the idolators say if god had willed we would not have served apart from him anything neither we nor our fathers nor would we have forbidden apart from him anything. so did those before them yet is aught for the messengers but to deliver the manifest message?
وقال الذين أشركوا لو شاء الله ما عبدنا من دونه من شيء نحن ولا آباؤنا ولا حرمنا من دونه من شيء كذلك فعل الذين من قبلهم فهل على الرسل إلا البلاغ المبين