رَبِّ إِنَّهُنَّ أَضْلَلْنَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ فَمَن تَبِعَنِي فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي وَمَنْ عَصَانِي فَإِنَّكَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
My Lord! Indeed they have misled many people. So whoever follows me indeed belongs to me, and as for those who disobey me, well, You are indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 14:36
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 14:36] In this verse Ibrahim makes clear as to who he wants to be saved alongwith him namely that only those who follow him would be among his Ahl ul Bayt. Please refer to the commentary of al Baqarah: 124 to 129. Once a man, in the time of Imam Jafar bin Muhammad as Sadiq, tried to make fun of the Ahl ul Bayt by stating that they were the descendants of the idolaters. The Imam said: "Your statement is wrong. Neither Ibrahim nor Ismail nor his sons for whom Ibrahim prayed did ever worship any one other than Allah. Faman tabiani in Ibrahim's prayer refers to us who have always been saved by Allah from going astray. We follow his faith and we are from him. He prayed for Allah's forgiveness for those who deviated from his path." Aqa Mahdi Puya says: The ancestors of the Holy Prophet ascending upto Ibrahim were free from the dirt of polytheism. All of them followed the creed of Ibrahim. The Holy Prophet claimed that Allah kept his ancestors upto Adam free from polytheism. The continuity of spiritual inheritance was severed whenever any one of them deviated from the path of true faith, like the son of Nuh about whom Allah has said that he was not the son (inheritor) of Nuh.