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Surah 21. Al-Anbiya, Ayah 41

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وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
Walaqadi istuhzia birusulin min qablika fa ha qa bi a lla th eena sakhiroo minhum m a k a noo bihi yastahzioon a
And, indeed, [O Muhammad, even] before thy time have [God's] apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were [in the end] overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.52
  - Mohammad Asad

See 6:10 (which has exactly the same wording) and the corresponding note [9].

As for their scoffing, the Rasools before you were also scoffed at; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the very thing at which they used to scoff.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
'Other' messengers had already been ridiculed before you 'O Prophet', but those who mocked them were overtaken by what they used to ridicule.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Mocked were (many) apostles before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked. 2701
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The same verse occurs at vi. 10, where see n. 843. 'What they are mocking at now will be in a position to mock them in due time.'

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