Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - An-Nahl : 20
وَ قَالُوْا لَوْ شَآءَ الرَّحْمٰنُ مَا عَبَدْنٰهُمْ١ؕ مَا لَهُمْ بِذٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ١ۗ اِنْ هُمْ اِلَّا یَخْرُصُوْنَؕ
They say, "Had the Merciful God willed (that we should not worship them), We would never have worshipped them. " 20 They do not at all know the fact of the matter: they only conjecture.
20 This was their reasoning from destiny to cover up their deviation and error, and this has been the argument of the wrong-doers in every age. They argued that their worshipping the angels became possible only because Allah allowed them to do so. Had He not willed so they could not have done it; and then it had been a practice with them for centuries and no torment from Allah had descended on them, which meant that Allah did not disapprove of their this practice.
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