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==== Inanimate objects couldn't bear the challenge ==== | ==== Inanimate objects couldn't bear the challenge ==== | ||
It is hard to know what was meant by this or why Allah would offer an inanimate object with no biology for consciousness (unless you think they're magic pegs in the Earth) that he already knew couldn't answer the task, nor how they refused it. (look at tafsirs | It is hard to know what was meant by this or why Allah would offer an inanimate object with no biology for consciousness (unless you think they're magic pegs in the Earth) that he already knew couldn't answer the task, nor how they refused it. (look at tafsirs (some such as al-Jalalayn say they could speak at that time: https://quranx.com/tafsirs/33.72, Ibn Kathir doesn't mention that but took it literally). | ||
Hard to see why humans would given natural risk aversion with the risk of hell being involved (Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky citation) | |||
look for pre-Islamic for parallels. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|33|72}}|Indeed We presented the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to undertake it and were apprehensive of it; but man undertook it. Indeed he is most unjust and ignorant.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|33|72}}|Indeed We presented the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to undertake it and were apprehensive of it; but man undertook it. Indeed he is most unjust and ignorant.}} | ||