﴿ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا خُلُقُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴾

“This [religion of ours] is none other than that to which our forebears clung,”

(This) that in which we are now (is but a fable of the men of old) the religion of the people of old; the religion of our forefathers; it is also said that this means: what you say is nothing but the invention of the people of old,