Who was the first to disbelieve in Allah Almighty?
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There is no explicit evidence that specifies who was the first of creation to disbelieve in Allah. Scholars differed regarding whether Iblis was the first disbeliever; some said yes, while others said that disbelievers among the jinn preceded him. As for the first among the Children of Adam to disbelieve, it might have been Cain (Qabil) according to the view that he disbelieved, or it might have been the people of Noah, who disbelieved after ten centuries of monotheism between Adam and Noah. One cannot definitively state a specific individual due to the lack of an explicit text.
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