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Surah 43. Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 36

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وَمَن يَعْشُ عَن ذِكْرِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُۥ شَيْطَـٰنًا فَهُوَ لَهُۥ قَرِينٌ
Waman yaAAshu AAan th ikri a l rra h m a ni nuqayyi d lahu shay ta nan fahuwa lahu qareen un
But as for anyone who chooses to remain blind to the remembrance of the Most Gracious, to him We assign an [enduring] evil impulse, to become his other self:31
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "to him We assign a satan, and he becomes his other self (qarin)": see note [24] on 41:25 . For the psychological connotation of the term shaytan as "evil impulse", see first half of note [16] on 15:17 as well as note [31] on 14:22 .

He who turns away from the remembrance (Reminder) of the Compassionate (Allah), We assign a shaitan for him, who becomes his intimate companion.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And whoever turns a blind eye to the Reminder of the Most Compassionate, We place at the disposal of each a devilish one as their close associate,
  - Mustafa Khattab
And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade;
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
If anyone withdraws himself from remembrance of (Allah) Most Gracious We appoint for him an evil one to be an intimate companion to him. 4638
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

If men deliberately put away the remembrance of Allah from their minds, the natural consequence, under Allah's decree, is that they join on with evil. Like consorts with like. We can generalise evil in the abstract, but it takes concrete shape in our life-companions.

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