137إِن هٰذا إِلّا خُلُقُ الأَوَّلينَMuhammad AsadThis [religion of ours] is none other than that to which our forebears clung,1Lit., "the innate habit of the earlier people (al-awwalin)". The noun khuluq denotes one's "nature" in the sense of "innate disposition" (tabi'ah) or "moral character" (Taj al-'Arus); hence the use of this term to describe "that to which one clings", i.e., one's "innate habit" or "custom", and, in a specific sense, one's religion (ibid.).