Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
(The likeness of those who choose) worshipped (other patrons than Allah) idols as Lords (is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house) He says: the spider's web does not protect the spider from heat nor from cold; and idols do not protect those who worship them in this worldly life nor in the Hereafter, (if they but knew) this similitude; but they do not know nor believe in it.
Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou
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