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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Ahqaf 46:28

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فَلَوْلَا نَصَرَهُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ قُرْبَانًا ءَالِهَةًۢ ۖ بَلْ ضَلُّوا۟ عَنْهُمْ ۚ وَذَٰلِكَ إِفْكُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

Then why did those they took besides Allāh as deities by which to approach [Him] not aid them? But they had strayed [i.e., departed] from them. And that was their falsehood and what they were inventing.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فهلا نصر هؤلاء الذين أهلكناهم من الأمم الخالية آلهتُهم التي اتخذوا عبادتها قربانًا يتقربون بها إلى ربهم; لتشفع لهم عنده، بل ضلَّت عنهم آلهتهم، فلم يجيبوهم، ولا دافعوا عنهم، وذلك كذبهم وما كانوا يَفْتَرون في اتخاذهم إياهم آلهة.

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