He's Not Your Adam / He's Not Right for You
She found love in a garden,
she believed people called it Eden,
where every touch meant forever,
and each devotion leaned towards the Creator.
She believed true love is when ribs meet ribs,
and she thought she'd found her missing piece.
She kept calling him fate,
where each flutter was a sign she couldn't negate.
But fate doesn't leave fingerprints on your doubts,
she blurred his truth beneath the gentle clouds.
His voice unfolded like morning warmth,
convincing her that he was her Adam.
Yet he kept questioning what had already been done,
I bet he’s not the one.
He made her question herself every day,
blaming her for mistakes she didn't make.
The same thing always happened in a different way,
she bore it as devotion she thought she must take.
She is Eve who tries to mend every ache,
a woman devoted to God in all she makes,
trusting her love could bring her to a sacred state,
but what she held was never Adam’s to take.
Yanma Hidayah
Sat 15th Nov 2025 16:12
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, @Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh. And that’s really interesting about the Eden Valley and the River Eden in Cumbria—I didn’t know that! Thank you for sharing it.
The mention of Eden in the poem above is simply a metaphor. When someone falls in love, all their senses feel as if they’re standing in a beautiful garden, and most people will begin with the belief that their love will become something eternal.
Actually, there are many similarities across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and from what I understand, all three come from the same root. Islam teaches that there are 25 prophets, starting from Prophet Adam and ending with Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the final prophet. You might notice several parallels: besides Adam and Eve, there’s also Noah with the story of the ark—known in Islam as Prophet Nuh. There’s also Abraham, regarded as the father of many prophets, who in Islam is called Prophet Ibrahim, and there are many other figures and terms that appear in all three traditions.
Among the 25 prophets, four were given revealed scriptures, starting with Prophet Dawud (the Zabur), Prophet Musa (the Torah), Prophet Isa (the Gospel), and Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) with the Qur’an.
If someone asks why God revealed four scriptures instead of just one, the answer can be found in Qur’an 2:30, where God says, ‘I know that which you do not know.’
The way I understand it is this: when we want to earn a degree, we have to go through education step by step—from primary school all the way to university. More simply put, each era is different; people’s ways of life change over time. Each scripture completes and perfects the teachings of the one before it.
But this doesn’t mean that God was uncertain about the scriptures revealed earlier. Rather, God adjusted them to the way people thought in each era. The Zabur itself contains short hymns; it does not include complex legal rulings but is more focused on reflection and remembrance. And the scriptures that came after it were revealed in times when societies had become more advanced, so their contents became more detailed.
In simple terms, in the beginning, people were taught to recognize the Creator, and later, they were taught how to live their lives.
I don’t intend to compare or judge these faiths, but I once went through a phase that led me to question why I was given breath in the first place. The Creator could have made me an atom floating somewhere in space, without granting me a soul—so why did He give me life? What does He want me to do? How am I supposed to live? And where will my soul return after death? I simply wanted to understand where the root comes from, and after learning about that, as a Muslim, it made me hold even deeper respect for both Jewish and Christian traditions.