Allah describes the disbelief, transgression, rebellion, as well as misguided
statements that the pagans of Quraysh used to utter when they heard Allah's Ayat
being recited to them,
[قَدْ سَمِعْنَا لَوْ
نَشَآءُ لَقُلْنَا مِثْلَ هَـذَآ]
("We have heard (the Qur'an); if we wish we can say the like of this.'')
They boasted with their words, but not with their actions. They were
challenged several times to bring even one chapter like the Qur'an, and they had
no way to meet this challenge. They only boasted in order to deceive themselves
and those who followed their falsehood. It was said that An-Nadr bin Al-Harith,
may Allah curse him, was the one who said this, according to Sa`id bin Jubayr,
As-Suddi, Ibn Jurayj and others. An-Nadr visited Persia and learned the stories
of some Persian kings, such as Rustum and Isphandiyar. When he went back to
Makkah, He found that the Prophet was sent from Allah and reciting the Qur'an to
the people. Whenever the Prophet would leave an audience in which An-Nadr was
sitting, An-Nadr began narrating to them the stories that he learned in Persia,
proclaiming afterwards, "Who, by Allah, has better tales to narrate, I or
Muhammad'' When Allah allowed the Muslims to capture An-Nadr in Badr, the
Messenger of Allah commanded that his head be cut off before him, and that was
done, all thanks are due to Allah. The meaning of,
[أَسَـطِيرُ
الاٌّوَّلِينَ]
(. ..tales of the ancients) meaning that the Prophet has plagiarized and
learned books of ancient people, and this is what he narrated to people, as they
claimed. This is the pure falsehood that Allah mentioned in another Ayah,
[وَقَالُواْ
أَسَـطِيرُ الاٌّوَّلِينَ اكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَى عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً
وَأَصِيلاً - قُلْ أَنزَلَهُ الَّذِى يَعْلَمُ السِّرَّ فِى السَّمَـوَتِ
وَالاٌّرْضِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفُوراً رَّحِيماً ]
(And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has written down:, and they
are dictated to him morning and afternoon.'' Say: "It (this Qur'an) has been
sent down by Him (Allah) Who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth.
Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.'') [25:5-6] for those who repent and
return to Him, He accepts repentance from them and forgives them.
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