وَلَقَدِ اسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِالَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُون
[21:41]
And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.
Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.