| أَمِ اتَّخَذُوا آلِهَةً مِنَ الْأَرْضِ هُمْ يُنْشِرُونَ |
| Asad | : | And yet,24 some people choose to worship certain earthly things or beings as deities25 that [are supposed to] resurrect [the dead; and they fail to realize that], |
| Malik | : | Have the earthly deities, that they have taken for worship, the power to raise the dead? |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | Or have they taken gods from the earth, who can raise the dead? |
| Pickthall | : | Or have they chosen Gods from the earth who raise the dead? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)? 2680 2681 |
| Transliteration | : | Ami ittakhathoo alihatan mina alardi hum yunshiroona |
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As stressed by Zamakhshari, the particle am which introduces this sentence has not, as is so often the case, an interrogative sense ("is it that..."), but is used here in the sense of bal, which in this instance may be rendered as "and yet". |
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Lit., "they have taken unto themselves deities from the earth", i.e., from among the things or beings found on earth: an expression which alludes to all manner of false objects of worship - idols of every description, forces of nature, deified human beings. and. finally, abstract concepts such as wealth, power, etc. |
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The different kinds of false gods whom people raise from their imagination are now referred to. In verses 21-23, the reference is to the gods of the earth, whether idols or local godlings, or deified heroes, or animals or trees or forces of the nature around us, which men have from time to time worshipped. These, as deities, have no life except what their worshippers give to them. |
