128أَتَبنونَ بِكُلِّ ريعٍ آيَةً تَعبَثونَMuhammad Asad"Will you, in your wanton folly, build [idolatrous] altars on every height,1The noun ayah, which primarily denotes "a sign" or "a token", evidently refers here to the ancient Semitic custom of worshipping the tribal gods on hilltops, which were crowned to this end by sacrificial altars or monuments, each of them devoted to a particular deity: hence my rendering of ayah, in this particular context, as "altars" (in the plural).