Surah Ya-Sin 36:30
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 30 of 83
يَٰحَسْرَةً عَلَى ٱلْعِبَادِ ۚ مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
Translation
Alas for human beings! Whenever a messenger comes to them they ridicule him.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Oh, the anguish over the servants! No messenger ever came to them but they mocked him.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the rare and startling expression of 'hasrah', a cry of grief, over these people, and the diagnosis: the reflex response to every messenger, across all history, was mockery. Not argument, not thought, ridicule. Ask yourself: mockery is the cheapest defence against a truth I don't want to face, laugh it off and I never have to answer it. When guidance or a hard truth reaches me, is my first move to weigh it, or to find the angle that lets me smirk and dismiss? This verse grieves over a species that keeps laughing at exactly what could save it.
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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