Are they associating those who do not create anything when they themselves are created? (There is a reference in these two verses to the tendency of mankind to conceive natural events and creatures as deities/gods besides Allah.)
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Do they ascribe (to Him) partners that create nothing and themselves are created?
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
Is it befitting that they incorporate with Him any created being, animate or Inanimate, who is infinitely incapable of creating a living being nor one. Of the simple Constituents of which all material bodies are compounded, when all in all has Allah brought into being and caused to exist