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==== Across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions—with variation in metaphysics but convergence in function—Satan is: ====
* A real spiritual being,
* Initially a created angelic intelligence (e.g., in Christianity: Lucifer, who fell),
* Who chose self-will over divine order,
* Now existing as the tempter, deceiver, adversary, and source of division and spiritual distortion.

===== - Satan = Lucifer fallen, not metaphor but personified spiritual entity. =====
* Purpose: to accuse, deceive, divide, and destroy.

===== - Iblis, a jinn, refuses to bow to Adam, cast out, becomes Shaytan, the seducer of mankind. =====

===== - Varied; not always personified evil, but often an adversarial function permitted by God for testing. =====