The Angels
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[35:40]
Say: "Have you ever [really] considered those beings and forces to whom you ascribe a share in God’s divinity, [and] whom you invoke beside God? Show me what it is that they have created on earth – or do [you claim that] they have a share in [governing] the heavens?"
Have We ever vouchsafed them a divine writ on which they could rely as evidence [in support of their views]? Nay, [the hope which] the evildoers hold out to one another [is] nothing but a delusion.

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* v.40 : Lit., “those [God-]partners of yours”: see note 15 on 6:22.
* I.e., to those who ascribe divinity to beings or forces other then God.
* Cf.. 30:35, “Have We ever bestowed upon them from on high a divine writ which would speak [with approval] of their worshipping aught beside Us?” The reference to a “divine writ” makes it clear that the people spoken of here are the erring followers of the earlier revelation, and not atheists.
* I.e., this expectation that the saints whom they invest with divine or semi-divine qualities will “mediate” between them and God, or “intercede” for them before Him, is based on nothing but wishful thinking.