Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 34 Saba, Ayat 31-31

وَقَالَ الَّذِيۡنَ كَفَرُوۡا لَنۡ نُّؤۡمِنَ بِهٰذَا الۡقُرۡاٰنِ وَلَا بِالَّذِىۡ بَيۡنَ يَدَيۡهِؕ وَلَوۡ تَرٰٓى اِذِ الظّٰلِمُوۡنَ مَوۡقُوۡفُوۡنَ عِنۡدَ رَبِّهِمۡ ۖۚ يَرۡجِعُ بَعۡضُهُمۡ اِلٰى بَعۡضِ اۨلۡقَوۡلَ​ۚ يَقُوۡلُ الَّذِيۡنَ اسۡتُضۡعِفُوۡا لِلَّذِيۡنَ اسۡتَكۡبَرُوۡا لَوۡلَاۤ اَنۡـتُمۡ لَـكُـنَّا مُؤۡمِنِيۡنَ‏ ﴿34:31﴾

(34:31) The unbelievers say: “We shall never believe in this Qur'an, nor in any Scripture before it.”50 If you could only see the wrong-doers arrayed before their Lord, each bandying charges against the other. Those who were suppressed will say to those who waxed arrogant: “Had it not been for you, we would have been believers.”51

Notes

50. The allusion is to the pagans of Arabia, who did not believe in any divine Book.

51. That is, the common people who are following their leaders, chiefs, saints and rulers blindly, and are not prepared to listen to any word of advice from a well-wisher against them. When the same people will sec the actual reality and will also remember how their religious leaders used to misrepresent things, and when they will realize what doom they are going to meet on account of following their leaders, they will turn on them, and say, “O wretched people, you led us astray: you are responsible for all our afflictions. Had you not misguided us, we would have listened to the Messengers of Allah and believed in what they said.