And the Exalted also says:

“So do not invoke another deity alongside Allah, lest you become one of the punished.” (al-Shuʿarāʾ 26:213)

And He says:

“Do not set up another deity beside Allah, or you will end up blamed and forsaken.” (al-Isrāʾ 17:22)

And the Exalted says, recounting the words of Noah’s people:

“They said: ‘Do not abandon your gods; do not abandon Wadd, or Suwāʿ, or Yaghūth, or Yaʿūq, or Nasr.’” (Nūḥ 71:23)

Ibn ʿAbbās and other scholars explained: These were righteous men among Noah’s people. When they died, their community gathered at their graves, then fashioned their likenesses in statues, and eventually came to worship them.