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And, mention, that Satan, Iblīs, adorned their deeds for them, by encouraging them [to go] to meet the Muslims, when they had feared to set out on account of their enemy, the Banū Bakr,⁷ and said, to them: 'Today no person shall overcome you, for I shall be your protector', from among the [Banū] Kināna - he appeared to them in the form of Surāqa b. Mālik,⁸ the chieftain of that region. But when the two armies, the Muslims and the disbelievers, sighted each other, [when] they met and he [Satan] saw the angels, his hand clasping that of al-Hārith b. Hishām,⁹ he turned his back, he withdrew, in flight, saying - when they had said to him, 'Are you abandoning us in such a predicament?' - 'I am quit of you, of being your protector, for I see what you do not see, in the way of angels. I fear Allahu ta’ālā, lest He destroy me; and Allahu ta’ālā is severe in retribution'.