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Say, O Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , to your people: 'Who is the Rabb of the heavens and the earth?' Say: 'Allahu ta’ālā' - and even if they do not say it, there can be no other response. Say, to them: 'Then have you taken beside Him, other than Him, protectors, idols, to worship, who have no power to benefit or harm themselves?', and you abandon the One Who is their Possessor? (an interrogative meant as a rebuke). Say: 'Are the blind one and the seer, [respectively], the disbeliever and the believer, equal? Or are darkness, disbelief, and the light, faith, equal? No! Or have they set up for Allahu ta’ālā associates who have created the like of His creation, so that creation seems alike, that is, [is] what the associates create and the creation of Allahu ta’ālā [alike], to them?', so that they believe them worthy of being worshipped on account of what these [associates] have created? (an interrogative of disavowal); in other words, not so! None save the Creator is worthy of being worshipped. Say: 'Allahu ta’ālā is the Creator of all things, having no associate therein, and so He cannot have an associate in terms of worship; and He is the One, the Subjugator', of His servants.