سورة الحجر، الآية ٣٢
قَالَ يَٰٓإِبْلِيسُ مَا لَكَ أَلَّا تَكُونَ مَعَ ٱلسَّٰجِدِينَ ٣٢
qāla yāib'līsu mā laka allā takūna maʿa l-sājidīna
[Allāh] said, "O Iblees, what is [the matter] with you that you are not with those who prostrate?"
Verse 32 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:32), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 264 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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After Iblis refused to prostrate to Adam, Allah said to him: What kept you and prevented you from prostrating with the angels, who prostrated out of obedience to My command?
Allah said, “O Iblīs, what is the matter with you that you were not with those who prostrated?”
(Allâh) said: "O Iblîs (Satan)! What is your reason for not being among the prostrators?"
He said: O Iblis! What aileth thee that thou art not among the prostrate?
(Allah) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves?"
He said: O Iblis! what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance?
Said He, "O Iblis, what about you, that you are not among the prostrate?"
قَالَ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَلَّا تَسْجُدَ إِذْ أَمَرْتُكَ قَالَ أَنَا۠ خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِى مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُۥ مِن طِينٍ
[Allāh] said, "What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?" [Satan] said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay [i.e., earth]."
قَالَ أَرَءَيْتَكَ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كَرَّمْتَ عَلَىَّ لَئِنْ أَخَّرْتَنِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ لَأَحْتَنِكَنَّ ذُرِّيَّتَهُۥٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
[Iblees] said, "Do You see this one whom You have honored above me? If You delay me [i.e., my death] until the Day of Resurrection, I will surely destroy his descendants, except for a few."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قَالَ يَٰٓإِبْلِيسُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَن تَسْجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَىَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ أَمْ كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلْعَالِينَ
[Allāh] said, "O Iblees, what prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My hands? Were you arrogant [then], or were you [already] among the haughty?"
