Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
50 This is a blessed reminder which We have sent down.
Will you then deny it?
51 Certainly We had given Abraham his rectitude
before,
and We knew him
53 when he said to his father and his people,
‘What are these images
to which you keep on clinging?’
53 They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’
54 He said, ‘Certainly you and your fathers have been
in manifest error.’
55 They said, ‘Are you telling the truth,1
or are you [just] kidding?’
56 He said, ‘Rather your Lord is the Lord of the heavens
and the earth,
who originated them,
and I am a witness to this.
57 By Allah, I will devise a stratagem against your idols
after you have gone away.’
58 So he broke them into pieces,
— all except the biggest of them —
so that they might come back to it.
59 They said, ‘Whoever has done this to Our gods?!
He is indeed a wrongdoer!’
60 They said, ‘We heard a young man speaking ill of them.
He is called “Abraham.” ’
61 They said, ‘Bring him before the people’s eyes
so that they may bear witness [against him].’
1 Or ‘Are you speaking seriously.’
