Tafsir for verse: 21:53
قَالُواْ وَجَدۡنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا لَهَا عَٰبِدِينَ ٥٣ ﴿53﴾
53They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them,”
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Commentary
And when he brought them this destroyer, glorified and exalted is He, He began the news about their response by saying: ﴿They said﴾, equating themselves with the animals that are led and have no knowledge of what they are bound for: ﴿We found our forefathers upon it﴾, especially ﴿worshipping﴾, so we followed them; we have no proof other than that.
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