Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-An'aam, Ayah 150
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Say ‘Come bring forth your witnesses those who can testify that God has forbidden this’ which you have forbidden. Then if they testify do not bear witness with them; and do not follow the whims of those who deny Our signs those who do not believe in the Hereafter and ascribe equals to their Lord associating others with Him.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Say) to them, O Muhammad: (Come, bring your witnesses who can bear witness that Allah forbade (all) this) that you claim of crops and cattle. (And if they) falsely (bear witness) that they are forbidden, (do not you bear witness with them. Follow thou not the whims of those who deny Our revelations) i.e. the Qur'an, (those who believe not in the Hereafter) in resurrection after death (and deem (others) equal with their Lord) take idols as His partners.