The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 526
CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF PT. 8 قَالَ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَلَّا تَسْجُدَ إِذْ أَمَرْتُكَ God said, “What prevented. 13 قَالَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِى مِنْ نَّارٍ commanded thee? He said, I وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ طِينٍ thee from submitting when I am better than he. Thou hast created me of fire while him hast Thou created of clay. '917 قَالَ فَاهْبِطُ مِنْهَا فَمَا يَكُونُ لَكَ اَنْ God said, Then go down. 14 hence; it is not for thee to be تَتَكَبَّرَ فِيهَا فَاخْرُجُ إِنَّكَ مِن arrogant here. Get out; thou art الصغرِينَ قَالَ أَنْظُرْنِي إِلَى يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُوْنَ ) certainly of those who are abased. '918 15. He said, "Grant me respite till the day when they will be raised '919 up. 15:33-34; 38:76-77. 15:35; 38:78. 15:37; 38:80. evil spirits, refused to submit to him refusal of Iblis to submit to Adam. and to help him in his work. It should be remembered that the incident mentioned here is in no way connected with the first progenitor of the human race, who may be called the first Adam. It is only with the later Adam (who lived on this earth about 6,000 years ago and from whom Noah and Abraham and their posterity were directly descended) that the present story is connected. See also notes on 2:31 & 2:35. 917. Commentary: What is represented in the present verse as a dialogue between God and Iblis does not necessarily show that an exchange of words actually took place between the two. The words may only depict a state of things, a picture of the conditions that came into existence as a result of the 966 The verb (said) as shown under 2:31 and 2:34 does not always signify the actual uttering of words, being sometimes used to represent only a state of affairs. For an explanation of the words "fire" and "clay" see 2:81 and 3:50. 918. Commentary: There being no noun mentioned in the verse to which the pronoun (it) implied in the expression (hence) refers, it may be taken to denote the condition or state or position in which Iblis was before he refused to submit to Adam. Thus the expression, go down hence, signifies, "be thou degraded from thy present position". 919. Commentary: The resurrection to which the words, when they will be raised up, refer is not the general resurrection of