20وَالَّذينَ يَدعونَ مِن دونِ اللَّهِ لا يَخلُقونَ شَيئًا وَهُم يُخلَقونَMuhammad AsadNow those beings that some people invoke1 beside God cannot create anything, since they themselves are but created:Lit., "those whom they invoke": this refers - as is obvious from verse 21 below - to dead saints invested by their followers with divine or semi-divine qualities.