Tâ Hâ
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[20:116]
For [thus it was:] when We told the angels, "Prostrate yourselves before Adam!" – they all prostrated themselves, save Iblīs, who refused [to do it],

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* v.116 : See 2:30-34 and the corresponding notes, especially 23, 25, and 26, as well as note 31 on 15:41. Since – as I have shown in those notes – the faculty of conceptual thinking is man’s outstanding endowment, his “forgetting” God’s commandment – resulting from a lack of all “firmness of purpose” in the domain of ethics – is an evidence of the moral weakness characteristic of the human race (cf. 4:28 – “man has been created weak”): and this, in its turn, explains man’s dependence on unceasing divine guidance, as pointed out in verse 113 above.