The worshipped ones instead of Allah said: "Declaration of Your transcendence-O our Lord-from what these performed, for it is not right that we take besides You protectors we take them as allies, but You granted enjoyment to these polytheists and their fathers with the wealth and the well-being in the world, until they forgot Your mention thus associating partners with You, and they were a perishing people whom the wretchedness and the forsaking overcame."