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Accusations of disbelievers

This selection features the arguments, mockery, and false accusations directed by disbelievers against the prophets and their followers.

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Meccan
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Medinan
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  • At-Tur 52:33✦ skyread

    أَمْ يَقُولُونَ تَقَوَّلَهُۥ بَل لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ

    Or do they say, "He has made it up"? Rather, they do not believe.

  • Yusuf 12:95✦ skyread

    قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَفِى ضَلَٰلِكَ ٱلْقَدِيمِ

    They said, "By Allah, indeed you are in your [same] old error."

  • At-Tur 52:32✦ skyread

    أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَٰمُهُم بِهَٰذَآ أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ

    Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

  • Al-Mutaffifin 83:32✦ skyread

    وَإِذَا رَأَوْهُمْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَضَآلُّونَ

    And when they saw them, they would say, "Indeed, those are truly lost."

  • As-Saaffaat 37:151✦ skyread

    أَلَآ إِنَّهُم مِّنْ إِفْكِهِمْ لَيَقُولُونَ

    Unquestionably, it is out of their [invented] falsehood that they say,

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:96✦ skyread

    قَالُوا۟ وَهُمْ فِيهَا يَخْتَصِمُونَ

    They will say while they dispute therein,

  • Al-Qamar 54:24✦ skyread

    فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍ وَسُعُرٍ

    And said, "Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness.

  • Al-Muminoon 23:38✦ skyread

    إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا وَمَا نَحْنُ لَهُۥ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ

    He is not but a man who has invented a lie about Allah, and we will not believe him."

  • Saad 38:63✦ skyread

    أَتَّخَذْنَٰهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا أَمْ زَاغَتْ عَنْهُمُ ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ

    Is it [because] we took them in ridicule, or has [our] vision turned away from them?"

  • Al-Qalam 68:51✦ skyread

    وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌ

    And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."

  • Al-An'aam 6:26✦ skyread

    وَهُمْ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ وَيَنْـَٔوْنَ عَنْهُ وَإِن يُهْلِكُونَ إِلَّآ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ

    And they prevent [others] from him and are [themselves] remote from him. And they do not destroy except themselves, but they perceive [it] not.

  • Ad-Dukhaan 44:39✦ skyread

    مَا خَلَقْنَٰهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

    We did not create them except in truth, but most of them do not know.

  • Al-Waaqia 56:92✦ skyread

    وَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ

    But if he was of the deniers [who were] astray,

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:55✦ skyread

    قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ أَمْ أَنتَ مِنَ ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ

    They said, "Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?"

  • Al-Israa 17:47✦ skyread

    نَّحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَسْتَمِعُونَ بِهِۦٓ إِذْ يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِذْ هُمْ نَجْوَىٰٓ إِذْ يَقُولُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًا مَّسْحُورًا

    We are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by magic."

  • An-Najm 53:28✦ skyread

    وَمَا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنَّ ٱلظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱلْحَقِّ شَيْـًٔا

    And they have thereof no knowledge. They follow not except assumption, and indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all.

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:78✦ skyread

    لَقَدْ جِئْنَٰكُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَكُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَٰرِهُونَ

    We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.

  • Yunus 10:43✦ skyread

    وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَنظُرُ إِلَيْكَ أَفَأَنتَ تَهْدِى ٱلْعُمْىَ وَلَوْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ

    And among them are those who look at you. But can you guide the blind although they will not [attempt to] see?

  • As-Saaffaat 37:95✦ skyread

    قَالَ أَتَعْبُدُونَ مَا تَنْحِتُونَ

    He said, "Do you worship that which you [yourselves] carve,

  • Al-Muminoon 23:70✦ skyread

    أَمْ يَقُولُونَ بِهِۦ جِنَّةٌۢ بَلْ جَآءَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَٰرِهُونَ

    Or do they say, "In him is madness?" Rather, he brought them the truth, but most of them, to the truth, are averse.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:69✦ skyread

    إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا۟ ءَابَآءَهُمْ ضَآلِّينَ

    Indeed they found their fathers astray.

  • Qaaf 50:5✦ skyread

    بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ فَهُمْ فِىٓ أَمْرٍ مَّرِيجٍ

    But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition.

  • Al-Hijr 15:6✦ skyread

    وَقَالُوا۟ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِى نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ ٱلذِّكْرُ إِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُونٌ

    And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.

  • Saba 34:52✦ skyread

    وَقَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِهِۦ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلتَّنَاوُشُ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍ

    And they will [then] say, "We believe in it!" But how for them will be the taking [of faith] from a place far away?

  • Al-Ma'aarij 70:42✦ skyread

    فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

    So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -

  • Saba 34:49✦ skyread

    قُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَمَا يُبْدِئُ ٱلْبَٰطِلُ وَمَا يُعِيدُ

    Say, "The truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin [anything] nor repeat [it]."

  • As-Saaffaat 37:32✦ skyread

    فَأَغْوَيْنَٰكُمْ إِنَّا كُنَّا غَٰوِينَ

    And we led you to deviation; indeed, we were deviators."

  • Yaseen 36:62✦ skyread

    وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ

    And he had already led astray from among you much of creation, so did you not use reason?

  • An-Naml 27:66✦ skyread

    بَلِ ٱدَّٰرَكَ عِلْمُهُمْ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّ مِّنْهَا بَلْ هُم مِّنْهَا عَمُونَ

    Rather, their knowledge is arrested concerning the Hereafter. Rather, they are in doubt about it. Rather, they are, concerning it, blind.

  • Adh-Dhaariyat 51:52✦ skyread

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

    Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:22✦ skyread

    بَلْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا عَلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِم مُّهْتَدُونَ

    Rather, they say, "Indeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are in their footsteps [rightly] guided."

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:53✦ skyread

    قَالُوا۟ وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا لَهَا عَٰبِدِينَ

    They said, "We found our fathers worshippers of them."

  • At-Tur 52:36✦ skyread

    أَمْ خَلَقُوا۟ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ

    Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:54✦ skyread

    قَالَ لَقَدْ كُنتُمْ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُمْ فِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

    He said, "You were certainly, you and your fathers, in manifest error."

  • Al-Furqaan 25:33✦ skyread

    وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا

    And they do not come to you with an argument except that We bring you the truth and the best explanation.

  • Al-Muminoon 23:90✦ skyread

    بَلْ أَتَيْنَٰهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَٰذِبُونَ

    Rather, We have brought them the truth, and indeed they are liars.

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:83✦ skyread

    فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

    So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised.

  • Al-Baqara 2:169✦ skyread

    إِنَّمَا يَأْمُرُكُم بِٱلسُّوٓءِ وَٱلْفَحْشَآءِ وَأَن تَقُولُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

    He only orders you to evil and immorality and to say about Allah what you do not know.

  • Al-Haaqqa 69:47✦ skyread

    فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَٰجِزِينَ

    And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.

  • Al-Ankaboot 29:43✦ skyread

    وَتِلْكَ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ وَمَا يَعْقِلُهَآ إِلَّا ٱلْعَٰلِمُونَ

    And these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except those of knowledge.

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mercy0.16x the book

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judgment1.12x the book

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command0.34x the book

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the hereafter0.51x the book

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