Transliteration:( Fakafaa billaahi shaheedan bainanaa wa bainakum in kunnaa 'an 'ibaadatikum laghaafileen )
"Therefore Allah is sufficient as a witness between us and you (idols) [89] that we were not aware of your worship of us."
In this verse, the idols will testify that they were not aware of being worshiped by the polytheists. They will declare their ignorance, as they are simply lifeless wood and stone, incapable of understanding or interacting with their worshipers. The idols—whether physical statues or the names of figures like Laat, Manaat, and others—will make it clear that they had no knowledge of being worshiped.
This statement could either come from the idols themselves, which are inanimate objects, or from the figures in whose names these idols were created, such as the Prophets or saints whose names were used for idol worship. Ultimately, the verse reinforces the idea that these false deities were powerless and unaware of being worshiped, and it is only Allah Almighty who can testify to the truth of what transpired.
The tafsir of Surah Yunus verse 29 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Yunus ayat 28 which provides the complete commentary from verse 28 through 30.
(10:29) Allah’s witness suffices between you and us that (even if you worshipped us) we were totally unaware of your worshipping us.[37]
37. That is, their deities, the angels, the jinns, the spirits, the forefathers, the prophets, the saints, the martyrs and all others, whom they had set up as partners with God and rendered those rights to them which belonged to God alone, will dissociate themselves from their worshipers and declare: We did not know at all that you worshiped us, for no reverence, no respect, no honor, no admiration, no regard, no adoration, no homage that you paid to us; no prayer, no supplication, no request, no offering, no gift you presented to us; and no praise, no prostration, no bowing down, no remembrance, no religious service, or ceremony or ritual you made in our name ever reached us.
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