ASA WR WB to believing Muslim friends.
It is necessary to be very careful of what we suggest to others. Sometimes it may be part of some expansionist policy, and other times it might be mockery, and yet other times it might be to undermine the person. However, mockery is not the best indicator of Wisdom, and in mockery persons may suggest what is harmful to the other person instead of what is beneficial. We cannot forget that one of the indicators of Al Sahirun (The Magicians) is that they incline to do what harms, and not what benefits.
God teaches us that He is the One that is Lord of the Mystery of the Creations of Men and Women. And then He swears by this in Surahtul Laili Ayat 3 to support the Sign of Ayat 4 that, "Verily the ends that ye strive for are diverse."
This is powerful because it is essentially a statement that He (Allah) has issued a Commandment to each person born upon the Earth. For boys to be men, and for girls to be women. Further, that is an Ancient Right from the Garden of Eden. For men to be men, and for women to be women. And so modification to that Command (from Allah) at birth on people of Faith in Allah can be considered Blasphemy (in that they are thinking themselves god or smarter than God in making modifications), Defilement, Hindering, and a Bad Suggestion.
By Surahtul Shamsi not only must one (and all) be careful of defiling the souls of others, but one must be careful of defiling one's own soul. Further, Allah (swt) teaches us that Success is predicated on cleanliness. Many of us like the idea of success.
It is also an Ancient Right from the Garden of Eden for man and woman not to be Angels. Why would that be important? It is because the Angels can do in 1 day what would take man 50,000 years to do. I would imagine that it is not just flight that they are expeditious in, but also in works. It would be too much work.
"The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years:" ~ Surahtul Ma'arij Ayat 4
When the Evil One tempted Father Adam and Mother Eve (as), his argument was that the Lord only forbids you this tree lest ye become angels or gods (such beings as live forever. The Quran says Khalidun and Genesis in the Kitab says gods. Adam and Eve already had eternal life in the Garden of Eden, so we may assume that the language was around eating from the Forbidden Tree to become gods.) Here are the verses from the Quran and Bible:
"Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them, bringing openly before their minds all their shame that was hidden from them (before): he said: "Your Lord only forbade you this tree, lest ye should become angels or such beings as live forever."" ~ Surahtul Araf Ayat 20 - Holy Quran
1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” ~ Chapter of Genesis 3 - Holy Bible
There really is some tremendous beauty on this Law against giving Bad Suggestions. I personally just love this. It is kind of a boomerang effect on it like you are what you have suggested to others; or have earned equivalent deeds of what you have suggested to others. So we must make our suggestions good.
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