No Help or Harm

Is Allah not sufficient for His servant? Yet they threaten you with those besides Him.

Say: Have you considered what you call upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the earth. Or do they hold a share in the heavens? Bring me a scripture before this, or a trace of knowledge, if you are truthful.

Those they invoke besides Allah create nothing; rather, they themselves are created.

If you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will say, "Allah." Say, "Then do you think those you call upon besides Him can remove harm from me if Allah wills it, or withhold mercy if He grants it?" Say, "Allah is enough for me. In Him, the faithful put their trust."

Say: “Call upon those you claim besides Allah. They do not possess even an atom’s weight in the heavens or the earth, nor do they share in them, nor does He have any helper among them.”

Those they invoke, themselves seek closeness to their Lord, hoping for His mercy and fearing His punishment. The punishment of your Lord is truly dreadful.

Say: Shall we call upon others besides Allah, those who can neither benefit nor harm us, and turn back after guidance has reached us? Like one whom devils have led astray in the wilderness, confused, while his companions call him to the right path, saying, "Come to us!"

He calls upon one whose harm is closer than his benefit. What a miserable patron, what a miserable companion.

Whoever calls upon another god besides Allah, for which he has no proof, his reckoning is with his Lord. The disbelievers will never succeed.

So do not call upon any god besides Allah, or you will be among the punished.

They will have no intercessors among those they once associated with Allah, and they will reject their former partners.

Allah judges with justice, while those they invoke besides Him judge nothing.

Have you seen the one who takes his desires as his god? Can you be his guardian?

Or do they have gods who can defend them? They cannot help themselves, nor can they be protected from Us.

We granted them enjoyment and their ancestors, but do they not see that We reduce the land from its borders? Will they still prevail?

Those they invoke besides Him have no power of intercession, except those who testify to the truth knowingly.

His saying, “O my Lord, these are a people who do not believe.”

What they once invoked will abandon them, and they will realize they have no escape.

Likewise, their idols have made the killing of their children seem fair to them, leading to their ruin and confusion in their faith. Had Allah willed, they would not have done so. So, leave them and their fabrications.

Even they used to say

“If only we had a reminder from those before.

We would have been Allah’s devoted servants.”

But they rejected it, so they will soon know.

Our word has already gone forth to Our servants, the messengers.

That they will surely be helped

And that Our forces will be the victors.

So, turn away from them for a while

And watch them, they too will see.

When it descends upon their courtyards, it will be a terrible morning for those who were warned.

So, turn away from them for a while

And watch, they too will see.