as for those whom they had taken for gods besides allah as the means of approach to him why then did they not aid them nay but they vanished completely from them. and that was their falsehood and what they were fabricating.
فلولا نصرهم الذين اتخذوا من دون الله قربانا آلهة بل ضلوا عنهم وذلك إفكهم وما كانوا يفترون