Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 87

Az-Zukhruf · Ayah 87 · View Ayah
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
And if you asked them who created them, they would surely say, "Allah." So how are they deluded?

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And if wa-la-in the lām is for oaths you ask them who created them they will surely say ‘God’ la-yaqūlunna the indicative nūn and the plural person indicator wāw have been omitted. How can they then deviate? how can they be turned away from worshipping God?

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(And if thou ask them) i.e. the Banu Malih (who created them, they will surely say: Allah) created us. (How then are they turned away) from whence do they lie against Allah after such a confession?

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