Heaven (part I) Good and Evil

    According to the Qur'an, good and evil are both present. There is both good and evil spirits in the lower heaven in whcih we live. The lower heaven serves as a boundary to keep the evil spirits below and prevents them from entering above the seven heavens. Goodness is defined as original and real. Men of Allah who are defined as good are personified and are a reflection of the manifestation of the goodness of the lord and are duly protected and are called mansooms, the duly protected ones. This protection has been put into effect from the very moment they were brought into existence, keeping them away from every impurity and pollution. Evil is alienand opposed to the goodness which is original and has no permenance , for evil is only the act of rebelliousness against goodness out of viciuos desire of the devilish urge. Such corrupt souls or the evil spirits who lose by their own wickedness have the urge to rise above the material world. Their attempts are to rise but they are not gained and they have lost their title to it. They have inquisitiveness to know what is in the higher regions, the right to enter which they have forfeited. When such unwarranted attempts are made by the evil spiritis to rise into the heavently heights they are repelled and thrown into their base, the abyss. (Ahmed Ali Quran Tafsir: 37;6-10). An example of goodness on the other hand is the nobelest and purest spiritual beings which men can conceive outside the human rantks of God's creation, the angels. Among the angels the nearer ones are the 'arsh' or the central seat of the divine authority, those that are greater or superior in their excellence. The pure, noble and venerable abstract beings funciton one side in celebrating the praise and the glory of God and as the side in the solicitous prayers to the Lord for the protection or the forgiveness of the human fellows in creation below. (Ahmed Ali Quran Tafsir: 42;5). This shows us the motives an nature of goodness as well as the motives and nature of evilness. Goodness is original (being yourself) while evilness is a reactio nto it, a rebelliousness towards goodness.