Surah Al-Anbya (الأنبياء) • The Prophets

Quran 21:41

21:41

وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

walaqadi us'tuh'zi-a birusulin min qablika faḥāqa bi-alladhīna sakhirū min'hum mā kānū bihi yastahziūna

And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

— Saheeh International

Messengers before you [Muhammad] were also ridiculed, but those who mocked them were overwhelmed in the end by the very thing they had mocked.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Indeed, (many) Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), but the scoffers were surrounded by that, whereat they used to mock.

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Juz 17Page 325meccan

Word by Word

وَلَقَدِwalaqadiAnd verily
ٱسْتُهْزِئَus'tuh'zi-awere mocked
بِرُسُلٍۢbirusulinMessengers
مِّنminbefore you
قَبْلِكَqablikabefore you
فَحَاقَfaḥāqathen surrounded
بِٱلَّذِينَbi-alladhīnathose who
سَخِرُوا۟sakhirūmocked
مِنْهُمmin'humfrom them
مَّاmāwhat
كَانُوا۟kānūthey used
بِهِۦbihiat it
يَسْتَهْزِءُونَyastahziūna(to) mock