وَإِذۡ

قَالَ

رَبُّكَ

لِلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ

إِنِّي

جَاعِلٞ

فِي

ٱلۡأَرۡضِ

خَلِيفَةٗۖ

قَالُوٓاْ

أَتَجۡعَلُ

فِيهَا

مَن

يُفۡسِدُ

فِيهَا

وَيَسۡفِكُ

ٱلدِّمَآءَ

وَنَحۡنُ

نُسَبِّحُ

بِحَمۡدِكَ

وَنُقَدِّسُ

لَكَۖ

قَالَ

إِنِّيٓ

أَعۡلَمُ

مَا

لَا

تَعۡلَمُونَ

٣٠

˹Remember˺ when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to place a successive ˹human˺ authority on earth.” They asked ˹Allah˺, “Will You place in it someone who will spread corruption there and shed blood while we glorify Your praises and proclaim Your holiness?” Allah responded, “I know what you do not know.”¹

He taught Adam the names of all things, then He presented them to the angels and said, “Tell Me the names of these, if what you say is true?”¹

They replied, “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are truly the All-Knowing, All-Wise.”

Allah said, “O Adam! Inform them of their names.” Then when Adam did, Allah said, “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you conceal?”

And ˹remember˺ when We said to the angels, “Prostrate before Adam,”¹ so they all did—but not Iblîs,² who refused and acted arrogantly,³ becoming unfaithful.