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Aya 56
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قُلِ ادعُوا الَّذينَ زَعَمتُم مِن دونِهِ فَلا يَملِكونَ كَشفَ الضُّرِّ عَنكُم وَلا تَحويلًا

Muhammad Asad

SAY:1 "Call upon those [beings] whom you imagine [to be endowed with divine powers] beside Him2and [you will find that] they have it not in their power to remove any affliction from you, or to shift it [elsewhere]."3
  • Sc., "to those who believe in the existence of any divine power apart from God".
  • As the sequence shows, this relates to the worship of saints or angels.
  • I.e., to transfer it onto themselves: obviously an allusion to the Christian doctrine of "vicarious atonement".