Surah 34:45
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وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٖ قَالُواْ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا رَجُلٞ يُرِيدُ أَن يَصُدَّكُمۡ عَمَّا كَانَ يَعۡبُدُ ءَابَآؤُكُمۡ وَقَالُواْ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ إِفۡكٞ مُّفۡتَرٗىۚ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِلۡحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمۡ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحۡرٞ مُّبِينٞ
When Our clear signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is only a man who wants to keep you from what your fathers have served.’ And they say, ‘This is nothing but a forged lie.’ Those who disbelieve say to the truth, when it comes to them, ‘This is nothing but clear magic’
وَمَآ ءَاتَيۡنَٰهُم مِّن كُتُبٖ يَدۡرُسُونَهَاۖ وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَآ إِلَيۡهِمۡ قَبۡلَكَ مِن نَّذِيرٖ
– though We have not given them any Books to study, nor have We sent to them any warner before you.
وَكَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ وَمَا بَلَغُواْ مِعۡشَارَ مَآ ءَاتَيۡنَٰهُمۡ فَكَذَّبُواْ رُسُلِيۖ فَكَيۡفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ
Those who were before them (also) called (it) a lie, though they have not reached (even) a tenth of what We gave them. They (too) called My messengers liars, and how was My loathing (of them)!
meaning, Allah did not reveal any Book to the Arabs before the Qur’an, and He did not send any Prophet to them before Muhammad. They used to wish for that and say, ‘if only a wamer comes to us or a Book is revealed to us, we would be more guided than others,’ but when Allah blessed them with that, they disbelieved him and stubbornly rejected him.
Then Allah says:
{Atid those before them denied;} meaning, other nations.
Ibn ‘Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “Of the power of this world.” This was also the view of Qatadah, As-Suddi and Ibn Zayd. This is like the Ayat.
{Have they not traveled through the earth and seal what was the end of those before than? They were more in number than them and mightier in strength} (40:82).
but that did not protect them from the punishment of Allah, and Allah destroyed them because they denied His Messengers. Allah says:
meaning, ‘how severe was My wrath and how great was My avenging of My Messengers.’