36 Preface وَمَن يَعشُ عَن ذِكرِ الرَّحمٰنِ نُقَيِّض لَهُ شَيطانًا فَهُوَ لَهُ قَرينٌYusuf AliIf anyone withdraws himself1 from remembrance of (God) Most Gracious, We appoint for him an evil one, to be an intimate companion to him.If men deliberately put away the remembrance of God from their minds, the natural consequence, under God’s decree, is that they join on with evil. Like consorts with like. We can generalise evil in the abstract, but it takes concrete shape in our life companions.