Little Lucifer? A raise of an eyebrow and a condescending curl of the lips follow immediately after the question. Who could be as daft as to mistake Iblis for Lucifer?

             “Who am I? I’m the most faithful servant of the Lord. I’m the most loyal soldier. The angels took me when I was but a child. And when I grew, I descended upon the earth and it was me who killed the unbelieving of my people. I massacred my family for love of the Lord.”

             “I’m the blindly loyal dog who worships its master. I’m the dog that could serve no other master. The dog who could not, would not, even when its master was angry. It is for that reason that I was punished. That I was cast down from Heaven, stripped from Paradise, and made to live amongst the humans. That was my curse, it was my fate, it was prophesied even before my creation.”

             “Lucifer is an angel. I am a djinn. Lucifer is made of light, and I of fire. Perhaps we’re both traitors and devils and evil, but we are not the same.”