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And our last lesson I had done the story of, or the incident of Adam,

that we don't know exactly where they came down.

And I mentioned that in reality, all that is mentioned in some of the books of the past,

really are tales. There are no bases of where our father Adam came down and how he met our mother,

and what happened, all of this is something that neither is it found in the Quran nor in the Sunnah,

nor even in the authentic things of the Sahaba and what not.

And so we simply skip over that and whatever you find is simply narration,

or Qilawakal is simply tales that have no bases in our religion.

We now move on to the next incident that is mentioned in the Quran, or I should say,

many of them have interpreted it to be an incident in life of Adam,

and some have interpreted it otherwise as we will talk about today.

And so today's topic we will deal with the Adamic Covenant,

the Covenant of Adam, with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,

and this covenant is called the Mithaq, it is called the Mithaq.

And the word Mithaq, it means a strong oath, it means not just a binding promise,

but something that is the English word covenant is what applies here,

and that is a strict oath, or a strict if you like a treaty that takes place,

and the Quran mentions this treaty, or the Quran mentions this covenant or this oath

in Surah Al-Araaf, verse 172, Surah Al-Araaf, verse 172,

and remember, recall the time when your Lord took from the children of Adam

from their vuhur, from their backs, that Allah extracted their descendants,

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