Lord of all things, yet they associate partners with Him.”
If, then, they associated partners with Him only because they believed that He is the Lord and Sovereign of all things and that these intercessors and partners belong to Him, and they believed that He is the Lord of all things but nevertheless held that worshipping these idols would benefit them with Him, would the polytheism they introduced—a derivative dependent upon that foundation—undermine the validity of that belief and the true acknowledgment they made?
The eleventh point: Those who did in fact associate partners with Allah Most High—those who worshipped the sun, the moon, the stars, the angels, the prophets and the righteous—and those who made idols representing these objects of worship did so only because they believed in the existence of the sun, the moon, the stars and the angels