Verse. 1918

١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

اَفَمَنْ يَّخْلُقُ كَمَنْ لَّا يَخْلُقُ۝۰ۭ اَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُوْنَ۝۱۷
Afaman yakhluqu kaman la yakhluqu afala tathakkaroona

English

Ahmed Ali

So, could one who creates be like one who cannot? Will you not then contemplate?

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (is he then who createth) allah (as him who createth not?) as him who cannot create: i.e. idols. (will ye not then remember?) will you not take heed in that which allah has created for you?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : is he then who creates — namely, god — as he who does not create, namely, idols, so that you associate them with him in worship? no. will you not then remember, this, and so become believers?