The Believers
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[23:33]
And [every time] the great ones among his people, who refused to acknowledge the truth and gave the lie to the announcement of a life to come –[simply] because We had granted them ease and plenty in [their] worldly life, and they had become corrupted by it – [every time] they would say: "This [man] is nothing but a mortal like yourselves, eating of what you eat, and drinking of what you drink:

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* v.33 : Thus Tabarī interprets the concise but meaningful phrase atrafnāhum fi ’l-hayāti ’d-dunyā. For a fuller explanation of the verb tarifa, see note 147 on 11:116.