How did the Shaytan of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) become a Muslim, given that he is cursed?

The questioner : How did the Shaytan of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) become a Muslim? How did he become a Muslim when he is cursed?

The Shaykh : Yes. First, we must know that when Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created the jinn and humans, He did not create them all as shayatin (devils), disbelievers, and sinners. Rather, He created them upon the fitrah (the innate natural disposition). Just as there are righteous and wicked people among humans, some of whom the Lord of the Worlds has labeled as shayatin, so it is with the jinn. There is no difference in this regard; among them are the righteous and the wicked. This is explicitly mentioned in Surat al-Jinn, on the tongue of the jinn: Just as there are righteous and wicked among humans, so there are righteous and wicked among the jinn. Therefore, whoever among the jinn becomes a Muslim is righteous, and whoever does not become a Muslim is a disbeliever or, at the very least, an open sinner. Thus, there is no problem with one of the narrations in his (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: There is no problem with this, because not all jinn are disbelievers; among them are the righteous and others who are not. So, his saying "and he became a Muslim" points to this reality: that among the jinn are the righteous and the wicked. We all know that Iblis, by the explicit text of the Qur'an, And whoever becomes a Muslim and obeys his Lord is a Muslim jinni. Therefore, there is no difference between humans and jinn in that among them are the believer and the disbeliever, the righteous believer and the wicked believer. This is the answer to what you asked.