18

They will say, 'Glory be to You - exalted be You above what does not befit You! It was not, it would [not] have been right, for us to take any guardians besides You, that is, other than You (min awliyā'a, the first direct object, the min being extra, [added] to emphasise the negation; the preceding [min dūnika, 'besides You'] is the second [direct object]). So how can we command that we be worshipped? But You gave them and their fathers, before them, ease [of living], by granting [them] long life and abundant provision, until they forgot the Remembrance, [until] they became remiss about admonitions and belief in the Qur'ān, and became a lost folk', [a folk] destroyed. Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: