وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا إِلَى مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَإِلَى الرَّسُولِ قَالُوا حَسْبُنَا مَا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ آبَاءَنَا أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ
When they are told, ‘Come to what Allah has sent down and [come] to the Apostle,’ they say, ‘Sufficient for us is what we have found our fathers following.’ What, even if their fathers did not know anything and were not guided?!
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 5:104
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 5:104] To most of the polytheistic people, like Arab pagans, religion is not a matter of sound reason and divine revelation, but a mere usage-a set of rites and dogmas handed down from the fathers to the sons. "He who finds the right path does so for himself; and he who goes astray does so to his own loss; and no one who carries a burden bears another's load," says verse 15 of Bani Israil.