Or do you have a heavenly Book for it?

Or do you have a heavenly Book for it? The verse says: “…Or have We given them a Book so that they follow a clear argument from it?…” No, they have no clear proof from the Divine Books with them. Therefore, their capital for it is nothing save guile and delusion.

In this regard, the verse says: “…Nay, the unjust promise each other nothing but delusions.” In other words, if the idolaters, and other polytheists of any kind and group, claim that the idols have a kind of power on the earth to provide their needs, they should deliver an example of their earthly creation.

And if they believe that these idols are the manifestation of the angels and heavenly sacred beings, as it was the belief of a group of them, they must show their participation in creation of the heavens. And…