مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن ذِكْرٍ مِّن رَّبِّهِم مُّحْدَثٍ إِلَّا ٱسْتَمَعُوهُ وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ Qur’an Al-Anbiya (21:2)M a yateehim min th ikrin min rabbihim mu h dathin ill a istamaAAoohu wahum yalAAaboon a
Lit., "while they are playing".
In each age, when the Message of Allah is renewed, the very people who should have known better and welcomed the renewal and the sweeping away of human cobwebs, either receive it with amused self-superiority, which later tums to active hostility, or with careless indifference.