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How can God Almighty's saying to Adam, "Indeed, you will not be hungry therein or be naked," be reconciled with the existence of millions of hungry people in the world today?

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Allah Almighty promised Adam (peace be upon him) in Paradise, before his expulsion from it, that he would not hunger therein, nor be naked, nor thirst, nor suffer from the sun. And His saying, "therein" refers to Paradise. Adam was informed of this promise so that he would be warned against obeying Satan, otherwise he would be expelled from Paradise and afflicted with toil, hunger, thirst, nakedness, and the sun on Earth, where Adam was specifically mentioned because he was responsible for providing these things. There is no contradiction between the noble verse and what befalls the children of Adam on Earth.

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