وَلَا

تَأۡكُلُواْ

مِمَّا

لَمۡ

يُذۡكَرِ

ٱسۡمُ

ٱللَّهِ

عَلَيۡهِ

وَإِنَّهُۥ

لَفِسۡقٞۗ

وَإِنَّ

ٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ

لَيُوحُونَ

إِلَىٰٓ

أَوۡلِيَآئِهِمۡ

لِيُجَٰدِلُوكُمۡۖ

وَإِنۡ

أَطَعۡتُمُوهُمۡ

إِنَّكُمۡ

لَمُشۡرِكُونَ

١٢١

Do not eat of what is not slaughtered in Allah’s Name. For that would certainly be ˹an act of˺ disobedience. Surely the devils whisper to their ˹human˺ associates to argue with you.¹ If you were to obey them, then you ˹too˺ would be polytheists.

Can those who had been dead, to whom We gave life and a light with which they can walk among people, be compared to those in complete darkness from which they can never emerge?¹ That is how the misdeeds of the disbelievers have been made appealing to them.

And so We have placed in every society the most wicked to conspire in it. Yet they plot only against themselves, but they fail to perceive it.

Whenever a sign comes to them, they say, “We will never believe until we receive what Allah’s messengers received.” Allah knows best where to place His message. The wicked will soon be overwhelmed by humiliation from Allah and a severe punishment for their evil plots.

Whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens their heart to Islam.¹ But whoever He wills to leave astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted as if they were climbing up into the sky. This is how Allah dooms those who disbelieve.

That is your Lord’s Path—perfectly straight. We have already made the signs clear to those who are mindful.

They will have the Home of Peace with their Lord, Who will be their Guardian because of what they used to do.

˹Consider˺ the Day He will gather them ˹all˺ together and say, “O assembly of jinn! You misled humans in great numbers.” And their human associates will say, “Our Lord! We benefited from each other’s company,¹ but now we have reached the term which You appointed for us.” ˹Then˺ He will say, “The Fire is your home, yours to stay in forever, except whoever Allah wills to spare.”² Surely your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.

This is how We make the wrongdoers ˹destructive˺ allies of one another because of their misdeeds.

˹Allah will ask,˺ “O assembly of jinn and humans! Did messengers not come from among you, proclaiming My revelations and warning you of the coming of this Day of yours?” They will say, “We confess against ourselves!” For they have been deluded by ˹their˺ worldly life. And they will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers.