And (the idolaters) worship, apart from Allah, those (idols) which can neither harm nor benefit them and (in justification of their false worship) they say: ‘These (idols) are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say: ‘Do you seek to inform Allah of the (fabricated) presumption (of intercession by idols) whose (existence) He is not aware of either in the heavens or on in the earth (i.e. intercession with Him by any idol is not in His knowledge)? Holy is He and Exalted far above those whom they set up as (His) peers.’