Surah Ash-Shura, ayah 21

42:21

أَمۡ لَهُمۡ شُرَكَٰٓؤُاْ شَرَعُواْ لَهُم مِّنَ ٱلدِّينِ مَا لَمۡ يَأۡذَنۢ بِهِ ٱللَّهُۚ وَلَوۡلَا كَلِمَةُ ٱلۡفَصۡلِ لَقُضِيَ بَيۡنَهُمۡۗ وَإِنَّ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ لَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ ٢١

Am lahum shurakā'u shara'ū lahum minad-dīni mā lam ya'dham bihillāhu walawlā kalimatul-fasli laqudiya baynahum wa innaz-zālimīna lahum 'adhābun alīm

Or have they partners [i.e., other deities] who have ordained for them a religion to which Allāh has not consented? But if not for the decisive word,1420 it would have been concluded between them. And indeed, the wrongdoers will have a painful punishment.

Footnotes

1420 Decree. See footnote to 10:19.