Translation:
What! Do they take for intercessors others 4310 besides Allah. Say: "Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?"
What! Do they take for intercessors others 4310 besides Allah. Say: "Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?"
Translation:
And yet, 45 they choose [to worship], side by side with God, [imaginary] intercessors!” 46 Say: “Why - even though they have no power over anything, and no understanding?” 47
And yet, 45 they choose [to worship], side by side with God, [imaginary] intercessors!” 46 Say: “Why - even though they have no power over anything, and no understanding?” 47
Commentary:
45 This is the meaning of the particle am in this context (Zamakhshari, implying that despite all the evidence of God’s almightiness, many people tend to disregard it.
46 I.e., intercessors who could act as such independently of God’s permission - an assumption which the Qur’an categorically denies (see surah 10 note 7).
47 A reference to the adoration of dead saints or their tombs or relics, as well as of inanimate representations of saints, of imaginary deities, etc.
45 This is the meaning of the particle am in this context (Zamakhshari, implying that despite all the evidence of God’s almightiness, many people tend to disregard it.
46 I.e., intercessors who could act as such independently of God’s permission - an assumption which the Qur’an categorically denies (see surah 10 note 7).
47 A reference to the adoration of dead saints or their tombs or relics, as well as of inanimate representations of saints, of imaginary deities, etc.
4310 Let alone worship, men should not rely upon any power or person other than Allah to help them out or intercede for them. When it is idols, they are poor lifeless things which have obviously neither power nor intelligence. But even prophets or saints or heroes have no power to intercede except as Allah wills and permits. See next note.