The Jinn
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[72:19]
"Yet when the Devotee of God stands forth to invoke Him, they just make round him a dense crowd."

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* v.19 : The Devotee of Allah: the holy Prophet Muhammad.
* They. The immediate reference was to the Pagan Quraish who were then in possession of the Kaba and who put all sorts of obstacles and indignities in the way of the holy Prophet for preaching the One True God and denouncing idol-worship. They used to surround him and mob him and to treat him as if he was guilty of some dreadful crime. But the wider application refers to the habit of the world to make a marked man of any who diverges from the beaten paths of their favourite sins and who pleads earnestly for the cause of Truth and righteousness. They ridicule him; they surround him with jeers and obloquy; and they try to make the physical condition of his life as difficult for him as possible.