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Sura 43
Aya 58
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وَقالوا أَآلِهَتُنا خَيرٌ أَم هُوَ ۚ ما ضَرَبوهُ لَكَ إِلّا جَدَلًا ۚ بَل هُم قَومٌ خَصِمونَ

(Muntakhab)

Knowing that he is venerated as a deity by Christians and that you Muhammad might have consigned him with their idols, to damnation, they created a connected series of statements intended to annoy you and subvert your position when they said: " Are our Gods the better or Him, and if his abode is Hell, we and our Gods would love to be there". They are quarrelsome people given to contention.