سورة الاٴنبیَاء
Surah Al-Anbiyâ’ 21:41
The Prophets · Verse 41 of 112
وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
And certainly Messengers have (also) been treated as mere trifles even before you with the result that those who made light of them (- the Messengers) were caught by the very thing they held as vain and unimportant.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
Ahmed Ali
Many apostles have been scoffed before you; but they who scoffed were themselves caught by what they had ridiculed.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Indeed, Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad), but the very thing, because of which the people used to mock them, overwhelmed those who scoffed at the Messengers (to humiliate them).
Daryabadi
And assuredly mocked were the apostles before thee, then there surrounded those of them Who scoffed that whereat they had been mocking!
Faridul Haque
And indeed the Noble Messengers before you were mocked at, but their mockery ruined the mockers themselves.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And messengers before thee were indeed mocked, so there befell those of them who scoffed, that whereat they scoffed.
Maulvi Sher Ali
And the Messengers have indeed been mocked at before thee, but whereat they mocked encompassed those of them who scoffed.
Muhammad Asad
And, indeed, [O Muhammad, even] before thy time have [God's] apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were [in the end] overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride. (
Muhammad Musin Khan
Indeed (many) Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad SAW), but the scoffers were surrounded by that, whereat they used to mock.
Muhammad Pickthall
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.
Muhammad Sarwar
They mocked the Messengers who were sent before you; thus, the torment which they had ridiculed encompassed them all.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.
Rashad Khalifa
Messengers before you have been ridiculed, and, consequently, those who ridiculed them incurred the retribution for their ridiculing.
Shabbir Ahmed
(O Prophet) even before your time Messengers have been mocked, but in the end, the mockers were overwhelmed by the very thing they ridiculed (Divine retribution).