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WHY IBLIS CANNOT BE AN ANGEL...

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    Mazhar
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    I said "could" as I wasn't sure if it actually was taken away. The reason I still regard iblees as a controlling force is that I think iblees still has some remit of control, i.e. that part of our psyche that can be influenced by iblees. This seems to be clearly suggested in AQ, e.g. 716-17. Wakas

    http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Arabic%20Text/014.%20Ibrahim%20alahissalam/14.22b.gif
    and there was nothing of authority for me upon you people except that I invited you people whereupon/for reason you people responded for me,
    http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Arabic%20Text/014.%20Ibrahim%20alahissalam/14.22c.gif
    therefore you people do not blame/objurgate me instead you blame/objurgate your selves.

    1422

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      loxbox13
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      u guys are talking about the unseen, before we say iblis is an angel or not, we fiest have to understand what angels really are, are they beigns with wings? like birds? wian is satan? is he a beign red colored with horns?
      i believe there are many kinds of angels, and one of all that kinds was ibliss and his progeny or followers , angels are different from each other, probably satan had authaurity that he enjoyed willingly until the command came to him just like all other angels, his kind of angel was called the jinn, just like there a kind of angel called jibreel or mickel , and most others are called angeles , ibliss isn't didn't go out of the mercy of allah because of desobeidiance, but because of pride , but in the end ibliss obeis allah 100% just like the other angels, when allah casted him out of his mercy, and destuned him to hell, allah made him work on us as the evil one who show us the wrong way, just as angels show us the right way, so mankind can choose and be tested , actually ibliss is living hell for he's working with no rest, he's obeiying god unwillingly , that's how the story sounds to me , peace

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        Wakas
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        peace Mazhar,

        Thanks for the verses, however, having control over something simply means they are in charge of a certain function, whatever that is. For example, the function of tempting/deluding/deviating but does not mean it is compulsory, only that they can do this function.

        All information is correct to the best of my knowledge only and thus should not be taken as a fact. One should always seek knowledge and verify for themselves when possible: 17:36, 20:114, 35:28, 49:6, 58:11.

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          herbman
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          Okay, I was saying "the human being (ego) must battle with his jinn (id) to reach peace and submission (super-ego)".

          For a moment, I thought that I was saying that the super-ego was God. But I've come to realize that by battling one's jinn, the human being isn't reaching the status of God, he's reaching the status of controller (in constant praise of God). He obeys God at all times, no matter what.
          However, to reach this status is impossible, because the man (ego) is constantly in battle with his jinn (id). This is a universal truth. No human is perfect. He will continue to eat, drink, have sexual intercourse, etc. His basic desires will always be present. He can control them, but he can't get rid of them.
          The super-ego is thus characterised by its desire to reach perfection. Even though it will never actually reaches perfection, this is where God's infinite Mercy kicks in. And ta-daaa! You're all forgiven.

          Have I completely strayed off topic, or am I making sense?

          Peace,

          interesting thoughts...did you try to link that with "sawm".

          peace

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            loxbox13
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            Angel is an angel, man is man and a jinn is a jin
            Angels are creatures that we never understand, maybe everything around us is angels
            Man we can understand, it's us, created from HAMA MASNON

            Jinn we can not know them for now, because we left the quran and went for mythology of hadith brought from christians, jews and greeks concept, not a quranic concept

            Jinn and Mankind Dwell in the earth , so they're both alive, how can a jinn serve god if he's not a living beign

            Jinn knows us but we don't know them, it says so in the quran, meaning we don't know them because they look just like us, they rule al over the world since the islamic empire declined and than fall,

            Jinn inserted methology in hadith, so the trick will always keep wrking, making us believe that Ibliss and his progeny don't exist

            how will Ibliss and Jinn have progeny ? Just like us

            Most of them are in front of us on TV or sometimes in the streets, they never devulgue their true identity for any human, it's their nature, they infiktrate good people to create confusion and lead them to disaster, they inspire good people for doing mischief , now they're using media, music, news, propaganda, psychology etc....

            Jinn live and die , some of them become muslim and live a quiet life, most of them feel siperior at humans so they'll never accept a prophet of a book from god, actually they don't even like allah for creating human species who bothered them in the earth

            Allah send prophets only humans, never djinn, and the djin they don't like this so they rebelled, they keep their bloodline secured and pur djinn since written history

            they're smarter than us when we're confused, insecure, .... but they fear us if we become pious, smart, good, because they don't have any power to harm a human beign directly by nature, that's why they use their friends humans to pull the trigger everytime, they have the help of Ibliss because he is still alive since adam, he knows history and all the tricks how to mislead a straight way of life brought by prophets, the same story with the jews and talmud, the christiand and the books of the church, the muslims and hadiths etc....

            Humans came from Africa according to science, Djinn maybe came from somewhere else, europe maybe, when humans went to europe, the problems started and the conflit between man and jinn really began, why i dhose europe? not al europeens are Jinn, all europeens are humans except a few, those who ususlly rule , that is why there was never recorded in history a prophet from europe , well I don't know

            Maybe i'm just saying anything, but maybe it's close to the truth

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              freshmad
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              hello everyone. Iblis was very high ranked and liked by Allah so he was privileged to be amongst where Allahs angels resided and worshiped Allah. but after he did not listen to Allah as he told all his angels and Iblis to bow and show respect to Adam. all the angels did as they have no free will but Iblis this shows us how he is a jinn and has free will and decided he was more powerful than Adam. this angered Allah which resulted in what happened to Iblis.

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                .

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                So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together (30) Not so Iblis he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves. 1530-31

                Doesn't this verse say that the angels prostrated , all of them, no exception ? doesn't this mean that Iblees has nothing to do with angels?

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                  Faithful-Jinn
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                  Iblis is not an angel. Don't know why anyone would even think that. Angels are a manifestation of God's will they can only obey God. I believe the Qur'an makes it explicitly clear that Iblis is a jinn he's made of fire. The angels are made of light I believe. Jinn and Humans are the only ones capable of choosing to worship or not to worship God. Angels have no choice. That is why a righteous human will always be greater than an angel and the angels bow to us.

                  Even though we can sin, we have the ability to do LIMITLESS good. An angel can only do the good that God commands. We can just keep doing good and doing good and doing good until we die. And our good deeds are by choice which is also important angels are simply told and they obey.

                  peace

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                    loxbox13
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                    Iblis is not an angel. Don't know why anyone would even think that. Angels are a manifestation of God's will they can only obey God. I believe the Qur'an makes it explicitly clear that Iblis is a jinn he's made of fire. The angels are made of light I believe. Jinn and Humans are the only ones capable of choosing to worship or not to worship God. Angels have no choice. That is why a righteous human will always be greater than an angel and the angels bow to us.

                    Even though we can sin, we have the ability to do LIMITLESS good. An angel can only do the good that God commands. We can just keep doing good and doing good and doing good until we die. And our good deeds are by choice which is also important angels are simply told and they obey.

                    peace

                    Here is your verse

                    Behold! We said to the angels "Bow down to Adam" they bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrongdoers! 1850

                    This verse is clear that Ibliss was a Jinn and not an angel, unless someone has a better explanation ! the explanation of the quran is the true explanation

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                      Wakas
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                      It is interesting people can read the same verse and have different conclusions, but my view still remains, as stated previously

                      And when We said to the controllers "Give acknowledgement to Adam." so they acknowledged except iblees, he was of the jinn, so he disobeyed the order of his Lord.

                      From PRL on JNN "Spiritual beings that conceal themselves from the senses (including angels)". As can be seen, jinn is a subset of malaika, in Classical Arabic dictionaries. What I have said is nothing new.

                      All information is correct to the best of my knowledge only and thus should not be taken as a fact. One should always seek knowledge and verify for themselves when possible: 17:36, 20:114, 35:28, 49:6, 58:11.

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                        It is interesting people can read the same verse and have different conclusions, but my view still remains, as stated previously

                        And when We said to the controllers "Give acknowledgement to Adam." so they acknowledged except iblees, he was of the jinn, so he disobeyed the order of his Lord.

                        From PRL on JNN "Spiritual beings that conceal themselves from the senses (including angels)". As can be seen, jinn is a subset of malaika, in Classical Arabic dictionaries. What I have said is nothing new.

                        I believe we can never understand correctly unless we know what jinns really are, because the first verse, says the angles prostrated, all of them, meaning it's excluding the jinns
                        MAlaika I believe are forces and phenomenas of nature , that controls everything, serves everything, the Jinns are biological beigns, living on earth so they are limited like us
                        it's just my mind speaking <without proof

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                          It is interesting people can read the same verse and have different conclusions, but my view still remains, as stated previously

                          And when We said to the controllers "Give acknowledgement to Adam." so they acknowledged except iblees, he was of the jinn, so he disobeyed the order of his Lord.

                          From PRL on JNN "Spiritual beings that conceal themselves from the senses (including angels)". As can be seen, jinn is a subset of malaika, in Classical Arabic dictionaries. What I have said is nothing new.

                          Damn I still remember Dhulqarnain from back in the days...its a shame he got banned because he did bring some challenging debates...anyways.......

                          Just to add my 2 cents to this topic

                          Should we be looking at verses of Allah communicating to xyz in a different light. The reason why I say this is because there are many verses interpreted as anthropomorphic in the Quran when Allah communicates i.e Allah asking heaven and earth to come willingly or unwillingly and both replying, the mountain replying etc.

                          Also how would the following verse tie into jinn being a different specie to humans when the verse hints to jinns having minds, ears and eyes?? If anyone is good at arabic please can you see if the arabic grammar relates to jinn too?

                          And We have committed to Hell many Jinn and humans; they had hearts with which they did not comprehend, and they had eyes with which they did not see, and they had ears with which they did not hear. They are like cattle; no, they are even more astray. These are the unaware ones. 7179

                          PEACE

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                            alienayt
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                            Why bow down to a man and not God?

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                              freshmad
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                              Why bow down to a man and not God?

                              because god commanded the angels and iblis to bow down to man, as it was his new creation.

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                                Wakas
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                                Iblis didn't bow down.

                                Meaning of SuJuD
                                http//mypercept.co.uk/articles/meaning-of-SuJuD-from-Quran.html

                                All information is correct to the best of my knowledge only and thus should not be taken as a fact. One should always seek knowledge and verify for themselves when possible: 17:36, 20:114, 35:28, 49:6, 58:11.

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                                  Iblis didn't bow down.

                                  Meaning of SuJuD
                                  http//mypercept.co.uk/articles/meaning-of-SuJuD-from-Quran.html

                                  You beat me to it. SuJUD does NOT equal bow down in the Quran as the link provided explains so.

                                  PEACE

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                                    From PRL on JNN "Spiritual beings that conceal themselves from the senses (including angels)". As can be seen, jinn is a subset of malaika, in Classical Arabic dictionaries. What I have said is nothing new.

                                    Peace, this was years ago want bring it back since other thread is all over the place. Likewise humans are subset of creatures and it does not state angels are made of light; could be hot gas plasma same as jinns.

                                    234 and when (time adverb) said we of to the controllers/angels us'jud to adam fasajad except iblis refused and was arrogant and became from/among the rejecters

                                    Question

                                    1. "And to USA emigrated what in the earth min/of (type) ethnicity and nationality and they not arrogant and law abiding.?

                                    2. "And to USA emigrated what in the earth kulla/every (individual) ethnic and national and they not arrogant and law abiding.?

                                    Now an Albanian national (Afrodita) was arrogant refused to obey the law ? which above is True/False?

                                    638 and not min/of (type) dabbatin/creature in the land and not flyer (birds) flyed with wings two its except communities like you not neglect we of in the book from thing furthermore to lord theirs gathered being

                                    (great my dog we had since joining this site is in heaven! ))

                                    https//s10.postimg.org/wsaxsjxwp/winny.jpg

                                    1649-50 and to god yasjudu what in the heavens and what in the land min/of (type) dbbatin/creature (includes human type) wal-malikatu/and the controllers/angels (various types) and they not arrogant being fearing lord theirs from above them and fulfilling what yu'marna/commanded (programmed?) being

                                    2218 did not see that the god yasjudu to him whom in the heavens and whom in the land and the sun and the moon and the stars and the mountains and the vegetation/tree wal-dawbu/and the creatures and many mina/of (type) l-nsi/the humankind and many justified on him (said person) the punishment and whom humiliates the god so not to him (said person) from conferrer of honor indeed the god fulfilled what willed

                                    2445 and the god creation kulla/every (individual) dabbatin/creature from water

                                    2960 and how many min/of (type) dbbatin/creature not it carry provision its the god provisioned it and for you and he the hearer the knower

                                    3110 and disperse therein min/of (type) kulli/every (individual) dbbatin/creature

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                                      The_Sardar
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                                      (great my dog we had since joining this site is in heaven! ))

                                      https//s10.postimg.org/wsaxsjxwp/winny.jpg

                                      Is that really your dog? He looks cute.

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                                        Noon_waalqalami
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                                        Is that really your dog? He looks cute.

                                        yes did you understand analogy above?

                                        1. True if three+ of each type conform
                                        2. False if only one individual does not

                                        hence min/of (1649) not kulla/every

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                                          The_Sardar
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                                          yes did you understand analogy above?

                                          1. True if three+ of each type conform
                                          2. False if only one individual does not

                                          hence min/of (1649) not kulla/every

                                          Sadly not quite.

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