12:40
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Dynamic translation
(12:40) "Apart from Allah you obey only the names that you and your fathers have fabricated. Allah has not sent down any argument about them. No one (passes) judgment but Allah. He has commanded that you obey no one but Him. This is the correct system, but most of the people do not know it."
Arabic text
(12:40) مَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِهِ إِلاَّ أَسْمَاء سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا أَنتُمْ وَآبَآؤُكُم مَّا أَنزَلَ اللّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍ إِنِ الْحُكْمُ إِلاَّ لِلّهِ أَمَرَ أَلاَّ تَعْبُدُواْ إِلاَّ إِيَّاهُ ذَلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ
Connected ideas
(9:36) In fact, Allah has twelve months - it was ordained by Allah on the day (when) Heaven and Earth were created. Four (months) of them are harmful. Such is the stable (reckoning of) Debt, and therefore do not (act) unjustly (toward) yourselves in them. But fight those who divide wholeheartedly, just as they fight you wholeheartedly. But know that Allah is with the responsible.
(13:43) Those who reject say, "You are not a messenger." Say, "Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you, the One who has the knowledge of the book."
(29:27) We granted him Isaac and Jacob, and We made within his progeny the prophethood and the book. We gave him his gratuity in this world, and in the Hereafter he is among the righteous.
(30:30) So cumulate your focus to the system of monotheism. It is the nature that Allah has made the people on. There is no changing in Allah's creation. This is the correct system, but most people do not know.
(39:69) The earth will shine with the light of its Lord, the record will be placed, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought forth; it will then be judged between them with truth, and they will not be wronged.
