Maryam • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ يَٰٓأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعْبُدُ مَا لَا يَسْمَعُ وَلَا يُبْصِرُ وَلَا يُغْنِى عَنكَ شَيْـًۭٔا ﴾
“when he spoke [thus] unto his father: "O my father! Why dost thou worship something that neither hears nor sees and can be of no avail whatever to thee?”
(When he said unto his father) Azar: (O my father! Why worshippest thou) beside Allah (that which heareth not) when called upon (nor seeth) when you worship it, (nor can in aught avail thee) from Allah's chastisement?