1365 Abraham and his unbelieving father are referred to in
6:74. Apparently when Abraham was convinced that the conditions mentioned in the last note applied to his father, he gave up praying for him, as the physical bond was cut off by the spiritual hostility. For the promise to pray for his father, see
19:47, (see also n. 5413 to
60:4). 1366 Abraham was loyal and tender-hearted, and bore with much that he disapproved, being in this a prototype of al Mustafa, and it must have gone against his grain to cut off relations in that way. But it would obviously be wrong for a human being to entreat Allah for mercy on people who had finally rejected Allah.