Muhammad (Muhammad)

Verse 16

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    16. And among them are some who [apparently] listen to you till when they go out from you, they say to those who have received knowledge: “What has he said just now? Such are men whose hearts Allah has sealed and they follow their vain desires.

    Addressing the Prophet (S) the Verse says that the disbelievers who are nominal Muslims attend your sessions and listen to the Qur’an, but they neither believe in your prophethood nor in the Book revealed to you. They are neither able to recognize it as the Divine Book nor do they understand it.

    Upon meeting your followers who know your words they say contemptuously and mockingly: “about what the man is talking?” O Prophet (S)! Your words are not beyond human understanding, but it is through their grudge and animosity that God seals their hearts so that they are unable to perceive the truth and they follow their vain desires.