ٱلزُّخْرُف : ٢٨

  • وَجَعَلَهَا And he made it
  • كَلِمَةَۢ a word
  • بَاقِيَةٗ lasting
  • فِي among
  • عَقِبِهِۦ his descendents
  • لَعَلَّهُمۡ so that they may
  • يَرۡجِعُونَ return
And he made it1 a word remaining among his descendants that they might return [to it].
Footnotes
1 - i.e., his testimony that none is worthy of worship except Allāh.
And he made it, namely, the statement of the affirmation of [God's] Oneness, understood from his words, I shall indeed depart to my Lord; He will guide me [Q. 37:99], a word enduring among his posterity, his descendants, and thus there still remains among them those who affirm the Oneness of [God]; that perhaps they, that is, the people of Mecca, might recant, what they follow [and return] to the religion of their forefather Abraham.