The Holy Quran 7:30 — Surah Al-A'raf

Arabic text

فَرِيقًا هَدَىٰ وَفَرِيقًا حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلضَّلَـٰلَةُ ۗ إِنَّهُمُ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ ٱلشَّيَـٰطِينَ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ

Translation

While there is a group that He (Allaah) has guided, there is another group that deserves to go astray (because of their wrong behaviour despite having seen the truth). Instead of Allaah, they take the Shayaateen as (their) friends (by adopting their preposterous beliefs, atheistic ideals, polytheistic creeds and baseless speculation) and think that they are rightly guided.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, those upon whom misguidance has become due are the people who, abandoning Allah, have taken the devils as their friends and companions. And the irony is that, despite this manifest misguidance, they think that they are going quite rightly and that the course and conduct they have adopted in religious matters is the correct one, as He said…

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