The Quran

Preface

اللَّهُ الَّذي خَلَقَكُم ثُمَّ رَزَقَكُم ثُمَّ يُميتُكُم ثُمَّ يُحييكُم ۖ هَل مِن شُرَكائِكُم مَن يَفعَلُ مِن ذٰلِكُم مِن شَيءٍ ۚ سُبحانَهُ وَتَعالىٰ عَمّا يُشرِكونَ

Yusuf Ali

It is God Who has created you: further, He has provided for your sustenance; then He will cause you to die; and again He will give you life. Are there any of your (false) “Partners"¹ who can do any single one of these things? Glory to Him! and high is He above the partners² they attribute (to him)!

The person or thing or ideas to which we give part-worship, while our whole and exclusive worship is due to God, are the “Partners” we set up. Do we owe our existence to them? Do they sustain our being? Can they take or give back to us? Certainly not. Then how foolish of us to give them part-worship!
Cf. 10:18 and similar passages.