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receive a plain answer as in the latter part of this verse. (2) Those who relied on Satan, His answer (in xiv. 22 below)
is frank, cynical and brutal. (14.21)
1896 Those whose power or specious intelligence or influence misled them-such as false priests or leaders-will find
themselves in a parlous state. How can they help others? They themselves failed to profit from Allah's guidance, and
they can with some justice retort that they put them in the wrong path as they followed it themselves! (14.21)
14:22 - And Satan will say when the matter is decided: "It was Allah Who gave you a promise of
truth: I too promised but I failed in my promise to you. I had no authority over you except to
call you but ye listened to me: then reproach not me but reproach your own souls. I cannot
listen to your cries nor can ye listen to mine. I reject your former act in associating me with
Allah. For wrongdoers there must be a Grievous Penalty." 18971898
1897 After the Judgment, Evil declares itself in its true colours. Frankly it says: 'I deceived you. The promise of Allah was
true, but you believed me rather than Allah. I had no power to force you. I had but to call you, and you came running
after me. You must blame yourselves. Did you think I was equal with Allah? I know too well that I was not and never
could be. If you did wrong, you must suffer the Penalty.' (14.22)
1898 See the last note. An alternative interpretation of this sentence may be: "I had already beforehand rebelled against
Allah with Whom ye associated me." (14.22)
25:23 - And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life) and We shall make such deeds
as floating dust scattered about. 3080
3080 The false hopes they built on in this life, and the deeds did under the shadow of such false hopes will be dissipated as
if they were dust flying about in the wind. They will have no value whatever. (25.23)
25:27 - The Day that the wrongdoer will bite at his hands He will say "Oh! would that I had taken a
(straight) path with the Apostle! 3084
3084 The words are general, and for us the interest is in a general sense. A man who actually receives the Truth and is on
the right path is all the more culpable if he is diverted from that path by the machinations of a worldly friend. The
particular person whom some Commentators mention in this connection was one 'Uqba who received the light of
Islam, but was misled afterwards by a worldly friend into apostasy and blasphemy. He came to an evil end afterwards.
(25.27)
25:28 - "Ah! woe is me! would that I had never taken such a one for a friend!
25:29 - "He did lead me astray from the Message (of Allah) after it had come to me! Ah! the Evil
One is but a traitor to man! 3085
3085 The seductive wiles of the Satan are merely meant for snares. There is fraud and treachery in them. The deceived
ones are left in the lurch after the way of escape is made impossible for them. (25.29)
36:74 - Yet they take (for worship) gods other than Allah (hoping) that they might be helped!
36:75 - They have not the power to help them: but they will be brought up (before Our Judgment-
Seat) as a troop (to be condemned). 4021
4021 There is some difference of opinion among Commentators as to the exact meaning to be attached to this clause. As I
understand it, the meaning seems to be this. Man is apt to forget or turn away from the true God, the source of all the
good which he enjoys, and to go after imaginary powers in the shape of gods, heroes, men, or abstract things like
Science or Nature or Philosophy, or superstitious things like Magic, or Good-Fortune or Ill-Fortune, or embodiments of
his own selfish desires. He thinks that they might help him in this Life or in the Hereafter (if he believes in a Hereafter).
But they cannot help him: on the contrary all things that are false will be brought up and condemned before Allah's
Judgment-seat, and the worshippers of the Falsehoods will also be treated as a troop favouring the Falsehoods and
therefore worthy of condemnation. The Falsehoods, therefore, instead of helping them, will contribute to their
condemnation. (36.75)
22:71 - Yet they worship besides Allah things for which no authority has been sent down to them
and of which they have (really) no knowledge: for those that do wrong there is no helper. 2852
2852 When plain common-sense shows the absurdity of false worship, behind which there is neither knowledge,
intelligence, nor authority (quite the contrary), who or what can help the false misguided creatures who dishonour
Allah by false worship? (22.71)
36:60 - "Did I not enjoin on you O ye children of Adam that ye should not worship Satan; for that he
was to you an enemy avowed? 4006
4006 Secondly, there is a gentle reproach to the wrong-doers, more in sorrow than in anger. They are addressed as
"children of Adam", to emphasise two facts, (1) that they have disgraced their ancestry, for Adam after his Fall
repented and was forgiven, and the high Destiny of mankind has been the prize open to all his descendants, and (2)
that Allah Most Merciful has throughout the ages continued to warn mankind against the snares laid by Satan, the
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