Saheeh International

Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

       

Saheeh International

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

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Saheeh International

Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?

         

Saheeh International

Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority [i.e., proof].

     

Saheeh International

Or has He daughters while you have sons?

       

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Or do you, [O Muḥammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

     

Saheeh International

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

       

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Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.

         

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Or have they a deity other than Allāh? Exalted is Allāh above whatever they associate with Him.

         

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And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling,1 they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."