The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف
Page #505
46:28
فَلَوْلَا
نَصَرَهُمُ
الَّذِينَ
اتَّخَذُوا
مِن
دُونِ
اللَّهِ
قُرْبَانًا
آلِهَةً
بَلْ
ضَلُّوا
عَنْهُمْ
وَذَلِكَ
إِفْكُهُمْ
وَمَا
كَانُوا
يَفْتَرُونَ
fa-law-lā naṣarahumu lladhīna ttakhadhū min dūni llāhi qurbānan ʾālihatan bal ḍallū ʿanhum wa-dhālika ʾifkuhum wa-mā kānū yaftarūna
Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they worshipped as gods, besides Allah, as a means of access (to Allah)? Nay, they left them in the lurch: but that was their falsehood and their invention.
— Abdullah Yusufali
So why did not those [fake deities] help them whom they had taken as gods besides Allah, as a means of nearness [to Him]? Indeed, they forsook them; that was their lie and what they used to fabricate.
