إِن

يَدۡعُونَ

مِن

دُونِهِۦٓ

إِلَّآ

إِنَٰثٗا

وَإِن

يَدۡعُونَ

إِلَّا

شَيۡطَٰنٗا

مَّرِيدٗا

١١٧

Instead of Allah, they only invoke female gods¹ and they ˹actually˺ invoke none but a rebellious Satan—

cursed by Allah—who said, “I will surely take hold of a certain number of Your servants.

I will certainly mislead them and delude them with empty hopes. Also, I will order them and they will slit the ears of cattle¹ and alter Allah’s creation.” And whoever takes Satan as a guardian instead of Allah has certainly suffered a tremendous loss.

Satan only makes them ˹false˺ promises and deludes them with ˹empty˺ hopes. Truly Satan promises them nothing but delusion.