Many people do not know Allah. This series is an attempt to help them in order to know and acknowledge their Creator.

Verses7:14-19 of the Noble Quran talk about: 1) What is Allah's Promise to Satan and His Fellows?  2) The Excuse of Satan is that for every Liar and Hypocrite, 3) How old is Satan Right now although He is working very actively? 4) Satan can come to you from everywhere except from above and 6) When Allah degraded, banished, and removed Satan from His Mercy?

In the previous article (28), Satanrefused to Prostrate before Adam for salutation and he was the First Historically disobeyed Allah; then Allah said to him: ‘Go down from the heavens; it is not, right, for you to show pride here and disobey'; In verses 7:14-18 you will see what Satan said to Allah

The meaning of verse 7:14

He said: Reprieve me, give me respite, till the day when they are raised from the graves-accursed not wanting to die.In other words, he said: postpone my affair, until the Day of Judgment.  So, you can imagine how old is Satan right now although he is working very actively?

The meaning of verse 7:15

Allah Said, ‘Lo! You are of those reprieved, you are given respite’; in another verse (38:81), it is said, until the day of an appointed time, that is, until the time of the first blast of the Trumpet, an event that will happen very close to Dayof Judgment.  Now, the wicked Satan realized that he will live until the Day of Judgment and he knows that Allah is keeping his words, then what he said?

The meaning of verse 7:16

He, Iblis, said: ‘Now, because You have sent me astray just as You made me err from guidance, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them) for the children of Adam (on Thy Right Path) the religion of Islam.In other words, he said: verily I shall sit in ambush for them, that is, for the Children of Adam, on Your straight path, that is, on the path that leads to You.  It is interesting to know that he did not Prostrate before Adam for salutation and disobeyed Allah because of his pride and his assumption that he is better than Adam; then after all of his sins, he said that Allah made him err!  This is the almost always excuse of the liars and hypocrites.  Then Satan continued:

The meaning of verse 7:17

He said: Then I shall come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right and from their left, that is to say, from every side, and prevent them from following it (that path, Allah's Path i.e. from following Allah's Religion that is Islam). And You will not find most of them thankful’, believing.

Ibn Abb?s, one of the famous interpreter of the Quran  said: ‘However, he cannot come upon them from above, lest he come between the servant and the mercy of Allah, exalted be He’.

In other words, Satan said: Then I shall come upon them from before them, with regard to the Hereafter that there is no hell, Paradise, resurrection or reckoning, and from behind them, that the life of this world is everlasting and I shall bid them to amass and withhold out of stinginess and I will order them to commit corruption, and from their right hands, vis-à-vis the religion: I shall confuse those who are guided until they leave the guidance, and I shall make it seem fair to those who are misguided such that they remain misguided, and from their left hands, as regard pleasures and delights, and Thou wilt not find most of them, all of them beholden, unto Thee, believers in You.

After Satan has done, what Allah said to him?

The meaning of verse 7:18

Allah Said: ‘Go forth from it, degraded, disgraced or despised, and banished, removed from mercy. As for those of them, of people, who follow you I shall assuredly fill Hell with all of you’, that is, with you, through your seed, and with people, in other words, ‘whoever follows you, then I shall punish him’).

In short, Allah said: Go forth from hence, degraded, rebuked, banished far from good; As for such of them, from the jinn and humans as follow you and obey you, surely I will fill hell with all of you of the disbelievers among the jinn and humans.

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Verses7:10-13 in different English translations of the meanings of Arabic Quran:

Verse7:14

QARIB: he replied: 'respite me till the day of resurrection. '

SHAKIR: he said: respite me until the day when they are raised up

PICKTHAL: he said: reprieve me till the day when they are raised (from the dead).

YUSUFALI: he said: "give me respite till the day they are raised up."

Verse7:15

QARIB: said he (Allah): 'you are among the respited, '

SHAKIR: he said: surely you are of the respited ones

PICKTHAL: he said: lo! thou art of those reprieved.

YUSUFALI: (Allah) said: "be thou among those who have respite."

Verse7:16

QARIB: he answered: 'because you have caused me to go astray, i will waylay them as they walk on your straight path,

SHAKIR: he said: as thou hast caused me to remain disappointed i will certainly lie in wait for them in thy straight path

PICKTHAL: he said: now, because thou hast sent me astray, verily i shall lurk in ambush for them on thy right path.

YUSUFALI: he said: "because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! i will lie in wait for them on thy straight way:

Verse7:17

QARIB: and come upon them from the front and from the rear, from their right and from their left. then, you shall find most of them ungrateful. '

SHAKIR: then i will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them, and from their right-hand side and from their left-hand side; and thou shalt not find most of them thankful

PICKTHAL: then i shall come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right hands and from their left hands, and thou wilt not find most of them beholden (unto thee).

YUSUFALI: "then will i assault them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left: nor wilt thou find, in most of them, gratitude (for thy mercies)."

Verse7:18

QARIB: 'begone! ' said he, 'despised and outcast. (as for) those of them that follow you, i shall fill gehenna (hell) with all of you. '

SHAKIR: he said: get out of this (state), despised, driven away; whoever of them will follow you, i will certainly fill hell with you all

PICKTHAL: he said: go forth from hence, degraded, banished. as for such of them as follow thee, surely i will fill hell with all of you.

YUSUFALI: (Allah) said: "get out from this, disgraced and expelled. if any of them follow thee,- hell will i fill with you all.