ٱلْإِسْرَاء : ٦١

  • وَإِذۡ And when
  • قُلۡنَا We said
  • لِلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ to the Angels
  • ٱسۡجُدُواْ Prostrate
  • لِأٓدَمَ to Adam
  • فَسَجَدُوٓاْ So they prostrated
  • إِلَّآ except
  • إِبۡلِيسَ Iblis
  • قَالَ He said
  • ءَأَسۡجُدُ Shall I prostrate
  • لِمَنۡ to (one) whom
  • خَلَقۡتَ You created
  • طِينٗا (from) clay
And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except for Iblees.1 He said, "Should I prostrate to one You created from clay?"
Footnotes
1 See footnote to 2:34.
And, mention, when We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves before Adam', a prostration of salutation, by inclining oneself, and so they [all] prostrated themselves, except Iblees: he said, 'Shall I prostrate myself before one whom You have created from clay?' (teenan, is in the accusative because the operator of the oblique [min, 'of'] has been omitted, in other words [it would normally be] min teenin).