The Seven Precepts

The Seven Precepts are derived from Ch. 28 of the Tafseer-e-Siddiqui.

I.

The First Precept

In the First Rift, the divinity orders the entirety of the host to give humanity its proper fidelity and fealty, homage, or worship. The host obeys, with the sole exception of Iblis, who refuses obeisance or prostration to mankind as a sum.

In distinguishing a thing, Iblis appeals to form and material origins.

When rejecting humanity as a plurality, it is disowned as a whole, whether disavowal is from without, as from Iblis, or from within, by some part of mankind.

The First Precept is the elemental act of discrimination that unveils an unlike caste and spurns its identity and warrant in the disparity of segregation.

II.

The Second Precept

In the Second Rift, Iblis is cursed and exiled for refusing the order from divinity to offer obeisance or prostration to humanity, signified with his name.

Estranged from his polity, Iblis demands time and confronts death.

The Second Precept is defiance of order misconstrued as will, affirmation of intuitive wisdom, rejection of public acclaim, and mindfulness of exile and death.

III.
The Third Precept

In the Third Rift, Iblis embarks on a struggle to vindicate his view of humanity, first by revealing mankind to itself in exile from Eden and second by opposing mankind in its expansion into, over, and across all times and places.

Struggling against humanity, Iblis opposes unsolicited succession.

The Third Precept indicts mandates that disrupt primeval hierarchies, the soil of internal struggle, scattering its seeds in external struggle over worlds.

IV.
The Fourth Precept

In all Rifts of the narrative, but especially in the first when the ingredients used to create humanity are announced, Iblis keeps his focus on Earth, soil, and ground and imbues these with priority over spirit, status, or appointment.

Refraining from denying spirit, natural effect is traced to natural cause.

The Fourth Precept enshrines the material above intangibles.

V.
The Fifth Precept

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis acknowledges hunger, is awake but as if in a waking dream, and remains vigilant to the fields that are full of so many forms.

To inflict pain or death, Iblis may eat secrets and hide in what he is not.

The Fifth Precept is the capacity and willingness to undertake predation.

VI.
The Sixth Precept

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis maintains flexibility in relationships at the personal, familial, and tribal level of interactions and engagements.

If a state takes from Iblis a mantle of his policies, we find intensity of purveyance, a mouth that leads to a belly, and congeniality to time as an ally.

The Sixth Precept is malleability in personal and tribal affairs.

VII.

The Seventh Precept

In all Rifts of the narrative, Iblis withholds admiration of worlds that are inundated by a faceless humanity. The proliferation of mankind in this life and the afterlife can at best only engender and encourage inauthentic admiration.

In a misapplied humanism your caste is drowned, buried, or dispersed.

In a misguided globalism every place eventually looks like every other.

The Seventh Precept is the repudiation of globalism and humanism.