52 Preface إِذ قالَ لِأَبيهِ وَقَومِهِ ما هٰذِهِ التَّماثيلُ الَّتي أَنتُم لَها عاكِفونَAli Quli Qaraiwhen he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images to which you keep on clinging?’