[256] There are two types of Signs that lead to Belief: Qur’anic Signs, ayas, and Cosmic Signs. The Signs detailed here as evidence to God’s existence are indeed cosmic.
[257] After living through and experiencing firsthand all these clear Signs, some people still take to worshipping false deities besides God.
[258] As compared to these idolaters’ love for their gods.
[259] As a result of Divine Judgement after Resurrection.
[260] Those who were taken as gods besides God (cf. 18: 19: 81-82, 29: 25, and 34: 31-33). (al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)
[261] Of salvation and deliverance (cf. 6: 94). (al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)
[262] Cf. 6: 27-28 and 26: 91-102.
[263] These are the two conditions regarding the food that people are allowed to consume: lawful (unlawful foods will be explained shortly in Aya 173) and beneficial, not harmful (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr).
[264] Who makes people deem lawful or unlawful what is not (cf. 6: 140-142).
[265] Falsely claiming that God made one thing or another either lawful or unlawful (cf. 7: 27-28, 33-33, 16: 114-116).