Say, "Have you considered your 'partners' whom you invoke besides Allah? Show me what they have created from the earth, or have they partnership [with Him] in the heavens? Or have We given them a book so they are [standing] on evidence therefrom? [No], rather, the wrongdoers do not promise each other except delusion."
اردو — مودودی
(اے نبیؐ) ان سے کہو، "کبھی تم نے دیکھا بھی ہے اپنے اُن شریکوں کو جنہیں تم خدا کو چھوڑ کر پکارا کرتے ہو؟ مجھے بتاؤ، انہوں نے زمین میں کیا پیدا کیا ہے؟ یا آسمانوں میں ان کی کیا شرکت ہے "؟ (اگر یہ نہیں بتا سکتے تو ان سے پوچھو) کیا ہم نے انہیں کوئی تحریر لکھ کر دی ہے جس کی بنا پر یہ (اپنے اس شرک کے لیے) کوئی صاف سند رکھتے ہوں؟ نہیں، بلکہ یہ ظالم ایک دوسرے کو محض فریب کے جھانسے دیے جا رہے ہیں
Bahasa Indonesia — Kemenag
Katakanlah: "Terangkanlah kepada-Ku tentang sekutu-sekutumu yang kamu seru selain Allah. Perlihatkanlah kepada-Ku (bahagian) manakah dari bumi ini yang telah mereka ciptakan ataukah mereka mempunyai saham dalam (penciptaan) langit atau adakah Kami memberi kepada mereka sebuah Kitab sehingga mereka mendapat keterangan-keterangan yang jelas daripadanya? Sebenarnya orang-orang yang zalim itu sebahagian dari mereka tidak menjanjikan kepada sebahagian yang lain, melainkan tipuan belaka".
Ibn Kathir
The Helplessness of the false gods and the Power of Allah
Allah tells His Messenger to say to the idolators:
أَرَءَيْتُمْ شُرَكَآءَكُمُ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ
(Have you considered your partners whom you call upon besides Allah) the idols and rivals.
أَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقُواْ مِنَ الاٌّرْضِ أَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌ فِى السَّمَـوَتِ
(Show Me what they have created of the earth. Or have they any share in the heavens) meaning, they have nothing at all of that, they do not possess even the membrane covering the stone of a date.
أَمْ ءَاتَيْنَـهُمْ كِتَـباً فَهُمْ عَلَى بَيِّنَةٍ مِّنْهُ
(Or have We given them a Book, so that they act on clear proof therefrom) meaning, `have We revealed to them a Book on which they base their Shirk and disbelief' This is not the case at all.
بَلْ إِن يَعِدُ الظَّـلِمُونَ بَعْضُهُم بَعْضاً إِلاَّ غُرُوراً
(Nay, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusions.) means, they are merely following their own whims, opinions and wishes which are their personal desires, and they are no more than misguidance and falsehood. Then Allah tells us of His mighty power, by which the heavens and the earth stand by His command, and the forces that He has placed between them to hold them. He says:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمْسِكُ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ أَن تَزُولاَ
(Verily, Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away from their places,) means, lest they should shift from where they are. This is like the Ayat:
وَيُمْسِكُ السَّمَآءَ أَن تَقَعَ عَلَى الاٌّرْضِ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ
(He withholds the heaven from falling on the earth except by His leave) (22:65), and
وَمِنْ ءَايَـتِهِ أَن تَقُومَ السَّمَآءُ وَالاٌّرْضُ بِأَمْرِهِ
(And among His signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His command) (30:25).
وَلَئِن زَالَتَآ إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّن بَعْدِهِ
(and if they were to move away from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him.) means, no one can make them stay and preserve them except Him. He is Ever Most Forbearing and Oft-Forgiving because He sees His servants disbelieving in Him and disobeying Him, yet He is patient and gives them time, He waits and does not hasten the punishment, and He conceals the faults of others and forgives them. He says:
إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا
(Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving.)
المُيَسَّر
قل -أيها الرسول- للمشركين: أخبروني أيَّ شيء خَلَق شركاؤكم من الأرض، أم أن لشركائكم الذين تعبدونهم من دون الله شركًا مع الله في خلق السماوات، أم أعطيناهم كتابًا فهم على حجة منه؟ بل ما يَعِدُ الكافرون بعضهم بعضًا إلا غرورًا وخداعًا.