The Holy Quran 22:12 — Surah Al-Hajj

Arabic text

يَدْعُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُۥ وَمَا لَا يَنفَعُهُۥ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلضَّلَـٰلُ ٱلْبَعِيدُ

Translation

He worships besides Allaah that (gods) which can neither harm nor benefit him. This is far deviation (because his worship will lead him further and further from salvation).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Calling upon others besides Allah: that is, he abandoned the worship of Allah because he did not obtain worldly good. Now he calls upon things in whose power there is not an atom’s weight of either good or harm. Will he obtain from stones what Allah did not give him? What folly could be more obvious than this!

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