فَإِنَّهُمْ عَدُوٌّ لِّىٓ إِلَّا رَبَّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
Fa innahum 'aduwwwul leee illaa Rabbal 'aalameen
Te bałwany są przecież wrogami dla mnie, a nie Pan światów,
they are all enemies to me, except the Lord of the worlds,
Ibrahim calls carved objects enemies, which locates the harm in what they do to the person serving them rather than in anything they perform themselves. Readers have split over the exception: some take it as disconnected, since the one he excepts was never among the things being worshipped, others as connected, if his forefathers had worshipped God alongside their idols. From here the surah gives five verses of clauses naming what God actually does for him.