Afaman yakhluqu kaman la yakhluqu afala tathakkaroon (surah Nahl: 17)

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

(16:17) Is, then, He, Who creates, like those who create nothing? *16 Do you not understand even this much?

Afamany yakhluqu kamallaa yakhluq; afalaa tazak karoon

*16) hat is, "If you, people of Makkah, acknowledge (and they acknowledged this just as other mushriks did) that Allah alone is the Creator of all of you and everything, and no one of the partners, you have set up with Him, has created anything in the universe, how is it, then, that you ascribe to the created, a status equal to or like that of the Creator in the system of universe created by Him? How can it be possible that the powers and the rights of the created should be equal to the powers and the rights of the Creator in the universe created by Himself? How can it be believed that the Creator and the created possess the same qualities and characteristics, or can have such relationship as of father and son?"