Beginning
of Sin
So,
worshipping Allah is to obey His Commands and disobeying His Commands is sin
and vice, and is surely the way to disbelief, Allah forbid. Hence, worship is
the obedience of the creature to the Commands of his Creator. Satan disobeyed
the Command of Allah so there is no longer worship, but sin and disbelief.
Allah, all praise and glory is to Him,
relates in the Noble Qur’an the beginning of Satan’s rebellion, saying what means:
“And [mention]
when We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam’; so they prostrated, except
for Iblees (Satan). He refused and was arrogant and became of the
disbelievers.” (Al-Baqarah, 2: 34)
That was the beginning of sin; the
beginning of Satan’s denial and infidelity was his rejection of the Command of
Allah, all praise and glory is to Him, by refusing to prostrate himself to
Adam. Indeed, Satan did not refuse to prostrate to other than Allah, but he
refused to prostrate himself to the Command of Allah and that is the
difference. For truly the rejection of any Command of Allah is sin and
infidelity.
But still some people claim that the
Command here was given to the angels and not to Satan, so how does Allah,
Blessed and Exalted is He, hold Adam accountable for a Command not given to
him?
We answer by saying that though Satan
was from the jinn he also refused to obey the Command. Concerning that Allah,
all praise and glory is to Him, says what means:
“And they
prostrated, except for Iblees (Satan). He was of the jinn and departed from the
command of his Lord.” (Al-Kahf, 18: 50)
Also the Ayah in which Allah, Blessed
and Exalted is He, addresses Satan saying what means:
“[Allah] said, ‘What
prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?’ [Satan] said, ‘I am
better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay.’”
(Al-A‘râf, 7: 12)
And His Saying:
“[Allah] said, ‘O
Iblees, what prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My
hands? Were you arrogant [then], or were you [already] among the haughty?’”
(Sâd, 38: 75)
Therefore, we can clearly see on the
strength of the Qur’anic passages that the Command of prostration was given to
Satan too, and that the Command definitely included him.
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