Surat Ash-Shu‘ara’ Verse No. 74: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 74 from Surah Ash-Shu‘ara’ : Number of verses 227 - - page 370 - Part 19.
﴾قَالُواْ بَلۡ وَجَدۡنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا كَذَٰلِكَ يَفۡعَلُونَ ﴿
[ الشعراء: 74]
They said: "Nay, but we found our fathers doing so."
English - Sahih International
They said, "But we found our fathers doing thus."
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(26:74) They replied, "No, but we have found our elders doing the same. " *53
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*53) That is, "We do not worship and serve them because they hear our prayers and supplications, or that they can harm and benefit us, but because we have seen our elders worshipping and serving them." Thus, they themselves admitted that the only reason of their worshipping the idols was the blind imitation of their forefathers. In other words, they meant this: "There is nothing new in what you are telling us, We know that these are idols of stone and wood, which do not hear anything, nor can haran or do good; but we cannot believe that our elders who have been worshipping them since centuries, generation after generation, were foolish people. They must have had some good reason for worshipping these lifeless images, so we are doing the same as we have full faith in them."
Source : Ash-Shu‘ara’ Verse 74: They said, "But we found our fathers doing thus."