Shaitan tempts us, but who tempted Shaitan?

As far as we are told, devil was not temptd by anyone. His disobediance was by arrogance alone.

The shaitaan, tries tempt you to do things you know are wrong - so with faith - it is possible to counteract it as you are able to understand that a certain desire is caused by shaaitan and hence you will be more motivated to not do it.
 
Rasulullah said "For each of you Allah has sent a Qarin from Jin" the Shahaba asked "And to you too?," Rasulullah answered "Yes and to me too, but Allah help me from him, so he became Muslim and only instruct me to do good."

Infact because Jin aren't suffering any temptation from other being, the Jin aren't better in Honour than us.

Syaithan from Insi (human being) tempted by Syaithan Jin, but the Syaithan Insi got more calmer everytime following the desire of Syaithan Jin.


Assalamu'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
 
saying I was tempted by the devil so I sinned is no more than an excuse, shaytan means he who strays, it goes for humans and non humans as brother woodrow mentioned to the affect.
something associated with 'shaytan' would certainly be avoided by most people, regardless of shaytan being a single being people associate all the evil in the world to or not.
Iblees had a choice, everyone does, for all we know even he has a choice of repenting as well.
another thing, a post earlier stated that Adam was in heaven, but since the qur'an and ahadeeth point to the fact that no one has entered it or seen what's in it etc, this by no means is confirmed, just like the question of angels having free will or not, assuming they're all copies of each other, again the matter of their free will is not discussed thoroughly in the qur'an or sunnah, and so we can't simply state that they don't have free will, some scholars say that Iblees was one of the angels and he disobeyed, also the angels questioned god on his creating Adam,indicating free will.
 
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AntiKarateKid said:
I was wondering about this, if Shaitan tempts us who tempted him? Or is it that we ourselves have the choice to make good and bad decisions and Shaitan only furthers the bad decisions, and ultimately it is us who decide?

I think I'm confusing myself, any answers?
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Bismilahi Rrahmani Rrahim

Brother we can find the answers to many questions in the Qur’an without the need to ask scholars we just have to read it and study it carefully!
This question you are asking about Sheytan I had on my mind also one time and I found the answer in the Qur’an.
So here is the answer.

First of all Sheytan was a Jinn as the Qur’an says:

“Behold! We said to the angels, "Bow down to Adam": They bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrong-doers!” Qur’an 18:50

So he was not an Angel therefore he was not unmistakable.
The nature of Jinn is very similar to that of the Humans.
So Sheytan was given a high rank among the angels therefore this position made him arrogant.
Just like humans when they get ranks or positions they become arrogant in general.
So when Allah s.w.t. created Adam and give this position to him Iblis became jealous.
So it was the jealousy that tempted Sheytan!
It is the same with children (and believe me I know this cause I have three).
When a younger child is born all the love and care from the parents is focused on him therefore the older child feels abandoned and gets jealous.
One other important issue is that Jinn are created from fire.
And as we know if you throw more fuel on fire it burns more.
So when Allah s.w.t. said to Iblis:

“((Allah)) said: "Get out from this, disgraced and expelled. If any of them follow thee,- Hell will I fill with you all.” Qur’an 7:18

Iblis became more jealous and angry and said:

“(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,” Qur’an 15:39

So in short this would be my answer to your question.

Assalamu aleykum wa rahmetu Allahu wa barakatuhu!
 

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