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wa-yawma naḥshuruhum jamīʿan thumma naqūlu li-lladhīna ʾashrakū ʾayna shurakāʾukumu lladhīna kuntum tazʿumūna
On the day when We gather them all together, We shall say to those who ascribed partners [to Allah] ‘Where are your partners that you used to claim?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-‘An’am, Verse 22
22. "And on the Day We will muster them all together, then We will say to those who associated partners (to Allah ): 'Where are your associate-gods whom you were asserting?'"
In the previous verse, it was said that the oppressors, who apparently gain some social ranks by calumny, rejection and concealing the Truth, will not meet salvation. A prosperous person is one who has some positive matters for answering the questions in the Hereafter, because all the polytheistic imaginations will be effaced therein.
The objective meaning of the Arabic word /jami'an/ mentioned in the verse, is either 'all human beings', or the polytheists and the idols. The evidence for this idea is the content of another verse that targets men end their wives, and what they were worshipping. That verse says:
It is true that the verse under discussion refers to polytheists, but those who accept the leadership of other than Allah’s saints, and oppose the friends of Allah, are rather a kind of polytheists. In Jami'ah Supplication, we recite: "And he who opposes you is a disbeliever." An Islamic tradition, narrated from the immaculate ones, says: "The person who refuses us (our way) is similar to the person who refuses (the word of) Allah and such a person is as a disbeliever."
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