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The Quran

As It Explains

Itself.

قرآن

 اپنی تفسیر

 آپ کرتا ھے

Quran

Apni Tafseer

Aap Karta Hay

القرآن الكريم

يفسر نفسه

[al-Baqarah, 2:34]

وَ اِذۡ قُلۡنَا لِلۡمَلٰٓئِکَۃِ اسۡجُدُوۡا لِاٰدَمَ فَسَجَدُوۡۤا  اِلَّاۤ  اِبۡلِیۡسَ ؕ اَبٰی وَ اسۡتَکۡبَرَ ٭۫ وَ  کَانَ مِنَ الۡکٰفِرِیۡنَ ﴿۳۴﴾

And when We said to the angels, “Humble yourselves and be subservient to Adam-

mankind, they instantly complied humbling themselves except Iblees ابليس (Satan).

He refused through self-glorification, and so became a rejecter of the Divine

Command. [Thus, God endowed mankind with the ability to harness the forces

in Nature through science. There is, however, an internal domain He has designed

within humans, the Nafs or ‘Self’. Call it ‘I’, ‘Self’, ‘Ego’, ‘Personality’, ‘Iamness’,

‘Me’. This has been placed for the humans to exercise free will and achieve personal growth or self-actualization. But this ’self’ is vulnerable to the evil prompting of its own intrinsic selfish desire or that of extrinsic sources. In that

situation the ’self’ rebels against the higher controls of human judgment, and

more importantly, against the revealed Moral Values. This rebellious state of the

’self’ has the ability to rationalize its desire and emotions through the intellect. And this rebellious state of the ‘Ego’ is Satan or Iblees. It was this Iblees that

refused to humble itself to the higher human controls of judgment and Divine

Commands. Incidentally, the Quran nowhere mentions a human ’soul’, ’spirit’ or

’spirituality’. 

Iblees ابليس 

= Deprivation 

= Hopelessness 

= Frustration 

= Desperation and regret 

= Rebellious state of the human ’self’ that drifts away from the Divine Commands, but wishes to escape personal responsibility by blaming God for its

own misdeeds. 

See Verse 7:16. 

Sajdah سجدة

= Prostration 

= Complete submission 

= Willful obedience 

= Utter humility 

= Adoration 

= Utmost commitment to Divine Cause

= Humbling one’s own self]

[al-Baqarah, 2:35]

وَ قُلۡنَا یٰۤاٰدَمُ اسۡکُنۡ اَنۡتَ وَ زَوۡجُکَ الۡجَنَّۃَ وَ کُلَا مِنۡہَا رَغَدًا حَیۡثُ شِئۡتُمَا ۪ وَ لَا تَقۡرَبَا ہٰذِہِ الشَّجَرَۃَ فَتَکُوۡنَا مِنَ الظّٰلِمِیۡنَ ﴿۳۵﴾

We told the early humans, Adam and his wife (men and women), “O Mankind! Reside

in this land which is Paradise and partake the fruit thereof as you please. But do not go near this branching Tree (of Selfishness). Or, you will become of the wrongdoers.” [If you branch off into casts, sects, and rivalry, you shall replace your Paradise with Hell. 

See Verses:

2:213, 4:65 10:19, 20:117-118. 

Zulm ظلم

= To displace something from its rightful place 

= Replace good with evil 

= Relegate the truth

= Transgression 

= Oppression 

= Violation of human rights 

= Wrongdoing]

[al-Baqarah, 2:36]

فَاَزَلَّہُمَا الشَّیۡطٰنُ عَنۡہَا فَاَخۡرَجَہُمَا مِمَّا کَانَا فِیۡہِ ۪ وَ قُلۡنَا اہۡبِطُوۡا بَعۡضُکُمۡ لِبَعۡضٍ عَدُوٌّ ۚ وَ لَکُمۡ فِی الۡاَرۡضِ مُسۡتَقَرٌّ  وَّ مَتَاعٌ اِلٰی  حِیۡنٍ ﴿۳۶﴾

But Satan caused them both (men as well as women) to stumble therein and got them out of the happy state they were in. And so We said, “Degraded you have become

with wedges of discord among yourselves! There shall be for you habitation and livelihood on earth for a while.” 

[Their straying egos and selfish desires had clashed and led them into dividing among themselves for the pursuit of self-interest. Humanity fell from the height of felicity into contention and rivalry.

The plentiful provision of the land that used to be open for all became a matter of private ownership and hoarding. They have since been living in a state of

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