When wrong is due to others...

When wrong is due to others, it implies tyranny and oppression) We understand from the verses in QURA"N, that ADAM was created with the purpose of living on earth, but at first, God settled him in a green, fruitful garden, for the Time being. That garden was one, on, this, our earth. ADAM was not acquainted with the KNOW-HOW of the life on the globe, and he had to ADAPT himself some how to meet the new condition of living on earth.

He was therefore told to dwell in that said garden on probation for sometimes, to get himself and his wife ready for their new life and residence. Earth would actually be their home. [ 64 ] VERSE NO. 36 Adam submitted to divine commandments, but SATAN who was the power of evil with the root of perversity and enmity, tempted them (HE & HIS WIFE) and caused them to slip down from a higher to a lower state, bringing them out of the GARDEN!

``And We said to them: Get you all down, some of you enemies to some other, and on earth will be your dwelling-place, and your means of livelihood for a life time.'' God's decree was the result of ADAM'S deeds and actions. He soon noticed that he had done wrong to his ownself.

Although, as an apostle, entitled to Divine Inspiration he was innocent, and free from major sin or guilt; he still had to pay that high price as a penalty for his failure to obey the approved rules and regulations of the GARDEN, and the direct commandments given him. WHICH GARDEN WAS IT? Was the garden in which ADAM and EVE dwelt, the promised paradise that is rewarded to the believers?

Obviously not; because the promised GARDEN OF PARADISE is an eternal ABODE, and one who enters it, is once and for ever, and he will not be given the sack. The garden in which ADAM and EVE dwelt, must have been a beautiful GARDEN of Abundance and affluence, somewhere on the earth. Emam Sadiq (AS) was asked about that Garden and he said: ``It was a garden of those that were on the earth whereupon the sun and the moon shone.

Had it been the promised paradise, ADAM would not be discharged of it.'' WHY DID GOD CREATE SATAN? Some people ask: ``Why did God create Satan to seduce and tempt, and persuade man in doing evil?'' To answer that, we say: Satan was not created a Satan as he is now with the devilish power. For many years he was a companion and associate of the the angels.

He misused his position and power, and began to rebel against goodness and truth, and started doing wrong and evil and finally turned to what it is now.