So for that reason they were

seeing it necessary to curry favor

with those brought-near servants

so that this may be a means

for the validity of acceptance in the presence of the True King

and their intercession be attained in their regard

at the recompense for the deeds and the reckoning

the step and acceptance with Him, Glory be to Him.

And in view of this observation and conception

which became firmly rooted in their souls

their selves prompted them to prostrate before them

and to slaughter for them, swear by their names

and seek help through their absolute power

and to carve their images and statues

from stone, brass, copper, and other than that

and making them a direction for turning towards their spirits.

And the ignorant progressed from this path

until they began worshipping these images and statues

and believing that they are gods in themselves

and there occurred in the beliefs a great confusion, ambiguity, and corruption.

The meaning of anthropomorphism and its forms:

And anthropomorphism is an expression of affirming human attributes

or any attribute of the attributes of created beings

to Allah, the Most High.

So they were saying for example:

that the angels are the daughters of Allah

and that He accepts the intercession of His servants

even if He is not pleased with it

just as kings sometimes do

with great princes and governors of the provinces.

And that they, when they could not comprehend hearing and sight

according to what befits the status of divinity

they analogized them to their own hearings.