The Holy Quran 40:42 — Surah Ghafir

Arabic text

تَدْعُونَنِى لِأَكْفُرَ بِٱللَّهِ وَأُشْرِكَ بِهِۦ مَا لَيْسَ لِى بِهِۦ عِلْمٌ وَأَنَا۠ أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْغَفَّـٰرِ

Translation

"You call me to disbelieve in Allaah and to ascribe such partners to Him for which I have no justification (no knowledge). On the other hand, I am calling you towards the Mighty, the Most Forgiving." (While you ought to be listening to me, you endeavour to mislead me with you.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, the upshot of your efforts is that I should (Allah forbid!) deny the One Allah, not accept His prophets and their words, and, like ignorant fools, begin to accept as gods things whose divinity is not established by any proof or by any principle of knowledge. Nor do I know how those things were made into gods.

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