46:28 fa law laa naSarahumul-ladhiynat-takhadhuu min duunil-laahi qurbaanan aalihah* bal Dal-luu ‘Anhum* wa dhaalika ifkuhum wa maa kaanuu yaftaruun

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
So why did they - the ones whom they had chosen as Gods as a means of attaining Allah's proximity - not help them? In fact the disbelievers lost them; and this is just their slander and fabrication.

Yusuf Ali:
Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they worshipped as gods, besides Allah, as a means of access (to Allah)? Nay, they left them in the lurch: but that was their falsehood and their invention.

Pickthal:
Then why did those whom they had chosen for gods as a way of approach (unto Allah) not help them? Nay, but they did fail them utterly. And (all) that was their lie, and what they used to invent.