And know that every polytheist is an infidel. The polytheist, by following his desires in the one who associates polytheism and taking him as a god, and turning away from the oneness of God, conceals it from looking at the evidence and verses that lead to the monotheism of God, so he is called an infidel for that concealment, both apparent and hidden. He is called a polytheist because he attributed divinity to other than God along with God, so he made two ascriptions to it, so polytheist. This is the difference between a polytheist and an infidel. As for the infidel who is not a polytheist, he is a monotheist except that he is a disbeliever in the Messenger and in some of his book. His disbelief is in two ways. The one aspect is that his disbelief in what came from God is like the polytheist’s disbelief in the monotheism of God. The other aspect is that he is knowledgeable in the Messenger of God and in what came from God. From God, and He hides that from the common people and the