Saqar?’ They will answer, ‘We were not among those who prayed, nor did we feed the poor; we used to plunge with those who plunged, and we used to deny the Day of Recompense—until the certainty came upon us.’ So the intercession of the intercessors will not avail them. ⦗1⦘ Such people will gain nothing from intercession, because they were disbelievers.

The second point is that the verses are speaking of the kind of intercession affirmed by the polytheists—and by those innovators among the People of the Book and the Muslims who resemble them—who imagine that created beings enjoy such standing with Allah that they may intercede before Him without His permission, just as people intercede for one another.