This is not true.
To believe the above quote, long standing storyline about God would have to be denied.
Wasn't God's favored Angel thrown out of heaven?
The cause for the dismissal varies from one belief to another, but the basic idea runs firm in several forms of faith.
If God is such that He would have His favored Angel cast down....
then there is no such thing as a secured position in heaven.
Most forms of faith suggest some level of discipline is required for entry.
How much more is required that you are allowed to remain?
I dont' know whats a rogue theologian, but i wonder how a rogue theologian knows atleast this much
I'm not going to ask you to confirm it, just informing since you asked, because it is the truth whether it finds a place in your head /heart or not, depends all upon where your faith and logic is focused at, denial or belief. The Holy Quran contains the whole story about the fallen 'spirit', and it was Not an Angel.
And before I proceed, i'd let you know that i am aware of the soft sympathetic corner some rogue theologians have for the 'fallen spirit', and they have yet to understand that God's sympathy and kindness with His creations is way beyond our reach of imagination and we dis-regard that actual kindness in face of the fact that the 'fallen spirit' is a grave enemy of all humanity and is continuously working aggressively to create huge distances between Man and His creator by offering close-ended logic and countless other deceptive ways of turning man against God.
I Know its going to get a lot of negative criticism, but You must know the truth even if you don't believe in it, someday you may come across something that confirms it to you, maybe and maybe not, so I'd humbly request everybody to not ask silly questions regarding this, If they have any questions they can ask God themselves, He has a better of revealing things personally to people who seek to understand, I'm just presenting what has been told in the Quran and in ahadith collectively.
Briefly, I'll name the 'fallen spirit' as his name has been mentioned in the Quran, as 'Iblees'.
I would've quoted the verses directly, but i do not have access to my books at the moment.
So, Iblees used to be the king of the jinns (if you know what they are, the other form of creation which we cannot see through naked eyes but two other creations of God have been listed in the Quran, One is Angel, other is Jinns and shayateen, shayateen are the infidel jinns).
Angels were all made of light and Jinns were all made of fire.
When Man was not created, there were Angels and Jinns who used to worship God. Iblees was the king of the jinns and Angels have their own separate authorities . Iblees, before the creation of Man was among the top most worshipers of God, and he was hence one of the most learned and dearest to God. he had been given a lot of knowledge and respect. But that dearness had instilled a
sense of arrogance into him which revealed itself outrageously later.
When then God created Man from clay and water(it is said in the Quran that Man was created out of clay and water), and man was made the syed (sardar/sir/ high position) of heaven over the worshipping angels and Jinns. Then God revealed His Creation ,Man, to His other creations (Angels and Jinns) and told them that Man is going be to be Superior to both and they must bow down to Man.
All acknowledged the new creation of God and in God's obedience bowed down to Man (as all the creations knew the Omnipotence and Omniscience and Sovereignty of God). Except iblees, the king of Jinns. He went mad in anger and fury. And refused to bow down to man. Now, God, having the powers he has could just show His displeasure over the dis-obedience of His OWN creation and could've just annihilated Iblees for showing extreme arrogance and dis-obedience, but He did not. He asked him, 'Why so, why do you not choose to bow down to man?"
And Iblees, said, 'Him?!! No way! I am way better than Him, I was made out of fire and fire is superior. why then i would acknowledge superiority of Man created out of mud, over me?! ( That was the audacity of iblees and he in his disobedience went far ahead and called God's creation not only inferior but, mocked and criticized man regarding his origin calling him to have arised from mud). And he willingly gave up the chance God gave him to offer his apologies.
So, Now after iblees having shown his true colors and nature, stepped down from obedience of God, out of jealousy and arrogance. Then Iblees asked God for one last favour, and God granted him.
He asked,' Let me have One chance to prove to you that I am better, I will deceive, mislead and trick man into disbelief and he will disobey you as much as I do and more. And then man , who you assign as your superior creation will be disgraceful and deny you , owing to my deceptive temptations. And there will be no place for them in heaven.'
God agreed and said, ' They might get deceived by you temporarily, but Man is my dearest, he will have the capability to come back to me and acknowledge his mistakes( grave or minor) and I shall forgive Man whenever he asks me for forgiveness! You will tire of deceiving man but I will not tire of forgiving him, lest he keeps seeking it to mend his ways, untill one day when I shall call upon all creation on the day of Judgment.'
' He shall be not like you, firm in arrogance and willing to burn in hell fire forever, he will be meek and humble and will recognize Me as His creator even if that knowledge is hidden from him.' And Except for those who abide by your terrifying deceptions which look charming on the exterior, but their pursuit will lead to hell where you and your companions will burn forever.'
Hence ,the earth and everything was created and Man was put into it for the test of his capabilities, (primarily those of, seeking His creator and seeking forgiveness for his dis-obedience even if in a moment of ignorance or arrogance, he got swept away by Iblees's temptations). The qualities, of seeking forgiveness and seeking his creator made man not only dear to God but also superior over all other creation.
The divine books carrying the Message of God and the Messengers were sent so that humanity was informed of the truth in time. Iblees ,the shaitaan said, 'I will lure man into the pleasures of this world and he will forget the reason of his creation, he will indulge in dis-obedience of God and i will be victorious ( inspite of the fact that he knows that his victory is hell bound and so is his loss, but such is the menace of shaitaan,'the fallen spirit' that he wants to satisfy his anger by making man burn with him in hell).
And sadly those who will choose the deception of iblees over the truth of God, would choose denial when the true message of God reached them, and they would hence choose hell for themselves. God has given iblees limited powers, and his tricks are weak in the eyes of faithful and believing, his deceptions usually reveal their ugly face when one chooses to indulge in them, its only man's repeated denial of evil and good that pushes him far away from the creator.
So, once this mortal universe reaches its decision point which Allah Subhanao Ta'lla (God) has promised iblees, man and all creation, The truth will reveal itself infront of everybody, the whole creation will turn into dust and infront of everybody then, Allah will create again for those who do not believe, but by that time it will be too late to believe because the trial time duration is only till our lives last in this world.
And giving yourself a chance to believe and seek that truth is every person's right upon himself. And the just use of that right determines one's secure postion in heaven or hell because creation is not going to be repeated again for trial as man will go through a fair trial only once on the day of judgment. Jealousy, anger, and the possibility to err will be no more and all other negative qualities will be removed from man, so will all the sufferings that he goes through..
So when a perfect world of no suffering exists in the form of heaven, and the sorrows of this world just have a temporary dulling effect, then why would somebody, sensible enough consider, grieving for a lifetime, holding on to one sorrow or the other, Better than focusing his energies and capabilities on something productive and of welfare in nature? Why would one want hell for themselves when heaven is desperately calling out for them for herself? Why not read about seeking heaven rather than showing anger to God as to why He made hell?
When a believing person knows that this world is just a test, and he has to show some patience to be the man that he was made to be,( unlike the infidel shaitaan who had no patience and could not wait to ask for a chance to destroy as much humanity as he could), it is just a wise and positive approach to let bygones be bygones and focus on the eternal future of glory and joy. Whichever way you look at it, it is the best approach even if you don't really believe in God, heaven, or hell . One day some will. InshAllah .
