Tafsir for verse: 50:23
وَقَالَ قَرِينُهُۥ هَٰذَا مَا لَدَيَّ عَتِيدٌ ٢٣ ﴿23
23And his companion (i.e. the angel who recorded his deeds) will say, “This is what I have with me, ready (to be presented as his record of deeds).”
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Commentary

And his companion said, 'He is the devil that was assigned to him in His saying, "We assign to him a devil, so he is a companion to him." His saying supports this, as Allah, the Exalted, said, 'His companion said, 'Our Lord, I did not lead him astray.' This is what is with me, prepared for Hell. The meaning is that an angel drives him, another witnesses against him, and a devil is associated with him, saying, 'I have prepared him for Hell and made him ready for it by my misleading and misguidance.' If you ask: What is the grammatical analysis of this statement? I say: If you consider 'what' to be descriptive, then 'prepared' is an attribute for it. If you consider it to be relative, then it is an apposition, or a news after news, or a news of a deleted subject.

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