Al-Hijr
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[15:13]
who do not believe in it, although the way which those [evildoers] of olden times had to go has long been within their ken.

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* v.13 : Cf. 6:10 and the corresponding note 9. My interpolation of the words “scorn of Our message” is based on Tabarī’s and Zamakhsharī’s interpretations of the above passage. Regarding God’s “causing” the deniers of the truth to sin, see sūrah 2, note 7, as well as sūrah 14, note 4.
* Lit., “although the way of life (sunnah) of those of olden times has already passed” – i.e., although the manner in which God has dealt with them has long since become a matter of common knowledge (Ibn Kathīr).