12 Preface بَل عَجِبتَ وَيَسخَرونَYusuf AliTruly dost thou marvel,1 while they ridicule,It is indeed strange that unregenerate man should forget, on the one hand, his lowly origin, and on the other hand, his high Destiny, as conferred upon him by the grace and mercy of God. The indictment of him here comprises four counts: (1) they ridicule the teaching of Truth; (2) instead of profiting by admonition, they pay no heed; (3) when God’s Signs are brought home to them, they ridicule them as much as they ridiculed the teaching of Truth: and (4) when they have to acknowledge incontestable facts, they give them false names like “sorcery”, which imply fraud or something which has no relation to their life, although the facts touch the inner springs of their life intimately (Cf. 46:7).