Quran Quote  :  He governs from the heaven to the earth and then the record (of this governance) goes up to Him in a day whose measure is a thousand years in your reckoning. - 32:5

Quran-26:70 Surah Ash-shuara English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوۡمِهِۦ مَا تَعۡبُدُونَ

Transliteration:( Iz qaala li abeehi wa qawmihee maa ta'budoon )

70. When he said to his father and his people, 'What do you worship?' [78] (Kanzul Imaan Translation)

(70) When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?" (Saheen International Translation)

Surah Ash-Shuara Ayat 70 Tafsir (Commentry)



  • Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
  • Ibn Kathir
  • Ala-Madudi
  • Shaheen International

70. When he said to his father and his people, 'What do you worship?' [78]

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Ash-Shura verse 70 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Shura ayat 69 which provides the complete commentary from verse 69 through 77.

(26:70) when he asked his father and his people: “What do you worship?”[51]

Ala-Maududi

(26:70) when he asked his father and his people: “What do you worship?”[51]


51. Obviously the object of this question was to remind the people that the deities which they worshiped were false and absolutely powerless. In Surah Al Anbiya the same question has been posed thus: What are these images to which you are so devoted. (Surah Al-Anbiya, ayat 52).

(70) When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"

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