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what has been sent down to you but some of the On the Day He says, ‘Call My partner-gods,
parties refuse to acknowledge part of it. Say: ‘I those for whom you made such claims,’ they will
have only been ordered to worship Allah and not call on them but they will not respond to them.
to associate anything with Him. I summon to We will place between them an unbridgeable
Him and to Him I will return.’ (13:36) gulf. (18:52)
When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah Say: ‘I am only a human being like yourselves. It
made you a promise, a promise of truth, and I is revealed to me that your god is One God. So
made you a promise but broke my promise. I had let him who hopes to meet his Lord act rightly
no authority over you, except that I called you and not associate anyone in the worship of his
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, Lord.’ (18:110)
blame me but blame yourselves. I cannot come And We located the position of the House for
to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the way you Ibrahim: ‘Do not associate anything with Me and
associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdo- purify My House for those who circle it, and
ers will have a painful punishment. (14:22) those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
Allah’s command is coming, so do not try to has- Be people of pure natural belief in Allah, not as-
ten it. Glory be to Him! He is exalted above any- sociating anything else with Him. As for anyone
thing they associate with Him. He sends down who associates others with Allah, it is as though
angels with the Spirit of His command to any of he had fallen from the sky and the birds had
His servants He wills: ‘Give warning that there is seized him and carried him away or the wind
no god but Me, so have fear of Me!’ He created had dropped him in a distant place. (22:31)
the heavens and the earth with truth. He is ex- those who do not associate anything with their
alted above anything they associate with Him. Lord, (23:59)
(16:1-3) Knower of the Unseen and the Visible! May He
Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, be exalted above all they associate with Him!
and say, ‘Where are My partner gods for whose (23:92)
sake you became so hostile?’ Those given knowl- Allah has promised those of you who believe and
edge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil for do right actions that He will make them succes-
the disbelievers.’ (16:27) sors in the land as He made those before them
But when He removes the harm from you, a successors, and will firmly establish for them
group of you associate others with their Lord. their religion with which He is pleased and give
(16:54) them, in place of their fear, security. ‘They wor-
He (Satan) only has authority over those who ship Me, not associating anything with Me.’ Any
take him as a friend and associate others with who disbelieve after that, such people are devia-
Allah. (16:100) tors. (24:55)
Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Say: ‘Praise be to Allah and peace be upon His
Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to servants whom He has chosen.’ Is Allah better, or
Him. How perfectly He sees, how well He hears! what you associate with Him? (27:59)
They have no protector apart from Him. Nor He Who guides you in the darkness of land and
does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26) sea and sends out the winds bringing advance
‘He is, however, Allah, my Lord, and I will not news of His mercy. Is there another god besides
associate anyone with my Lord.’ (18:38) Allah? May Allah be exalted above what they as-
The fruits of his labour were completely de- sociate with Him! (27:63)
stroyed and he woke up wringing his hands in On the Day when He summons them He will
grief, rueing everything that he had spent on it. It say, ‘Where are they, those you claimed were My
was a ruin with all its trellises fallen in. He said, associates?’ (28:62)
‘Oh, if only I had not associated anyone with my They will be told, ‘Call on your partner-gods!’
Lord!’ (18:42) They will call on them but they will not respond
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