سورة الذاريات، الآية ٥٢
كَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَتَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا۟ سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ ٥٢
kadhālika mā atā alladhīna min qablihim min rasūlin illā qālū sāḥirun aw majnūnun
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."
Verse 52 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:52), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 523 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Like the denial of the people of Makkah, the previous nations denied. No Messenger came to them from Allah except that they said regarding him: “He is a magician or a madman”.
Likewise, no messenger came to those before them without being told: “A magician, or a madman!”
Likewise, no Messenger came to those before them but they said: "A sorcerer or a madman!"
Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman!
Similarly, no messenger came to the Peoples before them, but they said (of him) in like manner, "A sorcerer, or one possessed"!
Thus there did not come to those before them a messenger but they said: A magician or a mad man.
Thus in no way did (any) Messenger come up to the ones even before them except that they said, "A sorcerer or a madman."
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ قُلِ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
And if you asked them, "Who created the heavens and earth?" they would surely say, "Allāh." Say, "[All] praise is [due] to Allāh"; but most of them do not know.
