abdikarim86 wrote:I think Shaytaan/Satan obviously knows God exists and probably even acknowledges the power of God.
It's his arrogance and pride which lead him astray the story goes not kafirnimo or shirk.
Surah Acraaf
11. And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble shape of a human being), then We told the angels, "Prostrate to Adam", and they prostrated,
except Iblis (Satan), he refused to be of those who prostrate.
12. (Allah) said: "What prevented you (O Iblis) that you did not prostrate, when I commanded you?" Iblis said: "
I am better than him (Adam), You created me from fire, and him You created from clay."
13. (Allah) said: "(O Iblis) get down from this (Paradise), it is not for you to be arrogant here. Get out, for you are of those humiliated and disgraced."
14. (Iblis) said: "Allow me respite till the Day they are raised up (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)."
15. (Allah) said: "You are of those allowed respite."
16. (Iblis) said: "
Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path.
17.
Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left, and You will not find most of them as thankful ones (i.e. they will not be dutiful to You)."
18. (Allah) said (to Iblis) "Get out from this (Paradise) disgraced and expelled. Whoever of them (mankind) will follow you, then surely I will fill Hell with you all."
Surah Al xijr
So, the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together.
31. Except Iblis (Satan), - he refused to be among the prostrators.
32. (Allah) said: "O Iblis (Satan)! What is your reason for not being among the prostrators?"
33. [Iblis (Satan)] said: "I am not the one to prostrate myself to a human being, whom You created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud."
34. (Allah) said: "Then, get out from here, for verily, you are Rajim (an outcast or a cursed one)." [Tafsir At-Tabari]
35. "And verily, the curse shall be upon you till the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)."
36. [Iblis (Satan)] said: "O my Lord! Give me then respite till the Day they (the dead) will be resurrected."
37. Allah said: "Then, verily, you are of those reprieved,
38. "Till the Day of the time appointed."
39. [Iblis (Satan)] said: "O my Lord! Because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for them (mankind) on the earth, and I shall mislead them all.
Ibliisku wax kasta wuu yaqana ee diidmadu diiday in u Nabi Adam u sujuudo aya waxa ku sababay KIBIR IYO ISLA WEYNI,
