Adam and the Rebel

Ibn al-Jawzi, Bustān al-Wāʿiẓīn wa-Riyāḍ al-Sāmiʿīn. Creed. Advanced.

The English is machine-translated. The audio uses AI voices.

Praise be to Allah, whom the fresh branch and the dry twig glorify.

and the new garment, the creation, and the teaching.

Hypocrisy has no value with Him, nor does He love deceit.

فرق الخلائق بين مرؤوس ورئيس،

He distinguished the creatures between subordinate and leader.

And differentiated among the resolutions, some set free and some confined.

And He concealed the consequences, so how many rejected are adorned in the garments of devotion, swaying.

He chose Adam, and hearts were overwhelmed with envy.

And the effect was a relief.

If the angels said, "We are the people of glorification and sanctification."

It was said to them, "All acts of worship are sustenance, and this devotion is the finest of discernment."

And Iblis said, "This is clay, and the essence of clay is lowly."

And I was created from fire, and the essence of fire is precious.

So he made an analogy against the text, whereas a jurist does not use analogy when a text is given.

His intellect dissolved in the body, like the melting of a carcass.

Then when it was said, "Prostrate," he struck the stubborn creation — none but the stubbornly defiant.

So disgrace and curse are intertwined continuously with him.

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