Many a Qur’anic exegete maintain that the word herein...

Many a Qur’anic exegete maintain that the word herein alludes to Iblis who following disobedience to Divine Commands attributed false ascriptions to God Almighty and even objected the Divine Command as to Adam’s (as) prostration before Him and regarded it insensible and deemed himself superior to Adam (as). Since Iblis had been a jinni, all the believing jinn express their hatred for him and consider his words to be unfounded.

He was seemingly a scholar and an ascetic, but scholars who fail to act upon their knowledge and the ascetics who are vain and deviant clearly represent the foolish. The Arabic word shatat implies going to extremes, hence its application to untrue words. Thus, a high bank of rivers relatively far from water is called shatt.

The blessed Verse 5 says: "We thought that men and jinn would not utter a lie against Allah." The blessed Verse may be a reference to this group’s blind imitation of others in associating…