Innakum wama taAAbudoona min dooni Allahi hasabu jahannama antum laha waridoon (surah Anbiya: 98)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(21:98) As a matter of fact, you and your deities, whom you worship beside Allah, are fuel of Hell, wherein you have to enter; *95

Innakum wa maa ta`budoona min doonil laahi hasabu Jahannama antum lahaa waaridoon

*95) We learn from traditions that `Abdullah bin Azza'ara raised an objection in this connection, saying, "According to this not only our deities but Prophets Jesus and `Uzair and the Angels also will become fuel for Hell because they are also worshipped." The Holy Prophet replied, "Yes, everyone who would approve of his own worship instead of Allah's will go to Hell along with those who worshipped him." He meant to say, "There is no reason why Prophets Jesus and `Uzair and the Angels should go to Hell because they never approved that they should be worshipped instead of Allah, and were not responsible for this, on the other hand, they taught people to worship Allah alone". Of course, those who tried to become deities and became partners in the shirk of others will certainly go to Hell along with their worshippers. Likewise those, who induced others to take deities other than AIIah, will go to Hell. Satan comes under this category for he induces others to make deities. Thus it is Satan who is made the real deity whom they obey and commit shirk Besides this, idols of stone and wood and other accessories of shirk will also be thrown into Hell along with the mushriks so that the latter should see that their deities were becoming a cause of the intensity of their torture of fire instead of becoming their intercessors.