These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction.

These are they who buy error for the right direction and chastisement for forgiveness; how bold they are to encounter fire.

Have you not considered those to whom a portion of the Book has been given? They buy error and desire that you should go astray from the way.

A part has He guided aright and (as for another) part, error is justly their due, surely they took the Shaitans for guardians beside Allah, and they think that they are followers of the right

He said: O my people! there is no error in me, but I am an messenger from the Lord of the worlds.

And certainly We raised in every nation a messenger saying: Serve Allah and shun the Shaitan. So there were some of them whom Allah guided and there were others against whom error was due; therefore travel in the land, then see what was the end of the rejecters.

Say: As for him who remains in error, the Beneficent Allah will surely prolong his length of days, until they see what they were threatened with, either the punishment or the hour; then they shall know who is in more evil plight and weaker in forces