بَلْ قَالُوا مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ الْأَوَّلُونَ
Bal qaloo mithla ma qala alawwaloona
Yusuf Ali
On the contrary they say things similar to what the ancients said.
Recitation
Pickthall
Nay, but they say the like of that which said the men of old;
Shakir
Nay, they say the like of what the ancients said:
Hausa — Gumi
ôa, sun faɗi misãlin abin da na farko suka faɗa.
Yoruba
The Yoruba translation exists only as a scanned image.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir
The Idolators thought that Resurrection after Death was very unlikely
Then Allah tells us about those who denied the resurrection, who were like the disbelievers who came before them:
بَلْ قَالُوا مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ الْأَوَّلُونَ ﴿٨١﴾
قَالُوا أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَئِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ﴿٨٢﴾
Nay, but they say the like of what the men of old said. They said:
"When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we be resurrected indeed!''
They thought it very unlikely that this would happen after they had disintegrated into nothing.
تفسير ابن كثير
" بل قالوا مثل ما قال الأولون قالوا أإذا متنا وكنا ترابا وعظاما أإنا لمبعوثون " يعني يستبعدون وقوع ذلك بعد صيرورتهم إلى البلى .
تفسير القرطبي
ثم عيرهم بقولهم وأخبر عنهم أنهم " قالوا مثل ما قال الأولون "
إعراب — grammatical analysis
«بَلْ» حرف إضراب «قالُوا» ماض وفاعله والجملة مستأنفة «مِثْلَ» مفعول به «ما» اسم موصول في محل جر بالإضافة «قالَ الْأَوَّلُونَ» ماض وفاعله المرفوع بالواو والجملة صلة