Satan's Rebellion: Feud in The Heavens- Significance of Sunnah and Traditions of the Ummah

Question:
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Dear Mr. Khalid Zaheer
I would be very grateful if you can kindly see this website and let me know what you consider truthful in this or not.. what is your idea of the heavenly feud mentioned in 38;69? this is an interesting aspect that we would like clarified.. also since i also beleive that the quran tells us not to go into sects this appeals to me that we should respect everyone who accepts the one god by whatever name they call the power.
Most important of all i would be interested to know your view of the analysis of this website about the verse:i had no knowldege of the exalted asembly when they discussed matters amongst themselves" thanks very much for your time and attention.

I will be hoping to hear from you soon.

sincerely

zeist

Response:
Assalamo Alaikum

I have gone through some of the contents of the site you asked me to go through. I find it interesting but not always correct, at least to my knowledge. That's how it's always going to be when humans are going to attempt to understand anything: We will apply ourselves and would reach conclusions, some of which would be right and others would be wrong. However, if we have the Qur'an and Sunnah with us, there is no reason to worry even when we are reading and listening to divergent views on the same subject. If we hold
Qur'an and Sunnah to be the ultimate sources of knowledge in Islam, and sincerely and intelligently listen to what others are saying, we will never be misled, insha'Allah. I include Sunnah with Qur'an as the ultimate source of knowledge in Islam because Qur'an would not make sense without it. Qur'an asks us to say Salat, do Hajj, give Zakat, and fast during Ramadan etc. without giving any details of them. Such details are available to us through the unbroken chain of tradition of the Muslim Ummah from day one till today. That source is authentic, quite as equally as the Qur'an. I am as confident, for instance, that surah al-Fatiha is a part of the message of God given to us by Muhammad, alaihissalam, as I am sure that there are three rak'ats in the fard prayers of Maghrib. Both are an integral part of my understanding of Islam. You have asked my opinion on the following passage of the site in particular:
"It all began a few billion years ago when one of God's high-ranking creatures, Satan, developed a supercilious idea that he could run a dominion as an independent god besides God. This challenge to God's absolute authority was not only blasphemous, it was also erroneous. Satan was ignorant of the fact that God alone possesses the ability to be a god, and that there is much more to godhood than he realized. It was the ego -arrogance augmented by ignorance - that led Satan to believe that he could take care of a dominion, as a god, and run it without disease, misery, war, accidents, and chaos. The vast majority of God's creatures disagreed with Satan. Yet, the minute egoistic minority that agreed with him in various extents were in the billions. Thus, a profound dispute erupted within the Heavenly Community (38:69). The rebels' unjustifiable challenge to God's absolute authority was met and resolved in the most efficient manner. After giving the rebels sufficient chances to denounce their crime and submit to Him, God decided to exile the hard core rebels on a space ship called Earth, and give them yet another chance to redeem themselves."
My ordinary understanding of the passages that speak of Satan's rebellion against God Almighty suggests that it was primarily his refusal to bow down before Adam despite God's order to him to do so that constituted it. The fact that he wanted to be a god other than God was never a part of his original plan. Indeed, after his rebellion, which stemmed out of his arrogance, he did vow to make every attempt to mislead man towards the wrong path, which most significantly included the possibility of him to make very
attempt to incline humans to ascribe partners to God. The dispute mentioned in surah Sad (38:69) hasn't been clarified in the Qur'an. The context in which its reference appears in the Qur'an only suggests that the Almighty is asking the prophet, alaihissalaam, to let people know that he (the prophet) is not warning people on his own. He is dlivering the message of warning only through God's sanction. What he is not communicated by Him remains out of his knowledge, like, for instance, the dispute amongst the angels on
certain subjects. What exactly were the subjects that caused them to dispute is something that weren't even in the knowledge of the prophet, according the passage of the Qur'a when it says: " I have no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they dispute among themselves. It was revealed to me, only that I might warn you plainly." (Qur'an; 38:69) And Allah knows the best.

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