Those who associated partners will say: "Had Allah willed that we not associate partners-we and our fathers-and that we not forbid anything besides Him we would not have done that," and Allah replied upon them by the clarification that this doubt had surely been raised by the disbelievers from before them, and they belied by it the call of their messengers, and they continued upon that, until the punishment of Allah descended upon them. Say to them-O Messenger-: "Do you have-in what you forbade of the livestock and the tilth, and in what you claimed of that Allah has surely willed for you the disbelief, and approved it from you and loved it for you-of correct knowledge so you manifest it to us? Indeed you follow in the matters of this religion except just the suspicion, and indeed you are not but lying."