Upon him [Page 232 of the Cairo edition] Peace be upon him, in contrast to Satan’s words, “I am better than him.” So we learned the truth about the position of recognition with God and the happiness it produces, so that we can use it as a way to contradict us. We learned about Satan’s claim and his statement, so that we should beware of something like it when opposing us. Eve was sent down to procreate, and Satan was sent down to deceive, so this was the descent of Adam and Eve. The decline of dignity and the decline of Iblis, the decline of humiliation, disobedience, gain, or visitation. His disobedience did not require the perpetuation of misery, for he did not associate polytheism, but rather took pride in what God had created for him and decreed that he was wretched. The abode of misery is reserved for the people of polytheism, so God sent him down to the earth to establish polytheism through whispering in the hearts of His servants. So if they associate polytheism and Satan disavows the polytheist and those who Polytheism did not benefit him by disavowing it, for he was the one who told him to disbelieve as God Almighty told him, so he was burdened with the burden of every polytheist in the world, even if he was a monotheist, for whoever enacts an evil practice, then he bears the burden of it and the burden of whoever does it

[ Polytheism and Monotheism ]

The natural person, like Satan and the sons of Adam, must imagine in himself an example of what he wants to highlight. So he enacted polytheism and was obsessed with it until he imagined it in himself in the form that, if it occurred in the soul of the polytheist, would disappear. He has the image of monotheism, so if he imagines it in himself in this way, then monotheism has departed from his perception in himself.