Al-A'raaf (The Heights)

177. “How evil is the parable of the people who belied Our Signs, but they were doing injustice to themselves.”

178. “Whomever Allah guides, he is rightly guided, and whomever He leads astray, these are the losers.”

Through these two holy verses, in fact, the Qur’ān has concluded a general and common result from the story of Bal‘am and other mammonish scholars. The verse says:

“How evil is the parable of the people who belied Our Signs…”

They did not do any injustice to Allah, but they used to do injustice to themselves. The verse says:

“…but they were doing injustice to themselves.”

What injustice is greater than this that they gave their spiritual capitals and scientific informations, which could cause the honour of them and their societies, to the possessors of wealth and power, selling them for a little price.

But, beware that delivering from these kinds of faults and satanic ways is not possible except with the Divine assistance. Therefore, the one whom Allah guides and makes His aid the companion of his way, is the real guided one. The verse says:

“Whomever Allah guides, he is rightly guided…”

And those whom Allah, as a result of their own evil deeds, leads astray, or gives them victory and success for their satanic temptations, are the real losers. The verse continues saying:

“…and whomever He leads astray, these are the losers.”