Jonah
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[10:34]
Say: "Can any of those beings to whom you ascribe a share in God’s divinity create [life] in the first instance, and then bring it forth anew?"
Say: "It is God [alone] who creates [all life] in the first instance, and then brings it forth anew. How perverted, then, are your minds!"

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* v.34 : This rhetorical question is connected with the false belief that those idolatrously worshipped beings are no more than “intercessors” between their followers and God (see verse 18 above): and so, even their misguided votaries cannot possibly attribute to them the power to create and to resurrect. See also note 8 on verse 4 of this sūrah. In its wider sense, this question (and the subsequent answer) relates to the God-willed, cyclic process of birth, death, and regeneration evident in all organic nature.
* See sūrah 5, note 90.