Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 19 Maryam, Ayat 87-87

لَا يَمۡلِكُوۡنَ الشَّفَاعَةَ اِلَّا مَنِ اتَّخَذَ عِنۡدَ الرَّحۡمٰنِ عَهۡدًا​ ۘ‏ ﴿19:87﴾

(19:87) On that Day none will have the power to intercede for them except those who received a sanction from the Most Compassionate Lord.52


Notes

52. This implies two things: (1) Intercession will be allowed only for the one who might have received permission for it from the Merciful, that is, the one who believed in Allah in the world and made himself deserving of His pardon. (2) Only that one will be able to plead intercession who might have received permission for this from the Merciful, and not those ones whom people themselves had made their intercessors without any reason.