Surah Luqman Ayat 7

Pada ayat ini, Allah menerangkan sifat-sifat orang-orang yang menukar kitab-kitab Allah dengan dongengan-dongengan yang tidak berguna. Apabila dibacakan kepada mereka ayat-ayat Allah, mereka membelakanginya dengan sikap angkuh dan sombong, seakan-akan mereka tidak mendengarnya karena telinga mereka telah tersumbat dan tuli. Pada ayat yang lain Allah berfirman: Katakanlah, "Al-Qur'an adalah petunjuk dan penyembuh bagi orang-orang yang beriman. Dan orang-orang yang tidak beriman pada telinga mereka ada sumbatan, dan (Al-Qur'an) itu merupakan kegelapan bagi mereka. (Fushshilat/41: 44) Karena perbuatan itu, mereka akan mendapat azab yang pedih di akhirat. Itu sebagai balasan dari perbuatan dan tindakan mereka.

And when Our signs in other words in the Qur’ān are recited to such a one he turns away disdainfully as though he never heard them as though there were a deafness in his ears both comparisons constitute two circumstantial qualifiers referring to the subject of the verb wallā ‘turns away’; or it is that the second comparison is an explication of the first. So give him tidings of inform him of a painful chastisement. The use of the expression ‘good tidings’ meant derisively against such a person — this was al-Nadr b. al-Hārith. He used to visit al-Hīra for commerce and purchase books containing the stories of the non-Arab peoples and then recount these to the people of Mecca. He would say ‘Muhammad recounts to you the stories of ‘Ād and Thamūd whereas I relate to you the stories of the Persians and the Byzantines!’ They would thus go to enjoy his stories and neglect to listen to the Qur’ān.