191 instances of dalla including its derived forms in the Quran as shown in the table below are reviewed to better understand their meaning in different contexts that upon reviewing the messages in different contexts may help us to confirm whether we are in astray or we are the guided ones:
Note: The above table is populated with the data obtained from the corpus.quran.com.
Instances of adalla
There are 64 instances of adalla (أَضَلَّ) in the verb IV form in the Quran literally mean “to let go astray”, while we know that an Arabic word may have a range of meanings depending on the contexts, which is a key concept to interpret the message coded in the Arabic text of the Quran. Here are the details of these instances found in 58 verses across 31 surahs in the Quran to better understand its meaning in different contexts and help us understand that God guides us to His path, but the Satan and his allies mislead us from the path of God to make us losers that many of us do not realize it thinking their deeds are good, while we may reflect to the consequences of entering in the Hell among communities on a day of the Judgment for following our forefathers:
[2:26] Indeed, God does not feel shy to set forth an allegory of that which is a mosquito to that which is greater of it. So, as for those who have believed, then they know that it is the truth from their Lord. And as for those who have disbelieved, then they say, “What has God intended by this allegory?” He lets go astray (yudillu) many by this, while He guides many by this. And He does let go astray (wa-maa-yudillu) by this except the disobedient.
[3:69] A group of people from the scripture had wished if they let you go astray (yudilluunakum), but they do not lead astray (wa-maa yudilluuna) except themselves, while they do not perceive.
[4:60] Have you not noticed to those who claim that they have believed in what has been sent down to you (prophet), and what had been sent down from before of you (prophet), they wish to go for judgment to the false deities? And certainly, they have been commanded to disbelieve in it, while the Satan wishes to lead them astray (yudillahum) a faraway straying.
[4:88] So, what is with you about the two parties of the hypocrites, while God has cast them back for what they have earned? Do you wish to guide whomever God has let go astray (adalla)? And whoever God lets go astray (yud’lili), then you will not find a way for him.
[4:113] If it were not God’s grace upon you (prophet) and His mercy, a group from them would have determined to let you go astray (yudilluuka), but they do not lead astray (wa-maa yudilluuna) except themselves, while they cannot harm you (prophet) in anything. And God has sent down to you the scripture and the wisdom, and He has taught you what you did not know. And it has been great of God’s grace upon you (prophet).
[4:119] “And I (Satan) will surely send them astray (wa-la’uddillannahum), and I will surely entice them, and I will surely command them that they will surely cut ears of the livestock, and I will surely command them that they will surely change creation of God.” And whoever accepts as the Satan as lord other than God, then certainly, he has lost a profound loss.
[4:143] Wavering between that – neither to these, nor to those. And whoever God lets go astray (yud’lili), then you will not find a way for him.
[5:77] Say, “O people of the scripture, do not exceed in your religion other than the truth, and do not follow desires of a people certainly, they have gone astray from before, and have misled (wa-adalluu) many, and have gone astray from an evenness of the path.”
[6:39] And those who have denied in our revelations are deaf and dumb being in the darknesses. Whomever God wills, He lets him go astray (yud’lilhu), and whomever He wills, He places him on a straight path.
[6:116] And if you obey a majority whoever is in the earth, they will mislead you (yudilluuka) from a path of God. They do not follow except the conjecture, and they do not do except guess.
[6:119] And what is for you that you do not eat from that God’s name has been mentioned upon it? And certainly, He has detailed out for you what He has forbidden upon you except for what you have been compelled on it. And indeed, many people surely mislead (la’yudilluuna) with their desires having no knowledge. Indeed, your Lord, He is Knower of the transgressors.
Note: The Satan has made unlawful what God has made lawful to mislead us to let us go astray.
[6:125] So, whomever God wishes to guide him extends his breast for the Submission; and whomever He wishes to let him go astray (yudillahu) makes his breast tight being constricted as if that he is climbing in the sky. Thus that God places the evil upon those who do not believe.
[6:144] And of the camels are two, and of the cattle are two. Say, “Are the two males He has prohibited, or the two females, or what has carried the two females’ wombs? Or had you been witnesses when God had enjoined you of this? So, who is more wicked than whoever has invented a lie about God to mislead (li’yudilla) the people having no knowledge? Indeed, God does not guide the wicked people.”
[7:38] He (God) said, “Enter in the Fire among communities, certainly has preceded before of you from the jinn and the human.” Every time a group has entered, its sister group has cursed until when they shall overtake all in it, said the last of them for the first of them, “Our Lord, these have misled us (adalluunaa), so give them a double punishment of the Fire.” He (God) said, “For each there is a double, but you do not know.”
[7:155] And Moses had selected seventy men from his people for our appointment. Then when the quake had seized them, he said, “My Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and me as well. Would You destroy us for what has done the foolish among us? This is not except Your test; You let go astray (tudillu) with it whomever You will, and You guide whomever You will. You are our Protector, so forgive for us and have mercy on us, and You are a best of the forgiving ones.”
[7:178] Whomever God guides, then he is the guided one, and whomever He lets go astray (yud’lil), then those – they are the losers.
[9:115] And it has not been for God that He lets go astray (li’yudilla) a people, after He had guided them, until He makes clear to them what they should fear. Indeed, God is Knower of everything.
[10:88] And Moses said, “Our Lord, indeed, You have given Pharaoh and his leaders luxury and wealth in the life of the world. Our Lord, that they may mislead (li’yudilluu) from Your path. Our Lord, destroy of their wealth, and harden of their hearts that they cannot believe until they see the painful punishment.”
[13:27] And those who have disbelieved say, “Why has not been sent down a miracle to him (prophet) from his Lord?” Say, “Indeed, God lets go astray (yudillu) whomever He wills, and guides to Himself whoever has turned.”
[13:33] Is then He Whoever – He is a Maintainer of every soul for what it has earned, while they have made partners to God? Say, “You shall name them or you may inform Him of what He does not know in the earth, or of being apparent from any of the utterances?” Nay, it has been made fair-seeming their plotting to those who have disbelieved, while they have been hindered from the path. And whomever God lets go astray (yud’lili), then there is no guide for him.
[14:4] And we have not sent any messenger except with a language of his people that he may make clear for them. Then God lets go astray (fa-yudillu allahu) whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. And He is the Almighty, the Wise.
[14:27] God makes firm those who have believed with the firm word in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. And God lets go astray (wa-yudillu allahu) the wrongdoers. And God does whatever He wills.
Note: An example of a good word as like a good tree – its roots firm and branches in sky in 14:24.
[14:30] And they have made equals to God that they mislead (li-yudillu) from His path. Say, “Enjoy, then indeed, your destination to the Fire.”
[14:36] “My (Ibrahim) Lord, indeed, they (idols) have misled (adlalna) many from the people. So, whoever has followed me, then indeed, he is from me; and whoever has disobeyed me, then indeed, You are Forgiving, Merciful.”
[16:25] That they will bear their burdens in full on a day of the Resurrection and from burdens of those whom they misled them (yudilluunahum) having no knowledge. Undoubtedly, it has been evil what they will bear.
Note: Here is a warning for those who mislead people from the path of God inviting with falsehoods and innovations.
[16:37] If you (prophet) desire upon guidance of them, then indeed, God will not guide whomever He lets go astray (yudillu), nor are there any helpers for them.
[6:93] If God had willed, He could have made you one community, but He lets go astray (yudillu) whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. And surely, you will be asked about what you have done to accomplish.
[17:97] And whomever God guides, then he is the guided one. And whomever He lets go astray (yud’lil), then you will not find for them any protectors other than Him, while we will gather them on a day of the Resurrection on their faces blind, dumb, and deaf. Their abode is Hell; every time it has subsided, we will increase for them the Blazing fire.
Note: Here is the consequence of those who has gone astray on a day of the Judgment, even having a fact from the sum of surah numbers is a multiple of 19 => 17 + 97 = 114 (19×6)
[18:17] And you may see the sun when it has risen inclining away from their cave to the right, and when it has set passing away from them to the left, while they are in the open space from it. That is of God’s signs. Whomever God guides, then he is the guided one, and whomever He lets go astray (yud’lil), then you will not find for him a protector or a guide.
[20:79] And Pharaoh had misled (wa-adalla fir’`awnu) his people and he had not guided (them).
[20:85] He (God) said, “Then indeed, we certainly had tested your people after of you (Moses), and the Samarian had misled them (wa-adallahumu al-saamiriyu).”
[22:4] It has been decreed upon him that he whoever has allied with him (Satan), then indeed, he will mislead him (yudillahu) and will guide him to a punishment of the Blazing fire.
[22:9] Turning of his neck that he misleads (li’yudilla) the people from a path of God. For him there is disgrace in the world, while we will make him taste a punishment of the Blazing fire on a Day of the Resurrection.
[25:17] And a day He will gather them and what they worship other than God, then He will say, “Have you misled (adaltum) My servants of these, or have they gone astray from the path?”
[25:29] “Certainly, he has misled me (adallanii) from the reminder (Quran) after when it had come to me. And the Satan has been a deserter for the human being.”
[25:42] “Even though he (prophet) had almost surely misled us (la’yudillunaa) from our gods, if not that we had been steadfast to them.” And they will know, when they see the punishment, whoever is in astray from a path (of God).
[26:99] “And there has not misled us (adallanaa) except the criminals.”
[30:29] Nay, those who have done wrong has followed their desires having no knowledge. So, who can guide whomever God has let go astray (adalla), nor for them are there any helpers?
[31:6] And among the people whoever accepts the baseless Hadith to mislead (li’yudilla) from a path of God having no knowledge, and take it as mockery; those – for them there is a humiliating punishment.
[33:67] And they said , “Our Lord, indeed, we have obeyed our leaders and learned, while they have misled us (fa-adalluunaa) to the (crooked) path.”
[35:8] Is he then who has been made fair-seeming an evil of his deed to him that he has seen it good? Then indeed, God lets go astray (yudillu) whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. So, do not let go out your (prophet) soul in regrets for them. Indeed, God is Knower of what you do.
[36:62] And certainly, he has misled (adalla) a great multitudes from you. Then do you not use intelligence?
[38:26] O David, indeed, we have made you a ruler in the earth. So, you shall judge between the people with the truth, and do not follow the desire, then it will lead you astray (fa-yudallaka) from a path of God. Indeed, those who go astray from a path of God, for them there is a severe punishment for that they had forgot a day of the Reckoning.
[39:8] And when adversity had touched the human, he called his Lord turning towards Him; then when He had blessed him with a favor from Himself, he forgot what he had done to call towards Him before and sets up rivals to God to lead astray (liyudilla) from His path. Say, “Enjoy with your disbelief for a while; indeed, you are among dwellers of the Fire.”
[39:23] God has sent down a scripture of the best Hadith being consistent to each other. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it (Quran), then their skins and their hearts soften up to God’s message. That is God’s guidance; He guides with it (Quran) whomever He wills, and whomever God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu), then there is no guide for him.
[39:36] Has not been God with sufficiency for His servant? And they threaten you with those other than Him; and whomever God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu), then there is no guide for him.
[40:33] “A day you will turn around fleeing – there is no protector for you against God. And whomever God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu), then there is no guide for him.”
[40:34] And certainly, there had come to you Joseph before with the clear proofs, then you had not ceased in doubt from what he had brought to you with him until when he had died; you said, “God will not raise a messenger after of him. Thus that God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu) whoever he is a doubtful transgressor.
[40:74] “Other than God?” They said, “They have gone away from us. Nay! we would not do to call anything before.” Thus that God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu) the disbelievers.
Note: Here is a situation between the misleaders and the mislead on a day of the Judgment, even having a derived fact from the sum of surah and verse numbers being multiple of 19 => 40 + 74 = 114 (19×6).
[41:29] And said those who had disbelieved: “Our Lord, show us those who had misled us (adallaanaa) of the jinn and the human we can trample them under our feet that they may be with the lowliest.”
Note: Here is a situation between the misleaders and the mislead on a day of the Judgment.
[42:44] And whoever God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu), then for him there is no protector after of Him, and you will see the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment will say, “Is there any way for return?”
[42:46] And there had not been any protectors for them to help them other than God. And whomever God lets go astray (yud’lili allahu), then there is no way for him.
[45:23] Have you then seen whoever has taken his ego as god, and God has let him go astray (wa-adallahu) having knowledge, and has put a seal upon his hearing and his heart, and has placed a veil on his vision? Then whoever can guide him after God? Then will you not take heed.
[47:1] Those who have disbelieved and have turned away from a path of God, He has let go waste (adalla) of their deeds.
[47:4] So, when you have encountered those who have disbelieved, is striking on the necks until when you have defeated them. Then you shall take as the captives, then either is a favor afterwards or a ransom until the war lays down its burdens of that. And if God had willed, surely, He could have given victory from them; but that is to test of you by other. And those who have been killed in a path of God, then He will not let go waste (yudilla) of their deeds.
[47:8] And those who have disbelieved, then is loss for them, and He has let go waste (wa-adalla) of their deeds.
[71:24] “And certainly, they have misled (adalluu) many, and let not increase the wrongdoers except in astray.”
[71:27] “Indeed You, if You leave them, they will mislead (yudillu) your servants and will not give birth except a disbelieving wicked.”
[74:31] And we have not made guardians of the Fire except angels, and we have not made their number except a warning for those who disbelieved, that it may ascertain those who have been given the scripture (Jews and Christians) and may increase faith of those who have believed (Muslims), and may not doubt those who have been given the scripture (Jews and Christians) and the believers (Muslims). And that may say those in their hearts there is a disease (hypocrites) and the disbelievers, “What has God meant by this allegory?” Thus that God lets go astray (yudillu allahu) whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. And none knows your Lord’s soldiers except He. And it is not except a reminder for the human race.
God is a Guide for the believers and He has sent down a scripture of the best Hadith being consistent to each other for them to disregard the baseless Hadiths that they may have been guided to the path of God. He has extended their hearts making it easy for them to practice Islam. He has prevented them from following a majority in the earth as they do not follow except conjecture. He makes firm those who have believed with the firm word in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. He makes them to reflect that He is a Maintainer of every soul and is sufficient for His servants to avoid idol worship, thus the intercession on a day of the Judgement is a myth.
On the other hand, there is no guide or protector for the disbelievers as the Satan and his allies have misled them from a path of God making fair-seeming their evil deeds to them to be good deeds to make them losers. They are deaf and dumb for denying God’s revelations have uphold baseless Hadiths and have obeyed their leaders and learned, while the Satan has pledged to send them astray making waste their deeds leading them to Hell not to find a way out. Those who have misled from the path of God have made them equal to God, which is a gross sin. Those who have been misguided had obeyed their leaders and learned would wish to trample the misleaders under their feet on a day of the Judgment. Those who have misguided will bear their burdens in full and also the burdens of those whom they have misguided on a day of the Judgment, while God will ask them whether they have misguided them or they have gone astray on their own. The abode of both groups is Hell, and every time it has subsided will be increased the Blazing fire for them.
God guides the believers, while He lets go astray the disbelievers to be losers making their deeds waste but He does not misguide anyone except it misinterpretation. This review may be a good teaching for those who are practicing religion but not knowing or following what is in the Quran.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (02/14/2025)