سورة يس، الآية ٣٠
يَٰحَسْرَةً عَلَى ٱلْعِبَادِ مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ ٣٠
yāḥasratan ʿalā l-ʿibādi mā yatīhim min rasūlin illā kānū bihi yastahziūna
How regretful for the servants. There did not come to them any messenger except that they used to ridicule him.
Verse 30 of Surah Ya-Sin (36:30), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 442 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 71 reciters.
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Alas for those servants who denied, and how regretful will their situation be on the day of resurrection when they will see the punishment. That is because in the world, whenever any Messenger from Allah came to them, they used to mock at and ridicule him. Their outcome will therefore be regret on the day of resurrection for the neglect of their duty to Allah.
Alas for the humans! No messenger ever comes to them but they ridicule him.
Alas for mankind! There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him.
Ah, the anguish for the bondmen! Never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him!
Ah! Alas for (My) Servants! There comes not a messenger to them but they mock him!
Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an messenger but they mock at him.
Oh for the regrets of the bondmen! In no way does a Messenger come up to them except that they used to mock at him.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.
وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن نَّبِىٍّ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.
