Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “So Satan caused them to slip from it and brought them out of what they were in, and We said: Descend, some of you will be enemies to others, and for you on the earth is a settled place and provision for a time”

Then Allah the Exalted said: And in a reading: The difference between them is that means He caused them to stumble, and means He turned them away. So according to the first reading, Satan caused them to stumble, so they slipped from it and were brought out of it, and according to the second, the meaning is He turned them away, meaning He was the cause of their turning away.
Which Satan is it? The apparent meaning is the Satan who refused to prostrate to Adam; he intended to mislead them so that they would be like him in disobedience to Allah. From what? From Paradise or from the tree? From Paradise. For this reason, He said: