The verse says...

The verse says: “And on the Day (when) He will call them and say: ‘Where are My associates whom you were asserting?’” It is evident that this question is an objurgatory question, for on the Hereafter Day, when the curtains will be removed and everything is manifest, neither paganism is meaningful nor pagans have remained on their belief. So, this question is only a kind of reproach and punishment, or a kind of reprimand and retribution.

But instead of pagans, that must answer this question themselves, their objects of worship will start speaking and express their hatred from them. We know that their objects of worship were sometimes idols made of stone and wood, and sometimes some sacred beings such as angels and Jesus Christ, and sometimes Jinns and Satans. Here, the third group will speak who will be referred to in this verse, which says: “Those against whom the sentence has been confirmed will say: ‘Our Lord!

These are they whom we led astray; we led them astray, as we were astray ourselves. To You we declare ourselves to be clear (of them). They were not unto us worshipping’.” The abovementioned verse is similar to Surah Yunus, No. 10, verse 28 which says: “…and their associates shall say: ‘It was not us (indeed) that you used to worship’.” Thus, the seductive objects of worship, such as: Pharaoh, Namrud, and Satans and Jinns will proclaim their hatred from such worshippers and defend themselves.

They will also negate even aberration from themselves and implicitly say that the worshippers followed them with their own accord. But it is clear that neither this negation has any effect nor that hatred and repudiation are useful, and they will surely share the sin of their worshippers. It is worthy to note that on that Day every one of these sinful deviated persons will repudiate the other one and each of them try to put his own sin on another’s shoulder.

This is just like the thing we see its small example in this world with our own eyes. A group of persons gather with together to commit a crime. Then, after being captured, and attending in the court, they hate each other and try to put the fault on the neck of another one. This is the fate of the criminals and astray ones in this world and the next. Also, Surah ’Ibrahim, No.

14, verse 22 indicates that, on the Day of Hereafter, Satan will say to his followers as follows: “…and I did not have any authority over you except that I called you and you responded me.