Transliteration:( Daraba lakum masalam min anfusikum hal lakum mimmaa malakat aymaanukum min shurakaaa'a fee maa razaqnaakum fa antum feehi sawaaa'un takhaafoonahum kakheefa tikum anfusakum; kazaalika nufassilul Aayaati liqawminy ya'qiloon )
56. In it address is made to the polytheists who would believe in their false deities as servants of Allah Almighty and then believe in them as His associates i.e. servitude and partnership cannot be brought together.
 57. From it we understand that the existence of polytheism is dependant on believing a human being to be equal to Allah Almighty i.e. to believe that He has children or that He is dependant on anyone. Without equality in terms of belief, polytheism is not possible.
 58. Thus the polytheists of Arabia believed in the deities as bullies and authorities over Allah Almighty, i.e. He is afraid of them. If they become displeased then His kingdom will not be administered. For this reason mention is made here of fear. The intercession of this force has been refuted by the Holy Qur'aan. The intercession of love and honour has been proven for some pious servants.
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28. He sets forth for you a parable from yourselves: Do you have partners among those whom your right hands possess to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you, whom you fear as you fear each other Thus do We explain the signs in detail to a people who have sense. 29. Nay, but those who do wrong follow their own lusts without knowledge. Then who will guide him whom Allah has sent astray And for such there will be no helpers.
This is the parable Allah makes of the idolators, those who worship others besides Him and attribute partners to Him, while at the same time admitting that these so-called partners — idols and false gods — are enslaved to and belong to Him. In their Talbiyah (during Hajj and `Umrah they used to say, “At Your service, You have no partner except the partner that You have, You own Him and whatever he owns.â€
(He sets forth for you a parable from yourselves) `something which you yourselves can see witness, and understand.’
(Do you have partners among those whom your right hands possess to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you…) `None of you would like to have his servant as a partner in his wealth, each of them having an equal share.’
(whom you fear as you fear each other.) `You fear that they will have a share in your wealth with you.’ Abu Mijlaz said, “You do not fear that your servant will have a share in your wealth, because he has no such right; similarly, Allah has no partner.†The point is, that since any one of you would abhor such a thing, how can you attribute rivals to Allah from among His creation At-Tabarani recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, “The people of Shirk used to say in their Talbiyah, `At Your service, You have no partner except the partner that You have, You own Him and whatever he owns.’ Then Allah revealed the words:
(Do you have partners among those whom your right hands possess to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you, whom you fear as you fear each other)†If humans have this characteristic, this parable shows that it is even less befitting for Allah to have a partner.
(Thus do We explain the signs in detail to a people who have sense.) Then Allah points out that when the idolators worship others instead of Him, doing so out of their own folly and ignorance:
(Nay, but those who do wrong follow…), meaning, the idolators,
(…their own lusts) means, in their worship of false gods without knowledge.
(Then who will guide him whom Allah has sent astray) means, no one can guide them if Allah has decreed that they will be misguided.
(And for such there will be no helpers.) means, there is no one who can save them from the power of Allah or grant them a way out, for what He wills, happens and what He does not will, does not happen.
39. In the forgoing section, arguments have been given both for Tauhid and for the Hereafter; now the discourse turns to only Tauhid.
40. The mushriks, even after admitting that Allah is the Creator and Master of the earth and heavens and all that they contain, held some of His creatures as associates in His attributes and powers, and prayed to them, presented offerings and performed rites of worship before them. Their belief regarding their self-made associates is found in the words of the Talbih that they used to pronounce while going round the Kabah. They said: “Here I am, O Allah, here I am in Thy presence! Thou hast no partner except the partner who is Thy own. Thou art his owner as well as owner of what he owns.†(Tabarani on the authority of Ibn Abbas). Allah has refuted this kind of shirk in this verse. The argument is to this effect: “When you do not make your own slaves partners in your wealth, how do you think and believe that Allah will make His creatures partners in His Godhead?†See (Surah An-Nahl, ayat 71) note 62.
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