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Sura 21
Aya 18
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بَل نَقذِفُ بِالحَقِّ عَلَى الباطِلِ فَيَدمَغُهُ فَإِذا هُوَ زاهِقٌ ۚ وَلَكُمُ الوَيلُ مِمّا تَصِفونَ

Muhammad Asad

Nay, but [by the very act of creation] We hurl the truth against falsehood,1 and it crushes the latter:and lo! it withers away.2 But woe unto you for all your [attempts at] defining [God]3 -
  • I.e., the truth of God's transcendence against the false idea of His existential immanence in, or co-existence with, the created universe.
  • The obvious fact that everything in the created universe is finite and perishable effectively refutes the claim that it could be a "projection" of the Creator, who is infinite and eternal.
  • Lit., "for all that you attribute [to God] by way of description" or "of definition" (cf: the last sentence of 6:100 and the corresponding note 88) - implying that the idea of God's "immanence" in His creation is equivalent to an attempt to define His Being.