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hādhā khalqu llāhi fa-ʾarūnī mādhā khalaqa lladhīna min dūnihī bali ẓ-ẓālimūna fī ḍalālin mubīnin
This is the creation of Allah. Now show Me what others besides Him have created. Indeed, the wrongdoers are in manifest error!
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Luqman – Verse 11
11. “This is Allah’s creation, but show me* what those besides Him have created. Nay! The unjust are in a manifest straying.”
One of the ways of knowing of Allah is comparing His power and others’ power. Those who go to other than Allah are both misguided and unjust.
However, next to mentioning the greatness of Allah in the world of creation and some different features of creation, the Qur’an addresses the polytheists and calls them to account. It says:
It is certain that they could not claim that any of the creatures of this world was created by idols. Therefore, they confessed the Unity of Creative power, then, how could they justify polytheism in worship, when ‘Unity of Creative power’ is an evidence for Unity of Divinity and Oneness of the administrator of the world, which in turn is the evidence for Unity of worship? However, at the end of the verse the Qur’an considers their action as injustice and straying when it says:
We know that ‘injustice’ has a vast scope of meaning which involves putting every thing in other than its place. And since the polytheists considered worship, and sometimes the administration of the world, related to idols, they committed the greatest injustice and error. By the way, the above interpretation is a tender hint to the relation of ‘injustice’ and ‘error’, because when man does not recognize the position of concrete beings in the world, or he recognizes them but does not observe them and does not see every thing in its proper place, this injustice certainly will cause his error and aberration.