Allah threatens those who associate anything else with Him and worship anything
with Him. He informs that those who associate others with Allah:
[لاَ بُرْهَانَ
لَهُ]
(of whom he has no proof), meaning no evidence for what he says. Then Allah
says:
[وَمَن يَدْعُ مَعَ
اللَّهِ إِلَـهَا ءَاخَرَ لاَ بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ]
(And whoever invokes, besides Allah, any other god, of whom he has no proof;)
this is a conditional sentence, whose fulfilling clause is:
[فَإِنَّمَا
حِسَابُهُ عِندَ رَبِّهِ]
(then his reckoning is only with his Lord.) meaning, Allah will call him to
account for that. Then Allah tells us:
[إِنَّهُ لاَ
يُفْلِحُ الْكَـفِرُونَ]
(Surely, disbelievers will not be successful.) meaning, they will not be
successful with Him on the Day of Resurrection; they will not prosper or be
saved.
[وَقُل رَّبِّ
اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَأنتَ خَيْرُ الرَحِمِينَ ]
(And say: "My Lord! Forgive and have mercy, for You are the best of those who
show mercy!'') Here Allah is teaching us to recite this supplication, for
forgiveness, in a general sense, means wiping away sins and concealing them from
people, and mercy means guiding a person and helping him to say and do good
things.
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