Surah 46. Al-Ahqaf, Ayah 28
| فَلَوْلَا نَصَرَهُمُ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ قُرْبَانًا آلِهَةً ۖ بَلْ ضَلُّوا عَنْهُمْ ۚ وَذَٰلِكَ إِفْكُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- law-laa nas.ara -hum 'alladhena ittakhadho min doni 'allaah qurbaan(an) 'aalihah bal d.allo can -hum wa- dhaalika 'ifk -hum wa- maa kaano yaftaron |
| Pickthall | : | Then why did those whom they had chosen for gods as a way of approach (unto Allah) not help them? Nay, but they did fail them utterly. And (all) that was their lie, and what they used to invent. |
| Asad | : | But, then, did those [beings] whom they had chosen to worship as deities beside God, hoping that they would bring them nearer [to Him],33 help them [in the end]? Nay, they forsook them: for that [alleged divinity] was but an outcome of their self-delusion and all their false imagery.34 |
| Malik | : | - Then Why did not those whom they worshipped besides Allah helped them who they regarded as a means of attaining nearness to Him? But those deities utterly forsake them, because those were nothing but their lies and their false inventions. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they worshipped as gods besides Allah as a means of access (to Allah)? Nay they left them in the lurch: but that was their Falsehood and their invention. 4808 |
Note - 33This clause gives the meaning of the expression qurbanan,
which contains an allusion not merely to false deities
but also to the deification of saints,living or dead, who
allegedly act as mediators between man and the
transcendental Supreme Being.
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Note - 34Lit., "that was their lie and all that they were wont to
invent .
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Note - 4808The false things that they worshipped were figments of
their imagination. If they had had any existence in fact,
it was not of the kind they imagined.
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This clause gives the meaning of the expression qurbanan, which contains an allusion not merely to false deities but also to the deification of saints,living or dead, who allegedly act as mediators between man and the transcendental Supreme Being. |
