Quran verses About Refuting the Unbelievers’ Claim ABout Following in the Footsteps of Their Fathers and Ancestors

78-They said, ’ Have you come to us to turn us away from that upon which we found our fathers and so that you two may have grandeur in the land? And we are not believers in you.’

62-They said, ’ O Salih, you were among us a man of promise before this. Do you forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped? And indeed we are, about that to which you invite us, in disquieting doubt.’

87-They said, ’ O Shu’ayb, does your prayer command you that we should leave what our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are the forbearing, the discerning!’

36-But when Moses came to them with Our signs as clear evidences, they said, ’ This is not except invented magic, and we have not heard of this [religion] among our forefathers.’

50-And this [Qur’an] is a blessed message which We have sent down. Then are you with it unacquainted?

51-And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgement before, and We were of him well-Knowing

52-When he said to his father and his people, ’ What are these statues to which you are devoted?’

53-They said, ’ We found our fathers worshippers of them.’

54-He said, ’ You were certainly, you and your fathers, in manifest error.’

55-They said, ’ Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?’

56-He said, ’ [No], rather, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth who created them, and I, to that, am of those who testify.

69-And recite to them the news of Abraham,

70-When he said to his father and his people, ’ What do you worship?’

71-They said, ’ We worship idols and remain to them devoted.’

72-He said, ’ Do they hear you when you supplicate?

73-Or do they benefit you, or do they harm?’

74-They said, ’ But we found our fathers doing thus.’

75-He said, ’ Then do you see what you have been worshipping,

76-You and your ancient forefathers?

77-Indeed, they are enemies to me, except the Lord of the worlds,

10-Their messengers said, ’ Can there be doubt about Allah, Creator of the heavens and earth? He invites you that He may forgive you of your sins, and He delays your death for a specified term.’ They said, ’ You are not but men like us who wish to avert us from what our fathers were worshipping. So bring us a clear authority.’

21-And when it is said to them, ’ Follow what Allah has revealed,’ they say, ’ Rather, we will follow that upon which we found our fathers.’ Even if Satan was inviting them to the punishment of the Blaze?

170-And when it is said to them, ’ Follow what Allah has revealed,’ they say, ’ Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing.’ Even though their fathers understood nothing, nor were they guided?

104-And when it is said to them, ’ Come to what Allah has revealed and to the Messenger,’ they say, ’ Sufficient for us is that upon which we found our fathers.’ Even though their fathers knew nothing, nor were they guided?

28-And when they commit an immorality, they say, ’ We found our fathers doing it, and Allah has ordered us to do it.’ Say, ’ Indeed, Allah does not order immorality. Do you say about Allah that which you do not know?’

21-Or have We given them a book before the Qur’an to which they are adhering?

22-Rather, they say, ’ Indeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are in their footsteps [rightly] guided.’

23-And similarly, We did not send before you any warner into a city except that its affluent said, ’ Indeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are, in their footsteps, following.’

38-[Allah] will say, ’ Enter among nations which had passed on before you of jinn and mankind into the Fire.’ Every time a nation enters, it will curse its sister until, when they have all overtaken one another therein, the last of them will say about the first of them ’ Our Lord, these had misled us, so give them a double punishment of the Fire. He will say, ’ For each is double, but you do not know.’

39-And the first of them will say to the last of them, ’ Then you had not any favor over us, so taste the punishment for what you used to earn.’

172-And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], ’ Am I not your Lord?’ They said, ’ Yes, we have testified.’ [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, ’ Indeed, we were of this unaware.’

173-Or [lest] you say, ’ It was only that our fathers associated [others in worship] with Allah before, and we were but descendants after them. Then would You destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?’

33-O mankind, fear your Lord and fear a Day when no father will avail his son, nor will a son avail his father at all. Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth, so let not the worldly life delude you and be not deceived about Allah by the Deceiver.