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Surah 21. Al-Anbiya, Ayah 52

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إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَـٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَـٰكِفُونَ
I th q a la liabeehi waqawmihi m a h ath ihi a l ttam a theelu allatee antum lah a AA a kifoon a
when he said unto his father and his people, "What are these images to which you are so intensely devoted?"
  - Mohammad Asad
Remember that occasion when Ibrahim asked his father and his people, "What are these images to which you are so devoted?"
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
'Remember' when he questioned his father and his people, 'What are these statues to which you are so devoted?'
  - Mustafa Khattab
When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion?
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Behold! he said to his father and his people "What are these images to which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?" 2714
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Reference is made to Abraham in many places. In xix. 42-49 it was with reference to his relations to his father: the problem was how a righteous man should deal with his father, when his duty to his father conflicts with his duty to Allah. Here the problem is: how a righteous man should deal with evil and overcome it; how he should fight against evil, and if he is subjected to the fire of persecution, how his firmness draws Allah's Mercy, and the very troubles he is placed in become his comfort and joy.

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