Az-Zukhruf 43:20 وقالوا لو شاء الرحمان ما عبدناهم ما لهم بذالك من علم ان هم الا يخرصون ٢٠
وَقَالُواْ
لَوۡ
شَآءَ
ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ
مَا
عَبَدۡنَٰهُمۗ
مَّا
لَهُم
بِذَٰلِكَ
مِنۡ
عِلۡمٍۖ
إِنۡ
هُمۡ
إِلَّا
يَخۡرُصُونَ
٢٠
And they argue, “Had the Most Compassionate willed, we would have never worshipped them.” They have no knowledge ˹in support˺ of this ˹claim˺. They do nothing but lie.
Soma Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted some of their cattle to their false gods and some to Allah, as He described in Surat Al-An`am where He said:
وَجَعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ مِمَّا ذَرَأَ مِنَ الْح
…Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted so
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