The Holy Quran 36:15 — Surah Ya-Sin

Arabic text

قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُنَا وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ مِن شَىْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا تَكْذِبُونَ

Translation

The people said, "(How can you be prophets when) You are mere humans like ourselves (a Prophet ought to be an angel). Allaah has not revealed anything, you are only lying (about your duty and message)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, there is nothing special about you (literally, “you have no feather of a rare bird on you”) that Allah should send you. In what way were you superior to us? Enough — do not take the name of Allah for nothing. He has sent down nothing. You three conspired, fabricated a lie and attributed it to Allah.

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