Transliteration:( Haazaa khalqul laahi fa aroonee maazaa khalaqal lazeena min doonih; baliz zaalimoona fee dalalim Mubeen (section 1) )
"This is the creation of Allah; show me what others [17] have created besides Him. Nay, the unjust are in clear [18] error."
This verse presents a direct challenge to the disbelievers, especially the idolaters, who acknowledge that Allah is the Creator of all things. Even they do not claim that their idols have created anything. Given this admission, the question arises: why worship that which has created nothing, while turning away from the One who has created everything?
This logical argument exposes the absurdity of shirk (associating partners with Allah)—highlighting the contradiction in believing in Allah’s power while devoting acts of worship to lifeless objects.
The verse ends by declaring such people as “unjust” and in clear error. In Qur’anic terminology, “Zulm” (injustice) refers primarily to shirk, the greatest injustice. Those who engage in it are not just misguided but are in manifest deviation—a deviation so obvious that it defies reason and truth.
This verse affirms both the uniqueness of Allah’s creative power and the baselessness of idol worship, urging mankind to reflect and submit solely to their True Creator.
The tafsir of Surah Luqman verse 11 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Luqman ayat 10 which provides the complete commentary from verse 10 through 11.
(31:11) Such is Allah’s creation. Show me, then, what any others, apart from Allah, have created.[15] Nay, the fact is that the wrong-doers are in manifest error.[16]
15. “Those other than” “the beings whom you have set up as your deities, whom you regard as makers and un-makers of your destinies, whom you have been worshiping as such persistently.”
16. That is, “When they do not point out in this universe any creation of anyone else than Allah, and obviously they cannot, their setting up the non creators as associates in Godhead and bowing before them in worship and invoking them for help, is nothing but mere stupidity, because their foolish conduct cannot be explained in any other way. Unless a person has taken leave of his senses, he cannot commit the folly that he should himself admit before you that his deities are non-creators and that Allah alone is the Creator, and yet insist on their being the deities. If somebody has a little of the common sense, he will inevitably think how the one who has no power to create anything, and who has no share whatever in the creation of anything in the earth and heavens, can be our deity. Why should man bow before it and adore it as a deity? Does it possess any power that it could fulfill one’s needs and requirements? Even if it hears one’s prayers, what could it do to answer them when it did not have any power to create anything? For, evidently, afflictions can be removed only by him who can create something and not by him who can create nothing.”
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