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And they say, “Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing

And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess

And they say: "Had the God of Mercy so willed it we should never have worshipped them." No knowledge have they in this: they only lie

and they say, 'Had the Merciful pleased we should never have worshipped them.' They have no knowledge of that, they only conjecture

and they said if he willed the All-Merciful what We served what for them by that from knowledge if they except they guess

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.