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Sura 17
Aya 56
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قُلِ ادعُوا الَّذينَ زَعَمتُم مِن دونِهِ فَلا يَملِكونَ كَشفَ الضُّرِّ عَنكُم وَلا تَحويلًا

Yusuf Ali

Say: “Call on those - besides Him - whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them.”1
  • Men’s suspicions of each or of the prophets have been condemned in the previous verses. We now have the strongest condemnation of all, that of imagining any other being as being equal or in the same category with One True God. God has all power: they have no power. They cannot remove men’s troubles. They cannot even mitigate or change them so as to afford the least relief. Why indulge in false worship?