سُوْرَةُ الْحِجْرِ

Surah Al-Hijr (15) — Ayah 13

The Rock · Meccan · Juz 14 · Page 262

لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِۦ ۖ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴿13﴾
They would not believe in it (the Qur’ân); and already the example of (Allâh’s punishment of) the ancients (who disbelieved) has gone forth.
لَا Not
يُؤْمِنُونَ yu'minūna they believe
بِهِۦ ۖ bihi in it
وَقَدْ waqad and verily
خَلَتْ khalat have passed
سُنَّةُ sunnatu the way(s)
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ l-awalīna (of) the former (people)

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13. 1. That is, their destruction follows the same method which Allah has previously ordained: after denial and mockery, He destroys the nations.

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13. They do not believe in it, and this has been the way of the earlier peoples [6] as well.

[6]
The False Arguments of the Disbelievers for Not Believing:

Just as the deniers of the truth mock the signs of Allah, sometimes they accuse you ﷺ of fabrication, sometimes they say this is merely sorcery and spellbinding speech. Sometimes they demand a miracle, and sometimes the descent of angels. Sometimes, on the basis of your being human, they deny your prophethood, and sometimes they call you a sorcerer or a madman. All of this is nothing but false arguments to avoid accepting the signs of Allah, and such mockery is not directed at you alone; rather, the deniers of the truth have always done the same with previous messengers. After hearing the signs of Allah, this is all that comes to their minds. One important purpose of revealing such verses is also to console the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the Muslims, who were facing extremely difficult circumstances. And since this was a long period of thirteen years, the revelation of such verses continued to occur repeatedly from time to time.