And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis (Satan). He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever. Surah 2:34
The Koran does believe in Satan and tells a similar account to the one above in Surah 7:10-18 and Surah 38 about the moment that Satan fell.
The Koran tells of a story that Allah asked the angels to bow down before Adam. Satan (also known as Iblis) refused and became an unbeliever. This story is supposed to show the pride of Satan to refuse to bow to anyone.
If that was the case. . .THEN SATAN WAS RIGHT! Satan should not bow down to anyone but Allah. Bowing to man should make Allah jealous.
The Bible does not speak of the moment when Satan’s heart turned away from God, but a verse in Ezekiel describes his heart.
Your heart became proud
on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings. Ezekiel 28:11-17
Angels are servants of God and they serve man in the process, but their boss is God. The fact that the Koran points out Satan’s refusal to serve man as the ultimate sin, speaks to where the focus of Islam is--it’s all about what man can get from Allah.
During the story of Satan in the garden, the Koran gives a slightly different story than the Bible. The Koran says that Satan points out the tree to Adam.
But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, “O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?” In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced. Surah 20:120-121
The Bible says it is Eve who first encounters Satan, then tempts Adam. The Bible details no dialog between Satan and Adam.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Genesis 3:1-7
If Muslims believe that Christians changed the Bible, why would they change this part of the story? In the Bible story, it is woman and man who is tempted. In the Koran, it is only man. If the Bible was changed by men, wouldn’t these men want women to get the blame?
