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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[38:8]
What! Upon him alone from among all of us should a [divine] reminder have been bestowed from on high?"
Nay, but it is My Own reminder that they distrust!
Nay, they have not yet tasted the suffering which I do impose!

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* v.8 : Lit., “that they are in doubt of”: i.e., it is not the personality of the Prophet that fills them with distrust, but, rather, the substance of the message proclaimed by him – and, in particular, his insistence on God’s absolute oneness and uniqueness, which runs counter to their habits of thought and social traditions.
* Sc., “on people who refuse to accept the truth.”