29. How Adam and Eve became re-united? 

Separated from each other, wailing in utter loneliness, Adam and Eve remained in this circumstance for 300 years. Only after 300 years Allah became merciful to these two creatures stricken with grief. Allah then commanded Gabriel, “O Gabriel! Go to Adam and direct him to perform Hajj at Mecca .” When Gabriel conveyed Allah’s commandment to him, Adam immediately left Swarandip and hastened to Mecca . According to the religious scholars and respectable people, Allah reduced the distance from Swarandip to Mecca so much that Adam arrived at Mecca only within the count of 30 steps. No sooner had Adam arrived at Mecca than the multitude of angels gathered around him and said, “O Adam! As per Allah’s instruction, we are circumambulating the Ka’ba for the last 2000 years. It should be noted that during that time the name of Ka’ba was Bai’t-ul-Ma’mur. Of course, the house of Ka’ba, at that time did not exist as a visible object; instead, it was the shadow of the Bai’t-ul-Ma’mur in the fourth heaven, in which the angels used to offer their prayers. Later, Adam built a mosque at this very spot which was named Bait’Allah or Khanai Ka’ba—Allah’s house. Tired and exhausted Adam sat down at Arafat’ Jabal, a site very near to Ka’ba. At this spot of Arafat Adam was fervently wailing and praying to Allah for His forgiveness of his sins, when suddenly, he, through his divine inspiration, saw the exquisite throne of Allah. On this throne of Allah Adam read the Kalima, “La ilah Illa Allah.” Having witnessed this, Adam started supplicating to Allah, “O almighty! For the sake of Muhammad (pbuh), your dearest friend, please forgive our sin.” At the mention of Muhammad’s (pbuh) name Allah’s mercy surged. Immediately, Allah commanded Gabriel to convey the news of his forgiveness to Adam and Eve. Gabriel informed them that Allah, being pleased at the mention of Muhammad’s (pbuh) name had pardoned all their sins. Gabriel also insisted that had they mentioned the name of the dearest friend of Allah beforehand He would have exonerated them a long time ago. 

While conversing with Gabriel, Adam suddenly observed at the far end that Eve was quickly approaching him from Jeddah. Unable to control himself, Adam ran to Eve, embraced her passionately and wept feverishly. Eve too, having missed her beloved husband for such prolong period, puffed tears like an innocent child. All the angels on earth witnessed this happy re-union of husband and wife and they, too, started to cry in joy. The spot where this re-union took place is called the tract of Arafat (Subhan Allah). 

30. How Allah showed Adam his progeny? 

After Adam completed the first ever Hajj in humanity, Allah instructed the archangel Gabriel, “O Gabriel! Fetch Adam to the wilderness of Amman . Once you take him there massage him on his back with your wing, and all the progeny of Adam, till the Day of Judgment will appear to you right then and there. Once the progeny of Adam emerges introduce them to him.” So, following the command of Allah, Gabriel took Adam in the wide expanse of Amman and massaged him with his wing. Immediately, by the infinite grace of Allah all the future generations of Adam appeared right then. Their number was so huge that even the entire earth could not accommodate them. 

Astonished at this incredible sight, Adam said, “Brother Gabriel! Who are these people?” Gabriel answered, “All these people are your descendants, all of them will be born on earth in due course.” Then Adam said, “How can this earth accommodate such a multitude of my progeny?” Following Allah’s command, Gabriel replied,” All of them will not arrive together at one time. Some of them will turn up now, some will be inside their mothers’ wombs, some will be on their fathers’ backs and some will reside in graves. So do not worry about them.” 
 

31. How was the Black Stone of Ka’ba created? 

Almighty Allah commanded an angel, “O angel! Please extract written confessions from the progeny of Adam and keep those written covenants inside your mouth.” The angel acted accordingly. Instantly, by the infinite grace of Allah the angel turned into a black stone. From that very day that black stone is known as ‘Hazrul Aswad’ or the Black Stone and it was located on the right sided of the house of Ka’ba. From very ancient times the pilgrims respectfully kiss this piece of stone. 

32. How was the Sun created?

Intense darkness prevailed on earth when Adam and Eve were sent. Adam and Eve passed three hundred years under this darkness, when one morning, Allah granted their prayer and forgave their sins. Then, to express his gratitude Adam promptly offered two prostrations to Allah. When Adam raised his head from the prostration he beheld the sun rising from the East. The entire world was dazzling under the brilliant sunlight. From that very day the sun has been rising everyday. (Subhan Allah! What a great scientific truth I have learned the Islamic teachings!)

33. How was the first fire on earth created?

Once Allah commanded the archangel Gabriel, “O Gabriel, take seven pieces of Iron rods and proceed to Adam. Train him in the arts of a blacksmith so that he can make weapons from the iron pieces”. When Gabriel descended on earth to teach Adam the technique of weapon-making using iron he noted that fire would be necessary. It is not at all possible to smelt iron without fire. So Gabriel returned to Allah and implored Him for fire. Allah said, “Go to Malek, the keeper of hellfire and get some fire from him.” Accordingly, Gabriel brought some fire to earth from hell. But the intensity of hellfire was so great that the flame penetrated through the earth and returned to hell. Gabriel again went to hell and brought the hellfire. Once more, the fire returned to hell. He repeated this procedure seven times, but every time he brought the fire it returned to hell. When a helpless Gabriel narrated this bizarre incident to Allah, Allah commanded Gabriel: “O Gabriel, wash the hellfire with the water from the seven seas and then take it to Adam.” Gabriel did accordingly, and the glow of hellfire became somewhat diminished. Gabriel then took that fire to Adam. The fire thus became suitable for use on earth.

34. How was the speech of cow blocked?

Once Gabriel delivered the fire to Adam, Allah instructed Gabriel to take from Paradise two cows and a fistful of wheat to Adam so that Adam could start agricultural activities on earth. As per this instruction, Gabriel then took two excellent cows and the wheat from Paradise and delivered them to Adam. But Adam ran into a great trouble when he used the two cows to till the land. Here we note the glory of Allah! One of the cows became very mischievous and started meandering around. Adam became angry and stroke hard on the back of this cow. Screaming in pain, the cow retorted, “O Adam, while in Paradise , you too, disobeyed Allah’s order by crisscrossing around. How could you now complain about my meandering around?” Witnessing such a chutzpah from a cow Adam, with a heavy heart, stopped cultivation. Gabriel saw this; went to Allah and related the incidence. Allah, out of pity for Adam, made the cow mute. Then Allah said to Adam, “Go and start cultivation and earn your own living.” From now on cows will never speak and men will control and use them unfettered. There will be no wrong on this.

35. How humans started to spread on earth?

Because Adam and Eve were the first two people on earth, Allah decided to spread mankind through them. From the loins of Adam and Eve Allah created two hundred and forty-nine (249) offspring. With respect to Adam’s children Allah followed a special rule. This rule was: except for the Seth, all children of Adam were born as twins. In every birth a son and a daughter were born in pair. Then Adam would marry the son of one pair with the daughter of another pair and so on. In some books it is mentioned that Adam and Eve had in total one hundred and eighty (180) pairs of children and only once they had a single offspring, i.e. Seth. This means: in all, Adam had three hundred and sixty-one (361) children.

36. How many wings has Allah provided to the angels?

When Allah had decided to create angels, He, at first, made a very special kind of light from the radiance of Muhammad. Then with this special light He fashioned the angels. These angels are always busy executing Allah’s orders and commands. Every morning they assemble in line in front of Allah to give attendance. Allah has equipped the angels with wings so that they can fly. As a result of these wings they can swiftly cross the distance between the Heaven and the earth. The number of wings in angels varies. Some of them have two, some three, and some even have four wings. In Sura Fatir (35::1) it is written that Allah has created the angels with two, three or four wings. In Sahih Muslim it is mentioned that Gabriel has six hundred (600) wings.

37. What was the height of Adam?

Our dearest Prophet has said, “Allah made Adam, the father of mankind, to be ninety feet (90) tall.” According to Sahih Bukhari (Sahih Bukhari, vol.4, book 55, number 544) this story runs like this:

Volume 4, Book 55, Number 544:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "The first group of people who will enter Paradise , will be glittering like the full moon and those who will follow them, will glitter like the most brilliant star in the sky. They will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be of gold, and their sweat will smell like musk. The aloes-wood will be used in their centers. Their wives will be beautiful, virgin, wide eyed and high bosomed houris. All of them will look alike and will resemble their father Adam (in statute), sixty cubits tall."

38. How gold and silver were created on earth?

When Adam became old the number of his children reached three hundred and sixty-one (361) and the total number their progeny became forty thousand (40 000). Due to such multitude on people earth it became difficult for them to sustain by cultivation alone. Then all of them went to their original father, Adam and said, “Now, you have become old; so please leave something for us so that we can earn an easy living.” Hearing the plea of his progeny Adam supplicated to Allah, “O almighty, you must have heard what my descendants had said. Please do something for me so that I can please them.” On hearing Adams plea Allah commanded Gabriel, “O Gabriel, fetch two handfuls of gold and silver from Paradise and deliver them to Adam.” Gabriel did accordingly, and said to Adam: “Throw these gold and silver on the mountain and ask your descendants to pick them from the mountain and commence business. Through business they will have much profit and then they will have a comfortable life. The quantity of gold and silver will be never ending.” Needless to say, that was the very day on which gold and silver originated on earth. (The trouble is: on earth there was no other community then, so with whom the progeny of Adam conducted business with those gold and silver?)

39. How Shaddad built his Paradise ?

The readers must have heard the incredible story of the construction of Shaddad’s Paradise . The Mullahs of Bangladesh are especially adept at narrating this cock-and-bull story to the gullible devotees. Let us now hear this tale.

Among the two sons of the ancient king Aa’d, Shaddad was very haughty and artful. To bring him to righteousness Allah sent Prophet Hud to the court of Shaddad. Hud advised Shaddad to bring faith in Allah. A cunning and clever Shaddad asked Hud, “What will Allah bestow on me should I bring faith in Him?” Hud replied, “Whoever puts trust in Allah, Allah will give him inexhaustible happiness in Paradise .” Shaddad said, “I myself will make such a Paradise .” This was not simply an empty rhetoric from Shaddad. He actually made all preparations to construct such a Paradise . He requested his nephew, King Johak Taji to send him all his gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, musk and saffron. In addition to his nephew, Shaddad also requested all the neighbouring kings and emperors to deliver to him all their gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, musk and saffron. Then Shaddad went out looking for a suitable site for his Paradise; finally he settled for a place on the border of province of Yemen . This spot was about 120 km in length.

Thousands of skilled artisans from across all the countries of the world arrived to build the Paradise of Shaddad. Among them were a few thousand expert masons who dedicated themselves in their art. At first, the ground of this huge site was excavated to a depth of forty yards, and then soils were removed from this ditch and filled with marble stone. This became the foundation of the edifice of Paradise . Then walls of gold and silver were erected on top of the foundation. On top of these walls were cast beams and pillars of Jabbarjad and Jammarud, and finally, the roof was cast on top of them using red-coloured Almas stones. Inside the main palace numerous buildings were erected using the most appropriate gold-silver bricks. Words fail to describe the exquisite beauty of this paradise. This was as amazing as it was unimaginable. No emperor could ever match this extraordinary Paradise which Shaddad built on earth. O Muhmmad! If only you aware how your Guardian (Allah) treated the builder of this Paradise !

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