32- THEY SAID: GLORY TO YOU, WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE EXCEPT WHAT YOU TAUGHT US, YOU KNOW ALL AND YOU ARE MOST WISE.

33- HE (ALLAH) SAID: O ADAM, INFORM THEM OF THEIR NAMES.  WHEN HE (ADAM) INFORMED THEM OF THEIR NAMES, HE (ALLAH) SAID:  DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN IN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND KNOW WHAT YOU DISCLOSE AND WHAT YOU HIDE.

What are the names Allah the Highest taught Adam, we can not tell with certainty.  Some say it means the names of all angels, and some say the names of every thing.  It might even be referring to all knowledge one needs.  Only Allah knows.

Then Allah the Highest challenged the Angels to tell Him these names which they could not, because Allah the Highest did not tell them.  This is a reminder to us that all knowledge has one source and one only, Allah, Who also said : “HE (ALLAH) TAUGHT MAN WHAT MAN DID NOT KNOW”.   (S: 96 A: 5)

Allah the Highest endows some people with more knowledge than others.  The most precious knowledge is the knowledge of Allah Himself.  Indeed, the more one knows Allah the more he/she will fear him, as He said: “AMONG HIS SLAVES, THE KNOWLEDGABLE FEAR ALLAH MOST”.  (S: 35 A: 28)

Allah the Highest also reminds the Angels that nothing in the Heavens or in the Earth is hidden from Him “THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN FROM HIM IN THE EARTH NOR IN THE HEAVENS”.  (S: 3 A: 5)

Even our thoughts and intentions which, are not known to any person when we keep inside us, are know to Allah, for to Him we are open books.  He said: “AND KNOW THAT ALLAH KNOWS WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, THEREFORE TAKE HEED OF HIM, AND KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST FORBEARING”.  (S: 2 A: 235)

And also said: “OUR LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT WE HIDE AND WHAT WE REVEAL; NOTHING IS HIDDEN FROM ALLAH IN THE EARTH OR IN HEAVENS”.  (S: 14 A: 38)

And through Jesus, peace is upon him: “YOU KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE ME, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS INSIDE YOU, FOR YOU KNOW WELL ALL THAT IS HIDDEN”.  (S: 5 A: 119)

Allah the Highest knew all that is hidden particularly the feelings of Satan who refused to prostrate to Adam when Allah commanded him and the Angels to do so.

Satan is not an Angel; he is a Jinni, who was so close to Allah the Highest that he was with the Angels.  Angels can not disobey Allah the Highest for they have no will of their own; they just do what they are commanded to do.  Humans and Jinn have choice and have their own will, and therefore they will be judged on the Day of Resurrection.