24 Preface فَقالوا أَبَشَرًا مِنّا واحِدًا نَتَّبِعُهُ إِنّا إِذًا لَفي ضَلالٍ وَسُعُرٍYusuf AliFor they said: “What!1 a man! a Solitary one from among ourselves! shall we follow such a one?2 Truly should we then be straying in mind, and mad!The psychology of Thamūd is more searchingly analysed here than in 41:17, to show up the contrast between shallow men’s ideas about Revelation, and the real sanity, humanism, social value, and truth of Revelation. To them the Revelation was brought by Ṣālih.Because the Preacher is one among so many, and different from them, although brought up among themselves, it is made a cause of reproach against him, when it should have been an index leading to a searching of their hearts and an examination of their ways.