Tafsir for verse: 26:70
إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوۡمِهِۦ مَا تَعۡبُدُونَ ٧٠ ﴿70﴾
70when he said to his father and to his people, “What do you worship?”
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Commentary
'When' means: at the time 'he said to his father and his people,' warning them of their misguidance, not inquiring because he was knowledgeable of the reality of their situation: 'What' [meaning:] what thing, [and he depicted their state to alert them to its ugliness, so he expressed it in the present tense and said:] 'You worship' meaning: you persist in your worship of it.
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