إِنَّمَا سُلْطَـٰنُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَوَلَّوْنَهُۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِهِۦ مُشْرِكُونَ Qur’an An-Nahl (16:100)Innama sultanuhu AAala allatheena yatawallawnahu waallatheena hum bihi mushrikoona
Or: "who make him their master". Cf. in this connection {14: 22} and the corresponding note [31].
I.e., inasmuch as they pay an almost worshipful reverence to such blandishments as wealth, power, social position, etc.