The Holy Quran 41:21 — Surah Fussilat

Arabic text

وَقَالُوا۟ لِجُلُودِهِمْ لِمَ شَهِدتُّمْ عَلَيْنَا ۖ قَالُوٓا۟ أَنطَقَنَا ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنطَقَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

Translation

(When their skins testify to the evil acts that their skins witnessed them doing,) They will say to their skins (and to their other limbs that will testify against them), "Why do you testify (bear witness) against us (when we did these acts for your pleasure as well)?" They (their skins and other limbs) will reply, "Allaah, Who gives speech to everything has enabled us to speak. It was He Who created you the first time, and to Him is your return." (How can we hide anything from such a Great Being? We have no option but to speak the truth.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The disbelievers addressing their own bodies: that is, “When I was denying with my tongue, what calamity befell you that you needlessly started telling? And who, after all, taught you to speak like this?

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