Then he resumed his saying, which every listener expects him to say: "Indeed, by Allah, He has led me astray from the remembrance." This means that He has obscured for me the path of the Qur'an, of which there is no remembrance in reality other than it, and has diverted me away from it. The phrase is in the position of the reason for what preceded it: "after it came to me," and there was no apparent barrier from him other than his leading astray.

And when the implication is: "Then here he has forsaken me at the time I needed his support the most," he added to it his saying: "And the devil," meaning every one who is a cause for misguidance from the tyrants of the jinn and mankind, "is a forsaker of man," meaning he is one who forsakes severely, leading him to the most hated of what he hates, not supporting him. And if he wanted to, he would not be able to; rather, he is worse than that, for upon him is his sin in himself and the like of the sin of the one he misled.