ٱلْإِسْرَاء : ٤٢

  • قُل Say
  • لَّوۡ If
  • كَانَ (there) were
  • مَعَهُۥٓ with Him
  • ءَالِهَةٞ gods
  • كَمَا as
  • يَقُولُونَ they say
  • إِذٗا then
  • لَّٱبۡتَغَوۡاْ surely they (would) have sought
  • إِلَىٰ to
  • ذِي (the) Owner
  • ٱلۡعَرۡشِ (of) the Throne
  • سَبِيلٗا a way
Say, [O Muḥammad], "If there had been with Him [other] gods, as they say, then they [each] would have sought to the Owner of the Throne a way."1
Footnotes
1 - To please Him, recognizing His superiority. Another interpretation is "...they would seek a way" to depose Him (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) and take over His Throne.
Say, to them: 'If there were with Him, that is, with God, [other] gods, as they say, they would, in that case, have sought against the Lord of the Throne, that is, [against] God, some path, some way, in order to fight Him [off].