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bal kadhdhabū bi-mā lam yuḥīṭū bi-ʿilmihī wa-lammā yaʾtihim taʾwīluhū ka-dhālika kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim fa-nẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu ẓ-ẓālimīna
Indeed, they deny something whose knowledge they do not comprehend, and whose explanation has not yet come to them. Those who were before them denied likewise. So observe how was the fate of the wrongdoers!
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Yunus – Verse 39
39. “Nay, they belied that which they comprehended not with the knowledge of it, which whose interpretation has not yet come to them. Even thus did belie those before them, see then what was the end of the unjust ones.”
The opponents of the prophets have often had two reasons for their dissidence throughout history, one of which was due to their ignorance and the other to their lack of knowledge and intellectual appreciation of the glorious Qur’an as well as the other heavenly Books. It says:
“Nay, they belied that which they comprehended not with the knowledge of it, which whose interpretation has not yet come to them. Even thus did belie those before them...”
They rejected the Qur’an before they knew the truth about it and had not grasped command of its interpretation and meaning; because it was fundamentally against their ancestral religion. Hence, as to the eventual fate of the oppressors, the verse continues saying:
“…see then what was the end of the unjust ones.”