Overall meaning : Allah Almighty reminds His slaves of the favours He has bestowed upon them, stating that He has established them in the earth, enabled them to control and exploit it and provided all means of existence for them in it, yet little do they give thanks to Him for His blessings.
Then, addressing mankind, He states that He created their father, Adam, and fashioned him in the finest and best of forms, then He commanded the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam. Iblees (Satan), however, arrogantly refused to do so.
'What prevented you from prostrating yourself when I commanded you?’ Allah disapprovingly asked him. 'I am better than he,’ he replied. 'You created me from fire, but You created him from clay.’
Allah then ordered him to get down from Paradise, saying that it is no place for his contemptuous pride. 'Get out, then,’ He said, 'You are certainly of those who are disgraced.’
Iblees asked Allah Almighty to grant him respite until the Day of Resurrection, and He informed him that he would be among those granted respite. Iblees then swore to his Lord, saying that because He had sent him astray, he would assuredly lie in wait for Adam’s descendants on the straight path to turn them away from it and make falsehood seem fair and alluring to them, that he would come to them from all directions and ways to turn them away from the truth, and that He will find the greater part of them are ungrateful and disobedient to Him.
Allah ordered him to get out of Paradise, despised, disgraced and expelled from His grace and mercy, and swore that He would assuredly fill Hell with whoever follows him among the unbelieving descendants of Adam all together, as well as with him and his offspring.