"Did we take them for mockery"—and so we were mistaken—"or have [our] eyes missed them?" meaning: Or are they in it, and we do not see them? This is the explanation of Mujahid. He said: They learned after [that] that they were not with them therein.

Muhammad said: It is read as "sukhriyy" and "sikhriyy" with the damma and kasra of the 'sin', both meaning the same thing, which is mockery. It has been said: Whoever gives it a damma, considers it from "sukhra" (forced labor), and whoever gives it a kasra, considers it from "huz" (mockery). Nafi' read "attakhadnahum" with an interrogative alif.