يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥٓ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ لَن يَخْلُقُوا۟ ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ ٱجْتَمَعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَإِن يَسْلُبْهُمُ ٱلذُّبَابُ شَيْـًٔا لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُ ضَعُفَ ٱلطَّالِبُ وَٱلْمَطْلُوبُ
Quran glossary · draft
الذباب في مثل عجز المدعوين
parable's fly
The creature serves as the parable's measure of the false objects' inability both to create life and to recover what is taken.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: ذبب
Lemmas: ذباب
Forms: ذُبَابًا · ذُّبَابُ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥٓ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ لَن يَخْلُقُوا۟ ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ ٱجْتَمَعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَإِن يَسْلُبْهُمُ ٱلذُّبَابُ شَيْـًٔا لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُ ضَعُفَ ٱلطَّالِبُ وَٱلْمَطْلُوبُ
Why this meaning was chosen
Reviewed both frozen segments on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target rows. Both occur in one parable: the invoked beings cannot create even one ذباب, and they cannot recover what the definite creature takes from them. Creation and taking describe one creature referent from two grammatical positions.