Surah Al-Kahf 18:106
سُورَةُ الكَهۡفِ · Meccan · Verse 106 of 110
ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ بِمَا كَفَرُوا۟ وَٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَايَٰتِى وَرُسُلِى هُزُوًا
Translation
Their recompense for having disbelieved and made fun of My messages and My messengers will be Hell.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'That is their recompense, Hell, for having disbelieved and taken My signs and My messengers in mockery.' al-Saadi and Ibn Kathir note the two named offences, disbelief, and the mockery of God's signs and messengers: not merely rejecting the truth but ridiculing it, treating the sacred as a joke. Ask yourself: mockery is singled out because it is the disbelief that has hardened into contempt, the sneer that shields a person from ever having to take the warning seriously. It is the cheapest and most self-protective response to truth: laugh, and I never have to answer. In an age that mocks the sacred as sport, this verse is pointed. When God's signs, His messengers, His guidance come before me, is my reflex reverence or ridicule? Do I ever join, even quietly, in the mockery of what is sacred, treating as a joke the very things this verse warns me not to?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Ashur.
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