Satan and Adam
When God creates Adam, he commands all the angels to bow to him. Satan refuses to bow to Adam and is therefore rebuked by God. The apocryphal Jewish work Life of Adam and Eve also contains this narrative.
Quran
| “ | Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape; "When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him." So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together: Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves. (God) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves?" (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape." | ” |
| “ | And Behold, we said to the angels: "Bow down to Adam" and They bowed down. Not so Iblis: He refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith. We said: "O Adam! dwell Thou and Thy wife In the Garden; and eat of the bountiful things therein As (where and when) ye will; but approach not This tree, or ye run into harm and transgression." -- | ” |
The Life of Adam and Eve
| “ | Then Michael came; he summoned all the troops of angels and told them, "Bow down before the likeness and the image of the divinity." And then, when Michael summoned them and all had bowed down to you, he summoned me also. And I told him, "Go away from me, for I shall not bow down to him who is younger than me; indeed, I am master prior to him and it is proper for him to bow down to me. [ | ” |
The story of the expulsion of satan is unique to the Latin manuscript of the Life of Adam and Eve, written around and after the 9th centuryLife of Adam and Eve#Latin Life of Adam and Eve and it is possible that it was actually drawn from Qur'an. These verses are often used to suggest that Iblis i.e. Satan in Qur'an is an angel. However, Iblis is considered to be a jinn by Islamic scholars due to other evidence in the Qur'an and hadith.
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