Send against them your hosts...

Send against them your hosts, and share with them their wealth and children, and promise them though your promise is nothing but vanity and vain!'' Qura"n has put stress upon the fact that Satan has not any authority or effective power upon Man, unless he deliberately follows him. In particular, Satan can do nothing to those who are pure in faith and sincere in act, and put their trust in God. He lays his various traps in the way of Man.

He may seduce some one with his speech, or tempt some one with allurment. To say it in a metaphorical way; he has his hosts of cavalry and infantry here and there, and various kinds of weapons that he may use. He may make use of the beauty of a woman, or the glory of rank, or the attraction of wealth, to entice his prey.

Devilish armed forces have many a time been a dangerous means in the hands of the cruel invaders, and inhuman dictators of the history of Man, such as Nerone, Hitler, and other wild conquerors, and blood-thirsties. Satan may frighten his followers from poverty, illness, and death.

Some commentators have understood that Satan's sharing Man in wealth and children is through usury and giving birth to unlawful children; but we are of opinion that the words have wider meanings which includes obtaining any sort of unlawful wealth and children.