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Surah 43. Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 23

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وَكَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ فِى قَرْيَةٍ مِّن نَّذِيرٍ إِلَّا قَالَ مُتْرَفُوهَآ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا عَلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَـٰرِهِم مُّقْتَدُونَ Qur’an Az-Zukhruf (43:23)
Waka tha lika m a arsaln a min qablika fee qaryatin min na th eerin ill a q a la mutrafooh a inn a wajadn a a b a an a AAal a ommatin wainn a AAal a a th a rihim muqtadoon a
And thus it is: whenever We sent, before thy time, a warner to any community, those of its people who had lost themselves entirely in the pursuit of pleasures22 would always say, "Behold, we found our forefathers agreed on what to believe - and, verily, it is but in their footsteps that we follow!"23
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

For this rendering of the term mutraf (derived from the verb tarafa), see note [147] on 11:116 .

Commenting on this passage, Razi says: "Had there been in the Qur'an nothing but these verses, they would have sufficed to show the falsity of the principle postulating [a Muslim's] blind, unquestioning adoption of [another person's] religious opinions (ibtal al -qawl bi't-taqlid ): for, God has made it clear [in these verses] that those deniers of the truth had not arrived at their convictions by way of reason, and neither on the clear authority of a revealed text, but solely by blindly adopting the opinions of their forebears and predecessors; and all this God has mentioned in terms of blame and sharp disparagement."

Even so, whenever We sent a Warner before you to forewarn a nation, its affluent people said: "We found our forefathers practicing this faith and surely we are going to follow their footsteps."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Similarly, whenever We sent a warner to a society before you 'O Prophet', its 'spoiled' elite would say, 'We found our forefathers following a 'particular' way, and we are walking in their footsteps.'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
Just in the same way whenever We sent a Warner before thee to any people the wealthy ones among them said: "We found Our fathers following a certain religion and We will certainly follow in their footsteps." 4628
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

It is some privileged position, and not ancestral custom, which is really at the bottom of much falsehood and hypocrisy in the world. This has been again and again in religious history.

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