Surah Ya-Sin 36:62
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 62 of 83
وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّۭا كَثِيرًا ۖ أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ
Translation
He has led great numbers of you astray. Did you not use your reason?
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And he had already led astray a great many of you. Did you not then use reason?' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the appeal is not to fear but to intellect: look at the enemy's staggering body-count across history and ask how so many followed an openly declared foe. The verse treats being deceived by Satan as a failure of reasoning. Ask yourself: I flatter myself that I'm too clever to be manipulated, yet this verse says multitudes of the clever were led astray precisely by not thinking. The proof of intelligence is not immunity to deception but the willingness to examine who I'm following and why. Where have I switched off my reasoning and simply drifted along a path an enemy laid out for me?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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