Translation of the meanings Ayah 18 Surah Al-Furqān - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 18

قَالُواْ سُبۡحَٰنَكَ مَا كَانَ يَنۢبَغِي لَنَآ أَن نَّتَّخِذَ مِن دُونِكَ مِنۡ أَوۡلِيَآءَ وَلَٰكِن مَّتَّعۡتَهُمۡ وَءَابَآءَهُمۡ حَتَّىٰ نَسُواْ ٱلذِّكۡرَ وَكَانُواْ قَوۡمَۢا بُورٗا

18. They will say: Glory be to You (O Allāh). It was not beseeming for us to take besides You of any protectors (lords, saviors) other than You6. But you let them and their forefathers enjoy (the pleasures of the worldly life) until they forgot the Remembrance7, and they became a people ruined ".

6. So they had no right to take us as such and make us objects of their worship.
7. Mohammad, God's messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever dies worshipping other gods besides Allāh will enter Hell.”