And these polytheists worship instead of Allah what neither harms them anything nor benefits them in the world or the Hereafter, and they say: "We only worship them so that they may intercede for us with Allah." Say to them-O Messenger-: "Do you inform Allah the Exalted of something He does not know regarding the matter of these intercessors in the heavens or in the earth? For indeed, if there were intercessors in them interceding for you with Him, He would be more knowing of them than you. For Allah the Exalted is transcended from what these polytheists perform of their associating in His worship what neither harms nor benefits."