That purification by Almighty Allah as alluded to in the...

That purification by Almighty Allah as alluded to in the previously mentioned verses does not make them divine, but it does elevate them above the level of ordinary human beings in terms of denouncing sin. The advantage of human over angel is that human is able to willingly obey Almighty Allah. In other words, the Prophet has the choice to either go right or wrong, but he chooses to go right always, and such, he is infallible while he has a choice.

A human can make mistakes, but he does not have to. If we make mistakes, it is not because we have to, but it is because of our foolishness, ignorance and lack of knowledge, or else because of the lack of control of our carnal desires. Those who say human has to make mistakes to be human are generalizing their own weak soul to all others. They follow their lusts and are envious to see if one never does that. Based on the Quran, the level of humans can be much higher than angels.

📌(and of course, could go even lower than animals, on the other side Quran states that all angels prostrated Prophet Adam (AS). This is enough to prove that the rank of the Prophets is higher than that of angels. In fact, the best human beings (in terms of Taqwa) are the best of all creatures and the most honoured before Allah. Remember also the story of Mi’raaj where there were places in the heavens that only (PBUHH) could get into, but the Angel Gabriel could not fly to.

Gabriel said to the Prophet that he (Gabriel) will burn if he wants to go further with the Prophet (PBUHH). One side remark, here, is that Satan is not an angel. He was from Jinn (unseen creatures). Witness to that is the Quran where it quotes the statement of Satan saying: “You have created me from fire.” The unseen (Jinn) creatures are made of fire, and as such, they are not angels.

The Jinns, like human beings, have the choice to go right or wrong and will be accountable for their acts on the day of judgment. A brother mentioned that there is a religious part of the Prophet’s life and a non-religious part. The danger of believing that everything the Prophet did was by order of God, causes Muslims should imitate the Prophet (PBUHH) to the finest details, otherwise they won’t be obeying God!!! Even to what the Prophet liked to drink and eat.

My response to him was that all the acts of the Prophet were acts of worship. Even his eating, sleeping, etc., were worship, and as such, there was no non-religious part in his life!

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