The Holy Quran 11:62 — Surah Hud

Arabic text

قَالُوا۟ يَـٰصَـٰلِحُ قَدْ كُنتَ فِينَا مَرْجُوًّا قَبْلَ هَـٰذَآ ۖ أَتَنْهَىٰنَآ أَن نَّعْبُدَ مَا يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَا وَإِنَّنَا لَفِى شَكٍّ مِّمَّا تَدْعُونَآ إِلَيْهِ مُرِيبٍ

Translation

They said, “O Saalih! Certainly we entertained high hopes in you before (before you started preaching Towheed to us, we thought that you would be one of our leaders or a saint because of your wisdom and intellect). Do you forbid us from worshipping what our forefathers worshipped? Surely we are in such doubt about what you call us towards that it has cast us into uncertainty."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The people’s objection and doubt: that is, we had hoped that in time you would become a man of great learning and righteousness, whom the people, regarding him as the successor of their honoured elders, would raise above themselves. Signs of right guidance and goodness were plain on your brow.

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