سُوْرَةُ الْاَنْعَامِ

Surah Al-An'aam (6) — Ayah 10

The Cattle · Meccan · Juz 7 · Page 129

وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ ﴿10﴾
And indeed (many) Messengers before you were mocked at, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.
وَلَقَدِ walaqadi And indeed
ٱسْتُهْزِئَ us'tuh'zi-a were mocked
بِرُسُلٍۢ birusulin Messengers
مِّن min from
قَبْلِكَ qablika before you
فَحَاقَ faḥāqa but surrounded
بِٱلَّذِينَ bi-alladhīna those who
سَخِرُوا۟ sakhirū scoffed
مِنْهُم min'hum of them
مَّا what
كَانُوا۟ kānū they used to
بِهِۦ bihi [at it]
يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ yastahziūna mock

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(Ayah 10) {وَ لَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّنْ قَبْلِكَ …:} In this verse, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) is comforted that the denial of you and mockery of Allah’s punishment that you are facing also happened to the previous messengers. In the end, the same punishment overtook the disbelievers, about which they used to mockingly say that no punishment would come, that it was merely a threat.

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The exegesis of this verse has been done along with the previous verse.

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10. Messengers before you were also mocked, but those who scoffed at them were overtaken by the very punishment [10] they used to ridicule.

[10] After answering these objections, Allah Almighty comforted you by saying that this is nothing new. The stubborn disbelievers have always had this attitude; the same happened with previous messengers. Therefore, do not worry about them, and in the end, they were destroyed by the same kind of punishment that they used to mock.