Surah Yasin ayat 30 Tafsir Quran 36:30

﴿يَا حَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ۚ مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ﴾
[ يس: 30]

36:30 How regretful for the servants. There did not come to them any messenger except that they used to ridicule him.

Ah the anguish for servants such as these and their like from among those who denied the messengers and were destroyed this word hasra denotes ‘extreme agony’; the vocative here is being used metaphorically in other words ‘It is time for you O anguish so come now!’. Never did a messenger come to them but that they mocked him this statement is given as an explanation of the cause thereof of the ‘agony’ since it the statement entails their mockery which itself results in their being destroyed and which in turn is the cause of the ‘anguish’.

A great pity upon intellectual animate beings and servants! No Messenger do they receive as an envoy of Allah but they bombard him with foul epithets, mock him and laugh him to scorn

Woe to the Disbelievers! `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas commented on the Ayah: يحَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ( Alas for mankind! ), this means, woe to mankind! Qatadah said: يحَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ( Alas for mankind! ) means, "Alas for mankind, who have neglected the command of Allah." The meaning is that they will feel regret and sorrow on the Day of Resurrection.
When they see the punishment with their own eyes; they will regret how they disbelieved the Messengers of Allah and went against the commands of Allah, for they used to disbelieve in them in this world. مَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلاَّ كَانُواْ بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ ( There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him. ) means, they disbelieved him and made fun of him, and rejected the message of truth with which he had been sent. The Refutation of the Belief in the Transmigration of Souls Then Allah says: أَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ ( Do they not see how many of the generations We have destroyed before them Verily, they will not return to them. ) meaning, `do you not learn a lesson from those whom Allah destroyed before you of those who disbelieved in the Messengers They came to this world only once, and will not return to it.' It is not as many of those ignorant and immoral people claim that إِنْ هِىَ إِلاَّ حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا ( "There is nothing but our life of this world! We die and we live!" ) ( 23:37 ).
This was the belief in the cycle of reincarnation; in their ignorance they believed that they would come back to this world as they had been before.
But Allah refuted their false belief and said: أَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ ( Do they not see how many of the generations We have destroyed before them Verily, they will not return to them. ) Allah's saying: وَإِن كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ ( And surely, all -- everyone of them will be brought before Us. ) means, all of the past nations and those that are yet to come, will be gathered and brought to account before Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, on the Day of Judgement, and they will be requitted according to their good and evil deeds.
This is like the Ayah: وَإِنَّ كُـلاًّ لَّمَّا لَيُوَفِّيَنَّهُمْ رَبُّكَ أَعْمَالَهُمْ ( And verily, to each of them your Lord will repay their works in full. ) ( 11:111 ).

Woe to the Disbelievers! `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas commented on the Ayah: يحَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ( Alas for mankind! ), this means, woe to mankind! Qatadah said: يحَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ( Alas for mankind! ) means, "Alas for mankind, who have neglected the command of Allah." The meaning is that they will feel regret and sorrow on the Day of Resurrection.
When they see the punishment with their own eyes; they will regret how they disbelieved the Messengers of Allah and went against the commands of Allah, for they used to disbelieve in them in this world. مَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلاَّ كَانُواْ بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ ( There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him. ) means, they disbelieved him and made fun of him, and rejected the message of truth with which he had been sent. The Refutation of the Belief in the Transmigration of Souls Then Allah says: أَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ ( Do they not see how many of the generations We have destroyed before them Verily, they will not return to them. ) meaning, `do you not learn a lesson from those whom Allah destroyed before you of those who disbelieved in the Messengers They came to this world only once, and will not return to it.' It is not as many of those ignorant and immoral people claim that إِنْ هِىَ إِلاَّ حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا ( "There is nothing but our life of this world! We die and we live!" ) ( 23:37 ).
This was the belief in the cycle of reincarnation; in their ignorance they believed that they would come back to this world as they had been before.
But Allah refuted their false belief and said: أَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ ( Do they not see how many of the generations We have destroyed before them Verily, they will not return to them. ) Allah's saying: وَإِن كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ ( And surely, all -- everyone of them will be brought before Us. ) means, all of the past nations and those that are yet to come, will be gathered and brought to account before Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, on the Day of Judgement, and they will be requitted according to their good and evil deeds.
This is like the Ayah: وَإِنَّ كُـلاًّ لَّمَّا لَيُوَفِّيَنَّهُمْ رَبُّكَ أَعْمَالَهُمْ ( And verily, to each of them your Lord will repay their works in full. ) ( 11:111 ).

( Ah, the anguish ) regret and remorse ( for the bondmen ) on the Day of Judgement because they did not believe! ( Never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him! ) they used to mock the messengers, kill them and throw them in a well.

Alas for mankind! There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him.

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