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Sura 38
Aya 76
76
قالَ أَنا خَيرٌ مِنهُ ۖ خَلَقتَني مِن نارٍ وَخَلَقتَهُ مِن طينٍ

Ali Unal

(Iblīs) answered: “I am better than him. You have created me from fire and him, You have created from clay.”1
  • According to Iblīs, honor and goodness lie in physical origin or matter. His attitude is typical of materialism and represents a lack of correct understanding. He saw only the material origin of humankind and ignored the spiritual dimension that originated in being breathed into out of God’s Spirit.
    The other point to mention here is that Iblīs judged God’s order according to his own knowledge and understanding, and opposed His explicit order based on his own judgment. He demonstrated that, out of arrogance, he would fulfill God’s orders only when they conformed with his desire or understanding, not because he believed all of these orders to be truths in themselves and that they must be obeyed. So are those who act in the same way aware who it is that they follow, and whose pupils they are?