The Guiding Light — Page 199
S u rah an-N a s, Chapter 114 199 because this one attribute comprises all the three above- mentioned attributes. Whereas One Divine attribute, viz. , رب اﻟﻔﻠﻖ (Rabbul-Falaq ) Lord of the dawn has been invoked against four kinds of mischief in the previous S u rah , in the S u rah under comment three Divine attributes have been invoked against one mischief i. e. , whispering of the Evil One. This is because promptings or insinuations of Satan cover all conceivable evils. Mention of three Divine attributes in the S u rah implies that all sin proceeds from three causes, viz. , when a person looks upon other men as his رب ( Rabb ) Lord or ﻣﻠک ( Malik ) King or اﻟﻪ ( Ilah ) God, that is to say, he regards them as the main prop or support of his life or slavishly surrenders to their undue authority or makes them the object of his love and adoration. A believer is enjoined here to look up to God alone as the real support of his life, and to render Him alone true and unconditional obedience and to make Him alone the real object of his love and adoration. Or, the believer may have been enjoined in these verses constantly to seek protection against the ravages of exploiting capitalists, tyrannical rulers and from the crafty priestly class who, taking undue