Bismillah.
Prophet Muhammad (s) said: And then Allah, Most High, will say three times every night in the month of Ramadan. “Is there anyone who seeks so that I may bestow? Is there any repentant, so that I may pardon him? Is there anyone seeking forgiveness so that I may forgive him? Who is there to lend a soft loan (alms and charity for the poor) to One Who is Sufficient, Everlasting and One Who is Just and wrongs no one?”
He (s) said: In the evening of every day of the month of Ramadan, Allah frees a million souls from hellfire at the time of Iftar. And when the night of Friday and the day of Friday enter, He frees a million souls every hour. Those were the wretched souls who deserved chastisement. And when the month of Ramadhan ends, the number of souls freed on that day equals the total souls released from hellfire by Allah during the whole month. (Al-Mufīd, Al-Amali, 27th Assembly, H 3)
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وَاذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ إِدْرِيسَ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ صِدِّيقًا نَّبِيًّا وَرَفَعْنَاهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا
And mention in the Book, Idrīs. Indeed, he was a truthful one and a prophet, and We raised him to an exalted station.
(Sūrat Maryam No. 19, Āyat 56-57)
Prophet Idrīs ‘alayhis-salām is mentioned briefly twice in the Noble Quran—first in the above verses from Sūrat Maryam and later in Sūrat al-Anbiyā (21:85-86), where he is listed alongside two other prophets as being patient and righteous. According to the contemporary exegete Āyatullāh Jawādī Āmulī, the influence of fabricated narrations, known as ‘isrā’īliyāt’, is evident in some extraordinary accounts about Prophet Idrīs, making them unreliable.
Nevertheless, it is generally agreed that he was a prophet of Allah ‘azza wajall who lived before Nūh ‘alayhis-salām. Some Muslim scholars identify him with Enoch, a figure in the Old Testament who, according to the Bible, was taken up by God without experiencing death. The Bible also describes Enoch as the great-grandfather of Noah.
According to narrations, Prophet Idrīs was the first human to write. God taught him this skill and he passed it on to others, allowing the written word to become a means of spreading divine knowledge. He was also taught how to weave and sew, introducing stitched clothing at a time when people still dressed in unstitched animal skins.
Regarding the exalted station mentioned for Idrīs in the above verse from Sūrat Maryam, Allah is the source of all true exaltation. His essence is inherently exalted, and anything connected to Him shares in that exaltedness. For this reason, the angel of revelation is described in Sūrat al-Najm as being at an exalted horizon:
ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَاسْتَوَىٰ وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَىٰ
Possessed of sound judgement. He settled, while he was on the most exalted horizon (Q 53: 6 & 7)
Or the Quran itself is mentioned in Sūrat al-Zukhruf as being exalted:
وَإِنَّهُ فِي أُمِّ الْكِتَابِ لَدَيْنَا لَعَلِيٌّ حَكِيمٌ
And it is exalted and wise, with Us in the Mother Book (Q 43:4)
Almighty Allah Himself is referred to in many verses as being exalted, particularly with the name ‘alī (the Exalted). In one narration, Imam Ja‘far al-Sādiq ‘alayhis-salām, explains that, in reality, nothing else has an independent existence that could be compared to Allah subhānahu wata‘ālā. A companion of the Imam, named Jumay’ bin ‘Umayr, narrates: Abū Abdillāh Imam al-Sādiq (a) said: What is greater than Allah? I replied, “Allah is greater than everything”. He then asked: Was there anything [that even existed] to then be greater than Him? I responded, “What does it [Allah’s greatness] mean then?” He said: Allah is greater than anything that can be described.
For this reason, Prophet Idrīs having an exalted station signifies his closeness to Allah. His exaltedness comes from the exaltedness of Allah, it is not independent of Him. We pray that Allah also grants us true proximity to Him in our lives.
Resources: Āyatullāh Jawādī Āmulī, Sīreh-ye Payambarān dar Qur’ān (Tafsīr-e Mawdu’ī, vol. 6), Shaykh Rizwan Arastu, God’s Emissaries.