You,' is the interpretation of those who said: that this was an inquiry from them to their Lord, in the sense of: Inform us, O our Lord, will You place on earth one who has this attribute, and leave off making Your successors from among us, while we glorify You with Praise and sanctify You?—not as a denial on their part of what their Lord had informed them He was doing, even though they found it dreadful, when informed of it, that God should have a creation that disobeys Him.
As for the claim of one who asserted that God—majestic be His praise—had permitted them to ask about that, so they asked Him out of
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