قُلْ أَتَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَمْلِكُ لَكُمْ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا وَاللَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ
Say, ‘Do you worship, besides Allah, what has no power to bring you any benefit or harm, while Allah—He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing?!’
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 5:76
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 5:76] The argument of the preceding verse continues that a created being who has no power over loss or gain cannot be worshipped as God. Subject to the laws of nature, as a mortal, Isa did not have any say in the circumstances of his life and death. "And He (Isa) went on a little, fell on his face in prayer, and said: 'My father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by; yet not as I will, but as Thou wills." (Matthew 26: 39) It means he himself could not avoid death and prayed to Allah to let the cup pass him by if He willed. "Eli, Eli, Sabachthani? (My God, my God, why has Thou forsaken me?)" (Matthew 27: 46). Isa wanted to know as to why his God (Allah) had forsaken him.