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˹Remember, O  Prophet˺ when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to create a human being from clay.

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So when I have fashioned him and had a spirit of My Own ˹creation˺ breathed into him, fall down in prostration to him.”

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So the angels prostrated all together—

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but not Iblîs,1 who acted arrogantly,2 becoming unfaithful.

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Allah asked, “O Iblîs! What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My Own Hands? Did you ˹just˺ become proud? Or have you always been arrogant?”

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He replied, “I am better than he is: You created me from fire and him from clay.”

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Allah commanded, “Then get out of Paradise, for you are truly cursed.

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And surely upon you is My condemnation until the Day of Judgment.”

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Satan appealed, “My Lord! Then delay my end until the Day of their resurrection.”

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Allah said, “You will be delayed

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