They said, meaning the angels, distancing themselves from them, beginning with glorification, humbly before the declaration of innocence, fearing the onset of might. 'Glorified are You,' meaning we glorify You with a glorification that befits Your majesty, that no one other than You deserves to be worshipped.

And when they were very averse to their worship, and the benefit of worship was the connection between the worshipper and the worshipped, they said: 'You are our protector,' meaning our deity, for there is no connection between us and anyone except by Your command, 'other than them.' Meaning from the closest position to You among their positions to us, for You are the closest thing to us in all meanings of guardianship, of knowledge, power, and others. So how can we leave the closest and strongest and turn to the farthest and weakest? There is no guardianship between us and them, but enmity. Likewise, anyone who approaches a person through disobedience to Allah, Allah hardens his heart against him and makes him dislike him, so he distances himself and opposes him.

And when one works for someone a deed that he did not command or approve of, he is truly working for the one who called him to that deed. They said: 'Rather, they were,' by their voluntary actions that necessitate polytheism, 'worshipping the jinn,' meaning Iblis and his offspring, who adorned for them our worship without our approval of that. They would enter the bellies of the idols and speak to them and seek refuge with them in frightening places. From this is: 'Wretched is the servant of the dinar and the servant of the dirham and the servant of the fine cloth.' Then they resumed their saying: 'Most of them,' meaning mankind, 'believe in them,' meaning the jinn, 'are firm in polytheism, not intending in their worship anyone other than them. And few among them intend in their worship the adornment of the jinn and others, and they are pleased with it. So it is truly for the one who adorned it for them from the jinn. And they, despite that, believe what is conveyed to them from the reports of the jinn on the tongues of the soothsayers and others, despite what they see in it of lies at many times.