2 When your Lord said to the angels, "I am going to create man from clay. (2 The sense is that I never knew about what Allah said to His angels when He intended to create 'Adam (علیہ السلام) ، nor was there any source of knowledge available to me other than the revelation from Allah. Now that I am narrating to you these events without having any other source of knowledge, it clearly proves that I am receiving revelation from Allah which has been sent to me only for the purpose that I warn you clearly about the evil fate of rejecting the truth.)

So, once I make him perfectly and breath My spirit into him, you fall down in prostration before him.

Then, the angels prostrated, all of them together -

except Iblis. He waxed proud, and became one of the disbelievers.

He (Allah) said, "0 Iblis, what did prevent you from prostrating before what I created with My hands? Did you wax proud or were you among the lofty ones?"

He said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire, and created him from clay."

He said, "Then, get out from here, for you are accursed,

and on you shall remain My curse till the Day of Judgment."

He said, "0 my Lord, then give me respite till the day they are raised again."

He said, "Then, you have been made one of those given respite,