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". MAIN ERAS OF RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS:. Message of the Era of Adam. It appears from the Holy Quran that for the present human race the first era was that of Adam. . In regard to this period the Holy Quran says: وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلائِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً قَالُوا أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَنْ يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَعْكُ الدماء i. And when thy Lord said to the angels: 'I am about to place a vicegerent in the earth', they said,. Wilt Thou place therein such as will cause disorder in it, and shed blood?- and we glorify Thee with. Thy praise and extol Thy Holiness'. He answered,. I know what you know not. (2:31). This shows that Adam was the Prophet who laid, the earliest foundation of human civilization and culture, creating an order in human activity which had not existed before. The Adam spoken of here, however, is not the Adam who was the progenitor of the human race, but the Adam who was the originator of civilized human lite. In other words, before the time of this Adam man had not yet attained a stage of social life where he could be the bearer of a law. Till then man had, in fact, developd no social instincts, nor was he such as could