نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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The event of Iblīs’s refusal to prostrate before Adam, as a pivotal and frequently reiterated episode in the Qurʾānic text, has long been the focus of exegetical attention. The majority of commentaries, to explain the cause of this disobedience, have concentrated on Iblīs’s own words, attributing the root of his defiance to the comparison between fire and clay and interpreting it as a kind of cognitive error. Adopting a critical approach and questioning the sincerity of Iblīs, the present study seeks to uncover the true cause of this refusal from the perspective of God’s own Qurʾānic analysis. To this end, the research focuses primarily on the verses of Sūrat al-Aʿrāf and Sūrat Ṣād, as the texts that contain the divine evaluation and judgment of this incident. The findings of this study, conducted through a descriptive-analytical method within the framework of tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi-l-Qurʾān and supported by narrational sources (riwāyāt), indicate that Iblīs was not truthful in his statements. Rather, by employing a deceptive strategy, he concealed the real cause of his defiance and falsely attributed it to his supposed comparison with Adam. According to the results, God’s own analysis of Iblīs’s behavior comprises two dimensions, psychological and ontological. The psychological dimension is represented by Iblīs’s inner arrogance, inferred from God’s reproachful question in Sūrat Ṣād. The ontological dimension pertains to his covetous desire for the rank of the Ahl al-Bayt and his transgression beyond the limits of his existential station within the cosmic order. On this basis, Iblīs did not truly compare himself with Adam, but rather with the ʿĀlīn, the Exalted Ones. Also, driven by greed and arrogance, he resisted the divine command.
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