أَمِ
ٱتَّخَذُواْ
مِن
دُونِ
ٱللَّهِ
شُفَعَآءَۚ
قُلۡ
أَوَلَوۡ
كَانُواْ
لَا
يَمۡلِكُونَ
شَيۡـٔٗا
وَلَا
يَعۡقِلُونَ
٤٣
Or choose they intercessors other than Allah? Say: What! Even though they have power over nothing and have no intelligence?
— M. Pickthall
Or have they taken other than Allāh as intercessors? Say, "Even though they do not possess [power over] anything, nor do they reason?"
— Saheeh International
What! Do they take for intercessors others besides Allah? Say: "Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?"
— A. Yusuf Ali
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
There is no Intercession except with Allah, and how the Idolators are filled with Disgust when Allah
Allah condemns the idolators for taking intercessors besides Allah, namely the idols and false gods whom they have taken on the basis of their own whims, with no evidence or proof. These idols are not
…There is no Intercession except with Allah, and how the Idolators are filled with Disgust when Allah
Allah condemns the idolators for taking intercesso
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