لُقْمَان : ١١

  • هَٰذَا This
  • خَلۡقُ (is the) creation
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • فَأَرُونِي So show Me
  • مَاذَا what
  • خَلَقَ have created
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those
  • مِن besides Him
  • دُونِهِۦۚ besides Him
  • بَلِ Nay
  • ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ the wrongdoers
  • فِي (are) in
  • ضَلَٰلٖ error
  • مُّبِينٖ clear
This is the creation of Allāh. So show Me what those other than Him have created. Rather, the wrongdoers are in clear error.
This is God's creation, in other words, what is created by Him. Now show me, inform me, O people of Mecca, what those [you worship] besides Him, [those] other than Him, have created, namely, your gods, so that you have associated them with Him, exalted be He (maa is an interrogative of denial and a subject; dhaa has the significance of alladhee, and what follows it of the relative clause is the predicate [of the subject maa]; aroonee glosses 'the action', and what follows it stands in place of two direct objects). Nay (bal, is for transition) but the evildoers are in manifest error, [error] that is evident because of their ascribing partners to God: and you are like them.