Surah 6. Al-An'am, Ayah 10
| وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ |
| Asad | : | And, indeed, [even] before thy time have apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were [in the end] overwhelmed by the very thing which they were wont to deride.9 |
| Malik | : | O Muhammad many Rasools before you were also ridiculed, but in the long run those who ridiculed were hemmed in by the very thing they were ridiculing. |
| Pickthall | : | Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Mocked were (many) Apostles before thee; but the scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked. 843 |
| Transliteration | : | wa- la- qad istuhzi' bi- rusul min qabli -ka fa- h.aaqa bi- 'alladhena sakhiro min -hum maa kaano bi- -hi yastahzi'on |
Note - 9Lit., "that which they were wont to deride enfolded those
who scoffed at them" (i.e., at the apostles): the meaning
being that a derisive rejection of spiritual truths
inexorably rebounds on the scoffers and has not only a
disastrous effect on their individual lives after death
but also - if persisted in by the majority within a
community - destroys the moral basis of their society
and, thus, their earthly happiness and sometimes even
their physical existence.
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Note - 843"The scoffers were mocked by the thing that they mocked"
would express epigrammatically part of the sense, but not
the whole. "Hemmed in" implies that the logic of events
turned the tables, and as a man might be besieged and
surrounded by an enemy in war, and would be forced to
surrender, so these mockers will find that events would
justify Truth, not them. The mockers of Jesus, - where
were they when Titus detroyed Jerusalem? The mockers who
drove out Muhammad from Mecca, - what was their plight
when Muhammad came back in triumph and they sued for
mercy, - and he gave it to them! According to the Latin
proverb, Great is Truth, and must prevail.
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Lit., "that which they were wont to deride enfolded those who scoffed at them" (i.e., at the apostles): the meaning being that a derisive rejection of spiritual truths inexorably rebounds on the scoffers and has not only a disastrous effect on their individual lives after death but also - if persisted in by the majority within a community - destroys the moral basis of their society and, thus, their earthly happiness and sometimes even their physical existence. |
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"The scoffers were mocked by the thing that they mocked" would express epigrammatically part of the sense, but not the whole. "Hemmed in" implies that the logic of events turned the tables, and as a man might be besieged and surrounded by an enemy in war, and would be forced to surrender, so these mockers will find that events would justify Truth, not them. The mockers of Jesus, - where were they when Titus detroyed Jerusalem? The mockers who drove out Muhammad from Mecca, - what was their plight when Muhammad came back in triumph and they sued for mercy, - and he gave it to them! According to the Latin proverb, Great is Truth, and must prevail. |
