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wa-ʾin tuṭiʿ ʾakthara man fī l-ʾarḍi yuḍillūka ʿan sabīli llāhi ʾin yattabiʿūna ʾillā ẓ-ẓanna wa-ʾin hum ʾillā yakhruṣūna
If you obey most of those on the earth, they will lead you astray from the way of Allah. They follow nothing but conjectures and they do nothing but surmise.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-‘An’am, Verse 116
116. "And if you obey most of those in the earth, they will lead you astray from the way of Allah . They follow nothing but conjecture; and they do nothing but surmise. "
It was said before that the current Surah was sent down in Mecca. At that time Muslims were intensively in minority. Concerning this minority and the conclusive majority of idol worshippers and the opponents of Islam, sometimes it might happen that some persons suspected that why there were so many followers of idolatry while that creed was futile and false, and if Muslims were right, why they were so few. To remove this sort of imagination, the verse addresses the Prophet (S) and says:
In the next sentence of the verse, the Qur'an states the reason of this subject. It points out that the reason of it is that they do not behave upon logic and a correct thought. Their guide is conjecture based on delusion, and some imaginations polluted with low desires, lusts and lies. The verse says: