Then He admonished them against setting up equals to Him, despite their knowledge that it is as He informed them, and that He has no equal or peer, nor is there any bringer of benefit or harm to them, nor creator or provider other than Him.

---

The discourse regarding the Interpretation of His statement, Exalted be He: {so do not set up equals to Allah}

Abū Jaʿfar said: The word andād is the plural of nidd, and nidd means a peer and an equal, as Ḥassān ibn Thābit said:

Do you lampoon him when you are not an equal (nidd) to him? The worse of you two is a ransom for the better of you two! (1)

He means by his saying, "and you are not an equal to him": You are not a match or peer to him. Everything that is a counterpart to something and a resemblance to it is a nidd (equal) to it. (2)

480- As Bishr ibn Muʿādh narrated to us, he said: Yazīd narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda: "So do not set up equals to Allah," meaning peers. (3)

481- Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Abū Ḥudhayfa narrated to me, he said: Shibl narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid: "So do not set up equals to Allah," meaning peers. (4)

482- Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī, in a report he mentioned, from Abū Mālik and from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās—and from Murra, from Ibn Masʿūd, and from some people among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him: "So do not set up equals to Allah," he said: Equals among men whom you obey in disobedience to Allah. (5)