May Allah bless every single of us :) Bismillahhirrahmanirrahim
Iblis is a creation of Allah SWT. Iblis is a Jinn. Iblis is, as you know he is made of fire which the Quran talks about in several verses that he is made of fire. But where did Iblis come from? And were there the likes of Iblis before? And what Allah Jalla Wa'ala did is that He created the whole creation of Jinns that were on the Earth and this you'll find in many of the early mufassireen have commented on this. He created Iblis on the Earth and they had got Takleef. Takleef is that Allah's now given them responsibilty to recognize Him. Now when Allah gibes responsibiliy to a creation. He will send Messengers. So what Allah did is that He sent Jinn Messengers. So before there was human Messengers before Adam AS who was the first human Messenger there were many Jinn Messengers that Allah Azzawajal sent to them. Now the Jinns are made of fire (smokeless flame - Quran has mentioned about how they were created) and the Jinns, one of the things they have inside them is being firey. They are angry, hasty, fast and very powerful (but not as powerful as Allah AWJ) Now the sifat and the qualities that the Jinn have between them is that they are in fights and they are in quarells and they are in superiority and who can prove who is greater. This is one of the nature of the Jinns and they are always in this spirit of challenge. So if you have one or maybe two of those sifat. Yes know what I meant. I don't wanna tell.
There also exist good Jinns. Allah SWT has said that in Surah Jin itself. He's talked about two different groups of Jinns and He said the Salihoon and there are those who are pious and those who are not pious. Now the ones that were on the Earth were both types. And Messengers came down. But the Messengers in their many numbers were killed by the Jinns on the Earth. There was great corruption that prevailed on the Earth. Now there was one notable Jinn that was very pious. Iblis. Being who he was. He was a good Jinn. And he started to worship God. Worship God to the extent. Because Jinns could fly and Jinns could go through many of the heavens. They could go up and down. Up down up down up down lol. They didn't have to stay on the Earth. They could travel up. It was only when Rasulullah SAW came. They were trapped within this first universe. This is clear from the Quran in Surah Saffat you will find. In Surah Jinn also. That Allah did not allow them to go beyond the first heaven meaning the end of this universe. Because you know. Many predictor or Ahli Nujum on that time were praised by the residents. Because these predictors will find Jinn and say to Jinn to go up and hear what did Angels are saying. So they could hear. They could hear what Angels are saying. One of many things they got is about future. Then those Jinns will go to the predictors and say to them what they have heard from the Angels. So that after Rasulullah SAW became a Prophet they can't go pass. Even the first layer of sky. So what happened is that on these travels. Iblis proved himself that he was so close to God. And Allah SWT then allowed him to get closer and closer. Higher and higher literally. And they say in some of these narrations. That there was no space in the heavens was left. Like no large space was left in the heaven. But Iblis had gone there and he had worshipped God. So he was a very, very, very close. Until then Allah SWT allowed him to come in the company of the Angels. And he got the opportunity to be in the company of the Angels. Allah decided that He is going to send the Angels down to the Earth. And to banish those Jinns that had caused a lot of corruption upon the Earth. So Angels were gonna come down and they are going to kill many of these Jinns that were just out of control.
Iblis volunteered. That if he can come with the Angels. To kill these corrupted Jinns upon the Earth. And Allah Jalla Wa'ala gave him permission. So he came and they killed a lot of these Jinns they left only a few on the Earth. And from these few again the progeny of the Jinns would start. Now Iblis returns back. Now many perhaps hundreds of years we all don't know whatever is going by. Wallahualam. Because Jinns have very loooooongg lives. They don't have short lives of the human beings. You know we only have 60, 70 or 100 years. Prophet SAW himself died at the age of 63. They have hundreds of years perhaps they have a few thousands of years of living. Now you got Iblis that has gone down there and banished these Jinns who were corrupted on the Earth. And he returned back with Angels. Now he was with the Angels. But Allah makes it very clear that he was not from the Angels or Mala'ika. He was from the Jinn. Now why Allah makes that clear is because we understand that no Angel can ever disobey Allah SWT. Allah SWT has made it in their nature not to disobey Allah. Not to commit maksiat. But a Jinn can. So the biblical sources says that they have now faltered again. They say they call it a fallen Angel so what they say is that if an Angel decides to go against the will of God or the command of God. Then that Angel Allah will drop him from the rank of the Angels. And now he becomes a fallen Angel. That's the biblical side or what some of them believe. The Muslims don't believe that no Angel can ever disobey Allah SWT. So that's where we find that Iblis was able to disobey Allah because he wasn't from the Angels. The Mala'ika. Now there's one thing here. Why was it that Iblis is now going to disobey Allah? Now you got to understand the whole thing about the creation of Adam AS. Suddenly, Allah reveals to the Angels. And He says : I'm about to make on the Earth a Khalifah.
When Allah said that. Iblis got really happy and jovial. He must have got really happy and why? Because Iblis knows that the Angels are not the ones that are going to rule the Earth. If there's anyone that is gonna be the creation from the Jinns. Allah is gonna make a Khalifah now perhaps from the Jinns. But Allah decision wasn't that he was gonna make a Khalifah or a vicegerent from the Jinns. His decision now was that He's going to create a new creation. Now this shocked Iblis. Because all these years that Iblis had worshipped Allah and had been so good was because he wanted power. He wanted prestige. He wanted to be in charge of the Earth. He wanted to come back on the Earth and going to be sent perhaps as a Messenger. Or he was going to be sent with a new command of God on this Earth. Orrr... aiyo so many orr haha. Or he's going to be in charge of the Jinns on the Earth. There's something beautiful that's gonna come for Iblis. Something that he had a big glimmer and a big hope in. And all that was getting crushed now. With this new creation? Now who is this new creation?
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