The five children of Iblis

Five children of Iblis are mentioned throughout tafsir (Quranic exegesis) on Surah 18:50, each a devil (shaiṭān) assigned to a specific task to do evil.[1] Their names are: Dasim, Awar, Sut, Thabar or Theber, and Zalanpur or Zalinbor.[2][3] They reproduce by laying eggs.

Depiction of Iblis in the epic poem Shahnameh

Functions
  • Dasim (Arabic: دَاسِم): Its name is derived from the root (Dasama Arabic: دَسَمَ=Lipid): His mission is to enter people's homes and cause problems between family members, and between the woman and her husband. And eat with them too. He enters the houses if the man does not salute (the greeting of Islam) the people of his house.[4]
  • Aawar (Arabic: أَعْوَر): The name means 'one-eyed' in Arabic. He is responsible for adultery or fornication (Zina). It incites people to do it, and makes it beautiful in their eyes.[2][4]
  • Misout (Arabic: مِسْوَط): He is responsible for the noise, and the false news that he throws on people's mouths, and they find no basis for it.[2]
  • Thabar or Theber (Arabic: ثَبر): He is responsible for the calamities, who commands to slap the cheeks, and to return to ignorance (the pre-Islamic era: Jahiliyyah).[2][4]
  • Zalanpur or Zalinbor (Arabic: زَلَنْبُور): He is charged with causing division among people, and making a man see the faults of his wife, and he is present in the markets, who places his head in every market between heaven and earth. Because of it, people are still complaining.[4]

References
  1. "موقع التفير الكبير".
  2. بكر/السيوطي, جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي (2015-01-01). تفسير السيوطي (الدر المنثور في التفسير بالمأثور) 1-7 ج4 (in Arabic). Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. p. 413.
  3. الجوزي, جمال الدين أبي الفرج عبد الرحمن/ابن (2011-01-01). المنتظم في تاريخ الملوك والأمم 1-17 ج1 (in Arabic). Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. p. 178. ISBN 978-2-7451-1507-2.
  4. الزبيدي, أبي الفيض محمد بن محمد الحسيني/مرتضى (2016-01-01). إتحاف السادة المتقين بشرح إحياء علوم الدين 1-14 ج8 (in Arabic). Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. p. 534.
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