[4:116-4:119] God does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him; He forgives all except that, to whomever He will. Whoever associates anything with God, verily he has strayed far away. * What they pray to instead of Him are but females, and they only pray to a rebellious satan. * God has cursed him. And he said, 'Assuredly I will take to myself an appointed portion of Your servants. * And I will surely lead them astray, and surely I will fill them with desires; and surely I will command them and they will cut up the cattle's ears. And surely I will command them and they will change God's creation'. And whoever takes Satan for a patron, instead of God, has surely suffered a manifest loss.
God does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him: To acknowledge anything other than Him, imagining even an atom in being the cause of originating, is the source of polytheism (shirk) and there is no possibility of pardon for it, while there is a possibility for pardon for other things. Whoever seeks access to Him (s) by means of what he himself has imagined is associating others with Him with respect to what he does not know. No, He is God, the One.
What they pray to instead of Him are but females: They set up inanimate things given names and plunged forward into delusion. They relied on the errors of conjecturing and were led astray from the truth.
And they only pray to a rebellious satan. God has cursed him: i.e. what they prayed to was none other than Iblīs whom the Real distanced from His mercy and removed in estrangement. Iblīs is only one who is turned about in the grip according to what the Creator wants. If there were even an atom to acknowledge in him, it would be an associate in divinity. On the contrary, the Real (s) sets circumstances in motion over created beings. He creates what follows his whisperings to created beings in being led astray, for He is the Guide and the One Who leads astray. He (s) is the One Who has free disposal over all. God Most High created in their hearts what follows his whisperings to them in the power of their hopes. He makes ugly actions seem beautiful in their eyes and then He does not make any actualization for their desires and does not follow in confirming what they had hoped for. He Most High is the one who brings into existence these effects as a whole and attributes them to Satan at one time and to the unbeliever at another. This is the meaning of His saying: And I will surely lead them astray, and surely I will fill them with desires... and the meaning of His saying: He promises them, and fills them with desires [4:120].