Surah Al-An'am — Verse 10

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وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

Walaqadi istuhzi-a birusulin min qablika fahaqabillatheena sakhiroo minhum ma kanoobihi yastahzi-oon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by that which they used to ridicule.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Messengers have been mocked before you [Muhammad], and those who mocked them were engulfed by the very punishment they had mocked.

Marmaduke Pickthall

Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Even before you (O Prophet,) many messengers were ridiculed. Those who laughed at them were, then, besieged by what they used to ridicule.

Al-Hilali & Khan

And indeed (many) Messengers before you were mocked at, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

And indeed before your time (O Muhammad!) many a Messenger has been scoffed at; but those who mocked at them were encompassed by the Truth they had scoffed at.

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

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.