97 Preface قالُوا ابنوا لَهُ بُنيانًا فَأَلقوهُ فِي الجَحيمِYusuf AliThey said, “Build him a furnace, and throw him1 into the blazing fire!”The argument of Abraham was so sound that it could not be met by argument. In such cases Evil resorts to violence, or secret plotting. Here there was both violence and secret plotting. The violence consisted in throwing him into a blazing Furnace. But by the mercy of God the fire did not harm him (21:69), and so they resorted to plotting. But the plotting, as the next verse (37:98) shows, was a boomerang that recoiled on their own heads.