deceived.” It was also said: diverted from the truth. One says, “What has bewitched you away from such-and-such?” meaning, “What has turned you away?”

Abu Ubaydah said: It means, “a man possessing saḥr,” and saḥr means “lung”; that is, he is a human being like yourselves, sustained by food and drink—he eats and drinks. The poet said:

I see us subject to an inevitable, unseen decree …
And sustained by food and drink.

(1) That is, we are nourished and sustained.

“See what examples they give about you! They have gone astray and cannot find a way. And they say, ‘When we have become bones and fragments, shall we truly be raised as a new creation?’” (48–49)