Qur'an 2:30 is as follows: > And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know." As far as I can tell, there is a conversation going on between the God and angels when mankind was not yet created. Basically, God informs His angels that He will create humans and appoint them as a "successive authority" upon the earth. To that angels respond with: > "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" My question is how did angels know that ? Do they have the ability to see the future? Or perhaps humans already existed at that time in earth in a "lower status" and were already shedding blood?

Satan is very good at deceiving us human beings to mislead us. Allah knows this earlier. Why did Allah let Satan to misguide us? Why did He give time till Day of Resurrection to make us go astray?

We know that the Quran affirms that man is the best creation of Allah. But, does the Quran go further to suggest that 'Man is made in the image and likeness of God' or the lesser 'man is made in the image of the universe' that is claimed by the Christian theology in the Bible and Eastern traditions like Hinduism? Here image is not necessarily a physical image or form. Edit: There are some references in the Hadiths which suggests that Man is made in the image of God. Is this accepted as a genuine hadith by Islamic scholars? The hadith “Allah created Adam in His/his image (`ala suratihi)” was narrated from Abu Hurayrah by both Bukhari and Muslim. References: Answer on seekershub . Al-futuhat al Makiyyah of ibn 'Arabi

As I understand, God forbade Muslims from becoming angry at one another. So, can Allah become angry **at** a Muslim, even if the anger is not directed at but **for** the Muslim's situation? Shouldn't feeling anger only be an instinct from human nature that we try to overcome, and should not be a nature of God, as he determines our fate after death?

> “O mankind! It is you who stand in need of Allah, but Allah is Rich [Free of all wants and needs], Worthy of all praise” - [Surah Fatir 35:15](https://quran.com/35/15/) > “And I (Allah) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone)” - [Surah al-Dhaariyaat 51:56](https://quran.com/51/56/) If Allah doesn't need us, rather we need to worship Him, then doesn't that invalidate (or at least weaken/nullify to an extent) the purpose of human beings to begin with? What kind of paradoxical and confusing cycle is that? Or are there purposes other than worshipping Him that I am unaware of? Is the test of life and passing it the purpose? If so, then it is quite purposeless because once we pass it we go to heaven and chill there for eternity (or fail and burn in hell). That's all? How and why can that be considered a purpose? Is that all we are meant to do? These thoughts have been bothering me lately. Help a brother out if you have the knowledge. Jazakallah.

As far I know we humans do sins because we have free will. But on top of that we are also instigated to do bad deeds by the bad jinns or devils. Now the jinns also have free will and thus they can also do bad deed. But no one is there to instigate them. Now some may say that the bad jinns instigate the others. But if so there will be none to instigate the first jinn to do bad deeds. So I think they did it as they have free wil. So isn't it unfair that all of mankind is instaged by not all of the jinns?

There are a couple of existing questions on the site [Is evolution compatible with Islam?](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/54/is-evolution-compatible-with-islam) & [Why creation of universe in 6 days](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/12006/why-creation-of-universe-in-6-days) that discuss the creation of the Earth and evolution, they address considerations for a [Young Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism) . By [some accounts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Bible) Adam came to be on Earth about 6,000 years ago. But these numbers seem to be based on a Christian/Jewish view. What is the Islam view of the time man has been on Earth?