The story of Iblis in the story of the creation of Adam begins when he disobeys God's order to prostrate to Adam and is rejected from God's door. It is believed that since that time, his presence in human life is the cause of all the evils and sins committed by humans. In the verses, narrations and interpretations, Iblis has an objective existence, based on this, his image has been depicted by artists.
During the reign of Shah Tahmasab I Safavid in Qazvin, and by his order, a version titled "Tahmasbi's Falnameh" was painted, in which two stories of angels prostrating to Adam and Adam and Eve's exit from heaven, the cunning face of Satan, were depicted in its two illustrations. Tahmasabi's divination is one of the few versions in which the illustrations are not in the form of conventional book layout, but in the form of illustrations without literary text for divination. By looking into Tahmasabi's horoscope, the following questions are raised: Is the main source of the drawings for the image of Satan the painter's imagination or the main beliefs of the artist based on the stories narrated in the holy books of the prophets? If the basis of the paintings are the stories of creation in the divine books, how was this visual interpretation created and what are the visual and meaningful characteristics of the paintings? What is the importance of knowing the art of painting and semantic culture in the form of fortune-telling? The purpose of the paper is to understand the character and image of Satan in the art of painting in the context of book layout techniques so that it can explain the process of portraying literary thought and mentality.
The research method of this article has a qualitative approach, and the method of collecting materials in that library is to study the character of the devil by visual reading of two pictures related to the image and character of the devil, out of the total of thirty pictures of the horoscope. The findings of the research indicate that the image and character of the devil in the version of Falnameh was created by Aghamirek, one of the prominent painters of the Safavid period, who was able to choose a human image for the devil with special codes, creative imagination and using painterly techniques. The important point is that, while using ancient texts and pre-Islamic ideas, the artist had an impression of interpretations of the Qur'an and the beliefs of Sufis and mystics.