The Holy Quran 21:54 — Surah Al-Anbya

Arabic text

قَالَ لَقَدْ كُنتُمْ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُمْ فِى ضَلَـٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

Translation

He (Ibraheem عليه الصلاة والسلام) said, "Verily you people and your forefathers are certainly in manifest error (clearly misguided)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

That is, by this argument neither your rightness nor your good sense has been proven; what has been proven is only that your forefathers too were misguided and foolish like you — and in blindly imitating them you are ruining yourselves.

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