And when He mentioned them by what He established in their nature of knowledge, He was astonished by every person of reason in a state of contradiction to what they have from observation. So He said, implying the doer as a reference to the disapproval of attributing this action to a specific doer as a reprimand for them and guidance for every listener to deny it from him, saying: "And they took" meaning they imposed upon themselves the worship of idols to be taken.

And when His exaltation is limitless, the lower ranks are countless. He alerted to this with the preposition, saying: "besides Him" meaning after He established the evidence that He is the only God from the aspects that have preceded. "Gods" are united witnesses because, as He said: "They do not create anything" meaning they are incapable of it; there is no creation from them, in them, other than those who worshipped them.

And when the obstinate might claim that they are nonetheless uncreated, He said: "And they are created" meaning by what He observes in them of change and submission to His will, glorified is He. Among that is that their worshippers made them by carving and shaping.

And when He confirmed that He has bestowed blessings upon everything, and the blessings are most abundant, and the least blessing upon something is His creation, glorified is He, He informed that this other cannot cause harm to itself nor to its annihilation. So He expressed with the tool of the rational ones, mocking their worshippers as they established them in that position, or emphasizing that they worshipped the angels, Uzair, and the Messiah, peace be upon them: "And they do not possess" meaning they do not have the ability in any way to possess "harm for themselves" and therefore He preceded it and made it indefinite to encompass.

So when it was established that they are His creation, but perhaps an obstinate one might say: They possess that but they intentionally leave it, for no one desires harm for themselves, He said: "And no benefit" meaning even by remaining in one state, and their worshippers can do what Allah wills from that in terms of gain, so they are higher than them, and the worship of the higher for one below them is not from the actions of the rational ones.

And when death and life are not for anyone other than them of great importance, He repeated the action and said: "And they do not possess" and He preceded death because life is more prevalent. So He began with what is of the nature of harm in accordance with what preceded: "death" meaning for themselves and not for others, "and no life" meaning from non-existence, "and no resurrection" meaning a return to what was folded of life by death. And He connected it with the conjunction even though some of it is a cause of what preceded, indicating that each one of them is sufficient in negating divinity from them by what has been established of incapacity.