Az-Zukhruf 43:20 وقالوا لو شاء الرحمان ما عبدناهم ما لهم بذالك من علم ان هم الا يخرصون ٢٠
وَقَالُوْا
لَوْ
شَآءَ
الرَّحْمٰنُ
مَا
عَبَدْنٰهُمْ ؕ
مَا
لَهُمْ
بِذٰلِكَ
مِنْ
عِلْمٍ ۗ
اِنْ
هُمْ
اِلَّا
یَخْرُصُوْنَ
۟ؕ
They say: “Had the Merciful One so willed, we would never have worshipped these deities.”1 But they have no knowledge of the matter and are simply conjecturing.
Bacalah 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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