Qur'an chapter 40:
He is the Living One, there is no god except Him. So supplicate Him, putting exclusive faith in Him. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.
Say, ‘I have been forbidden to worship those whom you invoke besides Allah, as manifest proofs have come to me from my Lord, and I have been commanded to submit to the Lord of all the worlds.’
It is He who created you from dust, then from a drop of [seminal] fluid, then from a clinging mass, then He brings you forth as infants, then [He nurtures you] so that you may come of age, and then that you may become aged—though there are some of you who die earlier—and complete a specified term, and so that you may exercise your reason.
It is He who gives life and brings death. When He decides on a matter, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is.
Have you not regarded those who dispute the signs of Allah, where they are being led away [from Allah’s way]?
—Those who deny the Book and what we have sent with Our apostles. Soon they will know when they are dragged [with] iron collars and chains around their necks
into scalding waters and then set aflame in the Fire.
Then they will be told, ‘Where are they whom you used to worship as deities besides Allah?’ They will say, ‘They have forsaken us. No, we did not invoke anything before.’ That is how Allah leads the faithless astray.
‘That [punishment] is because you used to boast unduly on the earth and because you used to strut.
Enter the gates of hell, to remain in it [forever].’ Evil is the [final] abode of the arrogant.
Comment: Allah is Merciful.