سَیَقُولُ الَّذِینَ أَشْرَکُوا لَوْ شَآءَ اللهُ مَآ أَشْرَکْنَا وَلاَ ءَابَآؤُنَا وَلاَ حَرَّمْنَا مِن شَىْء کَذَلِکَ کَذَّبَ الَّذِینَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ حَتَّى ذَاقُوا بِأْسَنَا قُلْ هَلْ عِندَکُم مِّنْ عِلْم فَتُخْرِجُوهُ لَنَآ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلاَّ الظَّنَّ وَإِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلاَّ تَخْرُصُونَ (148) قُلْ فَللهِ الْحُجَّةُ الْبَـلِغَةُ فَلَوْ شَآءَ لَهَدَکُمْ أَجْمَعِینَ (149) قُلْ هَلُمَّ شُهَدَآءَکُمُ الَّذِینَ یَشْهَدُونَ أَنَّ اللهَ حَرَّمَ هَـذَا فَإِن شَهِدُوا فَلاَ تَشْهَدْ مَعَهُمْ وَلاَتَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَآءَ الَّذِینَ کَذَّبُوا بِأَیَـتِنَا وَالَّذِینَ لاَ یُؤْمِنُونَ بِالاَْخِرَةِ وَهُم بِرَبِّهِمْ یَعْدِلُونَ (150) 148- SOON THE POLYTHEISTS WILL SAY: `HAD ALLAH WILLED, WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POLYTHEISTS, NEITHER OUR FATHERS, NOR WOULD WE HAVE FORBIDDEN ANYTHING. SO DID THOSE BEFORE THEM LIED, UNTIL THEY TASTED OUR PUNISHMENT.'
SAY: `HAVE YOU ANY KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU TO PUT IT OUT FOR US? YOU FOLLOW NOTHING EXCEPT CONJECTURE, AND YOU DO NOTHING BUT GUESSWORD. (SURMISE)'
149- SAY: `TO ALLAH BELONGS THE CONCLUSIVE REASONING. `SO IF HE WILLED, HE WOULD HAVE GUIDED YOU ALL.'
150- SAY: `BRING YOUR WITNESSES WHO WILL TESTIFY THAT ALLAH HAS FORBIDDEN THIS. THEN IF THEY TESTIFIED, YOU DON'T TESTIFY WITH THEM; AND DO NOT FOLLOW THE CAPRICES OF THOSE WHO FALSIFIED OUR SIGNS (VERSES) AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEARAFTER, AND WHO SET UP EQUALS WITH THEIR LORD.'