Verse. 3006

٢٦ - ٱلشُّعَرَاء

26 - Ash-Shu'ara

قَالُوْا بَلْ وَجَدْنَاۗ اٰبَاۗءَنَا كَذٰلِكَ يَفْعَلُوْنَ۝۷۴
Qaloo bal wajadna abaana kathalika yafAAaloona

English

Ahmed Ali

They said: "No. But we found our fathers doing so."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they said: nay, but we found our fathers acting on this use) we found our fathers worshipping these deities, and we have emulated them.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘rather, we found our fathers so doing’, that is, doing the same as we do.