A conversation between Prophet Adam (as) and Allah (swt):

In another good tradition the Holy Prophet is quoted to have said that when the Almighty extracted the progeny of Adam from his loins to take their covenant regarding His absolute authority and the belief in all the Prophets, the first Prophet about whom He took the covenant was Muhammad Ibn 'Abdullah. Then the Almighty Allah revealed to Adam to cast a glance at his progeny. He saw that they were minute particles filling up the whole sky.

"How numerous is my progeny!" exclaimed Adam. "My Lord! You have created them for a great affair. Why did you take a covenant from them?"

"So that they may worship Me; And do not attribute partners to Me. That they may believe in the Prophets and follow them," replied the Lord.

Adam said, "But some of these particles are greater in size. Some of them more luminous. While others are dim or completely dark. What is the reason for this?"

"They are created like this so that I may examine them in every way," replied Allah.

"Can I ask some more questions?" asked Adam.

"Yes, you may."

Adam said, "If You had created them equal, of one mood, one creation, one color, one age and bestowed the same amount of sustenance. Some of them would not have oppressed others. There wouldn't have been jealousy, enmity and any kind of controversy among them."

Allah the Almighty addressed Adam, "You have opened your mouth against the spirit which is most exalted in my eyes. And you have said something about it due to your lack of knowledge. I am the All-knowing Creator. I have created the variety. My Wisdom and My command runs over them. And each of them is subservient to what I have destined. There is no change in My creation. I have created human beings and jinn only that they worship Me. I have created Paradise for those who worship and obey Me and follow My Prophets. But I care less if they don't. I created Hell for the infidels. Those who would disobey Me and deny My Prophets. I do not care for these also. I created you and your progeny not because I had any need for them. I created them in order to test them as to which of them are of the best in character. It is for this reason I created the world and Hereafter, life and death, obedience and disobedience, Paradise and Hell. This is what I intended with predestination and free will and in the light of My knowledge that encompasses all of them. I created them with different hues and colors, different faces, physical features, ages, difference in the quality of their sustenance, and differences in the extent of their obedience and disobedience. Among them are evil and the righteous, blind and seeing, short and tall, beautiful and ugly, intelligent and foolish, rich and poor, obedient and disobedient, sick and healthy. Some of them will be involved in different kinds of discomforts while most of them shall never have any problems. So that when the healthy ones look at the sick they praise Me for being spared. The sick may see the healthy people and pray to Me for cure. Also, that they may remain patient and earn divine rewards for the same, and be raised in degrees. In the same way the rich man would see a destitute and thank Me for the affluence that I have bestowed upon him. On the other hand the less privileged one would see the affluent and supplicate Me. The Believer shall see the infidels and Praise Me that I have guided him and created him for examination in good times and bad, through the trails and tribulations that I shall subject them to, through the bounties that I shall bestow upon them, and through the things that I have prohibited for them. I am Allah the King of Power, it is for Me to cause the things that I have decreed. It is also for Me to cause change in whatever I have destined. I can advance the occurrence of one thing and I can postpone another. I am One that can do anything He desires. No one can dare question My actions. But I shall question my creatures regarding their actions."

Source: Hayat AI-Qulub, Vol. 1, Stories of the Prophets by Muhammad Baqir Mailisi, Section: Merits of Adam and Hawwa’ (Eve), Reasons behind naming them so, the beginning of creation

From Quran Kareem

Prophet Idrīs(AS) was the third prophet after Prophet Seth(AS). He is the second prophet mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition has unanimously identified Prophet Idris(AS) with the biblical Enoch, although many Muslim scholars also held that Hermes Trismegistus were the same person.

THE FATE OF THE JESTER

//disturbing pixel art//

“It’s his voice, but it isn’t him.

It reeks of fear. But it’s not yours.

You can hear bones popping.”

(This was literally based off of fucking dust tale, but y’know what idc, the story fits these to fucks-)

Mandela prophet au belongs to: @shmorp-mcdurgen

I’m a very serious au maker I swear

Art Adams Artwork from Wizard Magazine #200 Gold Edition featuring the "hottest and most controversial characters from Wizard's history"

hihihi alternate Adam makes me physically sick in the best way possible so naturally I’m going to screech over @shmorp-mcdurgen’s amazing Mandela Prophet design all day long or whatever

tw for body horror, blood, and spiders!! or like. mention of spiders in comparison to the body horror basically. …good god

Sarah Heathcliff pushed her chair out from her desk, muttering a string of curses under her breath.

“What the fuck was that? Is he insane?! I swear to God, Murray, if this is some kind of elaborate prank-” The girl dragged a hand down her face, letting out a long, shaky sigh. Even as she said it, Sasha had a sinking feeling that that “memorial video” wasn’t a prank. If she was being completely honest, she understood almost exactly what it was, and no matter how much she tried to deny it, she knew she was going to have to go and check it out.

Curiosity killed the cat and now it’s going to kill me, too, she mused bitterly. If that absolute idiot got himself caught by an alternate-

Sarah didn’t let that train of thought continue. She was more than happy to kick an alternate’s ass tonight, all she needed was an excuse.

The BPS headquarters were eerily quiet when Sarah arrived, the darkness almost stifling, like something was pressing against her throat, making it hard to breathe.

Undeterred, the girl flicked on a light and immediately blinked the dots out of her vision, squinting down the hallway.

“Adam? You better be here, asshole.”

She was met with complete silence, the kind of choked, muffled silence that weighs heavy on the chest.

Balling her hands into fists to keep them from shaking, the girl cautiously made her way down the hall towards Adam’s room. The entrance to which unfortunately sat at just the right angle to block most of the light from the hallway, even with the door open.

“Adam,” she tried again. “Seriously, if you’re here, don’t be stupid and jump out at me. …I thought the cheap jumpscares were Jonah’s thing.”

Once again, nothing but the ringing in her ears.

Hold on. Was that the sound of floorboards creaking? The soft shifting of fabric? Was her brain making up sounds now, desperate for something straining against the quiet?

“I know you’re in there,” she hissed, only half-believing her words. “The joke’s over, you’re not scaring me.”

She stepped into his bedroom, reaching for the light switch.

“I think that’s where you’re wrong,” Adam’s voice hummed, mildly amused but with a rawness behind it, like he’d been screaming or crying earlier. Sarah jumped before reaching the switch, and the voice in the dark gave a dry chuckle. “You’re scared shitless.”

The girl squinted into Adam’s room, but could only barely make out a figure sitting on the edge of his bed.

“Fuck,” she muttered under her breath, backing out of the room.

“You think I’m a doppelgänger, right, Sarah?” the voice offered. “That the Adam you know died not too long ago and I’m a cheap copy.”

She grit her teeth, suddenly wishing she’d brought her bat with her. It was lying in the main room, propped up against the couch. She wasn’t sure how fast this thing was, or if it could catch her if she ran now.

“I’m not, though!” It let out a strangled laugh, like there was something being forced down its throat, and it nearly gagged mid-chuckle. A blackened hand reached around the doorframe, and Sarah backed away even further, eyes wide.

The rest of the alternate revealed itself, crawling out into the hallway. It had eight spiderlike arms with elongated fingers and pitch black hands sprouting out of the back of its limp body, what would’ve been its main set of limbs (if it were a human and not an alternate) dangling almost entirely motionlessly at its sides.

It certainly looked like Adam if it weren’t for the extra arms, and Sarah noted in quiet horror that there seemed to be an entire set of hands dedicated to holding Adam’s head in place, covering his eyes and mouth. One of the appendages lowered, and when Adam’s mouth opened, small, black… legs, or something flicked out, as if tasting the air instead seeing.

“It’s worse than that!” Its head jerked to the side, slightly, and the hands tightened their grip for a moment. “I’ve always been an alternate. Can you believe it?”

Sarah’s mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out. The thing that looked vaguely like Adam continued.

“This whole time, everything I knew was a fucking lie, Sarah. I’m one of the monsters we’ve been trying so hard to fight.”

“You’re lying,” Sarah finally managed to spit out.

“I wish I was.” The extra pair of arms (not the set holding Adam’s head or the massive pair that seemed to act as the creature’s legs) shrugged helplessly. One of its limp limbs twitched, but it paid the motion no mind. “Sarah, you have no idea how much I wish I was.”

The whole thing shuddered for a moment, and the hands covering Adam’s eyes pulled away slightly, revealing panicked blue irises. The strange black leg-mandible-things in his mouth momentarily retracted and his expression immediately twisted into one akin to absolute horror.

With a voice that sounded like he desperately needed to cough and clear his throat, the boy screamed.

“RUN!”

Sarah, acting on pure instinct and adrenaline, did as she was told, whirling around and making a dive for her bat. The alternate quickly righted itself, tightening its grip on Adam’s body once again. It didn’t say anything else, instead suddenly bursting into motion in pursuit.

Fucking shit, it was fast.

Sarah swung her bat in a wide arc, felt it connect with something, and spun on her heel to sprint away again. She slammed the door behind her, hoping that would give her at least another second longer, and scrambled into the BPS van, jamming her key in the ignition.

“Holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit-”

The vehicle started up, and she punched the gas just before one of those black hands could smash through the window and drag her back out.

She swerved around a corner, barely missing the curb, in hopes of throwing it even further off. She was definitely speeding. It couldn’t run 70 miles an hour or however illegally fast she was going in a partially residential area, right?

For a good while she just sped along, pushing the engine to the max until she was sure the alternate was far, far behind her.

Hopefully.

Finally, the reality of the situation fully sunk in.

Adam’s an alternate. Adam Murray, acquaintance of two and a half years, is a fucking alternate.

The worst part was that it made sense. His detachment from other people, his weird apathy and fearlessness, the way his emotions always seemed to do a 180 out of nowhere… she almost felt stupid for not seeing it sooner, but who would expect their friend (friend? How well did she even know Adam, really? It wasn’t like she ever told him anything about her, either) to be a horrifying nightmare monster?

Unless it was lying. That was likely, too. It could’ve killed Adam, taken his appearance, done all the usual alternate-y things.

The painful tug on her heart told her that wasn’t the case.

“Who the hell am I gonna call for help?” she muttered to herself. Not the police. Did she have any other allies?

There was one person. Neither of them we’re going to like it, though.

Sarah started on route for the MandelaTech shop, hoping Evelin was still working there.

From Quran Kareem

https://quranx.com/20.115

And We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination.

https://quranx.com/39.11-12

Say, [O Muhammad], "Indeed, I have been commanded to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion. And I have been commanded to be the first [among you] of the Muslims."

https://quranx.com/7.143

And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said, "My Lord, show me [Yourself] that I may look at You." [Allah] said, "You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it should remain in place, then you will see Me." But when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He rendered it level, and Moses fell unconscious. And when he awoke, he said, "Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first of the believers."

https://quranx.com/2.126-132

And [mention] when Abraham said, "My Lord, make this a secure city and provide its people with fruits - whoever of them believes in Allah and the Last Day." [Allah] said. "And whoever disbelieves - I will grant him enjoyment for a little; then I will force him to the punishment of the Fire, and wretched is the destination." And [mention] when Abraham was raising the foundations of the House and [with him] Ishmael, [saying], "Our Lord, accept [this] from us. Indeed You are the Hearing, the Knowing. Our Lord, and make us Muslims [in submission] to You and from our descendants a Muslim nation [in submission] to You. And show us our rites and accept our repentance. Indeed, You are the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful. Our Lord, and send among them a messenger from themselves who will recite to them Your verses and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them. Indeed, You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise." And who would be averse to the religion of Abraham except one who makes a fool of himself. And We had chosen him in this world, and indeed he, in the Hereafter, will be among the righteous. When his Lord said to him, "Submit", he said "I have submitted [in Islam] to the Lord of the worlds." And Abraham instructed his sons [to do the same] and [so did] Jacob, [saying], "O my sons, indeed Allah has chosen for you this religion, so do not die except while you are Muslims."

Prophet Adam(AS) Part 2, Prophet Series.

Mandela prophet rambles ^-^

When jonah first got brought back he found adam in their room holding an old murray family photo, crying and looking all catalyst-y. Jonah sat with him as they calmed adam down, and theyve never talked about it again

Thatcher used to pray frequently but after his sisters death (Lynn) he gave up on relogion. What god could let his sister die?

Jude sends adam birthday cards every year, yet adam pretends not to care. In reality he has them all shoved in a draw. He doesnt forgive jude for the abuse he was put through but a part of him just wants a dad again.

The only person left in daves family is Sarah, they meet up at marks grave every year, and they call alot, but hes never been too close with her. Dave wishes he couldve just been there.

Since finding out who he really is, adam has nightmares every single night about lynn, jude and the real him. Hes taken to abuse of substances to keep him awake at night, its better than facing reality.

When thatcher found out adam was an alt he flipped. He and adam got into a massive argument and in greif thatch said some horrific things to adam about how it was his fault, theyre working on the relationship but adams never seen thatcher the same. To adam, thatcher doesnt even seem like family.

Ruth used to write little post it note notes and leave them on thatchers desk, corny things like "you can do this" and "i belive in you", thatcher has kept every one of them and made a scrap book with them. Thatcjer frequently reads them to comfort himself.

Jonah feels very distant from everyone. In his mind, none of his freinds like him and hes just a bother to them all. They start to push everyone away, leading to arguments with adam alot. They usually end with adam sleeping outside. They feel awful about this, but doesnt know how to fix it

adam from the prophet au :-)