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You and your associates', then We shall set a space between them, and their associates shall say: 'It was not us(indeed)that you used to worship! ' " Commentary : This verse also follows the previous discussions on the issue of the origin of existence and the Resurrection and the situation of the polytheists. At first, the Qur'an warns all to remember the Day when Allah will assemble all His subjects and make them rise from the dead.
The verse says: " And the Day We shall muster them all, ..." Then He will declare unto the polytheists to stay in their place together with their idols so that He may examine their account. It continues saying: "... then We shall say to those who associated others(with Us): ..." The Qur'an informs that Allah will separate these two groups from each other; i. e.
the worshippers and the worshipped ones, and He will question each individual separately, as it is usual with all courts that they investigate each person separately. The verse says: "... 'Get you to your place! You and your associates', then We shall set a space between them, ..." Allah may ask the idol- worshippers why they worshipped idols along with Allah(s. w. t.), and He will also ask the idols why they permitted such an act to occur, that they allowed the polytheists to worship them.
It is at this time that those things that were worshipped as idols will speak, saying to them that they never worshipped idols. In actual fact, they worshipped the creation of their own imaginations, whims and passions. The verse says: "... and their associates shall say: 'It was not us(indeed)that you used to worship!
The verse says: " Allah is a sufficient witness between us and you: we certainly were Unaware of your worship(of us). " Consequently, whatever act of worship is performed without the knowledge of the worshipped is null and void. Incidentally, there are numerous allusions made to the hatred and disavowal of those objects worshipped from the polytheists and their deeds in the Qur'an, i. e., Sura Al- Furqan, No. 25, verse 17, and Sura Al- Qas as, No. 28, verse 63.