MAN’S TRIAL

Man’s Trial ~ 14 ~ MAN’S TRIAL We created you and gave you form. Then We said to the angels: ‘Prostrate yourselves before Adam.’ They all prostrated themselves except Satan, who did not. ‘Why did you not prostrate yourself when I commanded you?’ God asked. ‘I am nobler than Adam,’ he replied. ‘You created me of fire but You created him of clay.’ He said: ‘Begone from here! This is no place for your contemptuous pride. Away with you! Henceforth you shall be humble.’ Satan replied: ‘Reprieve me till the Day of Resurrection. ‘ ‘You are reprieved,’ said He. ‘Because You have led me into sin,’ said Satan, ‘I will waylay Your servants as they walk on Your straight path, and spring upon them from the front and from the rear, from their right and from their