ٱلْمُدَّثِّر : ٥٢

  • بَلۡ Nay!
  • يُرِيدُ Desires
  • كُلُّ every
  • ٱمۡرِيٕٖ person
  • مِّنۡهُمۡ of them
  • أَن that
  • يُؤۡتَىٰ he may be given
  • صُحُفٗا pages
  • مُّنَشَّرَةٗ spread out
Rather, every person among them desires that he1 would be given scriptures spread about.
Footnotes
1

Instead of Muḥammad (ﷺ).

[1798] i.e., made public. Much of their refusal of his message was due to envy and jealousy of the Prophet (ﷺ).

Nay, but everyone of them desires to be given unrolled scrolls, from God, exalted be He, [enjoining them] to follow the Prophet may peace and salutation be upon him, as they said [before], 'And [even then] we will not believe your ascension until you bring down for us a book that we may read' [Q. 17:93].