This book "Who is Shaitan" outlines the brief story of Shaitan (Iblis) as mentioned in Quran and Tafseer. In this book you will find different names of shaitan and his fight with jinn due to which he attained the royal authority of Heavens and eventually his refusal to prostrate Adam. As punishment for his arrogance, Allah (God) expelled Iblis from heaven and sentenced him to hell. Later, Iblis made a request for the ability to try to mislead Adam and his children. Allah granted his request but also warned him that he will have no power over Allah's servants.

The story of Adam and Eve's banishment from Paradise has been part of the world's literary and religious heritage for almost 3,000 years. Focusing on the Islamic version of the story, Oppenheim retells the gripping, tragic tale of Iblis (the Devil) and his clever, wicked plot. Full color.

From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (CERES), language: English, abstract: This work will outline the most important steps in the creation of the images of a personified devil, starting with the Jewish religion and the earliest appearances of the term Satan. The author will then continue to compare the figures of Lucifer/Satan and Iblis in Islamic and Christian literature, based upon their development, mentioning and role. Evil as a supernatural force is a topic that unites all Abrahamitic religions. Jewish sources about a personified supreme evil as imagined today are scarce, but the image of Satan as the divine adversary and subsequently the idea of Lucifer as a fallen angel in Christian religion is better documented. The Islam knows Iblis as a rebellious angel cast out of heaven by Allah. While all these personifications of evil show some similarities, their development shows some striking differences.

The God most of the world worships is known as Yahweh/Jehovah, yet what if you were told that this isn’t the true God, but an angel posing as God? What if you were to be told that Satan is not the enemy but the wife of the true God and Creator? This is the book of hidden teachings! Satan or Iblis is the wife of the True Creator, and the Mother of all! Satan is the Ultimate Reality known as Haawiya who is the Mother of all, the Void or the True Creator of all! In this book I give the proofs of the esoteric/occult teachings that have been hidden for centuries! These are the teachings of true Satanism, and it is through Satan our Mother that we will come to the knowledge of the Truth!

Preliminary Material /Peter J. Awn -- Introduction /Peter J. Awn -- Mythic Biography /Peter J. Awn -- Iblīs: The One-Eyed /Peter J. Awn -- Iblīs: Model of the Mystic Man /Peter J. Awn -- Summary and Conclusion /Peter J. Awn -- Appendix /Peter J. Awn -- Bibliography /Peter J. Awn -- Qurʾān References /Peter J. Awn -- Names and Places /Peter J. Awn -- Subjects /Peter J. Awn.

Iblīs, the character in the Qur'an who refuses God's command to bow to Adam and is punished by eviction from heaven, is commonly depicted as a fiendish character no different from Satan. However, some Sufi stories describe Iblīs as the ultimate monotheist, a lover of God, but tragically rejected. This volume seeks the origins of this alternative Iblīs within the Qur'an itself, by looking at each of the seven Qur'anic versions of the Iblīs story as a unique rendering of the basic narrative. Whitney Bodman finds that the likely earliest version of the Iblīs story presents him as a tragic figure, an elder sibling of Adam unjustly displaced from God's favor. Subsequent renderings present an Iblīs more hostile to humanity, and in the last two abbreviated versions Iblīs becomes an incidental figure in the extended story of Adam. In modern Arab literature the character of Iblīs is deployed to reveal tragic dimensions of modern life. Although it is often said that there is no place for tragedy in Islam, Bodman's careful examination of the Iblīs story shows that the tragic exists even in the Qur'an and forms part of the vision of medieval Sufi mystics and modern social critics alike.