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They have also mentioned that of the wisdoms of creating iblis. Is that iblis is a manifestation

really of Allah's power in that look at the creation of Allah, all types of entities, the

perfection of Allah's creation. He has the best of the best, he has the angels, he has

jibreel, he has the melaika, he has the jinn, he has the shayatine and he even has iblis.

And so iblis becomes a manifestation, believe it or not, of the diversity of Allah's creation

and power. And we learn that all of Allah's mahluk are equally dependent on Allah. That

the mahluk can attack other mahluk, but when the mahluk has the Khalik, when the mahluk

turns to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then no one has power over Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

So the wisdom of the creation of iblis also manifests itself in us turning to Allah for

protection, because we realize that we will not be able to protect ourselves without

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now one other point here as well, that what is the difference

between shaytan and iblis, well actually the term shaytan is broader. And shaytan comes

from shatana and shatana means all those who cause you to go astray. And so shaytan

is any entity that causes you to go astray. Any entity that becomes a leader of evil. Any

entity that becomes somebody who is invoking others to be away from the srata-mustatheem.

And in the Quran we learn that shaytan is not just a term for the followers of iblis

from the jinn. They are also shaytan al-in siwajinn, shaytan of men and shaytan of jinn.

So the term shaytan can apply to both men and to jinn. Of course the majority of shaytan

are jinn. Now by the way I said this in the previous lectures I've given, not every

jinn is a shaytan. Jinn is a creation like us and they are muslim jinn, they are righteous

jinn, they are good jinn, worshipping jinn, and they're also evil jinn. And the evil

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