The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:56]
SAY: "Call upon those [beings] whom you imagine [to be endowed with divine powers] beside Him – and [you will find that] they have it not in their power to remove any affliction from you, or to shift it [elsewhere].

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* v.56 : Sc., “to those who believe in the existence of any divine power apart from God.”
* As the sequence shows, this relates to the worship of saints or angels.
* I.e., to transfer it unto themselves: obviously an allusion to the Christian doctrine of “vicarious atonement.”