Sirat Ibn Hisham 350
[ تَعَنُّتُ قُرَيْشٍ فِي عَدَمِ اسْتِمَاعِهِمْ لِلرَّسُولِ ﷺ، وَمَا أَنْزَلَهُ تَعَالَى ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إذَا تَلَا عَلَيْهِمْ الْقُرْآنَ، وَدَعَاهُمْ إلَى اللَّهِ، قَالُوا يَهْزَءُونَ بِهِ: قُلُوبُنَا فِي أَكِنَّةٍ مِمَّا تَدْعُونَا إلَيْهِ لَا نَفْقَهُ مَا تَقُولُ وَفِي آذَانِنَا وَقْرٌ لَا نَسْمَعُ مَا تَقُولُ وَمِنْ بَيْنِنَا وَبَيْنِكَ حِجَابٌ قَدْ حَالَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكَ ( فَاعْمَلْ ) بِمَا أَنْتَ عَلَيْهِ إنَّنَا عَامِلُونَ بِمَا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ، إنَّا لَا نَفْقَهُ عَنْكَ شَيْئًا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ( عَلَيْهِ ) فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ قَوْلِهِمْ: وَإِذَا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ جَعَلْنَا بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ حِجَابًا مَسْتُورًا إلَى قَوْلِهِ وَإِذَا ذَكَرْتَ رَبَّكَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَحْدَهُ وَلَّوْا عَلَى أَدْبَارِهِمْ نُفُورًا أَيْ كَيْفَ فَهِمُوا تَوْحِيدَكَ رَبَّكَ إنْ كُنْتُ جَعَلْتُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً، وَفِي آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرًا، وَبَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُمْ حِجَابًا بِزَعْمِهِمْ؛ أَيْ إنِّي لَمْ أَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ. نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَسْتَمِعُونَ بِهِ إِذْ يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِذْ هُمْ نَجْوَى إِذْ يَقُولُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنْ تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًا مَسْحُورًا أَيْ ذَلِكَ مَا تَوَاصَوْا بِهِ مِنْ تَرْكِ مَا بَعَثْتُكَ بِهِ إلَيْهِمْ. انْظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا لَكَ الْأَمْثَالَ فَضَلُّوا فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًا أَيْ أَخْطَئُوا الْمَثَلَ الَّذِي ضَرَبُوا ( لَكَ )، فَلَا يُصِيبُونَ بِهِ هُدًى، وَلَا يَعْتَدِلُ لَهُمْ فِيهِ قَوْلٌ وَقَالُوا أَئِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا أَئِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا أَيْ قَدْ جِئْتَ تُخْبِرُنَا أَنَّا سَنُبْعَثُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِنَا إذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا، وَذَلِكَ مَا لَا يَكُونُ. قُلْ كُونُوا حِجَارَةً أَوْ حَدِيدًا أَوْ خَلْقًا مِمَّا يَكْبُرُ فِي صُدُورِكُمْ فَسَيَقُولُونَ مَنْ يُعِيدُنَا قُلِ الَّذِي فَطَرَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ أَيْ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِمَّا تَعْرِفُونَ، فَلَيْسَ خَلْقُكُمْ مِنْ تُرَابٍ بِأَعَزَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: أَوْ خَلْقًا مِمَّا يَكْبُرُ فِي صُدُورِكُمْ مَا الَّذِي أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِهِ ؟ فَقَالَ: الْمَوْتُ
Translation
✧ [The obstinacy of Quraysh in refusing to listen to the Messenger ﷺ, and what God Most High revealed concerning it] Ibn Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of God ﷺ recited the Qur'an to them and summoned them to God, they said in mockery of him: "Our hearts are in coverings from that to which you call us; we do not understand what you say. In our ears is a heaviness, and between us and you is a veil that has come between us and you, so act according to what you are upon; indeed we are acting according to what we are upon. We do not comprehend from you anything." So God Most High revealed concerning that saying of theirs: "When you recite the Qur'an, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter a hidden veil," up to His saying: "And when you mention your Lord alone in the Qur'an, they turn their backs in aversion" — that is, how could they have understood your declaring the oneness of your Lord if, by their claim, I had placed coverings on their hearts, heaviness in their ears, and a veil between you and them? That is, I did not do that. "We know best what they listen with when they listen to you, and when they are in private counsel, when the wrongdoers say: 'You are following none but a bewitched man'" — that is, that is what they enjoined upon one another of abandoning what I sent you with to them. "Look how they coin similitudes for you and have gone astray, so they cannot find a way" — that is, they missed the likeness they coined for you, so they attain no guidance by it, nor is speech sound for them in it. And they said: "What, when we are bones and dust, shall we be raised up as a new creation?" — that is, you have come to inform us that we shall be raised after our death, when we are bones and dust, and that is something that cannot be. "Say: Be stones or iron, or some creation of what is great in your breasts. Then they will say: Who shall restore us? Say: He who originated you the first time" — that is, He who created you from what you know; so creating you from dust is no mightier than that for Him. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Najīḥ narrated to me, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās ؓ, who said: I asked him about the saying of God Most High: "or some creation of what is great in your breasts" — what did God mean by it? He said: Death.
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