But, who makes the evil deeds of the wrong doers seem fair...

But, who makes the evil deeds of the wrong doers seem fair in their view: Allah or the carnal desire or Satan?

No doubt the main factor is carnal desire and Satan, but since Allah has created this effect in their deeds it can be attributed to Allah; because when people commit a sin at the beginning that their nature is pure, their conscience is vigilant, and their wisdom works fairly well, they become inconvenient from their action, but the more they repeat it, the more their inconvenience decreases.

Gradually they reach to the stage of indifference, and if they repeat it more, the ugly things seem beautiful in their views, thus far that they imagine it among their honours and virtues, while they have been drowned in the dirty situation of corruption. It is interesting that when the Holy Qur’an propounds this question, saying: “Is he, then, to whom the evil of his deed is made alluring so that he looks upon it as good…?” it does not clearly express the opposite point of it.

As if it intends to give a vast respite to the hearer that he illustrates in his mind all the different things that he can consider opposite to it and understands more. It seems it wants to say whether such a person is like the truth seekers. Is such a person like the pure hearted persons who are always busy examining their own selves? Is there any hope of felicity for such a person? Then, the Qur’an refers to the statement of reason of the difference of these two groups.

It adds: “…Now verily Allah makes err whom He pleases and guides aright whom He pleases…” If the ugly deeds of the first group are decorated in their views, this is the consequence of the Divine mislead. It is He Who has put this property in the repetition of ugly deeds to which the man’s self accustoms itself, he gets the habit of it, and harmonizes with it.

It is He Who gives some penetrating and kin eyes, together with some hearing ears to the pure-hearted believers for understanding the facts as they exactly are. It is clear that the Divine Will is accompanied with His Wisdom and gives everyone whatever he is eligible to. So, at the end of the verse, the Qur’an says: “…so let not your soul waste away in grief for them…” This meaning is similar to the content of verse 3 in Surah As-Shu‘ara’, No.