The Meaning of the Angel's Prostration There were many traditions about Iblis at the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Ibn Masud, Ibn Abbas, and a group of  the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that Iblis had been the head of the angels in the worldly heavens. Ibn Abbas said in one narration that his name had been Azazil and in another, he said it had been Al Harith. Ibn Abbas also said that Iblis was a Jinn and that they had once been the keepers of Paradise, with Iblis the most honorable and the most learned and the most pious of them. Another tradition says that he had been one of the famous four possessors of wings (angels) before Allah transformed him into the accursed Satan. Allah Almighty recounts Iblis's disobedience in another Surah: Remember when your Lord said to the angels:'Truly I am going to create a man from clay. So when I have fashioned him and breathe into him (his soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him.' So...