Re: Origin of Evil
shaitan is a jinn, and humans and jinns have been given the choice of doing good or bad on their own free will....
shaitaan chose to disobey Allah and hence is used as an icon of evil, but he is not the cause of evil....
any evil a jinn or human does, he himself is responsible for it....
shaitaan only inspires the person to do bad deeds but cannot force anyone to do wrong....
and shaitaan cannot be seen in any sense as an equal rival to Allah....
he is a normal jinn who has been given the freedom to go around and try to mislead jinns and humans, and many other jinns as well as humans help him do the same....