قُلۡ
مَن
رَّبُّ
ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ
وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ
قُلِ
ٱللَّهُۚ
قُلۡ
أَفَٱتَّخَذۡتُم
مِّن
دُونِهِۦٓ
أَوۡلِيَآءَ
لَا
يَمۡلِكُونَ
لِأَنفُسِهِمۡ
نَفۡعٗا
وَلَا
ضَرّٗاۚ
قُلۡ
هَلۡ
يَسۡتَوِي
ٱلۡأَعۡمَىٰ
وَٱلۡبَصِيرُ
أَمۡ
هَلۡ
تَسۡتَوِي
ٱلظُّلُمَٰتُ
وَٱلنُّورُۗ
أَمۡ
جَعَلُواْ
لِلَّهِ
شُرَكَآءَ
خَلَقُواْ
كَخَلۡقِهِۦ
فَتَشَٰبَهَ
ٱلۡخَلۡقُ
عَلَيۡهِمۡۚ
قُلِ
ٱللَّهُ
خَٰلِقُ
كُلِّ
شَيۡءٖ
وَهُوَ
ٱلۡوَٰحِدُ
ٱلۡقَهَّٰرُ
١٦
Ask ˹them, O Prophet˺, “Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?” Say, “Allah!” Ask ˹them˺, “Why ˹then˺ have you taken besides Him lords who cannot even benefit or protect themselves?” Say, “Can the blind and the sighted be equal? Or can darkness and light be equal?”1 Or have they associated with Allah partners who ˹supposedly˺ produced a creation like His, leaving them confused between the two creations? Say, “Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Supreme.”
Read Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Affirming Tawhid
Allah affirms here that there is no deity worthy of worship except Him, since they admit that He alone created the heavens and the earth and that He is their Lord and the Disposer of all affairs. Yet, they take as lords others besides Allah and worship them, even though these false g
…Affirming Tawhid
Allah affirms here that there is no deity worthy of worship except Him, since they admit that He alone created the heavens and the ear
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