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Surah An-Najm — 53:59

أَفَمِنْ هَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ

Afamin hazal hadeesi ta'jaboon

Do you marvel at this account?

Reflection

Astonishment is what the objectors are recorded as feeling elsewhere, at 50:2 and 38:5, where the message strikes them as an extraordinary thing, and here that reaction is put back to them as a question. This second-person form of the verb appears at this verse alone. Hadha al-hadith, the phrase for what they are hearing, is used of the Qur'an three further times, and every one of those passages has someone turning away from it.

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