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Surah 43. Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 20

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وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْ شَآءَ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ مَا عَبَدْنَـٰهُم ۗ مَّا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ Qur’an Az-Zukhruf (43:20)
Waq a loo law sh a a a l rra h m a nu m a AAabadn a hum m a lahum bi tha lika min AAilmin in hum ill a yakhru s oon a
Yet they say, "Had [not] the Most Gracious so willed, we would never have worshipped them!" [But] they cannot have any knowledge of [His having willed] such a thing: they do nothing but guess.20
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

I.e., they cannot have any "knowledge" of something that is devoid of all reality - because, far from having "willed" their sin, God had left it to their free will to make a moral choice between right and wrong. (See in this connection surah {6}, note [143].)

They say: "Had it been the will of the Compassionate, We should never have worshipped them." They have no knowledge about that; they are merely guessing.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And they argue, 'Had the Most Compassionate willed, we would have never worshipped them.' They have no knowledge 'in support' of this 'claim'. They do nothing but lie.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
("Ah!") they say "If it had been the will of (Allah) Most Gracious We should not have worshipped such (deities)!" of that they have no knowledge! They Do nothing but lie! 4625 4626
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Worsted in argument they resort to a dishonest sarcasm. 'We worship these deities: if Allah does not wish us to do so, why does He not prevent us?' In throwing the responsibility on Allah, they ignore the limited free-will on which their whole life is based. They are really playing with truth. They are arguing against their own knowledge. They have no authority in any scripture, and indeed they are so slippery that they hold fast to no scripture at all.

Cf. vi. 116.

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