SALAAMUN TO ALL
25:33 And they shall not bring to you any question/argument, but We have brought to you the truth and best the explanation.
75.19 Again on Us is the explaining of it.
I like to start out with these two ayats, just to put into people's mind that, Al-Qur'an, is not a book on Philosophical Relativism, that is, it decides the questions/arguements which are brought to it.I've been debating with some people here on the question, is Iblis an angel? Allah says that, no question/arguement can be brought that Al-Qur'an explain it with the best explanation.
Their assertion is that, based on ayat
2:34, where Allah commands the angels to bow down and because Iblis did not, thereby, makes Iblis an angel. For them this is Allah
calling Iblis an angel rather than an allusion to his being an angel.
One comment is as follows:
Quote***I just showed you, all the ayats are from the quran...iblis was called an angel and was a jinn...iblis rebelled and thus lost his right to be called an angel and remained a jinn.***
Here, the individual, insists upon asserting that Iblis was
called an angel, yet, posted
no ayat where, Allah,
calls him an angel. However, in the following ayat, Allah, does
call Iblis a
JINN.
18.50 And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance but Iblis (did it not).
He was of the JINN, so he rebelled against his Lord's. What! would you then take him and his offspring for friends rather than Me, and they are your enemies? Evil is (this) change for the unjust.
In the following ayat, Allah, tells us the
nature of the JINN and, states that, He
created them of fire
15.27 And
the JINN We
created before, of
intensely hot fire.
In the following ayat, Allah, tells us that, Iblis, once again, was created from fire.
38.76 He said: I am better than he; Thou hast
created me of fire, and him Thou didst create of dust.
Now, no ayat, repeat, no ayat, tell us the
nature of the angels, none. Allah, never
calls Iblis an angel nor does He state, anywhere, that the angels were
created of a fire of a scorching wind, as some indviduals assert.
Now consider the following ayats.
16.49 And whatever creature that is in the heavens and that is in the earth makes obeisance to Allah (only),
and the angels (too) and they do not show pride.16.50 They fear their Lord above them and
do what they
are commanded.
Now, Allah, cannot be talking about the JINN and men here, because they both have, at times,
refused to carry out Allah's command. So, what
creatures then,
always carry out Allah's commands?---the
non-human creatures and the
angels. Clearly, Iblis,
cannot be an angel, because he
refused to carry out Allah's command to bow. Now, to continue to suggest or stand by 2:34, as saying that Iblis is one of the angels and that he refused to follow Allah's command and bow down,
is to then set up a contradiction between 2:34 and 16: 50. Al-Qur'an cannot contradict itself, hence, once again, the evidence is against the notion that Iblis was an angel.
If Allah didn't ask the JINN to bow directly, then what does that tell us? yeah, the JINN, Iblis included,
KNEW that the
command also extended to THEM. Given the amount of Qur'anic facts about the JINN and angels,
no other explanation makes sense.
For anyone to assert that Iblis was an angel, hence, the the angels were created of fire as well or that Iblis was an angel and then
became a JINN, as one individual continues to assert, when he refused to bow, contradicts the ayat which states he was
created from fire from the beginning and,
not that he became a being of fire because he rebelled.
These individuals and those of like mind, at best, can only offer allusion/conjecture/extrapolation for evidence [which, in fact, is not convincing proof], but
no Qur'anic evidence. The ayats which I posted,
clearly and unmistakenly tell us what Iblis was
called by Allah...a JINN.
