The Qur'an narrates the story of the earth building after God finished its creation and spoke to the angels saying:

 
It is natural that the angels knew nothing about the wisdom of such successor as they do not know the reason of the creation so; God suggested to the angels, after it was confirmed to them that Adam and his descendants will be inferior to the angels with regard to fear of God, obedience and worship, God suggested to the angels to ask the powerful creator:

 This prediction of the unknown happened from the part of the angels who spoke about what the man will be and what history and successive events confirmed that no period in the history passed without corruption, wars, destruction and bloodshed.
 The answer of God who, alone, knows the unknown was:

 The angels' hearts felt confident and hesitation disappeared after that answer because their question was neither an objection nor a doubt in the light of the wisdom of God.  How can such things happen when the angels are trusted by God, and approached to him and are God's honored worshipers and they obey to his orders?

 The Glorified and Most High God taught Adam all the names... the purpose of this teaching is the reality and characteristics of things, not the languages, in other words God gave Adam the information that he can use to judge on things.  It is because the feeling of a fact is not sufficient alone in order to issue a judgment about this fact and conceive its reality, previous information are necessary to explain this fact.  So the Most High God taught Adam the names which mean the reality of things that are felt.

 The expression of the Glorious Qur'an "the names" means that the Qur'an has issued the name but aimed at the object that bears this name, as it is confirmed by the facts.
 Consequently Adam knew the objects and not the languages, because everything that can be known and the reality of which can be revealed is a subject of knowledge.
 Language is a simple means of expression.

 So the verse was mentioned to point out that the expression "all the names" means the subjects namely the realities and the characteristics.  Adam (a.s.) , in his constitution and in what his head contains of composed systems, is a perfect creature, able, after granting him the five senses and giving every part of the different visible and invisible parts of his body a specific function to carry out with an amazing order of precision and perfection, Adam (a.s.) is able to bind, through the brain, between the facts and the information.

As a result of this binding he had the power to understand the reality of things and nominate them.  With such talents and tremendous powers that enabled Adam (a.s.) to follow the way of evolution, he became able to repair and build the earth.  As a result, he deserved to be the successor on the earth instead of the angels who were not given the talents and powers that were given to Adam (a.s.).

 The Glorified and Most High God, in order to prove the capability he granted to Adam (a.s.), exposed the names of creatures to the angels saying :

 The angels were astonished and tried to seek in the depth of themselves their previous knowledge but they found no answer and said:

 The failure of the angels to answer offers another evidence of the rank that God gave to Adam (a.s.), that rank that makes him superior to the angels and makes him deserve to be the successor on the earth.  Is not Adam (a.s.) honored by the mind and thinking he was given? Through this honor, Adam (a.s.) ladled from his lord's flood and learned from God's light of knowledge.

 After he was given the capability of knowledge, Adam (a.s.) was ordered by God to tell the angels what they failed to tell and inform them of what they could not conceive, so Adam (a.s.) told the angels about the realities that God wanted to reveal and God called the angels:

 In order to honor Adam (a.s.) more and to distinguish him with what other creatures do not possess, and show his knowledge and in order to justify the fact that he was preferred, God ordered the angels to prostrate to Adam (a.s.), and the angels after knowing the rank given to Adam (a.s.) found no other way then prostration, and so they prostrated.
 Yes, the prostration of the angels to Adam (a.s.), was a prostration of honor, not of worship.

 Adam (a.s.) who is able to conceive all possibilities, and reach in his scientific life the distant purposes, deserves such an honor granted by the angels who realized that Adam is a holy creation that must be respected and honored for his great talents. In order that the relation be complete between the creation, the building of  the earth and what will happen on this earth after its building by man (beginning with Adam (a.s) and his descendants), and in order to reveal the purpose that God wanted in preferring the wisdom which is an inherent quality of man by which he can distinguish between the true and the false, between the good and the evil, God wanted to reveal the reality of the disbelief of Iblis who was asked to prostrate before Adam (a.s.) but he refused and was too proud so that he became one of the disbelievers who rush after the false and the evil:
God said:  "The angels fell down prostrating, every one, saving Iblis, he was scornful and became one of the disbelievers" and then God said:  "O Iblis!  What hindereth thee from falling prostrate before that which I have created with both my hands?  Are thou too proud or are one of the high exalted?"
Iblis replied:  "I am better than him.  Thou created me of fire while him to did create of clay."

 If the researcher wants to distinguish between fire and clay he will find that the origin of fire is earth and without earth fire would not have existed.  The sources of fire are known to every body, and it makes no difference if the source is wood or energy, with the different if the source is wood or energy, with the different kinds of energy including the thermal energy like electricity and fuel oil and the substances derived from it, and all these elements have their origin in the earth, moreover the machines that carry the electric energy are made of metal that is found in the earth... consequently the earth is the mother and the source of fire.  Such facts are doubtless.

So if Iblis considers himself better than Adam (a.s.) because he is created from fire, he forgot that the origin of fire is earth, that is the same origin that Adam (a.s.) was created from, but Iblis became blind by hate and did not realize the reality due to his pride, so he incarnated, unconsciously, the other picture of creature that deviated from the right way, but the punishment for deviation from the right course is inevitable, so Iblis was immediately punished by being cursed and expelled from paradise until the day of judgment, and this is the toughest punishment a creature will suffer.

 Adam (a.s.) was following what was happening around him and was feeling love and fear:  Love of God who created and honored him and made the angels prostrate before him, and fear from God who has expelled Iblis from paradise.  Adam's (a.s.) astonishment was due to this creature (Iblis) who hated Adam without knowing him well, and who thought that he was better than Adam (a.s.) without having the opportunity to prove his superiority over him.  Adam's (a.s.) astonishment increases and he wonders about Iblis' argument.  How can Iblis imagine that fire is better than clay?  From where did he learn such a thing?  It is supposed and certain that God only knows about this issue, and it has been confirmed that the angels know only what they learned from God who created clay and fire and who knows which of the two is better.

 Adam (a.s.) realized when listening to the dialogue between God and Iblis that this latter differs from him and that he is a disbeliever.  Adam (a.s.) knew also that Iblis will be his eternal enemy, but God's clemency is wide and his providence is more beautiful, so God did not inflict on Iblis a big adversity as a punishment but he left the door open to Iblis to behave.  Adam (a.s.) understood that the created man has the liberty of choice which is an original tissue in the existence that God wanted.  This liberty is granted to the creatures upon whom a task is imposed, and on such liberty, reward and punishment, within the framework of a just judgment, are based.

 Adam realized that he has the supremacy which is based on knowledge of God and of the creation, so he thanked God for his divine light and gift and he slept in peace.
 One day, Adam awoke to find near his head a creature of different kind which looked at him with signs of love and tenderness.
 Adam asked:  Who are you?  Where did you come from?
 The creature replied:  I came from you, God created me from you while you were sleeping.  Do not me to come to you when you are awake?
 Adam felt assured and secured, so he replied:  I am pleased to see whom is a part of me and whose existence has discarded my loneliness, thanks to God for his gifts.

 The Glorified and Most High God created for me somebody near whom I feel secure and Adam knew that this creature is Eve who was created from him. Adam lived with Eve in Paradise, in happiness, speaking to each other and listening to the singing of the birds, delighted to contemplate the creatures, glorifying God and enjoying the music that pervades in all places and horizons in a world the immensity of which is known only to his creator, a world full of security and satisfaction.

Adam lived with his wife in this world, enjoying life's happiness with all its elements, but one thing was prohibited: the fruit of one tree that God ordered them not to touch and eat. But Adam is a man and he may forget, his heart feeling may transform, his will may weaken as God says:

 Iblis decided to carry out the plan he conceived and the only way for him to obtain that objective was to take advantage of Adam's weak point that lies in his bodily and psychological creation.  But Adam, despite he was a man, he was suspicious about the intention of Iblis, consequently Iblis, in seeking to tempt Adam, found that the only way will be through Eve, the blood companion and partner of Adam in this life. Does Eve possess the same talents that Adam possess?

 Eve was convinced that the prohibited tree is the tree of immortality and she suggested to Adam that he eats from the fruits of that tree.  Adam hesitated, but Eve insisted until he believed that this tree is really the tree of immortality, and is there something better then to live an eternal life with peace and security?  That is Adam's dream that haunted him since his existence.  Adam forgot his God's promise:

 But Iblis was shrewd and spoke to Adam and his wife under oath:

 Thus the first stratagem in man's life succeeded and the falsehood won the battle over the eternal right, and such success was predestined and engraved in the sky board in order to enable man to use his capabilities and talents and the choice that God gave him: either he will orient himself towards welfare or towards evil, in this latter case he will be disobedient and ungrateful.

 Iblis believed that he won the battle against Adam with his shrewdness and wickedness and that he defeated Adam who has a noble character, a serene spirit and a clean conscience. But it is inevitable for Adam to forget himself even for few moments, and eat from the forbidden tree, otherwise the struggle story between the good and the evil would not have existed, and man would not be great through faith and welfare deeds that oriented towards ideals that satisfy God and the believers, also man would not go down through his belief and orient the advantages that are found in him towards egotism that dissatisfies God.

 Adam and Eve felt pain and shame and became immediately sad. The environment around them changed and the happiness song that was coming out from themselves stopped, and they realized what they have done, so they hurried to cover their naked bodies with the leaves of the trees. So Adam and Eve disobeyed their God's order and consequently God deprived them of his paradise and called them:

 It was unavoidable to Iblis, after he succeeded in his temptation, to ask his God to grant him enough life and leave to him enough time until the day of judgment, so that he will be able to misguide whom he wants and send him away from the right way.  So God replied:

 Instead of thanking his God for being granted this long period, Iblis replied to such gift with disbelief, ungratefulness and his intentions were oriented towards hatred of Adam and the determination to revenge from the successors through the ages. So he said to his God:

 -The Most High Creator said to Iblis:

 Adam and his wife felt repentance for what they did and they confessed to their God that they are guilty and asked him Mercy in order to avoid the great loss.  God accepted their request and said to them:

 Adam and Eve thought that the tolerance and Mercy of their God will cancel their blunder and that they will remain in Paradise.
 God knew their thought and said to all:

 Thus the Glorified and Most High God had given man again the opportunity to prove his good intention and orient the powers granted to him to satisfy God, and so the stage of whole rest was over and now began a new stage in which there are two ways: faith or disbelief, good or evil, those who will follow God's instructions and follow the right way, they will be inaccessible to the temptation of satan.  Those who follow the wrong way, their existence will be bad and their "effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon they do good work."

 Adam and Eve went down to each and the new life system began especially when Eve prepared herself to receive the first flower in the humanity gardens. They were very anxious to see their descendants fill the earth and walk on it and eat from God's gifts.  Adam was yearning for seeing his sons, and Eve was optimistic with their arrival despite the pregnancy pains she suffers.

 Eve gave birth to two twins, one is Kabil and his sister, and the other Habil and his sister.  The children grew under the auspices of their parents and with mutual love.  When they became young, Adam left his two daughters with his wife and the two sons went to earn their living.  So Kabil was a farmer and his brother was a shepherd.  Security and happiness pervaded among Adam's family due to the full cooperation between its members.  With time, Kabil and Habil wanted each one to have a wife.  It is said that God inspired to Adam that each one of the two sons marry the twin sister of his brother in order that they will help each other.  Adam gave such instructions to his sons and he deserves to be obeyed, but the human caprice and its trend to fall into the loss made Adam disobeyed by his sons.  Man's eagerness and desire are based on ambition.

One who can stop his desire and break its domination on him, is one of those whom God was generous with them in this world and the other world.  But one who is dominated by his desires and behaves without wisdom is one of those "whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work."

 After Kabil knew from his father that his twin sister cannot be married to him but can be married to his brother, he was upset and did not accept such repatriation because his share is less beautiful than that of his brother and he decided to marry his twin sister.
 And so the beauty was always the cause of differences even between brothers. At last Adam had an idea, so he asked each of his sons to offer an immolation to God.  The one whose immolation will be accepted will deserve to be granted what he wants.  Habil offered a camel while Kabil offered wheat, but God accepted the offer of Habil and rejected that of Kabil because he disobeyed his father.

 Then, Kabil threatened his brother saying to him:  I shall kill you in order to avoid your company, while you are happy and I am disappointed.
 Habil replied to his brother:  You are unjust, following the wrong way, it is better for you to repent and ask God to forgive you and change your mind.  If you intend to kill me, I do not intend to kill you because I fear God the Lord of the worlds, and if you kill me, you go to hell: this is the punishment of the unjust.

 The relation of the brotherhood was not strong enough in front of the bitter hatred that Kabil fostered toward Habil, and fear of God and obedience to parents were not sufficient to deter Kabil from committing the first crime on earth.  So Kabil killed his brother Habil and left his in the wilderness not knowing what to do with the corpse, so he bore him on his back within a bag.  Then God sent two crows that fought each other until one killed the other, then dug the earth with his beak and his foot and then threw him in the pit while Kabil was looking and saying:  I failed to be like this crow and bury my brother and he became one of the repentant.

 Yes , the mercy of God came down on earth within that interval by sending the two crows I order to teach man that his origins is from earth and that he will return to earth, and in order to preserves Adam's dignity and the dignity of his descendants and to teach the killer a hard lesson.

 After the death of Habil, Eve gave birth to a son who was a successor to Habil and Adam considered him as an executor to his will and as his successor, as far as Kabil is concerned, he went away fearful and settled in Aden of Yemen.  Iblis suggested to Kabil that fire ate the Habil immolation because Habil was a fire worshiper and so advised him to set a fire.  Consequently, Habil built a fire house and he was thus the first man to worshipping fire, and his sons wasted their times in drinking alcohol, worshipping fire, and in prostitution.  It was said that God drowned them in the deluge that happened in the era of Noah.
 
 This is the story of Adam as mentioned in the Glorious Qur'an, in the Surah "The Cow":

 And in the Surah:  "The Heights":

And in the Surah:  "Taha"

 And in the Surah: "SAD"

 And in the Surah:  "The Table Spread"

 And in the Surah: "The Heights":

 And in the Surah: "YASIN"

This information was extracted from:
 1.  Samih Atef El-Zein.  Adam and the Creation.  Published by Dar-al-Kitab Allubnani.  Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.