The Pilgrimage
22. Al-Ḥajj
الحج
Page #341
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
O men! Here is a parable set forth! listen to it! Those on whom, besides Allah, ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, if they all met together for the purpose! and if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition!
— Abdullah Yusufali
O people! Listen to a parable that is being drawn: Indeed those whom you invoke besides Allah will never create [even] a fly even if they all rallied to do so! And if a fly should take away something from them, they can not recover that from it. Feeble is the seeker and the sought!
