This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. So I remember one of my Sunday school students asking me a really interesting question that made

me research this topic in great detail.

You know we were talking about this idea of Shaython saying that the children of Adam, most of them will be ungrateful people.

And he asked me his question, he said, how did Shaythan even know that?

Right? Because there was no sample size of human beings at the time.

Adam, Ali Islam, had human beings at the time. Adam Ali Salaam had no descendants at the time.

Shetan had it and dealt with human beings before.

How did Shaytan know?

Does Shaytan know the future?

No, he doesn't know the future.

So how is he able to tell that this creation would be an ungrateful creation?

And so how a lot, you know, when I went to the old books and studied what the scholar said about it, I was surprised to find that they actually asked

this very same question how would Satan have known that the children of Adam

would be ungrateful and there are a few different conclusions that were

derived one of them is that if you remember

when Satan first saw Adam Ali his Sala, Satan went into the body of Adam

Ali is Sala and he says that hahah al-Kal-Kun al-A-Tam-Alik that this creation is not fit to lead.

He's not fit to be in power, right?

Imam Muslim Rahim Allah al-A al-Lah, he places this Hadith under a chapter and he titles that chapter, Bab

Holy K and insana, Alka, la it's a malic, that human beings were created in a way

that they are not fit to lead.

And in that chapter, the first narration he places is that narration of Satan,

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