Say-O Messenger-to these polytheists who associate others with Allah the Exalted: "Is it other than Allah the Exalted that I take as a protector and a helper, while He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and what is in them, and He is the One who provides for His creation and no one provides for Him?" Say-O Messenger-: "Indeed I was commanded that I be the first of who submitted and yielded to Him with servitude from this Ummah, and I was forbidden that I be of the polytheists [associating] with Him others."