And when Musa said to his people: Surely Allah commands you that you should sacrifice a cow; they said: Do you ridicule us? He said: I seek the protection of Allah from being one of the ignorant.

O you who believe! do not take for guardians those who take your religion for a mockery and a joke, from among those who were given the Book before you and the unbelievers; and be careful of (your duty to) Allah if you are believers.

So they have indeed rejected the truth when it came to them; therefore the truth of what they mocked at will shine upon them.

And certainly messengers before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed the scoffers among them.

And if you should question them, they would certainly say: We were only idly discoursing and sporting. Say: Was it at Allah and His communications and His Messenger that you mocked?

And if We hold back from them the punishment until a stated period of time, they will certainly say: What prevents it? Now surely on the day when it will come to them, it shall not be averted from them and that which they scoffed at shall beset them.

And messengers before you were certainly mocked at, but I gave respite to those who disbelieved, then I destroyed them; how then was My requital (of evil)?

And there never came a messenger to them but they mocked him.

So the evil (consequences) of what they did shall afflict them and that which they mocked shall encompass them.

And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.

So they have indeed rejected (the truth), therefore the news of that which they mock shall soon come to them.

Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they | rejected the communications of Allah and used to mock them.

Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an messenger but they mock at him.

And the evil (consequences) of what they wrought shall become plain to them, and the very thing they mocked at shall beset them.

Then when their messengers came to them with clear arguments, they exulted in what they had with them of knowledge, and there beset them that which they used to mock.

And there came not to them a prophet but they mocked at him.

And the evil (consequences) of what they did shall become manifest to them and that which they mocked shall encompass them.

And certainly We had established them in what We have not established you in, and We had given-- them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts availed them aught, since they denied the communications of Allah, and that which they mocked encompassed them.