Allah Is My Guide

Qur’aanic Verses 17.63 & 17.64:

 

Transliterations:

 63. Qala ithhab faman tabiAAaka minhum fa-inna jahannama jazaokum jazaan mawfooran

64. Waistafziz mani istataAAta minhum bisawtika waajlib AAalayhim bikhaylika warajlika washarik-hum fee al-amwali waal-awladi waAAidhum wama yaAAiduhumu alshshaytanu illa ghurooran

Translations:

 63. Allah said, “Get out of here! And Hell is the due recompense to you and to all those who, among them, will follow you.”

64. “And beguile whom you can of them with your voice, and cover them with your thinking and your behaviour,¹⁸ and be their partner in wealth and children,¹⁹ and feed them with promises.” And the Satan promises them not but to deceive.

Study Notes:

18. The Satan, in the voices of his pals among mankind, has indeed succeeded in weaning most other human beings away from the Qur’aanic Straight Path. He has done so in various subtle ways. He has incited some of his human pals to tell others of their kind that Islam is an ‘evil’ religion. They cite terrorist activities that take place in different parts of the world and say that most of these are perpetrated by Muslims. They conveniently slide over many atrocities done by non-Muslims. Satan’s human pals have infiltrated the Muslim ranks too! These pals tell other Muslims that reading the Qur’aan in Arabic, even without understanding it at all, gives the reader ample rewards. So the reader does not bother to take the trouble of understanding what he reads. He is content with the false Satan-inspired thought that the mere parrot-like reading of the Qur’aan can take him to Jannah and save him from Hell-fire, whatever bad deeds he might have done in this worldly life. And that is enough for him. He does not aspire for higher ranks in Jannah, which he could attain to, as per his thinking, only after understanding what he reads in the Qur’aan. Other ‘Muslim’ pals of the Satan seduce other Muslims by telling them that they could get salvation and/or worldly benefits only through the intervention of AwliyaAllah and the Prophet (peace on him). So they visit their graves to plead for their intervention, thus leading them to the unpardonable sin of shirk. There could be hundreds of such ways in which the Satan seduces man. I doubt whether even one voluminous book could be enough to contain all his ways and means. 

19. Satan partners man in accumulating ill-begotten wealth and convinces him that such wealth is necessary for the well-being of his children.

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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXVIX. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXVIII already published and freely available thereon.

Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘