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قَالَ أَنَا۠ خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِى مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُۥ مِن طِينٍ ٧٦
qāla anā khayrun min'hu khalaqtanī min nārin wakhalaqtahu min ṭīnin
He said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay."
Verse 76 of Surah Sad (38:76), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 457 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Iblis said: “I am better than Adam. You created me from fire and you created him from clay. And fire is a more noble substance than clay”.
He said, “I am better than him: You created me from fire and created him from clay.”
[Iblîs (Satan)] said: "I am better than he. You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."
He said: I am better than him. Thou createdst me of fire, whilst him Thou didst create of clay.
(Iblis) said: "I am better than he: thou createdst me from fire, and him thou createdst from clay."
He said: I am better than he; Thou hast created me of fire, and him Thou didst create of dust.
Said he, "I am more charitable (i.e., better) than he; You created me of fire, and him You created of clay."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
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]."
