قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا لِتَأْفِكَنَا عَنْ ءَالِهَتِنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ
Qaaloo aji'tanaa litaa fikanaa 'an aalihatinaa faatinaa bimaa ta'idunaaa in kunta minas saadiqeen
They said, "Have you come to delude us away from our gods? Then bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the truthful."
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Lessons from past peoples
46:22Ayah 135
8 ayahs in Al-Ahqaf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples46:21And mention, [O Muhammad], the brother of 'Aad, when he warned his people in the [region of] al-AhqafNext on Lessons from past peoples →46:23He said, "Knowledge [of its time] is only with Allah, and I convey to you that with which I was sent; but I see you [to be] a people behaving ignorantly."
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They said ‘Have you come to divert us from our gods? to turn us away from worship of them. Then bring us what you threaten us with of chastisement for worshipping them if you are of the truthful’ in saying that it will befall us.
Related Hadiths
We came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in a delegation. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said: By the age of thy god.
That Abu Sufyan bin Harb told him that Heraclius had called him along with the members of a
Quraish caravan and then said to his interpreter, "Tell them that I want to ask this (Abu Sufyan) a
question, and if he tries to tell me a lie, they should contradict him." Then Abu Sufyan mentioned the
whole narration and said that Heraclius said to the inter Peter, "Say to him (Abu Sufyan), 'If what you
say is true, then he (the Prophet) will take over the place underneath my two feet.' "
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