Even clearer evidence of their helplessness and lack of divinity is this: if this most insignificant and lowly creature, helpless and weak, were to snatch something from them and carry it off, they would be unable to recover it, even if they all joined forces to do so.

Then He places the worshipper and the worshipped on an equal footing in weakness and helplessness, saying: “Weak are both the seeker and the sought.” It is said that the seeker is the worshipper and the sought is the object of worship: a helpless being clinging to another helpless being.

Another interpretation is that this places the snatcher and the one from whom something is snatched on an equal footing—that is, it equates the god and the fly in weakness and helplessness.

According to this interpretation, some say that the seeker is the false god, while the sought is the fly, from which it seeks to recover what the fly has snatched from it.

Others say that the seeker is the fly and the sought is the god, since the fly seeks from it whatever it takes from its surface.

The correct view is that the wording encompasses them all: the worshipper, the worshipped, and the snatcher are all weak.

Whoever takes such a being as a god alongside the All-Powerful, the Almighty has neither esteemed Allah as He deserves, nor truly known Him, nor magnified Him as He deserves.