(IX) SAY: "Should we appeal to something that can neither benefit nor harm us, instead of to God? Shall we turn on our heels now that God has guided us, bewildered like someone whom the devils have enticed away on earth, while his companions are calling him to guidance: 'Come to us!'?" SAY: "God’s guidance means [real] guidance. We have been ordered to commit ourselves peacefully to the Lord of the Universe.