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yā-ḥasratan ʿalā l-ʿibādi mā yaʾtīhim min rasūlin ʾillā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna
How regrettable of the servants! There did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.
— Ali Quli Qarai
36Yā-SīnيسVerse 30 of 83
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Surah Ya-Sin - Verse 30
30. “Alas for the servants! Never came there unto them a messenger but they used to mock him!”
Mocking the Divine prophets has been the constant style of pagans throughout the history of man. This verse with a very attractive and effective tone puts the opposition of all arrogant ones of the history against the invitation of the Divine prophets in a lump under discussion. It says:
Woe to those who shut the doors of Allah’s Mercy to them themselves! Alas for those who broke their torches of guidance! Miserable and deprived of happiness are those who not only did not hearken to the call of the Divine leaders, but also tried to mock them, and then, they killed them by swords, while they had seen the evil fate of those faithless arrogant people before them and they had heard by their ears or studied in history the painful end of theirs that they did not take the least example and paved just the same way they had gone and, consequently, faced with the same fate.
It is clear that this sentence is the word of Allah, since all these verses have been stated from His side, but, of course, the term ‘Alas’ in the sense of inner annoyance concerning the events for which man cannot do anything, is meaningless about Allah; as ‘Wrath’, ‘anger’ and the like, in their real concepts do not exist in respect to Allah either. But the purpose is that the status of those wretched people was so that whoever became aware of their circumstance he would be sad and stressed that why did they drown in that horrible whirlpool while they had so many means of prosperity.
The application of the Qur’anic word /‘ibad/, (the servants of Allah), points to this fact that it is surprising that the servants of Allah, who are encompassed with the bounties of Allah, have committed such crimes.