Tafsir for verse: 21:99
لَوۡ كَانَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ ءَالِهَةٗ مَّا وَرَدُوهَاۖ وَكُلّٞ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ ٩٩ ﴿99﴾
99Had they been gods, they would not have arrived at it, and all of them will remain there forever.
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Commentary
And when He struck them with this speech in a way that they had no response to it except for denial, He turned away from them in disdain and contempt for them and said: "If those are the ones whom they have qualified for the rank of divinity, while they are in such a state of insignificance that they would be thrown into the Fire like a projectile, 'gods' as the worshippers claim, they would not enter it at all. So how could it be on this description? Then He informed about them and about it by saying: 'And all' meaning from them and from it 'in it' meaning in Hell 'are abiding' with no escape for them from it, rather each one of them will be punished in it over the other.
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