54. Shirk is also fraud in the sense that it has been made to appear fair for them and so leads them into deviation and prevents them from coming back to the right way. It is like this: When mushriks adopt wrong ways of deviation that suit the kind of lives they wish to lead, they have to invent arguments to pacify their consciences and convince other people that they are on the right way. Naturally this fraud confirms them on the way of deviation and they are debarred from the right way.