YadAAoo min dooni Allahi ma la yadurruhu wama la yanfaAAuhu thalika huwa alddalalu albaAAeedu
English
Ahmed Ali
Leaving God they pray to those who cannot harm or profit them. That is the limit of going astray.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (he calleth) the banu'l-hallaf worship others (beside allah, unto that which hurts him not) if they do not worship them (nor benefits him) if they worshipped them. (that is the far error) far from the truth and guidance.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he calls on, he worships, besides god, in the way of idols, that which could not hurt him, should he refrain from worshipping it, and that which could not profit him, if were to worship it. such, a call, is extreme error, from the truth.
