The Holy Quran 15:42 — Surah Al-Hijr

Arabic text

إِنَّ عِبَادِى لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَـٰنٌ إِلَّا مَنِ ٱتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ ٱلْغَاوِينَ

Translation

(Allaah told Iblees further) "Indeed you will have no power (sway) over My (chosen) bondsmen, except (that your control will be limited to) those deviant ones who follow you (because of ignorance and foolishness)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Iblis will have no hold over the sincere: that is, surely over the chosen servants mentioned above you will have no power at all. Or the meaning may be that you cannot force your way over any servant at all; but whoever goes astray of his own accord and follows you out of his own ignorance and foolishness has ruined and destroyed himself by his own choice.

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