al-Ṣaffāt

وَإِذَا ذُكّـِرُوا لاَ يَذْكُرُونَ

وَإِذَا رَأَوْا ءَايَةً يَسْتَسْخِرُونَ

وَقَالُوا إِنْ هَذَآ إِلاَّ سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ

13. “When they are admonished, they mind not,”

14. “And when they see a sign (miracle) they invite one another to scuff,”

15. “And they say: ‘This is nothing but an open sorcery.”

Admonishment is not usually effective for the hard-hearted persons. The cause of these ugly actions is not only ignorance, but it is obstinacy and enmity. That is why when they are reminded the evidences, the argumentations of Resurrection and Divine punishment, they never mind and continue their own way. The verse says:

Then even they go beyond this, as the verse says:

In the third verse, it says:

They use the Arabic word /haŏa/ (this) in order to despise it and to show that the miracles and Divine verses are worthless. And the application of ‘sorcery’ had been for the sake that, from one side, the supernatural deeds of the Prophet of Islam (S) were not deniable, and, on the other side, they did not want to submit before them and accept them as a miracle. The only word, which could show their wickedness and quench their desires, had been this very word: ‘sorcery’, which, in the meantime, shows the confession of the enemy upon the wonderful and extraordinary influence of the Qur’an and the miracles of the Prophet (S).