those who are bent on ascribing divinity to aught beside god will say had god so willed we would not have ascribed divinity to aught but him nor would our forefathers and neither would we have declared as forbidden anything . even so did those who lived before them give the lie to the truth until they came to taste our punishment! say have you any knowledge which you could proffer to us? you follow but conjectures and you yourselves do nothing but guess.
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