[1450] Their worship of such creatures as the jinn gives a glimpse of how far astray from the right path these pagans were (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī): “They pray to none besides Him but females; they only pray to a rebelliously defiant Devil” (4: 117).
Demons could have possessed their idols and communicated through them; they also used to seek refuge from the evil of the jinn by appraising them and slaughtering sacrifices in their cause (cf. Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, 14: 283-284; Ibn al-Qayyim, Shifā’ al-ʿAlīl, p. 27).
[1451] Kharaqa is to fabricate utter falsity without any grounds whatsoever. (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)