8:31
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Dynamic translation
(8:31) When Our ideas are recited to them, they say, "We have listened, and if we wish, we could have said the same thing. This is nothing but the ancient miths!"
Arabic text
(8:31) وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالُواْ قَدۡ سَمِعۡنَا لَوۡ نَشَآءُ لَقُلۡنَا مِثۡلَ هَٰذَآ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
Connected ideas
(6:25) Among them are those who listen to you; and We have made covers over their hearts to prevent them from understanding it, and deafness in their ears; and if they see every sign they will not acknowledge; even when they come to you they argue, those who reject say, "This is nothing but the ancient miths!"
(16:24) If they are told: "What has your Lord sent down?" They say, "Ancient miths."
(23:83) "We, as well as our fathers, have been promised this from before. This is nothing but the ancient miths."
(31:7) And when our ideas are tale to him, he alteres hubristically, as if he had not heard them, as if he were deaf in both ears. So please him by diagnosing his painful anguish.
(68:15) When Our ideas are recited to him, he says: "Ancient miths!"
