The Qur’an For All Humanity
Man’s Trial
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MAN’S TRIAL
We created you and gave you form. Then We said to
the angels: ‘Prostrate yourselves before Adam.’ They
all prostrated themselves except Satan, who did not.
‘Why did you not prostrate yourself when I
commanded you?’ God asked.
‘I am nobler than Adam,’ he replied. ‘You created
me of fire but You created him of clay.’
He said: ‘Begone from here! This is no place for
your contemptuous pride. Away with you!
Henceforth you shall be humble.’
Satan replied: ‘Reprieve me till the Day of
Resurrection. ‘
‘You are reprieved,’ said He.
‘Because You have led me into sin,’ said Satan, ‘I
will waylay Your servants as they walk on Your
straight path, and spring upon them from the front
and from the rear, from their right and from their
