Ar-Rum Verse 35

Or have We sent down to them an authority which attests to what they associate ˹with Him˺?

Is it that We have sent down to them any authority that speaks in support of their associating partners with Him?

Or have We sent down any authority upon them, such as speaks of that they associate with Him?

Did We send them down any authority that sanctions the partners they ascribe to God?

Or have We sent unto them any authority, so that it speaketh of that which they have been with Him associating?

Or have We sent down authority to them, which points out to them the things to which they pay part-worship?

Have We sent down any sanction which provides support to their associating others with Allah in His Divinity?

Have We sent down a charter to them which mentions what they associate with Him?

Or have We sent down to them any proof, which therefore tells them of My partners?

Have We sent down to them any authority which might assert what they associate with Him?

Or have We sent down on them a document of authority which speaks in favor of their associating partners with Him?

Have We revealed to them some authoritative proof which speaks (highly in favour) of what they associate with Him?

Or We descended on them a proof/evidence , so he/it converses/speaks with what they were with Him sharing/making partners.

Or have We sent down to them any proof, which therefore tells them of My partners?

So as to be ungrateful for what We have given them; (unto such it is said) "Enjoy yourselves for a while, for you shall soon come to know (the truth)".

Or have We revealed to them a Scripture, which speaks of that which they have been associating with Him?

And when harm afflicts men, they call upon their Lord, turning to Him, then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him, lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord,

Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him?

Or have We revealed unto them any warrant which speaketh of that which they associate with Him?

Have We sent them any authority to speak in support of their idols?

Or have We sent down to them an authority that speaks of that they associate with Him?

Or have We revealed to them an authority, which speaks of that which they have been associating with Him

Have We sent down to them any authority which speaks in favour of what they associate with Him?

Have We sent down to them any authority, which speaks in support of their idols?

Or (am; the hamza here is meant for denial) have We revealed any warrant, any argument or scripture, to them which might speak, a token speech, of what they associate with Him?, in other words, commanding them to associate others with God? No!

أَمْ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَانًا

Or have We revealed to them an authority, (means, proof).

فَهُوَ يَتَكَلَّمُ

which speaks, (means, tells),

بِمَا كَانُوا بِهِ يُشْرِكُونَ



of that which they have been associating with Him!

This is a rhetorical question intended to denounce them, for they have no such thing.

وَإِذَا أَذَقْنَا النَّاسَ رَحْمَةً فَرِحُوا بِهَا وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّيَةٌ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ إِذَا هُمْ يَقْنَطُونَ