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trust in them and expecting help from them. Forgetting Allah
and seeking to please His Creations in order to safeguard
their own futures, they spend their lives in abasement and
humiliation at the orders of these idols. However, the hopes
they place in them go unanswered. And this is just one of
their "rewards" they receive in this world and in the
Hereafter which will be bitter and last forever.
Allah describes the meaninglessness of people serving
man-made entities:
O humanity, an example has been made, so listen to it
carefully. Those upon whom you call besides Allah can-
not even create a single fly, even if they were to join
together to do it. And if a fly steals something from
them, they cannot get it back. How feeble are both the
seeker and the sought! (Surat al-Hajj: 73)
These false deities' helplessness is also mentioned:
Do they make things into partner-deities that cannot
create anything and are themselves created; which are
not capable of helping them and cannot even help
themselves? (Surat al-A'raf: 191-192)
Those you call on besides Him cannot help you. They
cannot even help themselves. (Surat al-A'raf: 197)
And yet heedless people have always beseeched and
begged them for help. Their end, as stated in the Qur'an,
will be as follows:
So do not call on any other deity along with Allah, or you
will be among those who will be punished. (Surat al-
Shu'ara': 213)
One person who was punished in this world for this atti-