The Heights
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[7:184]
Has it, then, never occurred to them that there is no madness whatever in [this] their fellow-man? He is only a plain warner.

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* v.184 : Lit., “Have they, then, not reflected?”
* Because he enunciated a message that differed radically from anything to which the Meccans had been accustomed, the Prophet was considered mad by many of his unbelieving contemporaries. The stress on his being “their fellow-man” (sāhibahum – lit., “their companion”) is meant to emphasize the fact that he is human, and thus to counteract any possible tendency on the part of his followers to invest him with superhuman qualities: an argument which is more fully developed in verse 188.