Messengers before you were also ridiculed, but those who jeered were surrounded by what they had ridiculed.
Al-Anbiya 21:41
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وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
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Messengers before you were also ridiculed, but those who jeered were surrounded by what they had ridiculed.
Messengers before you were laughed at too. But the very thing people laughed at came back to surround them.
Messengers before you were also mocked, but in the end, the very thing they laughed at surrounded and punished those who mocked them.
Messengers before you were mocked, but what they mocked closed in on those who ridiculed them.
Messengers before you were ridiculed, but those who jeered became besieged by what they used to ridicule.
Messengers before you were ridiculed, but those who jeered became besieged by what they used to ridicule.
And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
Indeed, (many) Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), but the scoffers were surrounded by that, whereat they used to mock.
Indeed, there were messengers before you who were ridiculed, but those who mocked them were encompassed by what they used to ridicule.
Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.
Other messengers have been mocked before you, but those who scoffed were overwhelmed by the very thing they had mocked.
Other Messengers before you were also mocked, but those who scoffed at the Messengers were overtaken by the same scourge that they had scoffed at.
Apostles were certainly derided before you; but those who ridiculed them were besieged by what they had been deriding.
Walaqadi istuhzia birusulin min qablika fahaqa biallatheena sakhiroo minhum ma kanoo bihi yastahzioona