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8 Section 4: Disbelievers Shall Be Disappointed – Truth Shall Be Established Surah ‘Ibrahim – Verse 22 وَقَالَ الشَّيْطَانُ لَمَّا قُضِيَ الأَمْرُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَعَدَكُمْ وَعْدَ الْحَقّ‌ِ وَوَعَدتُّكُمْ فَاَخْلَفْتُكُمْ وَمَا كَانَ لِيَ عَلَيْكُم مِن سُلْطَانٍ إِلآَّ أَن دَعَوْتُكُمْ فَاسْتَجَبْتُمْ لِي فَلاَ تَلُومُونِي وَلُومُوا أَنفُسَكُم مَّآ أَنَاْ بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ وَمَآ أَنتُم بِمُصْرِخِيَّ إِنّـِي كَفَرْتُ بِمَآ أَشْرَكْتُمُونِ مِن قَبْلُ إِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ 22.

“And Satan says, when the affair is decided: ‘Verily Allah promised you the promise of truth; I also promised you but I failed to keep them to you, and I did not have any authority over you except that I called you and you responded me. Therefore, do not blame me, but blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can you help me. Verily I disbelieved in your associating me with Allah from before.

Verily the unjust, for them shall be a painful chastisement’.” In the Hereafter, sinners seek to get others involved in their sins and they try to find fellow-conspirators so as to put the whole blame on them for the wrong they have committed. Sometimes the sinner will say: “ Friends seduced me! ” At other times he says: “ Corrupt leaders made me corrupt ”. Some other times, he blames the Satan and regards him as the cause of his own seduction.

But, the Satan answers: Do not put the blame on me, I did not have any role to play except wavering your opinion and calling you to it. It was you who decided to deviate and to become deviant.

The verse says: “And Satan says, when the affair is decided: ‘Verily Allah promised you the promise of truth; I also promised you but I failed to keep them to you, and I did not have any authority over you except that I called you and you responded me…” The fact that the Satan has no domination over man, not only is verified by Allah but also the Satan himself confesses it.

Addressing Satan, Allah says: “Verily (as regards) My (devoted) servants, there is not for you over them any authority…” [^1] and in this verse, Satan says: “…and I did not have any authority over you…” However, in the continuation of the above verse, the Holy Qur’an says: “…Therefore, do not blame me, but blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can you help me. Verily I disbelieved in your associating me with Allah from before.

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