فَإِنْ قِيلَ: أَلَيْسَ قَدْ كَفَرَ إِبْلِيسُ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ؟
One may ask: Did Iblis not disbelieve, and was he not an angel?
The objection argues that Iblis is mentioned together with the angels during the command to prostrate before Adam, yet refused. If he were an angel in kind, his disobedience would appear to contradict the general description of angelic obedience.
The reply separates two questions: Was Iblis present among angels? and Did he belong to the angelic species? The first does not prove the second.