O you who acknowledge, spend from what We have provided for you before a day will come when there is no trade, nor friendship, nor intercession; and the ingrates are the wicked.
Translation endnotes
[2:254] One of Satan's clever tricks is to attribute the power of intercession to powerless creatures like Jesus, Mary and Muhammed. The Quran repeatedly informs us that there is no intercession beyond acknowledgment of facts or testimony to the truth. The only intercession of Muhammed referred in the Quran involves his complaint about his people for abandoning the Quran and idolizing him. See 25:30; 72:21; 79:38. Also, 2:48; 2:123; 6:51; 6:70; 19:87; 20:109; 21:28; 39:44. Old Testament, Isaiah 53:12; Jeremiah 7:16; 27:18.