Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Surah At-Tur
Surah 52 · At-Tur · verse 29 of 49

Quran 52:29 · At-Tur

فَذَكِّرۡ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِنِعۡمَتِ رَبِّكَ بِكَاهِنٖ وَلَا مَجۡنُونٍ

So remind [O Muhammad], for you are not, by the favor of your Lord, a soothsayer or a madman

Translation: Sahih International
Maulana’s commentary · Tazkirul Quran

When a man has no argument against the call of Truth, and yet he does not want to accept it, he starts denigrating the personality of the preacher of Truth. He makes the character of the preacher rather than his statements the target of his attacks. It was becuse of this recalcitrant attitude that the addressees of the Prophet started calling him a ‘poet’ and a ‘mad person’. They could not counter his call for Truth by reasoning. So, they started casting aspersions upon him. But the prophet conveys what he receives from God. And the discourse of one who repeats what he receives from God’s message is so distinctly different from that of others that it is not possible for anybody to equal it. This is the greatest proof of the fact that his discourse is Divine in origin.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Tazkirul Quran

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