QuizTime(33): Iblis - angel or jinn? Why Qur'an counted him among the angels in many places? Q: ch 2 Verses 34.

QuizTime(33): Iblis - angel or jinn? Why Qur'an counted him among the angels in many places? Q: ch 2 Verses 34.

 

Ans: 1) Iblis is a Jin and 2) Arabic Rule Of Tagleeb need to apply to understand why Allah counted Jin(Iblis) among the Angels.

 

1. Incidence of Iblis and Angels mentioned in the Qur’an

 

The story of Adam and Iblis is mentioned in the Qur’an in various places in which Allah (swt) says, "We said to the angels bow down to Adam: and they bowed down: not so Iblis".

 

This is mentioned in:

 

Surah Al Baqarah chapter 2 verse 34

Surah Al ‘Araf chapter 7 verse 11

Surah Al Hijr chapter 15 verses 28-31

Surah Al Isra chapter 17 verse 61

Surah Ta Ha chapter 20 verse 116

Surah Sad chapter 38 verses 71-74

 

But in Surah Al Kahf chapter 18 verse 50 the Qur’an says:

 

"Behold! We said to the angels, "Bow down to Adam." they bowed down except Iblis He was one of the Jinns." [Al-Qur’an 18:50]

 

2. Arabic Rule Of Tagleeb

 

The English translation of the first part of the verse ‘We said to the angels bow down to Adam: they bowed down except Iblis’, gives us the impression that Iblis was an angel. The Qur’an was revealed in Arabic. In Arabic grammar there is a rule known as Tagleeb, according to which, if the majority is addressed, even the minority is included. If for example, I address a class containing 100 students of whom 99 are boys and one is a girl, and if I say in Arabic that the boys should stand up, it includes the girl as well. I need not mention her seperately.

 

Similarly in the Qur’an, when Allah addressed the angels, even Iblis was present, but it is not required that he be mentioned separately. Therefore according to that sentence Iblis may be an angel or may not be an angel, but we come to know from Surah Al Kahf chapter 18 verse 50 that Iblis was a Jinn. No where does the Qur’an say Iblis was an angel. Therefore there is no contradiction in the Qur’an.

 

3. Jinns have free will and can disobey Allah

 

Secondly, Jinns have a free will and may or may not obey Allah, but angels have no free will and always obey Allah. Therefore the question of an angel disobeying Allah does not arise. This further supplements that Iblis was a Jinn and not an angel.

 

IBLIS WAS PIOUS AND KEEPERS OF PRADISE ETC…(ALL UNRELIABLE SOURCE)

 

Some reports which are not saheeh (authentic) have been narrated from some of the salaf (pious predecessors), suggesting that Iblees was the best of the angels, that he was one of the keepers of Paradise, etc. Imam Ibn Kathir commented on this by saying: 

Many reports to this effect have been narrated from the salaf, but most of them come from the Israiliyyat (reports narrated from Jewish sources) which were narrated to be examined. Allah knows best about the true status of many of them. There are some which can be rejected out of hand because they go against the truth that we have before us. In the Quran there is sufficient information so that we have no need for earlier reports, because hardly any of them are free from alterations, additions and subtractions, and many things have been fabricated in them. The earlier nations did not have scholars to examine these reports and eliminate those which are not sound, as this ummah (nation) has with its imams (religious leaders) and scholars who have great knowledge and are pious and righteous, who wrote down the hadeeth and examined them and showed what is sound and what is not, and what is fabricated, identifying the fabricators, liars and those narrators who were unknown, and other categories of narrators. All of this was to protect the status of the Prophet, the seal of the Prophets and the leader of mankind (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), lest any lie be attributed to him and lest anything be attributed to him that he did not say or do. May Allah be pleased with them and make them pleased and make the Paradise of al-Firdaws their abode. 

Tafseer al-Quran il-‘Azeem.

 

For more details:

Link: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/6485/iblees-was-not-one-of-the-angels

Link: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/8976/is-iblees-a-jinn-or-an-angel

 

Link: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/6297/will-iblees-enter-hell-and-why

 

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Indeed Iblis one of the Jin, but Why Allah mentioned the him among the Angels, its seems most of the people not aware of this. 

 

 

Allah knows the best .

 

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