Ask them (O Muharnmad!): "Shall we invoke, apart from Allah, something that can neither benefit nor harm us, and thus be turned back on our heels after Allah has guided us? Like the one whom the evil ones have lured into bewilderment in the earth, even though he has friends who call him to true guidance saying: "Come to us." Say: "Surely Allah's guidance is the only true guidance, and we have been commanded to submit ourselves to the Lord of the entire universe,
بگو: «آيا به جاى خدا چيزى را بخوانيم كه نه سودى به ما مى‌رساند و نه زيانى؛ و آيا پس از اينكه خدا ما را هدايت كرده از عقيده خود بازگرديم؟ مانند كسى كه شيطانها او را در بيابان از راه به در برده‌اند، و حيران [بر جاى مانده ]است؟ براى او يارانى است كه وى را به سوى هدايت مى‌خوانند كه:» به سوى ما بيا. «بگو:» هدايت خداست كه هدايتِ [واقعى‌] است، و دستور يافته‌ايم كه تسليم پروردگار جهانيان باشيم.