The claim that Iblis was the first to engage in analogical reasoning

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is this statement correct, that the first instance of analogical reasoning (qiyas) was from Iblis, according to the one who performs the reasoning?

Answer:
They say this because in the verse, the first one to engage in analogical reasoning was Iblis, claiming that fire is better than clay, even though clay is better than fire. Fire is burning and produces nothing, whereas clay is blessed and produces vegetables, crops, and bounties; the soil is good, unlike fire, which is burning and produces nothing. Therefore, it is a defective analogy. For this reason, they say that the first one to engage in defective analogical reasoning was Iblis.