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wa-la-ʾuḍillannahum wa-la-ʾumanniyannahum wa-la-ʾāmurannahum fa-la-yubattikunna ʾādhāna l-ʾanʿāmi wa-la-ʾāmurannahum fa-la-yughayyirunna khalqa llāhi wa-man yattakhidhi sh-shayṭāna waliyyan min dūni llāhi fa-qad khasira khusrānan mubīnan
and I will lead them astray and give them [false] hopes, and prompt them to slit the ears of cattle, and I will prompt them to alter Allah’s creation.’ Whoever takes Satan as a guardian instead of Allah has certainly incurred a manifest loss.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah An-Nisa', Verse 119
119. "And most certainly I will lead them astray and certainly I will arouse desires in them, and certainly I will bid them that they slit the ears of the cattle, and I will certainly command them that they alter the creation of Allah; and whoever takes Satan for a guardian rather than Allah, has indeed suffered a manifest loss. "
Satan has sworn to persuade some programs
1. He has said that he would take an appointed share from Allah's servants:
Satan knows that he has not the authority of leading all the servants of Allah astray. There are only the persons who indulge in their desires, and the people of weak faith and weak will who submit to Satan.
2. Therefore, the second thing that he has promised to do upon human beings is that he says:
3. Then, he says:
4. Satan says that he will invite the servants of Allah to superstitious acts, including the following action:
This action refers to one of the disgraceful deeds of the Age of Ignorance. It was customary among the idol worshippers that they would split the ears of some certain cattle, or they cut their ears utterly. They believed that it was forbidden to ride on them and, thus, they took no benefit of them.
5. What Satan says in this stage is an irreparable damage that he causes against the basis of the prosperity of man. Satan says:
This sentence shows that Allah has settled monotheism and any other admirable attributes in the first nature of man, but some Satanic temptations and low desires deviate man from the straight path and lead him astray. And, at the end of the verse, it refers to a general principle when it says: