Story of PROPHET: ADAM (عليه السلام) PART 12

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PROPHET: ADAM (عليه السلام)

PART: 12

IBLIS TRANSFORMATION – FROM HONORED TO ACCURSED

There were many traditions about Iblis at the time of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Ibn Masud, Ibn Abbas and a group of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Said that:

 Iblis had been the head of the angels in the worldly heavens. Ibn Abbas said in one narration that his name had been Azazil and in another narration he said it had been Al Harith. 

Ibn Abbas also said that Iblis was a jinn and that they had once been the keepers of Paradise, with Iblis the most honorable and the most learned and the most pious of them. Another tradition says that he had been one of the famous four possessors of wings angel's, before Allah transformed him into the accursed Satan.

Allah Almighty recounts Iblis's disobedience in another Surah:

"Remember when your Lord said to the Angel's: 

"Truly I am going to create man from clay. So, when I have fashioned him and breathed into him (his) soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him."

So, the angels prostrated themselves all of them; except Iblis, he was proud and was one of the disbelievers

Allah Said: 

"The truth is, and the truth I say, that I will fill Hell with you and those of them (mankind) that follow you together." 

(Ch 38:71-85 Quran).

The Reason for Adam's Creation

After this lesson about freedom Adam learned another lesson, one about knowledge. 

Adam realized that Iblis was the symbol of evil in the universe and that the angels were the symbol of good. 

However he did not yet know anything about himself. Then Allah made him perceive his true identity and the reason for his creation, and the secret of his glorification.

Allah the Exalted Said: 

"He taught Adam all the names of everything". 

(Ch 2:31 Quran).

 To be continued…

ان شاء الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ

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