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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Ain-Al Hayat, The Essence of Life Chapter 13: Masabeeh, The Lamps Condemning Pride The Satan was the first to commit this sin when he refused to prostrate to Adam expressing his pride that he was made of the superior fire and Adam (as) was made with the lowly soil. Amir’ul-Mu’mineen (as) has said in his Sermon ( Qutba al-Qasa-aa) after a thosand praises to Allah Who Has given great importance to His Traits of Respect and Greatness.
He has kept these traits only for Himself. And made *haram (*taboo) for others creatures of His. Whosoever from His creatures assumes these traits, he will be the accursed! In the first instance Allah tested the angels. He said, “I am creating a human with the lowly soil. When I put spirit in the creature, you must all prostrate to him in respect!” All the angels prostrated before Adam (as) as commanded by Allah, barring the proud Satan.
He said, “Adam (as) is made of soil and you have made me with the superior fire!. Therefore, I am superior to him!” By the Creator of all beings! Satan became the leader of all the pride and conceited beings in the universe! He became the accursed of Allah forever by this attitude! If Allah wished, he could create Adam (as) with such a light that even the angels would be put in a shade before him! For Allah doing such a thing was very easy, but He wished to put the angels to test!
If the angels were awed by Adam (as)’s noor (light) and prostrated, then it would be the prostration under the influence of the light and, perhaps, not in obedience to Allah’s Commandment. Allah wanted to test the angels, and test them in such a way that the obedient and the disobedient were clearly distinguished from each other. Therefore, Iblees, who spent six thousand years in supplication to Allah, was turned into Satan for his disobedience and turned away from the Heaven.
He was the first proud creature who misled Qabeel to act against Allah’s Commandment and kill his Mu’min brother Habeel only out of jealousy and pride. Therefore, one must abstain from pride. People should take a lesson from those who are buried under heavy loads of soil. They were those who were very proud and never considered anyone equal to them. If pride was considered by Allah a desirable trait in humans,, He would not have kept his Prophets (as) devoid of it.
The Great Allah likes his Abd al-Zaleel (the lowly creature) to prostrate their foreheads on the dust as a test of their Obedience.