Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 30
فَرِيقًا هَدَىٰ وَفَرِيقًا حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلضَّلَٰلَةُ ۗ إِنَّهُمُ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ
A group [of you] He guided, and a group deserved [to be in] error. Indeed, they had taken the devils as allies instead of Allah while they thought that they were guided.
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A party of you He has guided while another party has deserved to go astray — they have taken devils as patrons instead of God that is other than Him and think that they are guided’.
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(A party hath He led aright) Allah honoured them with knowledge and felicity: these are the people of the right, (while error hath just hold) is prescribed (over (another) party) Allah humiliated them with denial and damnation: these are the people of the left, (for lo! they choose) He says: Allah knows that they take (the devils for protecting friends) gods (instead of Allah and deem) the misguided people think (that they are rightly guided) through Allah's religion.