why did the idols whom they worshipped as a means of pleasing god not help them? in fact they proved to be the cause of their going astray and it were lies which they had falsely invented lies.
فلولا نصرهم الذين اتخذوا من دون الله قربانا آلهة بل ضلوا عنهم وذلك إفكهم وما كانوا يفترون