Messengers before you were ridiculed, but those who mocked them became besieged by what they ridiculed.
Al-An'am 6:10
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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 ridiculed, but those who mocked them became besieged by what they ridiculed.
Messengers before you were laughed at too. But soon, those who laughed at them faced exactly what they used to make fun of.
Messengers before you were laughed at too, but in the end, those who mocked them were surrounded by the very punishment they used to make fun of.
Messengers before you were mocked, but what they mocked closed in on those who ridiculed them.
Messengers before you were ridiculed, but those who mocked them became besieged by what they ridiculed.
Messengers before you were ridiculed, but those who mocked them became besieged by what they ridiculed.
And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by that which they used to ridicule.
And indeed (many) Messengers before you were mocked at, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.
And there were messengers before you [O Prophet] who were ridiculed, but those who mocked them were overwhelmed by what they used to ridicule.
Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.
Messengers have been mocked before you, but those who scoffed were overtaken by the very thing they scoffed at.
And indeed before your time (O Muhammad!) many a Messenger has been scoffed at; but those who mocked at them were encompassed by the Truth they had scoffed at.
Apostles were certainly derided before you. Then those who ridiculed them were besieged by what they used to deride.
Walaqadi istuhzia birusulin min qablika fahaqa biallatheena sakhiroo minhum ma kanoo bihi yastahzioona