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Iblis / Shaytan

إِبليس / شَيطان
Definition

The jinn elevated among the angels who refused to prostrate to Adam. Iblis is his name; Shaytan is his function (the rebel, the enemy). Vol 1 traces the moment of refusal as the structural origin of human moral struggle.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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