Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   Allah, exalted be His praise, says to His prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: If those who say to you — O Muḥammad — "Is this anything but a human being like yourselves? Will you then approach sorcery while you see?" take you in mockery when they see you and say: "Is this the one who makes mention of your gods?" — out of their unbelief (kufr) towards Allah and their arrogance towards Him — then messengers were indeed already mocked from among Our messengers whom We sent before you to their peoples. He says: and there befell those who had mocked and ridiculed them from among their peoples that which they had mocked — He says, exalted be His praise: that which they had mocked befell them: the plague and the torment (ʿadhāb) of which their messengers had warned them. And there stands يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ — Allah, exalted be His praise, says: those who mock you among these unbelievers will not escape the fate of their predecessors among the peoples who had denied their messengers; the same torment of Allah and His wrath over their mockery of you will befall them as that which befell them.

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   يقول تعالى ذكره لنبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم: إن يتخذك يا محمد هؤلاء القائلون لك: هل هذا إلا بشر مثلكم، أفتأتون السحر وأنتم تبصرون، إذ رأوك هُزُوا ويقولون: هذا الذي يذكر آلهتكم كفرا منهم بالله، واجتراء عليه، فلقد استهزئ برسل من رسلنا الذين أرسلناهم من قبلك إلى أممهم، يقول: فوجب ونـزل بالذين استهزءوا بهم، وسخروا منهم من أممهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون : يقول جلّ ثناؤه: حلّ بهم الذي كانوا به يستهزءون من البلاء والعذاب الذي كانت رسلهم تخوّفهم نـزوله بهم، يستهزءون: يقول جلّ ثناؤه، فلن يعدو هؤلاء المستهزءون بك من هؤلاء الكفرة أن يكونوا كأسلافهم من الأمم المكذّبة رسلها، فينـزل بهم من عذاب الله وسخطه باستهزائهم بك نظير الذي نـزل بهم.