saying: {“I am better than him; You created me from fire and created him from clay”} 1 .
This severed them from considering the words of the Exalted:
{“So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down to him in prostration”} 2 .
Thus, He halted them at the Form (ṣūra) and veiled them from the gnosis of the Spirit (al-Rūḥ) established by the knowledge of what the angels were ignorant of. This is the "Outward of the Inward" (Ẓāhir al-Bāṭin) regarding the knowledge of Iblis—may God curse him.
Knowledge of the Upholding of Justice (Qiwām al-Qisṭ):
As for this knowledge, it is the refusal to believe that God has compelled (ajbara) people to commit what He forbade them, or forced them to abandon what He commanded them.