so why did they – the ones whom they had chosen as gods as a means of attaining allahs proximity – not help them? in fact the disbelievers lost them and this is just their slander and fabrication.
فلولا نصرهم الذين اتخذوا من دون الله قربانا آلهة بل ضلوا عنهم وذلك إفكهم وما كانوا يفترون