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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (11)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (33-34)


{ قَالَ يَا آدَمُ أَنْبِئْهُمْ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ فَلَمَّا أَنْبَأَهُمْ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ غَيْبَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأرْضِ وَأَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْتُمُونَ } [البقرة: 33]

33 - Allah asked our father Adam to mention to the angels the names of these things: Proper nouns, animals, and inanimate. When Adam did, he showed superiority in knowledge. Thereupon, Allah asked them [the angels]: Have not I told you that I know the knowledge of the Unseen, so nothing of their affairs, your affairs and all that in the universe are hidden from Me?! I know what you conceal in your hearts and what you show publicly. I know those who corrupt on earth and I knew that Satan would disobey My Orders and refuse to obey Me.

{ وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ اسْجُدُوا لآِدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلاَّ إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى وَاسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ} [البقرة: 34]
34– Allah has honored Adam when He said to the angels: Prostrate yourselves to Adam, thereupon, they prostrated themselves to him out of obedience to their Lord. So, the prostration to Adam and the obedience of angels were favors from Allah to Adam. However, Satan, who was among them but originated from the Jinn, refused to prostrate to Adam out of haughty and arrogance and he was from the disobedient and straying ones.