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This is the answer to what the disbelievers said in verse 5: Has he made just One God in place of all the gods? This is indeed a strange thing. It means: You may frown and scowl as you like, but this is a reality of which I am informing you, and your frowning and scowling cannot change it.
[2]Qira’at: Nafieʻ, Abu ʻAmr, Hafs and Abu Jaʻfar read it as: “. . . with a blessing , both . . .”