إِذْ قَالَ لاَِبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَا هَذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ...

إِذْ قَالَ لاَِبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ مَا هَذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِى أَنْتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ(( 52 )) 52- WHEN HE SAID TO HIS FATHER (AZAR), AND TO HIS PEOPLE:ِ ``WHAT ARE THESE (LIFELESS) IMAGES TO WHICH YOU ARE SO DEVOUTED?'' قَالُوا وَجَدْنَا آبَاءَنَا لَهَا عَابِدِينَ(( 53 )) 53- THEY SAID:ِ ``WE FOUND OUR FATHERS WORSHIPPING THEM.'' قَالَ لَقَدْ كُنتُمْ أَنْتُمْ وَآبَاؤُكُمْ فِى ضَلاَل مُّبِين(( 54 )) 54- HE SAID:ِ ``VERILY YOU AND YOUR FATHERS HAVE BEEN IN MANIFEST ERROR!'' قَالُوا أَجِئْتَنَا بِالْحَقِّ أَمْ أَنْتَ مِنَ اللاَّعِبِينَ(( 55 )) 55- THEY SAID:ِ ``HAVE YOU BROUGHT US THE TRUTH, OR YOU ARE OF THE JESTERS!?'' قَالَ بَل رَبُّكُمْ رَبُّ السَّموَاتِ وَالاَْرْضِ الَّذِى فَطَرَهُنَّ وَأَنَا عَلَى ذَلِكُمْ مِّنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ(( 56 )) 56- HE SAID:ِ ``(PERFECT TRUTH) THAT YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.

HE WHO ORIGINATED THEM, AND I AM OF THE WITNESSES TO THAT.'' [ 181 ] وَتَاللهِ لاََكِيدَنَّ أَصْنَامَكُمْ بَعْدَ أَنْ تُوَلُّوا مُدْبِرِينَ(( 57 )) 57- AND BY ALLAH I WILL MAKE A PLAN AGAINST YOUR IDOLS AFTER YOU HAVE GONE AWAY, TURNING YOUR BACKS. فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذَاذاً إِلاَّ كَبِيراً لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ(( 58 )) 58- THEN HE BROKE THEM ALL INTO PIECES, EXCEPT THE BIGGEST OF THEM, SO THAT THEY MIGHT RETURN TO HIM.

THE COMMENTARY ABRAHAM PLANS TO DESTROY THE IDOLS VERSE NO.51ِ58 Abraham had developed from before, and was furnished with the knowledge of Monotheism in his early teenages. God was aware of his wide variety of merits, and brought him up under His care and mercy.

He was indeed well developed, and far more for his age, and that appeared clearly when the boy argued with his father about the idols that they made, and then sold for worship:ِ ``What are these lifeless images to which you are so devouted?'' This assertion of Abraham consists of a good reasoning too, because nothing can be seen of such false gods, except a senseless image which is all they have.

What answer the idolaters could have except adhering to their ancestors and their customs which was in fact their culture:ِ ``They said:ِ We found our fathers worshipping them.'' And Abraham's answer to this was:ِ ``Verily you and your fathers have all been in a manifest error.'' There was now a serious conflict betweem the godly boy and his godless father, which may teach us how a righteous man should behave, when there is a contend and variance of opinion, between his parent and his duty to God.

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