43 Preface أَمِ اتَّخَذوا مِن دونِ اللَّهِ شُفَعاءَ ۚ قُل أَوَلَو كانوا لا يَملِكونَ شَيئًا وَلا يَعقِلونَYusuf AliWhat! Do they take for intercessors others1 besides God. Say: “Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?” Let alone worship, men should not rely upon any power or person other than God to help them out or intercede for them. When it is idols, they are poor lifeless things which have obviously neither power nor intelligence. But even prophets or saints or heroes have no power to intercede except as God wills and permits. See next note.