Surah Al Israa Ayat 61 Urdu translation

Surah Al Israa Ayat 61 meaning in urdu

اور یاد کرو جبکہ ہم نے ملائکہ سے کہا کہ آدمؑ کو سجدہ کرو، تو سب نے سجدہ کیا، مگر ابلیس نے نہ کیا ا س نے کہا "کیا میں اُس کو سجدہ کروں جسے تو نے مٹی سے بنایا ہے؟"

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(17:61) And remember: when We commanded the angels, *73 "Bow yourselves before Adam," all bowed down but Iblis. *74

And [mention] when We said to the angles, "Prostrate to Adam," and meaning

*73) That is, We showed you such things during the Mi'raj so that they should have the first hand knowledge of the Reality from a truthful and honest man like you and be warned by it to the Right Way. They, however, began to make fun of you, though We had already warned them through you that their evil ways would force them to eat of the Az-Zaqqum. Instead of this they began to scoff at you, saying, Just consider the logic of this man: on the one hand, he says that there an awful fire burning in Hell and, on the other, he says that trees are growing in it' . "
*74) Please also refer to II: 30-39, IV: 117-122, VII: 11-25, XIV: 22, XV:26-43
This story has been cited here to impress upon the disbelievers that their attitude of arrogance and indifference towards AIIah is exactly the same as was adopted by Satan; As a matter of fact, they were following Satan who is the avowed enemy of man, and were being entangled in the snare spread by him who had challenged the progeny of Adam at the very beginning of human history that he would allure and ruin them.