surah Anbiya aya 21 , English translation of the meaning Ayah.
﴿أَمِ اتَّخَذُوا آلِهَةً مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ هُمْ يُنشِرُونَ﴾
[ الأنبياء: 21]
21:21 Or have men taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect [the dead]?
Tafsir Ibn Katheer in EnglishBut the idolaters took gods besides Allah which cannot revive the dead, so how do they worship something unable to do this?
Muhammad Taqiud-Din alHilali
Or have they taken (for worship) aliha (gods) from the earth who raise the dead?
phonetic Transliteration
Ami ittakhathoo alihatan mina alardi hum yunshiroona
Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation
Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who raise the dead
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21:21 Or have men taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect translate in arabic
Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
Could it be that they- the idolaters-have taken earthly objects of worship who can raise the dead and restore them to life
Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(21:21) Have the earthly deities they have set up the power to give life and raise the (inanimate) things? *21
Or have men taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect meaning
*21) This question has been posed to bring home to the disbelievers that when they themselves believed that there is no being other than Allah who can give life to inanimate matter, why do they then acknowledge other deities besides Allah?
Or have men taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect meaning in Urdu
کیا اِن لوگوں کے بنائے ہوئے ارضی خدا ایسے ہیں کہ (بے جان کو جان بخش کر) اُٹھا کھڑا کرتے ہوں؟
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