فَلَا

تُطِعِ

ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ

٨

So do not give in to the deniers.

They wish you would compromise so they would yield ˹to you˺.

And do not obey the despicable, vain oath-taker,

slanderer, gossip-monger,

withholder of good, transgressor, evildoer,

brute, and—on top of all that—an illegitimate child.

Now, ˹simply˺ because he has been blessed with ˹abundant˺ wealth and children,

whenever Our revelations are recited to him, he says, “Ancient fables!”