Tafsir for verse: 21:59
قَالُواْ مَن فَعَلَ هَٰذَا بِـَٔالِهَتِنَآ إِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ٥٩ ﴿59﴾
59They said, “Who has done this to our gods? He is one of the wrongdoers indeed.”
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Commentary
That is, whoever commits this breaking and shattering due to severe injustice is counted among the wrongdoers: either for his audacity towards the true deities in their eyes by showing respect and reverence, or because they saw an excess in shattering them and a continuation in belittling them.
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