وَلَوۡ
جَعَلۡنَٰهُ
قُرۡءَانًا
أَعۡجَمِيّٗا
لَّقَالُواْ
لَوۡلَا
فُصِّلَتۡ
ءَايَٰتُهُۥٓۖ
ءَا۬عۡجَمِيّٞ
وَعَرَبِيّٞۗ
قُلۡ
هُوَ
لِلَّذِينَ
ءَامَنُواْ
هُدٗى
وَشِفَآءٞۚ
وَٱلَّذِينَ
لَا
يُؤۡمِنُونَ
فِيٓ
ءَاذَانِهِمۡ
وَقۡرٞ
وَهُوَ
عَلَيۡهِمۡ
عَمًىۚ
أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ
يُنَادَوۡنَ
مِن
مَّكَانِۭ
بَعِيدٖ
٤٤
And if We had appointed it a Lecture in a foreign tongue they would assuredly have said: If only its verses were expounded (so that we might understand)? What! A foreign tongue and an Arab? - Say unto them (O Muhammad): For those who believe it is a guidance and a healing; and as for those who disbelieve, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness for them. Such are called to from afar.
— M. Pickthall
And if We had made it a foreign [i.e., non-Arabic] Qur’ān, they would have said, "Why are its verses not explained in detail [in our language]? Is it a foreign [recitation] and an Arab [messenger]?" Say, "It is, for those who believe, a guidance and cure." And those who do not believe - in their ears is deafness, and it is upon them blindness. Those are being called from a distant place.1
— Saheeh International
Had We sent this as a Qur'an (in the language) other than Arabic, they would have said: "Why are not its verses explained in detail? What! (a Book) not in Arabic and (a Messenger an Arab?" Say: "It is a Guide and a Healing to those who believe; and for those who believe not, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness in their (eyes): They are (as it were) being called from a place far distant!"
— A. Yusuf Ali
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Rejection of the Qur'an is pure Stubbornness
Allah tells us that the Qur'an is so eloquent and perfect in its wording and meanings, yet despite that the idolators do not believe in it. He tells us that their disbelief is the disbelief of stubbornness, as He says elsewhere:
وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَهُ عَلَى بَع
…Rejection of the Qur'an is pure Stubbornness
Allah tells us that the Qur'an is so eloquent and perfect in its wording and meanings, yet despite that th
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