سورة الاٴنعَام
Surah Al-An‘âm 6:10
The Cattle · Verse 10 of 165
وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
(O Muhammad!) certainly Messengers have been treated scornfully before you but that (prophecy of the ultimate success of the Messenger) which they held in scorn recoiled on those who had held (the prophecy) in scorn.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
Ahmed Ali
Surely the apostles have been mocked before you; but what they had mocked rebounded on the mockers themselves.
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Ali Unal
Messengers indeed were mocked before you (O Messenger), but what they used to mock overwhelmed those who scoffed (at the Messengers to humiliate them).
Daryabadi
And assuredly mocked were the apostles before thee, wherefore that whereat they scoffed beset these who had been mocking.
Faridul Haque
And certainly, O dear Prophet (Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him) the Noble Messengers before you have also been mocked at, so those who laughed at them were themselves ruined by their own mocking.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And certainly messengers before thee were derided but that which they derided encompassed those of them who scoffed.
Maulvi Sher Ali
And surely the Messengers have been mocked at before thee, but that which they mocked at encompassed those of them who scoffed at it.
Muhammad 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.
Muhammad Musin Khan
And indeed (many) Messengers were mocked before you, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.
Muhammad Pickthall
Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.
Muhammad Sarwar
They mocked the Messengers who lived before you (Muhammad), but those who received warnings of punishment and mocked the warnings, all suffered their torments accordingly.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And certainly messengers before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed the scoffers among them.
Rashad Khalifa
Messengers before you have been ridiculed. It is those who mocked them who suffered the consequences of their ridiculing.
Shabbir Ahmed
Messengers before you have been mocked. But the very thing they used to mock surrounded them in the end, for their ridiculing.