The verse NO. 30, indicates how GOD'S WILL was to create a VICEROY on the earth, so that his attributes and qualifications might be a ray, or a reflection of GOD'S ATTRIBUTES! ``And when your Lord said to the angels: I will create a VICEROY on the earth.''

      The ARABIC word KHALIF translated, TO VICEROY, means agent, deputy, vicegerent, indicating an agent having or exercising delegated power. This could be a reason as to why the angels put forth question that:

      ``Will you put there one who will do evil and shed blood, while we celebrate thy praise and extol thy Holiness!?''

      The angels might have had some knowledge of the nature and emotions of man that could result in mischief and bloodshed, but their information was not deep enough. They thought that such deeds and characters were not becoming to a creature who is GOD'S VICEGERENT (CALIPH).

      When the angels said so, God answered them in brief, and let the details to be explained later on.

      The angels had no independent WILL of their own, (FREE WILL) and were not endued with power of passions and other emotions, and their perfection could in some way and some how, reflect the perfection of

God; but it could not raise them to the dignity and rank of vicegerency (CALIPHATE). A perfect caliph should have the power of initiation himself, but whose independent actions always reflect the will of his PRINCIPAL; which in this case is God. In their judgement they only saw the mischief and bloodshed consequences of the misuse of the emotional nature by man. They could not guess that, out of the progeny of ADAM, might appear Men such as Mohammad, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and Saints and godly persons, martyrs, and many extraordinary charitable patients, and self-denying men who have none and nothing but Allah.