The Qurans responseEdit During Muhammads lifetime, non-Muslims accused Muhammad of borrowing from tales of the ancients to compose the Quran. Because Muslims believe that the Quran was not revealed all at once, the Quran quotes these critics. “ But the misbelievers say: Naught is this but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it. In truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood. And they say: Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening. Say: The (Quran) was sent down by Him who knows the mystery (that is) in the heavens and the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Quran [Quran 25:4-6]) --translated by Yusuf Ali ” Satan and AdamEdit When God creates Adam, he commands all the angels to bow to him. Satan refuses to bow to Adam and is therefore rebuked by God. The apocryphal Jewish work Life of Adam and Eve also contains this narrative. Quran “ Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape; When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him. So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together: Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves. (God) said: O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves? (Iblis) said: I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape. [Quran 15:28] ” “ And Behold, we said to the angels: Bow down to Adam and They bowed down. Not so Iblis: He refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith. We said: O Adam! dwell Thou and Thy wife In the Garden; and eat of the bountiful things therein As (where and when) ye will; but approach not This tree, or ye run into harm and transgression. [Quran 2:34] --translated by Yusuf Ali ” The Life of Adam and Eve “ Then Michael came; he summoned all the troops of angels and told them, Bow down before the likeness and the image of the divinity. And then, when Michael summoned them and all had bowed down to you, he summoned me [Satan] also. And I told him, Go away from me, for I shall not bow down to him who is younger than me; indeed, I am master prior to him and it is proper for him to bow down to me. [The Life of Adam and Eve 14.1-14.3
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