Verse. 2485

٢١ - ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء

21 - Al-Anbiya

مَا يَاْتِيْہِمْ مِّنْ ذِكْرٍ مِّنْ رَّبِّہِمْ مُّحْدَثٍ اِلَّا اسْتَـمَعُوْہُ وَہُمْ يَلْعَبُوْنَ۝۲ۙ
Ma yateehim min thikrin min rabbihim muhdathin illa istamaAAoohu wahum yalAAaboona

English

Ahmed Ali

Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they listen to it with dalliance.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (never cometh there unto them) whenever gabriel comes to their prophet with (a new reminder from their lord) i.e. the qur'an: verse after verse and surah after surah, as if the coming of gabriel, time after time, and the recitation of muhammad (pbuh) and their listening to it are new, not that the qur'an is new, (but they listen to it while they play) while they mock muhammad (pbuh) and the qur'an.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : there does not come to them any new reminder from their lord, [revealed] gradually, in other words, [new] words of the qur’ān, but they listen to it as they play, [as they] engage in mockery,