| أَجَعَلَ الْآلِهَةَ إِلَٰهًا وَاحِدًا ۖ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَشَيْءٌ عُجَابٌ |
| Asad | : | Does he claim that all the deities are [but] one God? Verily, a most strange thing is this!"8 |
| Malik | : | Does he claim that there is only One God in place of all other gods? Surely this is a strange thing." |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | Has he reduced ˹all˺ the gods to One God? Indeed, this is something totally astonishing.” |
| Pickthall | : | Maketh he the gods One God? Lo! that is an astounding thing. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | "Has he made the gods (all) into one Allah? Truly this is a wonderful thing!" 4151 |
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Divorced from its purely historical background, this criticism acquires a timeless significance, and may be thus paraphrased: "Does he claim that all creative powers and qualities are inherent exclusively in what he conceives as 'one God'?" - a paraphrase which illustrates the tendency of many people to attribute a decisive influence on human life - and, hence, a quasi-divine status - to a variety of fortuitous phenomena or circumstances (like wealth, "luck", social position, etc.) rather than to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence, in all observable nature, of God's unique existence. |
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And what is the offence of the Messenger of Unity? That he has made all their fantastic gods disappear; that in place of chaos he has brought harmony; that in place of conflict he brings peace! It is a wonderful thing, but not in the sarcastic sense in which the Unbelievers scoff at it! |
