O men! Here is a parable set forth! listen to it! Those on whom, besides Allah, ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, if they all met together for the purpose! and if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition!

众人啊！有一个譬喻，你们倾听吧！你们舍真主而祈祷的（偶像）虽群策群力，绝不能创造一只苍蝇；如果苍蝇从他们的身上夺取一点东西，他们也不能把那点东西抢回来。祈祷者和被祈祷者，都是懦弱的！”