This is God's final message to humanity. All of God's prophets have come to this world, and all the scriptures have been delivered. The time has come to purify and consolidate all the messages delivered by God's prophets into one message, and to proclaim that henceforth, there is only one religion acceptable to God, "Submission" (3:19,85). "Submission" is the religion whereby we recognize God's absolute authority, and reach an unshakeable conviction that God ALONE possesses all power; no other entity possesses any power that is independent of Him. The natural result of such a realization is to devote our lives and our worship absolutely to God ALONE. This is the First Commandment in all the scriptures, including the Old Testament, the New Testament, and this Final Testament.

Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is One God!

Therefore you shall adore the Lord your God

with all your heart,

with all your soul,

with all your mind,

and with all your strength.

[Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Luke 12:29-30, Quran 3:18]
 

While every religion has been corrupted by innovations, traditions, and false, idolatrous doctrines, there may be "Submitters" within every religion. There may be Submitters who are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or anything else. These Submitters, collectively, constitute the only religion acceptable to God. As emphasized by the theme on the front page of this book, all Submitters who are devoted to God ALONE, and do not set up any idols beside God, are redeemed into God's eternal kingdom (2:62). A criterion of the true submitters is that they will find nothing objectionable in the Quran.

With the advent of this Testament, God's message to the world is now complete. We have now received the long awaited answers to our most urgent questions - who we are, the purpose of our lives, how we came into this world, where do we go from here, which religion is the right one, was it evolution or creation, etc.

Some may wonder: "Why did God wait all this time to perfect and consolidate His message? What about all the people since Adam who did not receive the complete scripture?" Bearing in mind that the Quran answers this question in 20:52, it is a matter of simple statistics that the world's population from the beginning until now did not exceed 7,000,000,000. From now to the end of the world, 2280 A.D.
 

It all began a few billion years ago when one of God's high-ranking creatures, Satan, developed a supercilious idea that he could run a dominion as an independent god besides God. This challenge to God's absolute authority was not only blasphemous, it was also erroneous. Satan was ignorant of the fact that God alone possesses the ability to be a god, and that there is much more to godhood than he realized. It was the ego - arrogance augmented by ignorance - that led Satan to  believe that he could take care of a dominion, as a god, and run it without disease, misery, war, accidents, and chaos. The vast majority of God's creatures disagreed with Satan. Yet, the minute egoistic minority that agreed with him in various extents were in the billions.Thus, a profound dispute erupted within the Heavenly Community

(38:69). The rebels' unjustifiable challenge to God's absolute
authority was met and resolved in the most efficient manner. After
giving the rebels sufficient chances to denounce their crime and
submit to Him, God decided to exile the hard core rebels on a space
ship called Earth, and give them yet another chance to redeem
themselves.

If you claim that you can fly a plane, the best way to test your claim
is to give you a plane and ask you to fly it. This is precisely what
God decided to do in response to Satan's claim that he could be a god;
God appointed him a temporary god on the tiny speck Earth (2:30,
36:60). As for those who agreed with Satan, they were given a chance
to kill their egos and submit to God's absolute authority. While the
vast majority of the guilty creatures took advantage of this
opportunity, a miniscule minority consisting of about 150 billion
creatures failed to take advantage of this offer (33:72).
 
 
 

The dispute in the Heavenly Community led to the classification of God's creatures into different categories:

(1) The Angels

Creatures who never questioned God's absolute authority were classified as angels; they knew that God alone possesses the ability
and qualifications to be a god. The vast majority of God's creatures -countless numbers - belong in this category. The number of angels is so enormous, even the angels do not know how many of them there are; only God knows their number (74:31).
 

(2) The Animals
 
Although the angels suggested that the rebels and their leader should be exiled from God's kingdom (2:30), the Most Merciful willed to give the rebels a chance to denounce their crime, repent, and submit to Hisabsolute authority (33:72). As represented in the diagram above, the vast majority of the rebels took advantage of God's gracious offer to re-enter His kingdom. They agreed to kill their egos, come to this world to perform a submissive role, as an expiation for their blasphemy. In return for their submissive role in this world, these creatures are redeemed back to God's eternal kingdom (6:38). The horse, the dog, the tree, the sun, the moon, the stars, as well as deformed and retarded children are among the intelligent creatures who denounced their crime and repented:
 

Do you not realize that

to God prostrates everything

in the heavens and the earth;

the sun, the moon, the stars,

the mountains, the trees, the animals,

as well as many people?

Many people, however, are destined for retribution. (22:18)
 

The stars and the trees prostrate. (55:6)

(3) The Humans

The hard-core rebels - humans and jinns - refused to denounce their crime, and opted for witnessing a demonstration of Satan's claim.
These egotistic creatures who failed to submit to God's absolute authority, even when offered a chance to do so, were divided in half.
The half that were less convinced of Satan's point of view became classified as humans. Although they harbored doubts about Satan's
claim, they failed to make a firm stand regarding God's absolute authority. It is the ego that prevented these creatures from
appreciating God's omnipotence, it is the ego that prevented them fromsubmitting when such an opportunity was offered to them (33:72), and it is the ego that stands between most of us and redemption to God's kingdom (25:43). This is why "Kill your ego" is one of the first commandments in the Quran (2:54).

(4) The Jinns

The other half of the guilty creatures, those who leaned closer to Satan's point of view and exhibited the biggest egos, became
classified as jinns. It was God's plan to assign one jinn to every human being from birth to death. The jinn companion represents Satan
and constantly promotes his point of view (50:23, 27). Both the jinns and the humans are given a precious chance in this world to re-educate themselves, denounce their egoism, and redeem themselves by submittingto God's absolute authority. Whenever a human being is born, a jinn is born and is assigned to the new human. We learn from the Quran that  the jinns are Satan's descendants (7:27, 18:50). When a jinn being is  born and assigned to a human being, the jinn remains a constant  companion of the human until the human dies. The jinn is then freed, and lives on for a few centuries. Both humans and jinns are required  to worship Allah alone (51:56).