Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Nisaa, Ayah 120
يَعِدُهُمْ وَيُمَنِّيهِمْ ۖ وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا
Satan promises them and arouses desire in them. But Satan does not promise them except delusion.
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He promises them long life and fills them with desires of attaining their hopes in this world and that there will be neither resurrection nor requital; but what Satan promises them therewith is only delusion falsehood.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(He promiseth them) Satan promises them that there is no Paradise or hell (and stirreth up desires in them) he arouses hope in them that this world lasts forever, (and Satan promiseth them only to beguile) he promises them only falsehood and lies.