ٱلْحَجّ : ١٢

  • يَدۡعُواْ He calls
  • مِن besides
  • دُونِ besides
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • مَا what
  • لَا not
  • يَضُرُّهُۥ harms him
  • وَمَا and what
  • لَا not
  • يَنفَعُهُۥۚ benefits him
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • هُوَ [it]
  • ٱلضَّلَٰلُ (is) the straying
  • ٱلۡبَعِيدُ far away
He invokes instead of Allāh that which neither harms him nor benefits him. That is what is the extreme error.
He calls on, he worships, besides God, in the way of idols, that which could not hurt him, should he refrain from worshipping it, and that which could not profit him, if were to worship it. Such, a call, is extreme error, from the truth.