So set your purpose O Muhammad (s) for religion as a hanīf as one inclining to it — in other words devote your religion you and whoever follows you purely to God — a nature given by God upon which He originated mankind and this nature is His religion in other words adhere to it. There is no changing God’s creation His religion that is to say do not change it by becoming idolaters. That is the upright religion the belief in God’s Oneness but most people namely the Meccan disbelievers do not know anything of God’s Oneness —