67 Preface مُستَكبِرينَ بِهِ سامِرًا تَهجُرونَYusuf Ali“In arrogance: talking nonsense about the (Qur-ān), like one telling fables by night.”1Samir: one who remains awake by night, one who passes the night in talk or in the recital of stories of romances, a favourite amusement in the Days of Ignorance. (Cf. n. 2605 and n, 2608)