The Thunder
13. Ar-Raʿd
الرعد

al-Ra‘d (Thunder)

ٱلرَّعْد

13:14
13:14

lahū daʿwatu l-ḥaqqi wa-lladhīna yadʿūna min dūnihī yastajībūna lahum bi-shayʾin ʾillā ka-bāsiṭi kaffayhi ʾilā l-māʾi li-yablugha fāhu wa-mā huwa bi-bālighihī wa-mā duʿāʾu l-kāfirīna ʾillā ḍalālin

[Only] to Him belongs the true invocation; and those whom they invoke besides Him do not answer them in any wise—like someone who stretches his hands towards water [desiring] that it should reach his mouth, but it does not reach it—and the invocations of the faithless only go awry.

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