Surat Ar-Ra`d (33-34)

{أَفَمَنْ هُوَ قَآئِمٌ عَلَى كُلِّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ وَجَعَلُواْ لِلّهِ شُرَكَاء قُلْ سَمُّوهُمْ أَمْ تُنَبِّئُونَهُ بِمَا لاَ يَعْلَمُ فِي الأَرْضِ أَم بِظَاهِرٍ مِّنَ الْقَوْلِ بَلْ زُيِّنَ لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مَكْرُهُمْ وَصُدُّواْ عَنِ السَّبِيلِ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ اللّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ هَادٍ} (الرعد : 33)

33- Is the One who knows human souls and knows their good and bad actions in secret and public [i.e., Allah] like the idols which polytheists worship without being able to move something or benefit their worshippers, and despite all that, people worship and love them, and offer sacrificial animals and vows to them?

O Prophet, tell them: Call your idols as you like because they are not true gods but stones that do not harm or benefit, or O polytheists, do you want to inform Allah about the existence of other partners on earth while He does not know them? Or call them partners as you like without a real meaning?

Nay, their souls decorate polytheism and these falsehoods until they believed to be true and worshipped and defended them. They refused to follow the straight path because of their error, so they do not see the signs of disbelief. Whomever Allah misleads because of his distaste from the truth, no one will be able to guide him to light.

{لَّهُمْ عَذَابٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَلَعَذَابُ الآخِرَةِ أَشَقُّ وَمَا لَهُم مِّنَ اللّهِ مِن وَاقٍ} (الرعد : 34)

34- Disbelievers have painful punishment in worldly life when Muslims gain victory over them by killing or capturing them and seizing their money, and in the Hereafter they shall have severe punishment when they enter Hell-Fire; and there is no barrier to protect them from torment or intercede for them.