Transliteration:( Wa ya'budoona min doonil laahi maa laa yadurruhum wa laa yanfa'uhum wa yaqooloona haaa'ulaaa'i shufa'aaa 'unaa 'indal laah; qul 'a tunabbi 'oonal laaha bi maa laa ya'lamu fis samaawaati wa laa fil ard; subhaanahoo wa Ta'aalaa 'ammaa yushrikoon )
53. By this is meant neither will he benefit from their worship nor be at a loss for not worshipping. Infact case is opposite. Hence there can be no objection raised at this verse. These people were worshipping the stones, the moon, the sun. and from all of these great benefits are derived.
54. This means they claimed that Allah Almighty is conducting our worldly affairs through the mediation because these idol worshippers did not believe in Qiyamah, Paradise and Hell. In addition they were acknowledging the bluffed mediation regarding the idols because they believed in the idols as their divine intercessors. "When we equated you with the Lord of all the worlds". (S26 V98) Thus they were accepting non-intercessors as intercessors and were differing in many ways from Islamic concept of intercession. Hence they were polytheists.
55. By this is meant the intercession of these idols will neither be for this world nor for the Hereafter. If it was there it would have been in the knowledge of the Almighty. By negation through Divine knowledge is meant the actual negation.
56. It should be remembered that the worshipping of these idols by the polytheists as their intercessors was polytheism, or believing in their bluffed or equal intercession too was polytheism. Therefore the verb "their association" is used here. The intercession of the Prophets and saints is a certainty. Their intercession will be in accordance with Divine love permission and dignity. To regard that is polytheism is indeed foolishness.
Hence this verse cannot serve as a proof for the Wahabies to negate the intercesision of the Prophet and Saints
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18. And they worship other than Allah that which neither harms them nor benefits them, and they say, “These are our intercessors with Allah †Say, “Do you inform Allah of something He does not know in the heavens or on the earth?†Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him.19. And mankind was not but one community [united in religion], but [then] they differed. And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, it would have been judged between them [immediately] concerning that over which they differ.
Allah reproaches the idolators that worshipped others beside Allah, thinking that those gods would intercede for them before Allah. Allah states that these gods do not harm or benefit. They don’t have any authority over anything, nor do they own anything. These gods can never do what the idolators had claimed about them. That is why Allah said:
(Say: `Do you inform Allah of that which He knows not in the heavens and on the earth’) Ibn Jarir said: “This means, `Are you telling Allah about what may not happen in the heavens and earth’ Allah then announced that His Glorious Self is far above their Shirk and Kufr by saying:
(Glorified and Exalted is He above all that which they associate as partners (with Him)!)
Allah then tells us that Shirk was new among mankind. It was not in existence in the beginning. He tells us that people were believers in one religion and that religion was Islam. Ibn `Abbas said: “There were ten centuries between Adam and Nuh. They were all on Islam. Then differences among people took place. They worshipped idols and rivals. So Allah sent extensive evidence and irrefutable proof with His Messengers.â€
(So that those who were to be destroyed (for rejecting the faith) might be destroyed after a clear evidence, and those who were to live might live after a clear evidence.)﴿8:42﴾ Allah’s statement:
(And had not it been for a Word that went forth before from your Lord…) means that if Allah had not decreed He would not punish anyone until the evidence is established against them. And also that if He had not given creatures a respite until a defined term had passed, He would have judged among them in what they disputed. Then He would have caused the believers to be happy and delighted and the disbelievers to be miserable and wretched.
24. This is a fine way of saying that no such intercessors exist as can plead their cases with Allah. For if something is not in the knowledge of Allah, it implies that it does not exist at all, for everything that exists anywhere in the heavens and the earth is in His knowledge.
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