Points derived from the verse:

1. Supplicating anyone other than Allah constitutes major shirk.
2. Were even the most righteous of people to invoke someone besides Allah, he would become one of the wrongdoers—that is, a polytheist—so what, then, of those less upright?
3. The verse exposes the impotence of the polytheists’ deities and the futility of worshipping them.