[Hijr 15:32] Said Allah, "O Iblis! What happened to you that you stayed apart from those who prostrated?" [Hijr 15:33] He answered, "It does not befit me to prostrate myself to a human whom You have created from sounding clay made out of black smelly mud." [Hijr 15:34] Said Allah, "Therefore exit from Paradise, for you are an outcast." [Hijr 15:35] "And indeed you are accursed till the Day of Judgement." [Hijr 15:36] He said, "My Lord! Grant me respite till the day when they will all be raised." [Hijr 15:37] Said Allah, "You are of those given respite." [Hijr 15:38] "Till the Day of a well-known time." [Hijr 15:39] He said, "My Lord! I swear by the fact that You sent me astray, I shall distract them in the earth, and I shall lead all of them astray." [Hijr 15:40] "Except those among them who are Your chosen bondmen." [Hijr 15:41] Said Allah, "This path * leads straight towards Me." (* The path of the chosen bondmen.) [Hijr 15:42] "Indeed you do not have any power over My bondmen, except those wanderers who follow you." ( The devil is unsuccessful in tempting Allah’s chosen bondmen to commit sin.) [Hijr 15:43] And indeed hell is the promise for all of them. [Hijr 15:44] It has seven gates; for each gate is a portion assigned from them. Section 4 [Hijr 15:45] Indeed the pious are amidst Gardens and springs. [Hijr 15:46] “Enter them with peace, in safety.” [Hijr 15:47] And We have removed any resentments which were in their breasts - they are brothers, sitting face to face on thrones. [Hijr 15:48] Neither any hardship is to reach them in it, nor are they to be expelled from it. [Hijr 15:49] Inform My bondmen that undoubtedly, I surely am the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. [Hijr 15:50] And that indeed the punishment of Mine is a painful punishment. [Hijr 15:51] And inform them of Ibrahim’s guests. |