond History is Faith: that as God promised Adam in
consolation after the Fall, and that as God promised Noah to
assuage his grief after the Flood, and that as God has made
known to all of those He has sent among us to tell us of
His Ways that He has designed for us, that He will again
Open His Mind to Adam, and to the children of Adam, flooding
the earth with His Knowledge and His Mercy, that He might be
Known and Loved as He should be Known and Loved.
And this story is known to the keepers of every faith, of
Judaism, of Christianity, of Islam; and of the sons of Noah
all three are to share in His Mercy and their time has come.
April 30, 1999
Shuyukh
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