“Surely they are enemies to me...

“Surely they are enemies to me, save the Lord of the Worlds,” On the Day of Hereafter, idols will abhor the idolaters, and they will be in opposition with them and by this means their enmity will be made clear.[^2] Abraham says that verily they all are his enemies, and he is a severe foe of them forever. It is noteworthy that Abraham says: “Surely they are enemies to me...” The necessity of this enmity is that Abraham should have enmity to them, too.

But the existence of this meaning may be for the sake that worshipping idols might be the cause of the worshippers’ wretchedness, and aberration, as well as their chastisement in this life and the next; and this will be counted as their enmity. Moreover, there are a lot of verses in the Qur’an which indicate that, on the Day of Hereafter, idols will repudiate their worshippers and will…