Tafseer of Those drawn up in Ranks · As-Saaffaat · 37:69
Indeed they found their fathers astray.
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His statement إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا آبَاءَهُمْ ضَالِّينَ ("Indeed, they found their fathers astray") means: indeed, these polytheists (mushrikīn), who became arrogant when it was said to them: "Say: there is no god but Allah," found their fathers to be astray, having deviated from the straight path, not walking upon the road of the truth.
