Difference or similarityof Satan andIblis

Subject Areas : Quarterly Sabzevaran Fadak

Mehdi Momtahen ¹ , Zeinab Torabi ²

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Received: 2013-11-24 Accepted : 2013-11-24 Published : 2012-12-01

Keywords: the Holy Quran, قرآن کریم, Adam, خلقت انسان, شیطان, Satan, ابلیس, آدم(ع), Iblis, the Creation of Man,

Abstract :

Satan, the deceiver of Adam and Eve, and the biggest obstacle to achieving full humanity, is a creature who has sought to entice and seduce humankindat all ages and epoches since the creation of Adam to the resurrection of judgment; and he has sworn to the glory of God to mislead people. The origin of the word devil holds broad conceptsand includes every mischievous, defiant and rebellious creature,but different texts mentioned this existingwith varying interpretations and the word "Satan" is more applicable among them.The issue thatwill beaddressedinthispaper is the semantic study of thesetwo wordsandthe explanation of thesimilarityorthe difference of these two terms,Satan and Iblis, from the viewpoint ofverses and hadiths.