Tafseer of Those drawn up in Ranks · As-Saaffaat · 37:85
[And] when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?
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And His statement ( إِذْ قَالَ لأبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَاذَا تَعْبُدُونَ ) — "When he said to his father and his people: What do you worship?" — He says: when he said, that is to say Ibrāhīm, to his father and his people: which thing do you worship?
