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Al-Nisa’ 4: 116–19

We will let him go to the way he has turned to, and We will cast him into Hell – an evil destination.

(116) Truly it is only associat- ing others with Allah in His Divinity that Allah does not forgive, and forgives anything besides that to whomsoever He wills. Whoever associates others with Allah in His Divinity has indeed strayed far away. (117) Rather than call upon Him, they call upon goddesses, and call upon a rebellious Satan76 (118) upon whom Allah has laid His curse. He said (to Allah): “I will take to myself an appointed portion of Your servants77 (119) and shall lead them astray, and shall engross them in vain desires, ▶

76 No one sets up Satan as his “god” in the sense that he makes him the object of his ritual worship and declares him to be God in so many words. The way to make Satan one’s god is to entrust one’s reins to him and let oneself be drawn helplessly in whichever direction Satan wants; the relationship between the two becomes, then, one of worshipper and worshipped. This shows that either absolute, unreserved obedience to or blind following of anybody is tantamount to worshipping him, so that whoever indulges in this kind of absolute obedience is guilty of worshipping a “god” other than the One True God.

77 This shows that Satan is determined to lay his claim to a portion of man’s time, of his effort and labour, of his energies and capacities, of his material belongings, and of his offspring, and would somehow trick him into devoting a sizeable portion of all these to his cause.

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