And when the supplication of the group is closer to being heard than the supplication of an individual, he arranged his words following what came before: "And if you call them," meaning: O those who are more misguided than them and more incapable, "to guidance," meaning: to that which is the noblest of qualities, so that they may be guided in the support of themselves or otherwise. "They will not hear anything of that supplication or otherwise;" and when their state in sight is equal to everyone, he addressed the listener individually: "And you see them," meaning: O you who are looking at them, "looking at you," meaning: as if they are looking at what their eyes have made for them. "And they do not see," meaning: a type of sight. And how similar is the meaning of these verses to what is in the Book of the Prophets of the Children of Israel in the Prophethood of Isaiah: Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and its Redeemer: I am the First and I am the Last, and there is no god besides Me. And who is like Me that claims and shows His power and informs of what has been since I spread the world to eternity, and the ancient signs appear to the nations, so they do not panic or fear. Did I not inform you from the beginning of time and reveal it to you and clarify matters for you while you are My witnesses that there is no god besides Me, and there is no mighty protector except that I am mightier than him; for all the craftsmen who make idols, their work is indeed in vain and there is no benefit in their actions, and those who make them testify against them that they do not see, nor hear, nor know. Therefore, all the makers of the cast idols will be disgraced; for all that they have made has no intellect, so they will all be gathered and disgraced and exposed because the carpenter shaped with his iron and prepared an idol with his beak and secured it with the strength of his arm and became hungry and thirsty in his work. And the carpenter chose a piece of wood and measured it and glued some of it to some with pitch and assembled it and made it like a human figure, erecting from the wood that he cut from the grove like a man that grew from the rain to become for the people as fuel. So they made it a god for them and worshipped it and prostrated to it, which they justified by baking bread for them and roasting meat for them on a fire and they ate and drank and warmed themselves and said: We have been warmed because we have kindled a fire and warmed ourselves. And what remained of it they took as a carved god and prostrated to it and prayed and said: Save us for you are our god.

And it did not occur to their minds to think that they said: We have kindled half of it with fire, and we have baked our bread and roasted the meat on its embers and eaten, and they did not know that what remained of it was made into an idol and they prostrated to it; because their hearts were immersed in its ashes, and their minds were misguided, so they could not save themselves nor say: Our hands have committed falsehood and taken lies. Then he said: Am I not the Lord since the beginning, and there is no god besides Me nor savior other than Me? Draw near to Me, O all you who are in the corners of the earth, to be saved, for I am the Lord and there is no god besides Me. I have sworn by My oath and brought forth a word of truth and I do not retract from it, for to Me every knee shall bend, and by Me every person swears and says: Indeed, righteousness is with the Lord, and to Him the honored draw near, and all the haters are disgraced. And by Me is praised and justified. With whom do you compare Me? And to whom do you attribute Me? To the misguided who took the gold from their bags and weighed the silver with the scale and hired craftsmen until they made for them gods that they prostrate to and carry on their shoulders and walk with them, then they pray to them and call upon them, but they do not answer them nor save them from their hardships. Then they carry them again and return them to their places. Remember these things and understand, O sinners, and let them weigh on your hearts and remember the days that were from the beginning. Indeed, I am Allah, the Creator, and there is no god besides Me nor like Me. So I manifest the decrees and inform of what will be before it occurs, and I establish My opinion and complete My wills and desires, and I call those in the east and they come faster than birds. And the man who has done My pleasure from the distant land has come to Me, for when I speak of something, I do it. I created and I create; and in the Psalms in the thirteenth psalm after the hundred: Our God in the earth, whatever He wills, He creates. The idols of the nations are gold and silver, the work of human hands. They have mouths but do not speak, they have eyes but do not see, they have ears but do not hear, and noses but do not smell, and hands but do not feel, and feet but do not walk, and there is no voice in their throats nor spirit in their mouths. Let those who make them be like them, and all who trust in them.