[2:170] When they have been told, “Follow what God has sent down,” they said, “Nay, we follow what we have found our parents on it.” What if it has been their forefathers not to understand anything, and they were not guided?
[5:104] When it has been said to them, “Come to what God has sent down and to the messenger,” they said, “Our sufficiency is what we have found our forefathers upon it.” What about if it had been that their forefathers were not knowing anything, nor were they guided?
[7:28] And when they have done immorality, they said, “We have found our forefathers on it, and God has commanded us with it.” Say, “Indeed, God does not command of the immorality. Do you say about God what you do not know?”
[7:173] Or you say, “Indeed, there had associated our forefathers before and we have been descendants of after themselves. Will You then punish us for what has done the falsifiers?”
[9:23] O you who have believed, you do not take your fathers and your brothers as allies, if they have preferred the disbelief over the belief. And whoever takes them as allies among you, then those – they are the wrongdoers.
[10:78] They said, “Have you come to us to turn us away from what we have found our forefathers on it and you would be for both the greatness in the earth? And we are not with believers for you two.”
[11:62] They said, “O Saleh, you have been one to whom there was a great expectation among us before this. Do you forbid us that we worship what our forefathers had worshiped? And indeed, we surely are in doubt being suspicious about what you call us to it.”
[11:87] They said, “O Shuaib, does your salat prayer command you that we leave what our forefathers worshiped, or that we do about our wealth what we will? Indeed you, surely you are the forbearing, the right-minded one.”
[11:109] So you do not be in doubt of what these people worship; they do not worship except like that their forefathers worshiped before. And indeed, we will surely pay them in full of their share without being diminished.
[14:10] Their messengers said, “Is there any doubt in God as Creator of the heavens and the earth? He invites you that He may forgive for you of your sins, and may give you respite to an appointed time.” They said, “You are not except a human like ourselves wish to hinder us from what had done our forefathers to worship. So come to us with a clear authority.”
[21:53] They said, “We found our forefathers worshipers of them.”
[23:83] Certainly, we have been promised this and our forefathers before; this is not but tales of the past.”
[26:74] They said, “Nay; but we have found our forefathers to do like that.”
[31:21] And when it has been said to them, “You shall follow what God has sent down,” they said, “Nay, we will follow what we have found our forefathers on it.” And if had it been the Satan to call them to a punishment of the Blazing fire?
[34:43] And when it is recited our clear revelations to them, they said, “This is not a man who wishes to hinder you from what has done to worship your forefathers.” And they said, “This is not except a fabricated lie.” And said those who have disbelieved in the truth when it had come to them, “This is not but an obvious magic.”
[43:22] Nay, they said, “Indeed, we have found our forefathers upon a community, and indeed, we are guided on their footsteps.”
[43:23] And it is thus that we have not sent any warner to any town before yourself (prophet) except its leaders had said, “Indeed, we have found our forefathers to a community, and indeed, we are followers on their footsteps.”
[43:24] He would have said, “And if had I brought to you of a better guidance than what you have found your forefathers upon it?” They would have said, “Indeed, we are disbelievers of what you have been sent with it.”
In conclusion, when we are living in the highest height of the human civilization and we have the opportunity to use modern science that God has chosen a messenger with a reminder to help us perfect our beliefs and practices upon verification with logic and proofs, but the majority who claim themselves Muslims blindly follow their forefathers being it a human tragedy as passed down to follow the footsteps of our forefathers, which is the Satan’s call to the punishment of Hell, while God has reminded us that the people who believe in God and the Last Day do not ally with whoever has opposed God and His messenger, even if they have been their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their relatives to be the successful ones in the Hereafter:
[58:22] You will not find a people who believe in God and the Last Day love whoever has opposed God and His messenger, even if they have been their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their relatives. Those – He has decreed the faith in their hearts and has supported them with inspiration from Him, and He will admit them to gardens flowing the rivers of their underneath as dwellers therein forever. And God has been pleased with them, and they have been pleased with Him. Those are a party of God. No doubt! Indeed, a party of God – they are the successful ones
Peace Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (10/25/2024).