| | Al-Baqarah | Pre Ayat ← 170 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 21. Prohibited Foods | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:When it is said to them, "Follow the Commands that Allah has sent down," they reply, "We will follow only what we found our forefathers practising. Well, will they go on following their forefathers even though they did not use common sense and did not find the right way? |
| | Al-Baqarah | Pre Ayat ← 200 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 25. The Pilgrimage | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And when you have performed your Hajj rites, remember Allah as you had been remembering your own forefathers, or even with greater zeal.221 (Even those who remember Allah do it in different ways). Some say, "Our Lord, give us all the good things here in this world. " Such people shall have no share in the Hereafter. |
| | Al-Maidah | Pre Ayat ← 104 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 14. Some Directions for Muslims | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And when it is said to them, "Come to the Law which Allah has sent down and to the Messenger," they reply, "Sufficient for us is the way on which we found our forefathers. What! will they go on following their forefathers, even if they knew nothing, and were quite ignorant of the Right Way? |
| | Al-Aaraf | Pre Ayat ← 28 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 3. Warning against Devils Insinuations | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Whenever these people commit a shameful deed, they say. "We found our forefathers doing this, and Allah Himself has enjoined us to do this." Say to them, "Allah never enjoins a shameful thing. Do you attribute to Allahs name and say things which you know not to be from Him?" |
| | Al-Aaraf | Pre Ayat ← 95 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 12. Makkans warned of Punishment | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Then We changed their adversity for good fortune till they became very prosperous and said, "Our forefathers also had their adversity and prosperity". At last We seized them all of a sudden when they were quite unaware. |
| | At-Tauba | Pre Ayat ← 23 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 3. Idolaters Service of the Sacred House | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Believers, do not take your fathers and brothers as allies, if. they choose disbelief in preference to Faith; for whoso of you will take them as allies shall surely be the workers of iniquity. |
| | Yunus | Pre Ayat ← 78 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 8. Noah and Moses | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:In reply to this, they said, "Have you come to turn us away from the faith of our forefathers so that you two may dominate over the land? We are not going to believe in what you say." |
| | Bani-Israel | Pre Ayat ← 94 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 11. Justice of Retribution | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Whenever Guidance came before the people nothing prevented them from believing in it except this (excuse): they said: "Did Allah send a human being as His Messenger?" |
| | Al-Ambia | Pre Ayat ← 53 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 5. Abraham is Delivered | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:They replied, "We found our forefathers worshiping them". |
| | Al-Mominoon | Pre Ayat ← 68 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. Higher Values of Life | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Have the disbelievers never considered the Word? Or, has he brought something the like of which had not come to their forefathers? |
| | Ash-Shuara | Pre Ayat ← 74 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 5. History of Abraham | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:They replied, "No, but we have found our elders doing the same." |
| | Luqman | Pre Ayat ← 21 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 3. Greatness of Divine Power | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And when it is said to them, "Follow what Allah has sent down," they say, "We shall only follow that upon which we found our forefathers." What! Will they still be following them even if Satan had been calling them to the raging Fire? |
| | Al-Ahzab | Pre Ayat ← 5 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 1. Spiritual and Physical Relationship | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Call your adopted sons after their fathers' names: this is more just in the sight of Allah. And if you do not know who their fathers are, then they are your brothers in faith and your friends. There is no blame on you if you say something unintentionally, but you will surely be to blame for what you say with the intention of your hearts. Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. |
| | As-Saffat | Pre Ayat ← 69 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 2. The Judgment | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:These are the people, who found their forefathers astray |
| | Az-Zukhruf | Pre Ayat ← 22 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 2. Polytheism condemned | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Nay! but they say, "We found our forefathers on a way and we are only walking in their footsteps." |
| | Az-Zukhruf | Pre Ayat ← 23 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 2. Polytheism condemned | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Even so, whenever before you We sent a Warner to a habitation, its people of means said, "We have found our forefathers on a way and we are only following in their footsteps." |
| | Az-Zukhruf | Pre Ayat ← 24 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 2. Polytheism condemned | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Every Prophet asked them,†Will you still go on following the same old way even if I guide you to a more right way than that you found your forefathers following?" They replied, "We disbelieve the religion with which you have been sent." |
| | Al-Mujadilah | Pre Ayat ← 22 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 3. Guard against Internal Enemy | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:You will never find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who have opposed Allah and His Messenger, even though they be their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kinsfolk. They are those in whose hearts Allah has inscribed faith and has strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. He will admit them to such Gardens underneath which rivers will be flowing, to dwell there in for ever. Allah is well pleased with them and they with Allah. They are of Allah's party. Know it well that those of Allah's party alone are truly successful! |