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Sura 37
Aya 70
70
فَهُم عَلىٰ آثارِهِم يُهرَعونَ

Muhammad Asad

and [now] they make haste to follow in their footsteps'.1
  • I.e., blind imitation (taqlid) of the - obviously absurd - beliefs, valuations and customs of one's erring predecessors, and disregard of all evidence of the truth supplied by both reason and divine revelation, is here shown to be the principal cause of the suffering referred to in the preceding passage (Zamakhshari).