Kathalika ma ata allatheena min qablihim min rasoolin illa qaloo sahirun aw majnoonun
English
Ahmed Ali
Even thus no apostle came to those before them but they said: "He is a sorcerer or a mad man."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (even so) just as your own people accused you of being a wizard and madman (there came no messenger) calling to allah (unto those before them) before your people (but they said) to that messenger: (a wizard or a madman!
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : thus there did not come to those who were before them any messenger but they said, that he was: ‘a sorcerer, or a madman!’, in other words, their denial of you, by saying that you are a sorcerer or a madman, was like the denial of communities before them of their messengers by saying that [same thing].
