Al Shu‘arā’

قَالُوا سَوَاء عَلَيْنَا أَوَعَظْتَ أَمْ لَمْ تَكُن مِّنَ الْوَاعِظِينَ

136. “They said: 'It is the same to us whether you admonish or be not of the admonishers.”

The previous verses contained the expressive words of the sympathetic prophet Hud (as) with his rebellious people, ’Ad people. Now the Qur’an refers to the irrational vicious answers of that group of people who told Hud that he would not put himself into trouble, because it was indifferent to them whether he admonished them or not and his admonition would not have any effect on their heart. The verse says: