Tafseer of The Star · An-Najm · 53:59
Then at this statement do you wonder?
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The explanation of the words of the Exalted: "Do you then marvel at this discourse?" (53:59)
The Exalted, whose remembrance is sublime, says to the polytheists (mushrikīn) of Quraysh: Do you then marvel, O people, at this Qurʾān, that it has been sent down upon Muḥammad ﷺ, and do you laugh at it in mockery of it, and do you not weep at the threat contained in it against the people who disobey Allah — while you yourselves are among the people who disobey Him — "while you are heedless (sāmidūn)" (53:61). He says: while you pass on heedlessly past the lessons and the admonition contained in it, and you turn away from His signs. One says to a person: abandon your sumūd, by which is meant: abandon your heedlessness. From this one says: samada fulān yasmudu sumūdan.
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the exegetes have spoken, even though their wordings differed in expressing it. Some of them said: the heedless ones. Some of them said: singers. And some of them said: mubarṭimūn (those who knit their faces in aversion).
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