ٱلْكَهْف : ١٤

  • وَرَبَطۡنَا And We made firm
  • عَلَىٰ [on]
  • قُلُوبِهِمۡ their hearts
  • إِذۡ when
  • قَامُواْ they stood up
  • فَقَالُواْ and said
  • رَبُّنَا Our Lord
  • رَبُّ (is) the Lord
  • ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ (of) the heavens
  • وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ and the earth
  • لَن Never
  • نَّدۡعُوَاْ we will invoke
  • مِن besides Him
  • دُونِهِۦٓ besides Him
  • إِلَٰهٗاۖ any god
  • لَّقَدۡ Certainly
  • قُلۡنَآ we would have said
  • إِذٗا then
  • شَطَطًا an enormity
And We bound [i.e., made firm] their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.
And We strengthened their hearts, to [enable them to] speak the truth, when they stood up, before their king, who had commanded them to prostrate to idols, and said, 'Our Lord is the Lord of the skies and the earth. We will not call on any god besides Him, that is, other than Him, for then we shall certainly have uttered an outrage, in other words, [we shall have spoken] a statement that contains shatat, meaning one of extreme disbelief, were we, hypothetically, to call on any god other than God.