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« aware that it will pass, since they have previously been guided and will find guidance again. In the case of the prophet Abraham, he had been guided as a child, then later called the star, the moon and the sun in turn his lord, but then realised that If my Lord does not guide me I shall surely be one of the folk who have gone astray [6:77], on which Tustarī comments next. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 66 He said: It means: If my Lord does not continue to guide me I shall be one of the folk who go astray.12 Then he said: The religion of Abraham  was generosity (sakhāwa), and [a state of] freedom (tabarrī) from »