Or [lest] you say, "It was only that our fathers associated [others in worship] with Allah before, and we were but descendants after them. Then would You destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?"
Tafseer
{ أو يقولوا إنما أشرك آباؤنا من قبل } أي قبلنا { وكنا ذريَّة من بعدهم } فاقتدينا بهم { أفتهلكنا } تعذبنا { بما فعل المبطلون } من آبائنا بتأسيس الشرك، المعنى لا يمكنهم الاحتجاج بذلك مع إشهادهم على أنفسهم بالتوحيد، والتذكير به على لسان صاحب المعجزة قائم مقام ذكره في النفوس .
Or say but engaged fathers by any us and we were the offspring of them Vaguetddin their Avthlkna torment including doing doers of our fathers established polytheism, meaning they can not protest this with Ahhadehm themselves standardization, and recall it in the words of the owner of Miracle the mayor said in the soul.
