Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, “A sorcerer or a madman.”
Adh-Dhariyat 51:52
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كَذَٰلِكَ مَا أَتَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ
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Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, “A sorcerer or a madman.”
Every messenger who came before was called a magician or a crazy man.
In the same way, whenever a messenger came to those before them, they said, "He's just a magician or a madman."
Likewise, no messenger came to those before them without them saying, “A sorcerer or a madman!”
Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, “A magician or a madman.”
Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, “A magician or a madman.”
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."
Likewise, no Messenger came to those before them but they said: "A sorcerer or a madman!"
Likewise, no messenger came to those before them without being told: “A magician, or a madman!”
Similarly, no messenger came to the Peoples before them, but they said (of him) in like manner, "A sorcerer, or one possessed"!
Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman!
Likewise, there came no messenger to those before them, but they said, "He is a sorcerer or a madman."
Thus has it been (in the past): never did a Messenger come to the nations that preceded them but they said: “(He is) a sorcerer, or a mad-man.”
So it was that there did not come any apostle to those who were before them but they said, ‘A magician,’ or ‘A crazy man!’
Kathalika ma ata allatheena min qablihim min rasoolin illa qaloo sahirun aw majnoonun