What is 'human?'

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A bee does not choose to collect pollen and create a nearly flawless, geometrical hive. It does not have the consciousness to question the queen bee or to sit and think on how it can improve the hive. Instead, it fully submits to its impulse and does what it was created to do. As a result, it submits to God without question.

Bees aren't animals, they are insects and don't make a valid comparision to animals like chimpanzees who have enough ability to generate original ideas to the degree that they can create tools:

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According to Islamic theology, angels were created from light. They were not given free will. They serve God for all eternity without question.

Well, then they are nothing but biological robots and extensions of Allah then.

Jinn were created from smokeless fire. The Jinn are an invisible race of beings who are likened to the human race, except they are more prone to evil. According to Islamic theology, Iblis or Lucifer was flawless in his worship, so he was considered to be an angel though he was from the race of Jinn. When Adam was created, God commanded the angels to prostrate before his new creation, but Iblis chose to stand.

Then "Jinn" are much higher creatures than "angels." They have free will (thus man isn't unique in that regard even in Islamic theology) and the ability to be as flawless as angels when they choose to be. Strange that the mindless angels serve Allah but the much more advanced Jinn are the ones who choose evil. I'm glad that the Alaha of Israel is great enough that the majority of His most advanced creations (angels) choose to serve Him out of their own free will accessment of His worthiness of it.

Shlama, Craig