They will reply: “Glory to You! You are our Protector, not they.1 Nay, they rather used to worship the jinn. Most of them believe in them.”
Footnotes
[1]Qira’at: Abu Jaʻfar read it as: “. . . and (I said): may you be modeled before My eye.”
[2]
That is, they will answer: You are Pure and Exalted far above that another should be made a partner in Godhead with you. We have no connection with these people. We are not responsible for them nor for what they did. We are Your servants only.