قُلۡ أَرَءَيۡتُمۡ شُرَكَآءَكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَرُونِي مَاذَا خَلَقُواْ مِنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ أَمۡ لَهُمۡ شِرۡكٞ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ أَمۡ ءَاتَيۡنَٰهُمۡ كِتَٰبٗا فَهُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَتٖ مِّنۡهُۚ بَلۡ إِن يَعِدُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ بَعۡضُهُم بَعۡضًا إِلَّا غُرُورًا ٤٠
Qul ara'aytum shurakā'akumul-ladhīna tad'ūna min dūnillāhi arūnī mādhā khalaqū minal-ardi am lahum shirkun fis-samāwāti am ātaynāhum kitāban fahum 'alā bayyinatim minhu bal in ya'iduz-zālimūna ba'duhum ba'dan illā ghurūrā
Say, "Have you considered1254 your 'partners' whom you invoke besides Allāh? Show me what they have created from the earth, or have they partnership [with Him] in the heavens? Or have We given them a book so they are [standing] on evidence therefrom? [No], rather, the wrongdoers do not promise each other except delusion."1255
Footnotes
1254 Understood to mean "Tell me about..."
1255 By telling their followers that the so-called deities will intercede for them with Allāh.