The
association: is to associate or join others with God in the worship, so that man will worship that associate beside God or together with God.
The
associate: is the one associated with God in the worship, like the idols, the stars, Jesus, Ali, some rabbis and saints, etc.
The
associater: is the one who associates with God anyone or anything, like the idolater who associates an idol or more with God.
Quran Man after Death
So the associater worships God, but at the same time he, out of the glorification and enthusiasm, worships another being or another thing.
Quran 12
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106. But most of [people] believe not in God unless they associate [others with Him.] c}
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c It means: Most of them believe that God is their Creator and Provider, and that it is He Who revived them and He controls their death, but they associate the creatures in the worship with the Creator, so they vow to the angels, ask their needs from them and sanctify them.
Similar to this in meaning is His saying – be glorified – in the Quran 29: 61, which means:
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If you [Mohammed] ask them [: the associaters]: "Who created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon?" they will say: "God [did all that.] How then are they turned away [from worshipping God to worshipping others apart from Him?])
i.e. How then are they turned away [from worshipping the Creator to worshipping the creatures?
As such, most people nowadays believe that God is their Creator, but they associate the sheikhs and imams by worshipping them together with God, so that
they worship the graves of imams and sheikhs, kiss the graves and seek to be blessed by their dust and walls; they vow to them, seek their help when they stand up and sit down, and ask their needs from them, and say: “These are our intercessors before God.”
So you may see a Muslim build a mosque and write on its door (masjid and husseiniah), and by so doing, he associates Hussein with God.
Or he may vow a vowing to God, but he associate Hussein with God in his vowing, so that he says: “I vow to God, the reward is for the Hussein”, or he may vow to Hussein and associates God with his vowing.
Or he may associate concerning his praying, so he says: O Allah, O Mohammed, O Ali!
And by such praying, he associated two humans together with God.
Thus, you see most of people associate with God, concerning their acts.
Christians, for example, associated the Christ and his mother with God in their worshipping.
As such are the rest of sects, while all of them admit that God is their Creator.
The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly.
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The Divorce of Israel: it is no longer the 'Chosen people of God'
Israel had been divorced: God divorced her and gave her a bill of divorce
It means: they worshiped other gods besides God Almighty, and they were like the betraying wife who betrays her husband:
Her husband did not do her any bad thing, on the contrary he bestowed on her his favors and bounties, and yet instead of becoming grateful to him, she betrayed him and went to other men; God gives her His bounties, and helped her against her enemies, and yet she was grateful to others.
So this is the association with God
http://www.quran-ayat.com/conflicts/english2.htm#Israel is divorced