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They will say to them that you polytheists did not use to worship them (the idols) but you were the servants of your own conjectures and your low desires. Man reaches a point where he leaves out the invitation of Allah, the Hearer, the Responder, “… Call on Me; I will answer your (prayer) …” and goes to some dumb, blind and useless solid bodies.
That is why addressing the polytheists, the Holy Qur’a-n says: “If you call upon them, they will not hear your prayer; …” They do not answer you, because they are but some pieces of stone and wood which are inanimate bodies and have no sense. And supposing they were able to hear your moan, invocation, and persistence they would never have the ability of answering to your needs.
The verse continues saying: “… and even if they heard, they would not answer you; …” It became clear that they do not own any benefit and harm even as much as the thin skin of a date-stone in the world of existence, yet how do you expect them to do something for you or to solve a problem? Moreover, this fact is higher than that: “… and on the Day of judgment they will deny your partnership; …” They will say: O’ Lord! these did not worship us, but they, in fact, worshipped their own carnal desire.
This witness is done by non-verbal language that whoever looks at idols he hears this statement from them by the ear of his conscience. Or the same Lord Who on that Day makes the man’s limbs, organs, and skin of the body speak, will order them to talk and they will bear witness that these deviated polytheists used to worship, in fact, their own conjectures and carnal desires. This holy verse is similar to the content of verse 28 in Sura Yu-nus, No.
10 which says: “And the Day We shall muster them all, then We shall say to those who associated others (with Us): ‘Get you to your place!