Verse. 1921

١٦ - ٱلنَّحْل

16 - An-Nahl

وَالَّذِيْنَ يَدْعُوْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِ اللہِ لَا يَخْلُقُوْنَ شَـيْـــًٔـا وَّہُمْ يُخْلَقُوْنَ۝۲۰ۭ
Waallatheena yadAAoona min dooni Allahi la yakhluqoona shayan wahum yukhlaqoona

English

Ahmed Ali

, As for those they call besides God, they cannot create a thing, and have themselves been created.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (those unto whom they cry) they worship (beside allah created naught) they cannot create anything like our creation, (but are themselves created) they are themselves carved.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and those whom you invoke (tad‘ūna, or read yad‘una ‘they invoke’) besides god, namely, the idols, do not create anything, but are themselves created, fashioned from stones and other [materials].