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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Hijr 15:11

Word by word

وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ولقد أرسلنا من قبلك -أيها الرسول- رسلا في فِرَق الأولين، فما من رسولٍ جاءهم إلا كانوا منه يسخرون. وفي هذا تسلية للرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم. فكما فَعَل بك هؤلاء المشركون فكذلك فُعِلَ بمن قبلك من الرسل.

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