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Is He Who stands, watches, over every soul what it has earned?, what it has done of good or evil - and this is Allahu ta’ālā - like the idols who are not so? No! This [response] is suggested by [the following words]: Yet they ascribe to Allahu ta’ālā associates. Say: 'Name them!, for Him: who are they? Or will you inform Him, will you inform Allahu ta’ālā, of something, that is, of an associate, which He does not know in the earth? (an interrogative of disavowal); in other words, He has no associate, for if He did, He would know him - exalted be He above such a thing. Or is it - nay - you call them associates, merely [a manner of] speaking?', that is, [it is merely] on the basis of false conjecture, without any truth in it. Nay, but their scheming, their unbelief, has been adorned for those who disbelieve and they have been barred from the way, [from] the path of guidance; and whomever Allahu ta’ālā sends astray, for him there is no guide.