Ami ittakhathoo alihatan mina alardi hum yunshiroona
English
Ahmed Ali
Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise the dead?
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (or have they chosen) or have they, i.e. the people of mecca, worshipped (gods from the earth) on the earth (who raise the dead) or create human beings?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : or (am, functions with the meaning of bal, ‘nay’, to effect a transition [in subject-matter]; the hamza is for [rhetorical] denial) have they chosen gods, that are, from the earth, such as stones, gold or silver, who, that is, gods [who], resurrect? who bring the dead back to life? no! indeed only one who brings the dead back to life can be god.
