The Pilgrimage
22. Al-Ḥajj
الحج
al-Ḥajj (The Pilgrimage)
ٱلْحَجّ
22:73
يَا أَيُّهَا
النَّاسُ
ضُرِبَ
مَثَلٌ
فَاسْتَمِعُوا
لَهُ
إِنَّ
الَّذِينَ
تَدْعُونَ
مِن
دُونِ
اللَّهِ
لَن
يَخْلُقُوا
ذُبَابًا
وَلَوِ
اجْتَمَعُوا
لَهُ
وَإِن
يَسْلُبْهُمُ
الذُّبَابُ
شَيْئًا
لَّا
يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ
مِنْهُ
ضَعُفَ
الطَّالِبُ
وَالْمَطْلُوبُ
yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ḍuriba mathalun fa-stamiʿū lahū ʾinna lladhīna tadʿūna min dūni llāhi lan yakhluqū dhubāban wa-lawi jtamaʿū lahū wa-ʾin yaslubhumu dh-dhubābu shayʾan lā yastanqidhūhu minhu ḍaʿufa ṭ-ṭālibu wa-l-maṭlūbu
People, listen to this parable: Those whom you worship instead of God do not have the power to create even a fly, even though all of them would come together for the task. If the fly was to snatch something from them they would not be able to rescue it from the fly. How feeble are such worshippers and that which they worship.
