And for this reason, the Most High said:

“Say, ‘Indeed, Allah does not command indecency.’” (Sūrah al-Aʿrāf, 28)

Indecency is vile and reprehensible; hearts reject it by their innate disposition, and Allah does not command anything reprehensible. This entails that vile, evil deeds possess qualities that preclude Allah from commanding them. There is a well-known dispute among people concerning this, which we have explained elsewhere.

Then He said:

“Do you say about Allah what you do not know?” (Sūrah al-Aʿrāf, 28)

That is: do you say that He commanded this when you do not know that He commanded it? You have nothing to support you except your forefathers’ custom and your religion, and you do not know that Allah has sent down any authority for this.

This verse therefore encompasses everyone who makes an act of indecency or something reprehensible a form of worship, even if he appeals to the established custom of his predecessors, claims that Allah commands it, or offers reasons for it. Such was the statement of the Arab polytheists: “These are clothes in which we have disobeyed Allah, so we will not circumambulate His House in them.” They wished, at the time of worship, to avoid the clothes in which they had sinned.

The same applies to their division of people into two groups: the Hums and those who were not Hums