Islam is the oldest as well as the youngest of all the great religions professed and partially practiced by large portions of humanity. Islam is as old as God and His creation. Before humanity appeared on the scene it was the religion of the universe and the creatures that inhabited it, and it continues to be the religion of nature. According to creed of the Quran, the first man of knowledge was a Muslim. He was created with infinite potentialities to assimilate divine attributes in order to fit himself as the vicegerent of God on earth. His previous state was a paradisial condition in which he lived the life of nature, adapted by instinct to his environment from which he gained his sustenance by instinctive efforts. The transition from that nature was a shock of maladjustment. Some other religions start the life of humanity with what is termed the Fall of Man. The Quran, too, uses that term for the transitional jerk which granted man free-will, with possibilities of going against nature and the God of nature. The Christian version of the legend depicts the expulsion of man from paradise because of having eaten the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. According to the Quran, it was not knowledge but ignorance that drove him out, it was the misuse of the free-will granted to him that caused his fall. But the Quran does not base its superstructure on the fall. Sin or grace, virtue or vice are not inherited. Man's responsible existence started with his free-will and his endowment of knowledge. Humanity is not tainted with any original sin because of the disobedience of he primeval progenitor. Faith in the moral order which Islam enjoins presupposes free-will. If man were born with an incorrigible congenital bent toward sin, transmitted by inheritance. In the moral realm no one carries the burden of another.' Men shall have the benefit of what they earn.