31 Preface إِلّا إِبليسَ أَبىٰ أَن يَكونَ مَعَ السّاجِدينَYusuf AliNot so1 Iblis:2 he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves.3Cf. n. 49 to 2:34.Iblis: the name has in it the root idea of desperateness or rebellion. (Cf. n. 52 to 2:36).Apparently Iblis’s arrogance has two grounds: (1) that man was made of clay while he was made of fire: (2) that he did not wish to do what others did. Both grounds were false: (1) because man had the spirit of God breathed into him: (2) because contempt of the angels who obeyed God’s word showed not Iblis’s superiority but his inferiority. The word “bashar” for man (verse 33) suggests a gross physical body.