Iblis
Proper noun
Meaning
Iblis
(Islam) Satan; the Devil.
Synonyms
Examples
After Iblis refuses to follow God's command to bow down to Adam for being his greatest creation, Allah transforms him into Satan as a punishment.
Consequently, God expelled Iblis from Heaven, with the latter promising to lure mankind into disbelief and evil as an act of revenge from their father, Adam.
Iblis' ego conflated after his victory on earth.
God grants this request, and Iblis then swears revenge by tempting human beings and turning them away from God.
God tells him that any humans who follow him will join him in the fire of hell at judgment day, but that Iblis will have no power over all mankind except who wants to follow Iblis.
God gave them a strong warning about Iblis and the fires of Hell and asked them and their children (humankind) to stay away from the deceptions of their senses caused by the Devil.