Transliteration:( Yaaa aiyuhal lazeena aamanoo laa tattabi'oo khutuwaatish Shaitaan; wa many-yattabi' khutuwaatish Shaitaani fa innahoo yaamuru bilfahshaaa'i walmunkar; wa law laa fadlul laahi 'alaikum wa rahmatuhoo maa zakaa minkum min ahadin abadanw wa laakinnal laaha yuzakkee many-yashaaa'; wallaahu Samee'un 'Aleem )
21. O believers; follow not the footsteps of the devil (Satan) [37]. And whoever follows the footsteps of the devil (Satan), then he will indeed tell you only indecency and evil things [38]. And if there had not been the grace of Allah and His mercy upon you, none of you could have ever been cleansed, but Allah cleanses whosoever He likes. And Allah is Hearing and knowing [39].
The tafsir of Surah An-Nur verse 21 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nur ayat 20 which provides the complete commentary from verse 20 through 21.
(24:21) Believers! Do not follow in Satan’s footsteps. Let him who follows in Satan’s footsteps (remember that) Satan bids people to indecency and evil. Were it not for Allah’s Bounty and His Mercy unto you, not one of you would have ever attained purity.[18] But Allah enables whomsoever He wills to attain purity. Allah is All- Hearing, All-Knowing.[19]
18. Satan is bent upon involving you in all kinds of pollutions and indecencies. Had it not been for the mercy and kindness of Allah Who enables you to differentiate between good and evil and helps you to educate and reform yourselves, you would not have been able to lead a pure and virtuous life on the strength of your own faculties and initiative alone.
19. It is Allah’s will alone which decides whom to make pious and virtuous. His decisions are not arbitrary but based on knowledge. He alone knows who is anxious to live a life of virtue and who is attracted towards a life of sin. Allah hears a person’s most secret talk, and is aware of everything that passes in his mind. It is on the basis of this direct knowledge that Allah decides whom to bless with piety and virtue and whom to ignore.
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