An-Náhl 16:20 والذين يدعون من دون الله لا يخلقون شييا وهم يخلقون ٢٠
وَٱلَّذِينَ
يَدۡعُونَ
مِن
دُونِ
ٱللَّهِ
لَا
يَخۡلُقُونَ
شَيۡـٔٗا
وَهُمۡ
يُخۡلَقُونَ
٢٠
And those they invoke other than Allāh create nothing, and they [themselves] are created.
— Saheeh International
But those ˹idols˺ they invoke besides Allah cannot create anything—they themselves are created.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The gods of the Idolators are created; they do not create
Then Allah tells us that the idols which people call on instead of Him cannot create anything; they are themselves created, as Al-Khalil (Ibrahim) said:
قَالَ أَتَعْبُدُونَ مَا تَنْحِتُونَ - وَاللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ وَمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
("Do you wor
…The gods of the Idolators are created; they do not create
Then Allah tells us that the idols which people call on instead of Him cannot create anythin
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