يُوسُف : ٤٠

  • مَا Not
  • تَعۡبُدُونَ you worship
  • مِن besides Him
  • دُونِهِۦٓ besides Him
  • إِلَّآ but
  • أَسۡمَآءٗ names
  • سَمَّيۡتُمُوهَآ which you have named them
  • أَنتُمۡ you
  • وَءَابَآؤُكُم and your forefathers
  • مَّآ not
  • أَنزَلَ (has) sent down
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • بِهَا for it
  • مِن any
  • سُلۡطَٰنٍۚ authority
  • إِنِ Not
  • ٱلۡحُكۡمُ (is) the command
  • إِلَّا but
  • لِلَّهِ for Allah
  • أَمَرَ He has commanded
  • أَلَّا that not
  • تَعۡبُدُوٓاْ you worship
  • إِلَّآ but
  • إِيَّاهُۚ Him Alone
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • ٱلدِّينُ (is) the religion
  • ٱلۡقَيِّمُ the right
  • وَلَٰكِنَّ but
  • أَكۡثَرَ most
  • ٱلنَّاسِ [the] men
  • لَا (do) not
  • يَعۡلَمُونَ know
You worship not besides Him except [mere] names you have named them,1 you and your fathers, for which Allāh has sent down no evidence. Legislation is not but for Allāh. He has commanded that you worship not except Him. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.
Footnotes
1 - The false objects of worship which you have called "gods."
You do not worship, apart from Him, that is, other than Him, anything but [mere] names that you have named, that you have named for idols, you and your fathers. God has not revealed any warrant, any definitive argument or proof, regarding them, regarding worship of them. Judgement, decree, belongs only to God, alone. He has commanded that you worship none but Him. That, affirmation of [God's] Oneness, is the upright, the straight, religion, but most people - and these are the disbelievers - do not know, the punishment in which they shall end up, and so they ascribe partners [to God].