Ask ˹them, O Prophet˺, “Have you considered your associate-gods which you invoke besides Allah? Show me what they have created on earth! Or do they have a share in ˹the creation of˺ the heavens? Or have We given the polytheists a Book, which serves as a clear proof for them? In fact, the wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion.”
Explanation
These readings amount to the same meaning, the latter (plural) emphasising the forms of evidence found in the Quran and the Prophet's ﷺ teachings [al-Mahdawi].