Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Najm, Ayah 23
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These that is the mentioned deities are nothing but names which you have named by which you have named you and your fathers idols that you worship. God has not revealed any warrant any proof or evidence for them that is to say for the worship of them. They follow nothing but conjecture in their worship of them and that which ignoble souls desire of that which Satan adorned for them that they may intercede for them before God exalted be He even though guidance has already come to them from their Lord by the tongue of the Prophet s with definitive proof; yet they do not desist from their ways.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
They are) i.e. al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat (but names) idols (which ye have named ye and your fathers) you have appointed them as deities; it is also said that this means: you and your forefathers have made them, (for which Allah hath revealed) regarding their worship or naming (no warrant) no Scripture wherein is found your proof. (They follow) they do not worship al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat or that which they call deities (but a guess) except through surmise and have no certainty about their worship (and that which (they) themselves desire) and they also worship them because they follow their own desires. (And now the guidance from their Lord) the explanation in the Qur'an that Allah has no son or partner (hath come unto them) to the people of Mecca.