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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ya-Sin — Ayah 15

36:15
قَالُواْ مَآ أَنتُمۡ إِلَّا بَشَرٞ مِّثۡلُنَا وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ مِن شَيۡءٍ إِنۡ أَنتُمۡ إِلَّا تَكۡذِبُونَ ١٥
They said: “We have been sent to you as Messengers.” The people of the town said: “You are only human beings like ourselves,1 and the Merciful Lord has revealed nothing.2 You are simply lying.”
Footnotes
  • [1] The Arabic word used isayat(singularayah). Ayahmeans ‘sign’ or ‘proof’. It is also used to denote the unit of text in the Qur’an,like ‘verse’ in poetry or ‘sentence’ in prose.Each such unit isconsidered a ‘sign’from God.
  • [2] Qira’at: Nafieʻ read it as: “. . . conversing by night (about it), (yet) blaspheming .”
  • [3] In other words, what they wanted to say was: Since you are human beings, you cannot be the messengers of God. The same was the view of the disbelievers of Makkah. They also said: Muhammad cannot be a messenger because he is a man.
  • [4] They say: What sort of a Messenger is he that he eats food and moves about in the streets. (Surah Al-Furqan, Ayat 7).