Tafsir for verse: 16:17
أَفَمَن يَخۡلُقُ كَمَن لَّا يَخۡلُقُۚ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ ١٧ ﴿17
17Is then the One who creates (everything) equal to one who does not create? Would you still pay no heed?
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Commentary

And when there remained - by mentioning the evidence for the Oneness of Allah; in the most complete manner; and the best arrangement; and the most eloquent composition - a doubt that the Creator is indeed Allah; for what has been established of His Oneness; and the completeness of His knowledge; and His power; and the perfection of His wisdom; for making those (p-129) evidences general blessings; and complete favors; with the clarity of incapacity in all that they claim regarding divinity apart from Him; and the clarity that He - glorified and exalted is He - in all His creation is chosen; for the difference in existence; and the qualities; between what does not necessitate difference except by choice; thus it has been established by that that He is capable of bringing forth what He wills; He said - attributing this to that -: ﴿Is then He who creates﴾; meaning: renews that wherever He wills; and whenever He wills; so His incapacity cannot be possible in any way; due to the possibility of His partnership; ﴿like one﴾; His partnership is possible; for He is a basis in that; because He ﴿does not create﴾; meaning: that does not occur from Him at any time; from the idols; and others; in the incapacity to bring forth what He says; which necessitates that it must be possible to be created; and even if the analogy were reversed - as it has been said - it would not benefit what this estimation has provided in denouncing them; by lowering the higher from its rank; and He expressed by "

,"; because they named it gods; and concluded its matter that it should not be rational; so if the description of divinity is negated from it along with the lack of ability to do anything, it is negated without it in the first place.

And when He caused the denial of their equalizing the Creator with others in incapacity by this evidence; (p-130) this denial caused the denial of their remembrance; urging them to remember that which is beneficial for abandoning polytheism; so He said: ﴿Will you not remember﴾; by what you witness of that even if from some aspects - by what the merging has conveyed - for you to remember what is right to believe in." :

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