And they said, "Are your gods better, or is he?" They did (43:58)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

Knowing that he is venerated as a deity by Christians and that you Muhammad might have consigned him with their idols, to damnation, they created a connected series of statements intended to annoy you and subvert your position when they said: Are our Gods the better or Him, and if his abode is Hell, we and our Gods would love to be there. They are quarrelsome people given to contention

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(43:58) and said: 'Who is better, our deities or he?' *52 They said so only out of contentiousness. They are a disputatious people.

And they said, "Are your gods better, or is he?" They did meaning

*52) In verse 45 above, it was said: "You may ask all other Messengers whom We sent before you whether We had appointed any other gods to be worshipped beside the Merciful God." When this discourse was being presented before the people of Makkah, a person called `Abdullah ibn az-Ziba'ra in the traditions, put forward the objection: "Well, is it not a fact that the Christians regard the son of Mary as the son of God and worship him ? What is then wrong with our gods?" This caused much laughter among the crowd of the disbelievers and they started clamoring for an answer to this objection. But at this foolish behavior, the continuity of the revelation was not broken, but was first completed and then the objection of the questioner was taken up. (It should be borne in mind that this incident has been reported in the books of commentaries in different ways which contain great variations, but after a study of the context and the traditions the real incident in our view is the same as we have mentioned above).
 

And they said, "Are your gods better, or is he?" They did meaning in Urdu

اور لگے کہنے کہ ہمارے معبود اچھے ہیں یا وہ؟ یہ مثال وہ تمہارے سامنے محض کج بحثی کے لیے لائے ہیں، حقیقت یہ ہے کہ یہ ہیں ہی جھگڑالو لوگ