Al-Anbiyaa 21:41
The Prophets · ayah 41 of 112
وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
Walaqadi istuhzi-a birusulin min qablika fahaqabillatheena sakhiroo minhum ma kanoobihi yastahzi-oon
"And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule."
Saheeh International translation
Recitation by Mishary Alafasy
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"Messengers before you [Muhammad] were also ridiculed, but those who mocked them were overwhelmed in the end by the very thing they had mocked."
Pickthall (classic)+
"Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them."
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked."