surely We (could have) taken it
If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!
They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee: But Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were a people (worthless and) lost."
假若我要消遣,我必定以我这里的东西做消遣,我不是爱消遣的。
他们说:“我们赞颂你超绝万物,我们不该舍你而敬事任何神灵。但你曾使他们及其祖先享乐,直到他们遗忘了记念,他们原是灭亡的民众。”