ٱلْحَشْر : ١٦

  • كَمَثَلِ Like (the) example
  • ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ (of) the Shaitaan
  • إِذۡ when
  • قَالَ he says
  • لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ to man
  • ٱكۡفُرۡ Disbelieve
  • فَلَمَّا But when
  • كَفَرَ he disbelieves
  • قَالَ he says
  • إِنِّي Indeed I am
  • بَرِيٓءٞ disassociated
  • مِّنكَ from you
  • إِنِّيٓ Indeed [I]
  • أَخَافُ I fear
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • رَبَّ (the) Lord
  • ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ (of) the worlds
[The hypocrites are] like the example of Satan when he says to man, "Disbelieve." But when he disbelieves, he says, "Indeed, I am disassociated from you. Indeed, I fear Allāh, Lord of the worlds."
In addition, their likeness in heeding the [words of the] hypocrites and their forsaking of them is, like Satan when he says to man, 'Disbelieve!'; so that when he [man] disbelieves, he says, 'Lo! I am absolved of you. Indeed I fear God, the Lord of the Worlds', out of mendacity and dissimulation on his part.