Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an: Who chooses the devil to be friends with unbelievers?

Who chooses the devil to be friends with unbelievers?

7:27 O Children of Adam, (Let) not Satan tempt you as he drove out your parents from Paradise, stripping both of them of their clothing to show both of them their shame. Indeed, he sees you - he and his tribe, from where you do not see them. Indeed, We have made (ja’alna) the devils friends of those who do not believe. 7:28 And when they do immorality they say, "We found our forefathers on it, and Allah has ordered us of it." Say, "Indeed, Allah does not order immorality. Do you say about Allah what you do not know?" 7:29 Say, "My Lord has ordered justice, and set your faces at every masjid and invoke Him (being) sincere to Him in religion. As He originated you, (so) will you return." 7:30 A group He guided and a group deserved to be astray. Indeed, they take (ittakhadhu) the devils (as) allies besides Allah while they think that they are the guided-ones.

(God have made the devils allies/friends of the disbelievers (7:27), but it was up to those disbelievers to take them as allies or not (7:30), so mankind is warned “let not Satan tempt you” (7:27). There is no contradiction between Verses 7:27 and 7:30, and they even use a different word: Verse 7:27 uses the word “ja’al”, the root is “Jiim-Ayn-Lam, and it means “to make a thing, etc.”, while Verse 7:30 uses the word “ittakhadhu”, the root is “Alif-Kha-Dhal”, and it means “to take in one’s hand, accepted, etc.”, so if someone responds Satan, then he is taking / accepting the devils as allies, then, as a result, the devils would be friends of him, because the devils have been “made” friends of the disbelievers; and according to Verse 7:28, they cannot make God an excuse for what they did. Verse 7:30 confirms that they are astray because they deserved it. In conclusion, God “making the devils friends of those who do not believe” does not imply/mean that God “made/ja’al” them “take/accept/ittakhadhu” the devils as allies, but those who disbelieved did it themselves)(Allah knows best)

13:11 For him are successive before and behind him who protect him by the Command of Allah . Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. And when Allah intends for a people misfortune, there is no turning away of it. And there is not for them besides Him any protector.

(Someone’s condition can be changed, this confirms that jinn and men were created to willingly worship God, and that they wronged themselves, so they don’t have an excuse)(Allah knows best)

22:10 That is for what your hands have sent forth, and that Allah is not unjust to His slaves.

41:46 Whoever does righteous deeds, then it is for his soul; and whoever does evil, then it is against it. And your Lord is not unjust to His slaves.

32:13 And if We had willed, surely We would have given every soul its guidance, but the Word from Me will come true, "I will fill Hell with jinn and men all together.

(There is a prediction of filling Hell with men (32:13), because mankind has free will (13:11); if there were no free will, there would not be Hell. So, in order to willingly worship God, people has to be able to make mistakes. Sinning deliberately may imply going to Hell)(Allah knows best)

6:148 Those who associate partners will say, "If Allah had willed, we (would) not have associated partners and neither our forefathers, nor we (would) have forbidden anything." Likewise denied those before them until they tasted Our wrath. Say, "Do you have any knowledge, then produce it for us? You do not follow except assumption, and you do nothing but guess." 6:149 Say, "With Allah is the conclusive argument. And if He (had) willed, surely He (would) have guided you all."

(The disbelievers say, “if God had willed, we would not have associated partners” (6:148), as if they were not to be blamed, or as an excuse, but they did wrong because of themselves. Even so, God is Able to guide them all (6:149), so that they would have not wronged themselves, but God does not guide the wrongdoing people (5:51, 2:258, 3:86))(Allah knows best)

35:8 Then is (he) who the evil of his deed is made fair-seeming to him so that he sees it good? For indeed, Allah lets go astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. So do not (let) your soul go out for them in regrets. Indeed, Allah is All-Knower of what they do.

(Someone firstly commit evil deeds, after that, he is not guided and his deeds are made fair-seeming to him, so because of the evil deeds he committed)(Allah knows best)

10:100 And it is not for a soul to believe except by the permission of Allah. And He will place the wrath on those who do not use reason.

(Someone who wronged himself is not to be guided, because of what he did to himself. But according to someone’s own good deeds, he could be a believer, by the permission of God)(The deeds of the disbelievers are worthless (2:217))(Allah knows best)

15:39 He said, "My Lord, because You misled me, surely, I will make (evil) fair-seeming to them in the earth, and I will mislead them all

(According to Verse 14:22, Satan will say, “I had no any authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me, but blame yourselves”. So, even if someone is mislead by Satan, he is misled because he wronged himself, because he responded the invitation of Satan. Likewise, Satan did not prostrate to Adam, then he was misled)(Allah knows best)

4:119 "And I will surely mislead them and surely arouse desires in them, and I will surely order them so they will surely cut off the ears of the cattle and I will surely order them so they will surely change the creation of Allah." And whoever takes Satan as a friend besides Allah, then surely he (has) lost a manifest loss.

9:70 Has not come to them the news of those who were before them, the people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamud, and the people of Abraham and the companions of Madyan, and the towns overturned? Their Messengers came to them with clear proofs. And Allah was not to wrong them but they were doing wrong to themselves.

30:9 Have they not traveled in the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? They were mightier than them in strength, and they dug the earth and built on it more than they have built on it. And their Messengers came to them with clear proofs. So Allah was not to wrong them, but they were (doing) wrong themselves.

14:22 And Satan will say, when the matter has been decided, "Indeed, Allah promised you a promise of truth. And I promised you, but I betrayed you. But I had no any authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me, but blame yourselves. I (can)not be your helper, nor (can) you be my helper. Indeed, I deny your association of me before. Indeed, the wrongdoers, for them is a painful punishment."

2:159 Indeed, those who conceal the clear proofs We revealed, and the Guidance, after We made it clear for the people in the Book – they are cursed by Allah and cursed by those who curse. 2:160 Except those who repent and reform (themselves) and openly declare. Then from those, I will accept repentance, and I (am) the Acceptor of Repentance, the Most Merciful. 2:161 Indeed, those who disbelieve and die while they (were) disbelievers, upon them is the curse of Allah, and the Angels, and the mankind, all together. 2:162 (They will) abide in it forever. The punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be reprieved.