Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 37

Az-Zukhruf · Ayah 37 · View Ayah
وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَصُدُّونَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ
And indeed, the devils avert them from the way [of guidance] while they think that they are [rightly] guided

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And lo! They) i.e. the devils (surely turn them from the way of Allah) from the Truth and guidance, (and yet they deem that they are rightly guided) to the Truth and guidance;

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And indeed they that is the devils bar them the blind from the way from the path of guidance while they suppose that they are rightly guided the plural muhtadūna takes into account the potentially plural sense of man ‘whoever’ of the previous verse

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