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Surah ad-Dhariyat (The Scattering Winds) 51 : 52

كَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَتَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا۟ سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(51:52:1)
(51:52:2)
(51:52:3)
atā
came
(51:52:4)
alladhīna
(to) those
(51:52:5)
(51:52:6)
qablihim
before them
(51:52:7)
(51:52:8)
rasūlin
Messenger
(51:52:9)
illā
but
(51:52:10)
qālū
they said
(51:52:11)
sāḥirun
A magician
(51:52:12)
(51:52:13)
majnūnun
a madman

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Thus whenever a messenger came to those that lived before them, they also said: He is but a sorcerer, or maybe a madman.' Have they, perchance, handed down this legacy to one another? No! They are people who transgress all bounds. Turn, then, away from them: you shall incur no blame; and go on reminding all. Such a reminder will benefit those who believe. (Verses 52-55)

It is the same nature common to all unbelievers. They all give the same response to the divine message: "Thus whenever a messenger came to those that lived before them, they also said: He is but a sorcerer, or maybe a madman.'" (Verse 52) This is exactly what the Arab unbelievers said. It is as if one generation of unbelievers handed down such a legacy to the next in a continuing process. Needless to say, there was no such handing down. It is all in the nature of transgression and unbelief whereby present unbelievers and their predecessors are brought together.

 

 

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The subject matter and the style clearly show that it was sent down in the period when persecution had not yet started. Although the Prophet’s invitation was being resisted and opposed with denial and ridicule and false accusations stubbornly. Therefore, this Surah also seems to have been revealed in the same period in which the Surah 50: Qaf (Qaf) was revealed.

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