{"id":6726,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/angels-question-about-the-conduct-of-humans\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:28","slug":"angels-question-about-the-conduct-of-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/angels-question-about-the-conduct-of-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Question About The Conduct Of Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>In reference to <em>Surah<\/em> <em>Al<\/em>&#8211;<em>Baqrah<\/em> verse 30, how did the angels predict that the proposed <em>khalifah<\/em> i.e. the human beings will shed blood on the earth; they are not possessed with the knowledge of the unseen <em>ilm al-ghaib<\/em>?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The word <em>khalifah<\/em>  which the God used for the new creation means &#8220;someone who has been  given the freedom to exercise authority&#8221;. Since the angels were well  versed with what the word meant, they reckoned that this freedom given  to human beings may amount to misuse of power and hence bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-24<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6726\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reference to <em>Surah<\/em> <em>Al<\/em>&#8211;<em>Baqrah<\/em> verse 30, how did the angels predict that the proposed <em>khalifah<\/em> i.e. the human beings will shed blood on the earth; they are not possessed with the knowledge of the unseen <em>ilm al-ghaib<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1389],"tags":[1529,2544],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quranic-exegesis","tag-angels","tag-khalifah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Angels&#039; 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