Transliteration:( Summaa tawallaw 'anhu wa qaaloo mu'allamum majnoon )
"Yet, they turned away from him and said: 'He is a tutored madman [12].'"
This verse exposes the irrational and contradictory behavior of the disbelievers. Despite witnessing the truthfulness, wisdom, and unmatched character of the Holy Prophet ﷺ, they turned away from his message and resorted to baseless accusations.
They absurdly labeled him a “madman”, yet at the same time claimed he was “tutored”—as if he had received formal training or was secretly coached. This contradiction reveals their intellectual dishonesty: a person they called insane, they also accused of being carefully educated, which clearly cannot coexist.
Such statements only reflect the desperation and blindness of those who reject truth. Instead of addressing the message, they attacked the messenger, exposing their own weakness and arrogance.
This verse reminds us that those who oppose truth without sincere reflection often fall into illogical and self-contradictory claims, led not by reason, but by prejudice and pride.
The tafsir of Surah Ad-Dukhan verse 14 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Dukhan ayat 9 which provides the complete commentary from verse 9 through 16.
(44:14) yet they turned away from him and said: “This is a well-tutored madman.”[12]
12. What they meant was: this was a simple man, some others have incited and deceived him. They secretly forge and teach him verses of the Quran, and he comes and recites them before the people. They sit back in peace and leave him alone to receive the abuses and be pelted with stones. They would make a mockery of all the arguments, the admonitions and the serious teachings which the Prophet (peace be upon him) had been presenting since several years and was growing weary. Neither they paid any attention to the rational things being expressed in the Quran nor recognized the extraordinary character of the man who was presenting them, nor took any trouble to think what nonsense they were uttering when they imputed such things to the Prophet (peace be upon him). Obviously, if there had been another person who gave secret instruction to the Prophet (peace be upon him), he could not have remained hidden from Khadijah and Abu Bakr, Ali and Zaid bin Harithah and other early Muslims, who were the closest and constant companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Then, how it is that these very people only became his most devoted and dedicated followers, whereas if the business of prophethood had depended on the secret instruction of some other person, these very people would have been in the forefront to oppose him – For further explanation, see (Surah An-Nahl, Ayat 103); (Surah Al-Furqan, Ayat 4-6) and the corresponding notes.
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