Rather, you are astonished by the power of Allah over these great creations while they mock you and what you find astonishing and what you show them of the signs of Allah's power, or from their denial of resurrection while they mock the matter of resurrection.

And it has been read with the 'taa' being pronounced with a dammah, meaning: the greatness of My signs and the multitude of My creations has reached such a point that I am astonished by them, so how about My servants while these people are ignorant of them and their obstinacy leads them to mock My signs, or I am astonished that they deny the resurrection from one who has such actions, while they mock one who describes Allah with power over him. If you say: how can astonishment be permissible for Allah, while it is a wonder that befalls a person when he finds something great, and Allah is above such wonder? I say: there are two perspectives, one of which is that astonishment is stripped down to the meaning of finding something great; the second is that astonishment is imagined and hypothesized.

It has come in the hadith: 'Your Lord is astonished by your [UNTRANSLATED-LATIN: al-kum] and your despair and the swiftness of His response to you.' [It was narrated by Abu Ubaid in Al-Gharib from Muhammad ibn Amr who raised it, then he said: 'The term [UNTRANSLATED-LATIN: al] means raising one's voice in supplication. Some say it is narrated in the first person, which means intensity.'] And Shuraih used to read with the fatha and say: 'Indeed, Allah does not astonish at anything, but rather it is the ignorant who are astonished.' Ibrahim Al-Nakha'i said: 'Indeed, Shuraih was pleased with his knowledge, and Abdullah knows better,' referring to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, and he used to read with the dammah. And it was said that its meaning is: Say, O Muhammad, rather I am astonished. And when they are reminded, their habit is that when they are admonished by something, they do not take heed, and when they see a clear sign from the signs of Allah, like the splitting of the moon and the like, they excessively mock, or some of them call upon each other to mock it.