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Read the story below and find suitable one
word meanings for the words in the vocabulary list.
T
There was silence over the fields of
Badr as the two armies stood facing
each other. The Muslim army was
far outnumbered by the one thou-
sand strong army of the Quraish.
They had come to Badr to destroy
Islam and the Muslims once and for
all.
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T
ed that his error was due to self-love and egocentric
ambition.
Nevertheless
, shaytan
was in fact from the jinn. The
jinn
are beings created with free will, living on earth in
a world parallel to that of man, and are invisible to
human eyes in their normal state.
shayatin
is the name
given to the disbelieving
jinns
. The
jinn
are created
from fire according to Allah’s statement in the
Qur’an
,
“
The jinns were created from the fire of a scorching
wind.
”
(
Al-Hijr, 15:27
)
They are not ‘fallen angels’, as angels are made from
light according to the following statement of the Holy
Prophet Muhammad [s],
“
The angels were created from light and the jinn
from a fiery wind
.”
Furthermore, angels cannot disobey Allah according to
the statement of the
Qur’an
,
“.
..angels stern and severe, who do not disobey
Allah in what He orders them, but do whatever they
are commanded.
”
(
At-Tahrim, 66:6
).
