Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Luqman, Ayah 21
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And if it is said to them ‘Follow what God has revealed’ they say ‘We will rather follow what we found our fathers following’. He exalted be He says What! Would they follow such things even though Satan were calling them to the chastisement of the Blaze? that is to what will bring it about necessarily? No!
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And if it be said unto them) i.e. to the disbelievers of Mecca: (Follow that which Allah hath revealed) to His Prophet of the Qur'an; i.e. recite and act upon what is in it, (they say: Nay, but we follow that wherein we found our fathers) of religion and wont. (What! Even though the devil were inviting them) were inviting their fathers (unto the doom of flame) to disbelief, idolatry and that which leads to the chastisement of the Flame, and still they follow them?