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And when he saw the sun rising, he said, 'This is my Rabb; this is greater!' than the star and the moon (the masculine [demonstrative pronoun] hādhā, 'this', is used [for the feminine shams, 'sun'] because the predicate [rabbī, 'my Rabb'] is masculine). But when it set, and the argument against them had become stronger and they still had not repented, he said, 'O my people, surely I am innocent of what you associate, with Allahu ta’ālā, in the way of idols and accidental bodies, which require an originator. They then asked him, 'What do you worship?'