سُوْرَةُ الْاَعْرَافِ
Surah Al-A'raaf (7) — Ayah 195
أَلَهُمْ أَرْجُلٌ يَمْشُونَ بِهَآ ۖ أَمْ لَهُمْ أَيْدٍ يَبْطِشُونَ بِهَآ ۖ أَمْ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَآ ۖ أَمْ لَهُمْ ءَاذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۗ قُلِ ٱدْعُوا۟ شُرَكَآءَكُمْ ثُمَّ كِيدُونِ فَلَا تُنظِرُونِ ﴿195﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Have they feet wherewith they walk? Or have they hands wherewith they hold? Or have they eyes wherewith they see? Or have they ears wherewith they hear? Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Call your (so-called) partners (of Allâh) and then plot against me, and give me no respite!
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
أَلَهُمْ
alahum
Are for them
أَرْجُلٌۭ
arjulun
feet
يَمْشُونَ
yamshūna
(to) walk
بِهَآ ۖ
bihā
with [it]
أَمْ
am
or
لَهُمْ
lahum
for them
أَيْدٍۢ
aydin
hands
يَبْطِشُونَ
yabṭishūna
(to) hold
بِهَآ ۖ
bihā
with [it]
أَمْ
am
or
لَهُمْ
lahum
for them
أَعْيُنٌۭ
aʿyunun
eyes
يُبْصِرُونَ
yub'ṣirūna
(to) see
بِهَآ ۖ
bihā
with [it]
أَمْ
am
or
لَهُمْ
lahum
for them
ءَاذَانٌۭ
ādhānun
ears
يَسْمَعُونَ
yasmaʿūna
(to) hear
بِهَا ۗ
bihā
with [it]
قُلِ
quli
Say
ٱدْعُوا۟
id'ʿū
Call
شُرَكَآءَكُمْ
shurakāakum
your partners
ثُمَّ
thumma
then
كِيدُونِ
kīdūni
scheme against me
فَلَا
falā
and (do) not
تُنظِرُونِ
tunẓirūni
give me respite
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195. Do they have feet with which they walk, or hands with which they grasp, or eyes with which they see, or ears [193] with which they hear? Say, "Call upon your partners, and then plot against me and give me no respite [194]."
[193] The idols that the polytheists had made had hands, feet, noses, ears, eyes, etc.—everything. Allah Almighty asks the polytheists: regarding the feet you have made for these idols, can they walk with them? Because the purpose of making feet is so that one can walk with them. Then, when these feet cannot fulfill their purpose and objective, what is the benefit of making such feet? Similarly, the hands you have made for them—they cannot grasp anything with them. With the eyes you have made, they cannot see, nor can they hear with the ears. So what is the benefit of making such artificial limbs that do not fulfill their intended purpose?
Different Forms of Shirk:
There are three forms found in the polytheism of the polytheists. For example, if a person is a sun-worshipper, one form of shirk is that he specifically, at sunrise and sunset, faces the sun, stands respectfully with folded hands before it. The second form is that the spirits of these stars are worshipped and invoked when needed. The third form is that imaginary forms of these spirits are determined, and their statues are made and placed in temples or shrines, and then they are worshipped. The belief is that the spirit remains connected to the statue, so the worship performed for these statues is not for the statues themselves but for their spirits. This disease is also common among Muslims; instead of statues, they attach all these beliefs to the graves of the friends of Allah. Allah Almighty, in these verses, has refuted all these types of shirk.
[194]
The Polytheists’ Fear of Their Deities:
The polytheists of Makkah used to say to the Prophet (ﷺ): stop disrespecting our deities, otherwise these deities will bring some calamity upon you. As Allah Almighty has said in Surah Az-Zumar: ﴿وَيُخَوِّفُوْنَكَ بالَّذِيْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِهٖ﴾ [39: 36] The answer to this is being given here: tell these polytheists, “Call upon all your deities and do not hold back anything in trying to harm me, and do not grant me any respite. Whatever you can do, do it at once, and I will see what harm they can cause me.”
[193] The idols that the polytheists had made had hands, feet, noses, ears, eyes, etc.—everything. Allah Almighty asks the polytheists: regarding the feet you have made for these idols, can they walk with them? Because the purpose of making feet is so that one can walk with them. Then, when these feet cannot fulfill their purpose and objective, what is the benefit of making such feet? Similarly, the hands you have made for them—they cannot grasp anything with them. With the eyes you have made, they cannot see, nor can they hear with the ears. So what is the benefit of making such artificial limbs that do not fulfill their intended purpose?
Different Forms of Shirk:
There are three forms found in the polytheism of the polytheists. For example, if a person is a sun-worshipper, one form of shirk is that he specifically, at sunrise and sunset, faces the sun, stands respectfully with folded hands before it. The second form is that the spirits of these stars are worshipped and invoked when needed. The third form is that imaginary forms of these spirits are determined, and their statues are made and placed in temples or shrines, and then they are worshipped. The belief is that the spirit remains connected to the statue, so the worship performed for these statues is not for the statues themselves but for their spirits. This disease is also common among Muslims; instead of statues, they attach all these beliefs to the graves of the friends of Allah. Allah Almighty, in these verses, has refuted all these types of shirk.
[194]
The Polytheists’ Fear of Their Deities:
The polytheists of Makkah used to say to the Prophet (ﷺ): stop disrespecting our deities, otherwise these deities will bring some calamity upon you. As Allah Almighty has said in Surah Az-Zumar: ﴿وَيُخَوِّفُوْنَكَ بالَّذِيْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِهٖ﴾ [39: 36] The answer to this is being given here: tell these polytheists, “Call upon all your deities and do not hold back anything in trying to harm me, and do not grant me any respite. Whatever you can do, do it at once, and I will see what harm they can cause me.”
