Tafseer of The Rock · Al-Hijr · 15:33
He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud."
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The Exalted — blessed be His remembrance — says that Iblīs spoke: لَمْ أَكُنْ لأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ ("I was by no means fit to prostrate before a human being whom You created from sounding clay, from black mud") — for he is of clay, and I am of fire, and fire consumes clay.
