Surah 31. Luqman, Ayah 21

Regarding the implications of the term "Satan" in this context, see note [10] on 2:14 and note [16] on 15:17 . As in many other places in the Qur'an, the above verse expresses an oblique condemnation of the principle and practice of taqlid (see Razis observations quoted in note [38] on 26:74 ).

They do not realize that in the spiritual world, as in the physical world, there is constant progress for the live ones: they are spiritually dead, as they are content to stand on ancestral ways, many of them evil, and leading to perdition.