وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ قَامُوا۟ فَقَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَٰهًۭا ۖ لَّقَدْ قُلْنَآ إِذًۭا شَطَطًا
Wa rabatnaa 'alaa quloo bihim iz qaamoo faqaaloo Rabbunaa Rabbus samaawaati wal ardi lan nad'uwa min dooniheee ilaahal laqad qulnaaa izan shatataa
And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.
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And We strengthened their hearts to enable them to speak the truth when they stood up before their king who had commanded them to prostrate to idols and said ‘Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We will not call on any god besides Him that is other than Him for then we shall certainly have uttered an outrage in other words we shall have spoken a statement that contains shatat meaning one of extreme disbelief were we hypothetically to call on any god other than God.
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