In verse 68 of Surah Al-Muminun we read...

In verse 68 of Surah Al-Muminun we read: “Have they not pondered the statement (of the Qur’an), or has anything come to them that did not came to their fathers of old?” (They struggle with it for it is new!) Then in the next verse it adds implying that they do not get satisfied with aversion, and they begin to deny and then they start to do something worse than that which is scoffing at the revelations.

It says: “So they have indeed rejected (it), therefore the news of that which they used to mock shall soon come to them.” The Qur’anic word /’anba’/ is the plural form of the word /naba’/ that means ‘important news’. Its purpose here is those severe punishments which will be imposed on them both in this world and the other world. Although some commentators, such as Shaykh Tusi in the book Tibyan, believe that these punishments are…