Eternal Words 4-Sura An-Nisa (The Women) Verse119
Verse119
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(119) وَلأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ آذَانَ الأَنْعَامِ وَلآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللّهِ
وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ الشَّيْطَانَ وَلِيًّا مِّن دُونِ اللّهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِينًا
119. "And most certainly I will lead them astray and certainly I will arouse desires in them, and certainly I will bid them that they split the ears of the cattle, and I will certainly command them that they alter the creation of Allah; and whoever takes Satan for a guardian rather than Allah, has indeed suffered a manifest loss."
Commentary:
Satan has sworn to pursuade some programs:
1. He has said that he would take an appointed share from Allah's servants:
"... and he said, most certainly I will take of Your servants an appointed share..."
Satan knows that he has not the authority of leading all the servants of Allah astray. There are only the persons who indulge in their desires, and the people of weak faith and weak will who submit to Satan.
2. Therefore, the second thing that he has promised to do upon human beings is that he says:
"And most certainly I will lead them astray ..."
3. Then, he says :
"... and certainly I will arouse desires in them,..."
4. Satan says that he will invite the servant of Allah to superstitious acts, including the following action :
"... and certainly I will bid them that they split the ears of the cattle,..."
This action refers to one of the disgraceful deeds of the Age of Ignorance. It was customary among the idol worshippers that they would split the ears of some certain cattles, or they cut their ears utterly. They believed that it was forbidden to ride on them and, thus, they took no benefit of them.
5. What Satan says in this stage is an irreparable damage that he causes against the basis of the prosperity of man. Satan says:
"...and I will certainly command them that they alter the creation of Allah..."
This sentence shows that Allah has settled monotheism and any other admirable attribute in the first nature of man, but some Satanic temptations and low desires deviate man from the straight path and lead him astray.
And, at the end of the verse, it refers to a general principle when it says:
"... and whoever takes Satan for a guardian rather than Allah, has indeed suffered a manifest loss."
