غَافِر : ٧٤

  • مِن Other than
  • دُونِ Other than
  • ٱللَّهِۖ Allah
  • قَالُواْ They will say
  • ضَلُّواْ They have departed
  • عَنَّا from us
  • بَل Nay
  • لَّمۡ Not
  • نَكُن we used
  • نَّدۡعُواْ [we] (to) call
  • مِن before
  • قَبۡلُ before
  • شَيۡـٔٗاۚ anything
  • كَذَٰلِكَ Thus
  • يُضِلُّ Allah lets go astray
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah lets go astray
  • ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ the disbelievers
Other than Allāh?" They will say, "They have departed from us; rather, we did not used to invoke previously anything." Thus does Allāh put astray the disbelievers.
besides God?', alongside Him, and these are the idols. They will say, 'They have forsaken, abandoned, us, and so we cannot see them. Nay, but [actually] we were not invoking anything before'. They deny that they used to worship these [idols]; but then these [idols] are brought [before them] - [which is where] God, exalted be He, says: 'Truly you and what you worship besides God shall be fuel for Hell' [Q. 21:98]). So, in the same way that these disbelievers have been led astray, God leads astray the disbelievers.