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But what, for Christians, is true of the Son of God par excellence is true to some extent of all human beings, according to Genesis 2:7--the more so for both Jews and Christians, once both began routinely to address their Creator as "Father."

Of note, Muslims take no such liberty. Nowhere in the Qur'an and scarcely anywhere else in Muslim tradition is any hint asserted of a familiar relationship between deity and humanity.

In the Qur'an 7:10-27 and parallel accounts elsewhere in the Qur'an, Allah does order Satan to bow to Adam, but He never presents Adam as an image of Himself. To appreciate the Qur'an, it is essential to hear the silence in the abstention, a silence that brings to mind a poem, "God's Brother" by Dan O' Brien, an American poet and playwright.

We walked downhill
from school; he was older than I
was by ages.  The hill was a runnel of shade
and the great trees discarded
their leprous bark down
along the asphalt, curling
and the trod into dust. I told him
of a boy who'd misbehaved
at school again.  What 
makes you think
you're better than he is?
he asked me.

We walked
in silence after that, wet leaves
under our feet like water...

Then as if to remind us both
​he said, You're not God, you know."

Source:  GOD IN THE QUR'AN by Jack Miles