[12]. Worshipping an idol in every people was the secret of unity between them and for every people there was a chosen idol. Worshipping idols also had created a relation between them and their ancestors and they often pretended by the same pretext that those things were the traces of their ancestors which they followed. Besides, the chiefs of the pagans invited their followers to worship idols and this was a ring of join between ‘the chiefs’ and their ‘followers’. But on the Day of the Resurrection, all these chaffy and rotten links will be broken, and everyone puts its sin on another one’s shoulder while he curses him and repudiates the deed of the other.
13. i.e., Are there, out of all Allāh's creatures, any besides you who commit this unnatural act?
[14]. I.e., commit highway robbery and aggression against travelers. Another meaning cut off the offspring by approaching the men as wives and leaving the women.