Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - Al-Israa : 64
وَ اسْتَفْزِزْ مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ مِنْهُمْ بِصَوْتِكَ وَ اَجْلِبْ عَلَیْهِمْ بِخَیْلِكَ وَ رَجِلِكَ وَ شَارِكْهُمْ فِی الْاَمْوَالِ وَ الْاَوْلَادِ وَعِدْهُمْ١ؕ وَ مَا یَعِدُهُمُ الشَّیْطٰنُ اِلَّا غُرُوْرًا
Tempt with your call all whom you wish. 76 Muster against them all your forces - your cavalry and your foot soldiers; 77 share with them riches and offspring, 78 and seduce them with rosy promises - and Satan's promise is nothing but a deception 79 -
76. The literal meaning of the Arabic text is: You may sweep away those whom you find superficial and weak minded. 77. Here, Satan has been likened to that robber who assaults a habitation with cavalry and infantry and orders them to rob. The cavalry and the infantry of Satan are those jinns and human beings who are engaged in numerous forms and positions in carrying out his mission. 78. This is a very meaningful sentence which depicts a true and perfect picture of the relationship between Satan and his followers. On the one hand, Satan becomes a partner with the one who follows him in the earning and spending of his money without putting in any labor in it. On the other hand, he does not become a partner in bearing the consequences of his error, crime and sin. But his foolish dupe follows his instructions as if he were a partner, nay, a stronger party. Again in regard to the children of such a man, the father himself bears the whole burden of bringing them up, but under the misguidance of Satan he trains them in wrong and unmoral ways as if he alone was not their father but Satan as well was a partner in it. 79. Satan entices them with false promises of success and entangles them in the snare of false expectations.
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