Ash-Shu'ara Verse 176

The residents of the Forest rejected the messengers

The people of the Forest rejected the messengers.

The men of the Thicket cried lies to the Envoys

The forest-dwellers, too, called the messengers liars.

The dwellers of the wood belied the sent ones.

The Companions of the Wood rejected the messengers.

The people of Aykah also gave the lie to the Messengers.

The people of the Wood too called the messengers liars.

The People of the Woods denied the Noble Messengers.

The inhabitants of Aykah impugned the apostles,

The dwellers of al-Aykah denied (Shu‘ayb and thereby meant to deny all) the Messengers.

The dwellers of the Wood (in Midian) cried lies to the Messengers.

The thicket`s/dense tangled trees` owners/friends/company denied the messengers

The People of the Woods denied the Noble Messengers.

The Dwellers of the Grove (Midianites) denied the messengers

The dwellers of Al-Aiyka [near Madyan (Midian)] belied the Messengers.

Surely there is a sign in this; yet most of them believe not.

The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the apostles.

The dwellers in the wood (of Midian) denied the messengers (of Allah),

The dwellers of the forest also rejected the Messengers.

The dwellers of the Thicket belied their Messengers.

The companions of Al-Aykah denied the Messengers.

The dwellers of the forest also rejected the messengers.

The People of the Woods disbelieved the messengers.

The dwellers in the wood (a variant reading [for ashbu'l-aykati] has ashbu laykata), a thicket of trees near Midian, denied the messengers,

Shu`ayb and His Preaching to the Dwellers of Al-Aykah

Allah says;

كَذَّبَ أَصْحَابُ الاَْيْكَةِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ



إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ شُعَيْبٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ



إِنِّي لَكُمْ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٌ

Just as averse were the woodlanders -Madyanites- who declined to accept Allah's message and those who conveyed the message