Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Az-Zumar, Ayah 43
أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ شُفَعَآءَ ۚ قُلْ أَوَلَوْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ
Or have they taken other than Allah as intercessors? Say, "Even though they do not possess [power over] anything, nor do they reason?"
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(Or choose they) or do the disbelievers of Mecca worship (intercessors) deities in order that the latter intercede for them (other than Allah? Say) to them, O Muhammad: (What! Even though they have power over nothing) what! Even though they have no power of intercession (and have no intelligence) nor know what intercession is? And if they do not know what intercession is, how are they going to intercede?
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Or have they — nay but they have — taken besides God idols as gods to act as intercessors? with God as they are wont to allege. Say to them ‘What! will they intercede even though they have no power whatever of intercession or otherwise and are unable to comprehend?’ that you worship them or to comprehend anything else for that matter? Nay.