Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ghafir, Ayah 74
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(Beside Allah) and whom you claim they are associates of Allah? (They say: They have failed us) they are preoccupied with themselves from us; but then they denied this and said: (but we used not to pray to) to worship (anything before) this. (Thus doth Allah send astray the disbelievers (in His guidance)) such that they do not have any proof.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
besides God?’ alongside Him and these are the idols. They will say ‘They have forsaken abandoned us and so we cannot see them. Nay but actually we were not invoking anything before’. They deny that they used to worship these idols; but then these idols are brought before them — which is where God exalted be He says ‘Truly you and what you worship besides God shall be fuel for Hell’ Q. 2198. So in the same way that these disbelievers have been led astray God leads astray the disbelievers.