Who is it who stands (watch) over every soul for what it does? Yet they ascribe compeers to God. Say: "Then name them. Or are you announcing to God what He does not know on the earth? Or is it only empty talk? In fact, the unbelievers' plots are made to look attractive to them, so that they are held back from the right path. Whosoever God allows to go astray has none to show him the way.
آيا كسى كه بر هر شخصى بدانچه كرده است مراقب است [مانند كسى است كه از همه جا بى‌خبر است‌]؟ و براى خدا شريكانى قرار دادند. بگو: «نامشان را ببريد» آيا او را به آنچه در زمين است و او نمى‌داند خبر مى‌دهيد، يا سخنى سطحى [و ميان‌تهى‌] مى‌گوييد؟ [چنين نيست‌] بلكه براى كسانى كه كافر شده‌اند نيرنگشان آراسته شده و از راه [حق‌] بازداشته شده‌اند و هر كه را خدا بى‌راه گذارد رهبرى نخواهد داشت.