Al-Anbya Verse 21

Or have they taken gods from the earth, who can raise the dead?

Or have they taken gods from the earth who [cannot even] resurrect the dead?

Or have they taken gods out of the earth who raise the dead?

Have they chosen any gods from the earth who can give life to the dead?

Have they taken gods from the earth who raise the deed?

Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?

Have they taken earthly gods who are such that they raise up the dead to life?

Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise the dead?

Have they appointed from the earth, Gods that create something?

Have they taken gods from the earth who raise [the dead]?

What, have those polytheists (given up hope of heaven and) adopted deities from the earth, (do they believe) that they (those deities) can raise up the dead?

And yet some people have chosen (false) gods from the earth who (are supposed to) raise (the dead) to life.

Or they took/received gods from the earth/Planet Earth, they are reviving/resurrecting.

Have they appointed from the earth, Gods that create something?

They glorify Him by night and day without intermission.

Or have they taken (for worship) aliha (gods) from the earth who raise the dead?

They glorify (Him) night and day: they flag not.

Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise (the dead).

Or have they chosen gods from the earth who raise the dead?

Have they chosen deities from earth? Can such deities give life to anyone?

Or, have they taken earthly gods who revive the dead?

Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who raise the dead

Have they taken deities from the earth who can bring the dead to life?

Or have they taken to themselves gods from the earth who resurrect?

Or (am, functions with the meaning of bal, `nay', to effect a transition [in subject-matter]; the hamza is for [rhetorical] denial) have they chosen gods, that are, from the earth, such as stones, gold or silver, who, that is, gods [who], resurrect? who bring the dead back to life? No! Indeed only one who brings the dead back to life can be God.

Refutation of false gods

Allah denounces those who take other gods instead of Him;

أَمِ اتَّخَذُوا الِهَةً مِّنَ الاَْرْضِ هُمْ يُنشِرُونَ



Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise the dead!

meaning, can they bring the dead back to life and bring them forth from the earth? They cannot do any of that, so how can they make them rivals to Allah and worship them alongside Him!

Then Allah tells us that if there were another god besides Him, the heavens and the earth would be ruined