and to Lot and to Mary in human guise; and just as Gabriel would sometimes appear to the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in the likeness of Dihyah al-Kalbi and at other times as a Bedouin, so that many people saw him with their own eyes, whereas what a person imagines inwardly is visible to no one else. In the same manner, Iblis appeared to the idolaters in the form of the Najdi elder and, on the Day of Badr, in the likeness of Suraqah b. Malik b. Juʾshum; but when he saw the angels, he fled.