The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 182
CH. 21 AL-ANBIYA' PT. 17 وَتَاللهِ لَا كِيْدَنَّ أَصْنَامَكُمْ بَعْدَ أَنْ will 58. And, by Allah, I certainly plan against your idols after you have gone away and turned your backs. '2395 تُوَلُّوا مُدْبِرِينَ فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذْذَا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ So he broke them into. 59 الَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ pieces, all except the chief of them, that they might return to it for enquiry. 2396 "37:94. merely make an assertion about God but substantiate it with practical proofs from their own life. They do not invite people to God merely because human reason demands belief in His existence but they do it with full conviction and firm faith. When they say that God exists they say it with full conviction because they constantly hear His sweet voice and because also they themselves speak to Him and receive answer to their prayers from Him. God reveals Himself to them and they witness practical proofs of His power and omniscience in their own persons. So their testimony about the existence of God is based not on hearsay, nor on reason alone but primarily and principally on their personal experience. It is for this reason that God has commanded the Holy Prophet to declare: on "I call unto Allah sure knowledge, I and those who follow me"(12:109). 2395. Commentary: Probably Abraham had spoken these words to himself or they give verbal expression to the plan which 2096 he had contrived in his mind practically to demonstrate the folly and falsity of the polytheistic beliefs and practices of his people. 2396. Important Words: جن pieces) is inf. noun from) جذاذاً They say, i. e. he cut it and broke it into pieces. ¿ means, he walked quickly (Lane). Commentary: SO The pronoun in the expression may refer either to God, or to the chief idol or to Abraham himself. As referring to Abraham, the meaning of the verse would be that he broke all the idols except the chief among them that his people should have recourse to him to ask him who had broken their idols and that when they should come to him he should tell them that instead of inquiring from him they should put the same question to their chief idol. This was a very effective and forcible way of bringing home to the idolaters the futility of worshipping mere lifeless blocks of wood or stone. ୪ If the pronoun & be taken to refer to God, then the meaning would be that Abraham broke the idols of his