those who associate others with allah in his divinity will now surely say had allah willed neither we nor our forefathers would have associated others with allah in his divinity nor would we have declared anything as forbidden. even so those who had lived before them gave the lie until they tasted our chastisement. tell them have you any sure knowledge that you can produce before us? in fact you are only following idle fancies merely conjecturing.
سيقول الذين أشركوا لو شاء الله ما أشركنا ولا آباؤنا ولا حرمنا من شيء كذلك كذب الذين من قبلهم حتى ذاقوا بأسنا قل هل عندكم من علم فتخرجوه لنا إن تتبعون إلا الظن وإن أنتم إلا تخرصون