What is the wisdom behind Hz. Adam's being created in the world first, then his being sent to Paradise and then back to the world again?

- It is written in some resources that Hz. Adam was created in the world, that he was taken to Paradise and that he was sent to the world again with Hz. Hawwa (Eve) after the forbidden tree incident. The issue that occupies my mind is why someone who was created as a vicegerent on earth was taken to Paradise and was sent to the world again.

- What is the wisdom behind being taken to Paradise?
- If the aim was a test, could that test have not been given in the world?

Dear Brother / Sister,

The following can be said about “the wisdom behind Adam’s being created in the world, then taken to Paradise and then sent back to the world again”:

- Allah created Hz. Adam from soil. The soil is in the world. So, it must be certain that Adam was created in the world.   

- As for Hz. Adam’s being taken to Paradise, it is a practical reality to show that he and his descendants were actually created for Paradise, that their real homeland is Paradise, and that people’s deprivation of their homeland is due to their rebellion based on their own will.

- However, it can be said that one of the important reasons why Adam was settled in Paradise, ate from the fruit of the tree, repented his sin, then was forgiven by Allah, and settled in the world after that and had children and was appointed as a prophet was to make him a living example for his children with his practical life.

Thus, man recognized his greatest enemy, Satan, and learned that the punishment of opposing Allah  would be deprivation of Paradise (for a while for believers and forever for unbelievers), that it would be a grave mistake for man to be subject to the desires and wishes of his soul by opposing Allah, but that the door of repentance was open, that he would be forgiven by Allah by entering through that door, that his real homeland was Paradise and that it was a manifestation of eternal mercy and the result of endless grants and gifts.

After seeing Paradise, which is a place of reward, he virtually had an idea about both places of the hereafter by seeing this worldly life, which informed him about the troubles of Hell with its troubles.

Human beings, who accepted the Lordship of Allah in the "Bazm al-Alastu (the Primordial Covenant)", learned the practice of it from that experience of Hz. Adam, their ancestor.

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