There has been a good example set for you by Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people: "We are innocent from you and what you serve besides God. We have rejected you, and it appears that there shall be animosity and hatred between us and you until you acknowledge God alone." Except for the saying of Abraham to his father: "I will ask forgiveness for you, but I do not possess any power to protect you from God." "Our Lord, we have put our trust in You, and we turn to You, and to You is the final destiny."
Translation endnotes
[60:4] See 33:21. The Arabic word wahdahu (alone) occurs in the Quran six times and one of them is used to instruct us to follow the Quran alone (17:46). The expression Allahu wahdahu (God alone) occurs in 7:70; 39:45; 40:12,84 and 60:4. These numbers add up to 361, or 19x19 and thus it numerically emphasizes that the main message of the Quran is serving God ALONE. For the same reason, the numerical value of God's attribute WAHiD (One; 6+1+8+4) equals 19, the code of the Quran's numerical structure discovered in 1974. For the important role of the number 19, see chapter 74. We may pray for polytheists to attain salvation; but we cannot ask God to forgive them (4:48, 116).