Surah 6:117
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وَإِن تُطِعۡ أَكۡثَرَ مَن فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ يُضِلُّوكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا يَخۡرُصُونَ
If you obey the majority of those on the earth, they will lead you astray from the way of God. They only follow conjecture and they only guess.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعۡلَمُ مَن يَضِلُّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦۖ وَهُوَ أَعۡلَمُ بِٱلۡمُهۡتَدِينَ
Surely your Lord – He knows who goes astray from His way and He knows the ones who are (rightly) guided.
116. And if you obey most of those on the earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah's path. They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.
117. Verily, your Lord! It is He Who knows best who strays from His way, and He knows best the rightly guided.
Allah states that most of the people of the earth, are misguided. Allah said in other Ayat,
And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them.} [37:71] and,
And most of mankind will not believe even if you eagerly desire it.} [12:103]
They are misguided,
It is He Who knows best who strays from His way.} and facilitates that for him,
And He knows best the rightly guided.} He facilitates that for them, all of them are facilitated for what He created them.
yet they have doubts about their way, and they rely on wishful thinking and delusions.
They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.}
Thus, they fulfill Allah’s decree and decision concerning them.
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 4, Page 447)