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Today, inshallah, I'll share with you the continuation of the few lessons I wanted to extract from Suulahraf, the seventh

Surah of the Quran, where Allah talks about in exhaustive detail the story of

creation and the story of Adam, Adam, al-A-LHisslam, and the devil I'm

and what I wanted to highlight today after speaking about arrogance

and jealousy last time is actually what Allah

when Allah Zawazah asked him or actually commanded him to be expelled.

He's lost his rank, he's going to be pushed out

from the closeness of Allah.

At that point, he responds to Allah.

And as I get to that response of the Devil, I want to first explain to you why the word

Shaytan is important to understand.

It has a non-Arabic origin also, but in the Arabic language it is argued to be from one of

two origins. It's Shait or Shatan. There's two possible origins of the word.

And the word Shatan in Arabic actually means the Ba-Ada. It means someone that goes far, far away,

someone who's very far and very long distance away.

It's actually the same reason why the word

Chutan is used in Arabic for a very long extensive rope.

So a super long rope is actually called al-Hablumtad is actually also called a shatan.

And from it you get the word chaitan.

The other side of it, actually the origin of the word shaithe, it actually means someone who is engulfed in flames

because of anger meaning someone who's fired literally in many languages you use

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