Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 35:40–41
The Creator (Fatir)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(40) Say, ‘Have you ever considered your associate gods whom you call on besides God? Show me what it is that they have created on earth. Or have they a share in the creation of the heavens?’ Or have We given them a book so that they may act on evidence from it? Indeed, the wrongdoers’ promises to one another are nothing but deception. (41) Surely, God holds the heavens and the earth, lest they should deviate [from their places]. Were they to deviate, none could hold them after Him. Surely, He is forbearing and most forgiving.
Commentary
(a) The creation of the universe, with its unlimited space and the innumerable astronomical bodies suspended in it, is an awe-inspiring phenomenon. Such colossal creation—an unimaginally gigantic feat—cannot be wholly or even partially attributed to any of the beings whom people worship as deities.
The fact is that worship of entities other than God is entirely based on fraudulence. Such practices will continue only till Doomsday, for on that Day, they will vanish as if they had never existed.