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In the triangle of Allah, man and Satan, Satan falls at no. three. Man's relationship with Allah is vertical whereas with Satan horizontal. They three at their individual places make angles that joined with each other make a triangle that matches nowhere to no one.
To understand Allah (I mean the ways of Allah to us, not to all creatures) the understanding of Man and Satan is compulsory. In the same way to understand Satan the understanding of Allah and Man is very urgent. ( To understand manI don't want to write. It seems to obvious.)

The Holy Quraan gives us so many references to the creation of man. For example it says that Allah created Man from mud (or some such thing mixed up with water) breathed His spirit in him and taught him knowledge. (In the Quraan the word Rooh [spirit] is used in quite a different sense. We feel as if Rooh is one of the creations. The Rooh as an element of Allah's inner Self, as it is of ours, is not quite clear.)
However, these are the three main ingredients of Man's composition. Every other thing in the human composition is subordinate to at least one of these three. Mud is our body, Rooh is our spirit and knowledge is our mind. Now these are not the three ingredients of composition but three stages of human being. These stages pertain to not only the inner life of a human being but also the outer, not only individual life but also the life in general, not only the life in generation but also the life in surrounding. All human beings have to undergo these three stages. The first one in womb, the second one in the early years of innocence, and the third one when he starts feeling shame in the third, fifth or seventh year of his life.
The early life on this planet was the life of mud and water. This is perhaps considered as cave age. The spirit was not yet breathed in this age. After the Great Flood Allah breathed His spirit in the life on this planet and human beings started living with mud and spirit. The knowledge was yet to be taught. The age of knowledge, the age of feeling shame got started when Allah gave rise to the Greeks.
In the coming years, up to the advent of Christianity that destroyed idols in the West of the world, and Islam that destroyed idols in the East of the world, the spirit had to live and encounter with mind (knowledge) not mud (body). I mean the ways of worship up to that age were related to ceremonies not concepts.
The world body had dwindled down and world spirit was at its top. The world mind was yet to

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