وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

Word by Word (2021) Translation

And verily, were mocked Messengers from before you then surrounded those who mocked from them what they used at it (to) mock.

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Muhammad Asad

And, indeed, [O Muhammad, even] before thy time have [God’s] apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were [in the end] overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride

Arthur John Arberry

Messengers indeed were mocked at before thee, but those that scoffed at them were encompassed by that they mocked at

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked

Arabic

وَلَقَدِ ٱسۡتُهۡزِئَ بِرُسُلࣲ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِینَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنۡهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ یَسۡتَهۡزِءُونَ ۝٤١

Transliteration (2021)

walaqadi us'tuh'zi-a birusulin min qablika faḥāqa bi-alladhīna sakhirū min'hum mā kānū bihi yastahziūn

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