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Poor Satan; He was a victim of God's Treachery

by Mohammad Zaidan

22/11/2005

Using God's "inspired" religious books, one should wonder, if God's attitude toward His beloved angel (later called Satan), was justified or represented an attitude that befits The Almighty. When God asked Satan to prostrate to His newly created Adam, did He really wanted him to prostrate or reject His order. To answer this question one has to differentiate between God's divine will and divine order. If God willed Satan to prostrate then nothing can stand in the way of God's will and Satan would have no choice but to prostrate immediately on hands and knees since His will is vastly stronger than any of his creations. So the question that many of us have to think about- Did God really wanted Satan to prostrate when He gave the order or not? .In other words what was God's intention when He gave the divine order? Obviously He did not want Satan to prostrate otherwise Satan, who is a relatively weaker entity than God, would have no choice but to prostrate. The fact that he rejected the divine order could only mean that Almighty God did not really want him to obey the divine order. Let's not forget here that God has already created hell fifty thousand years before Adam was created (according to Islamic sources).  Had Satan obeyed the divine order, everything would be cool and dandy on earth without Satan, which means hell would remain empty from Satan seduced humans, which would render God's original plan for hell a farce, or a total failure. Therefore God's entire scene constituted an act of deceiving Satan, which is confirmed by the Quran when Satan addressing the Almighty, before being banished from heaven, that he will deceive humans in the same way he was deceived by God. We should realize here that the divine order, to prostrate to Adam, was directed very clearly to the angels, which excludes Satan from the given order since he was not an angel, as angels are made of light while gins are made of fire as Satan was. Therefore the divine order did not include Satan and he had every right not to implement an order that was not directed to him. Satan did not want to invite God's wrath by prostrating, because by doing so he would also have disobeyed the divine order. So either way Satan would be in trouble. Which explains his retort to God "as you deceived me I shall deceive humans except your loyal subjects".  

We should also realize that God has stated in his books that prostration is practiced exclusively to God and no other creature. Then how does He go back on His word and expect Satan to prostrate to Adam? Is it possible that Satan might have thought that God is testing him like he did with Abraham when He asked him to sacrifice his son for Him? Is it possible that Satan thought that by refusing the divine order he was only being tested to God's commands as not to prostrate to anyone except to God? Satan might have had disobeyed the divine order, but he certainly conformed courageously to God's will. What had happened to God's promise that good deeds erase bad deed? Satan previous records show that he was a good guy. What happened to repentance, under which Satan would have had the chance to enter heaven if he repents. It seems very cruel that Satan is eternally condemned to eternal fire for such disobedience. Abraham had a happy ending when he was stopped in the last moment from sacrificing his own son, but Satan, a victim of God's mockery, was condemned to hell eternally. Thinking about it; Satan also would have a happy ending because he is made of fire which cannot last in paradise, but he would certainly enjoy hellish fire since fire strengthens fire.