Re How Evil and Saytan works

5. Surah al-Maida, Medina 112

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَن يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاء فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ...

5: 91. Satan's plan is (but) to

- excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling,

... وَيَصُدَّكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللّهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلاَةِ ...

- and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer:

... فَهَلْ أَنتُم مُّنتَهُونَ ﴿٩١﴾

will ye not then abstain?


Asad’s Version:


5: 91 By means of intoxicants and games of chance Satan seeks only to sow enmity and hatred among you, and to turn you away from the remembrance of God and from prayer. Will you not, then, desist? (see Asad note 105)