The Cave
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[18:15]
These people of ours have taken to worshipping [other] deities instead of Him, without being able to adduce any reasonable evidence in support of their beliefs; and who could be more wicked than he who invents a lie about God?

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* v.15 : Lit., “Why do they not.. .,” etc., in the form of a rhetorical query introducing a new sentence.
* Lit., “any clear evidence [or “authority”] in their support.” The adjective bayyin (“clear,” “obvious,” “manifest”) implies an evidence accessible to reason.
* I.e., invents imaginary deities and thus gives the lie to the truth of His oneness and uniqueness, or even denies His existence altogether.