What do you imagine the Lord of the worlds to be?"
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (what then is your opinion of the lord of the worlds) what do you think he will do to you if you worship other than him?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : what then is your supposition regarding the lord of the worlds?’, having worshipped other than him, [do you think] that he will leave you without punishment? no! they were a people of astrologers. on one occasion, they went out to celebrate a festival of theirs and left their food behind with their idols, claiming that they were securing thereby blessings for it and that they would eat it upon their return. they had said to the lord abraham: ‘come out with us’.
