Creation, Prostration, and Prophethood in the Qur’an:
Creation, Prostration, and Prophethood in the Qur’an: A Critical Analysis of Jinn, Angels, Humans, and Iblis 🔷 Introduction: Narrative or Reality? The Qur’an’s creation accounts are not mere reports of events; they are multi-layered examples of metaphorical language addressing humanity’s search for meaning. Concepts such as jinn, angels, humans ( bashar , insan ), and Iblis do not only represent classes of beings but also symbolize the forces, tendencies, and inner conflicts within the human psyche. In this context, the Qur’anic scenes are not simply informative but serve as moral awakenings and directional narratives. Some interpreters read these accounts as differences of physical species and genealogical lineages, proposing that bashar (man) refers to a separate species distinct from insan (human) and that prophethood is exclusive to this bashar lineage. However, the holistic reasoning of the Qur’an does not support such a division. Moreover, the dialogues in the creation an...