[Pooya/Ali Commentary 21:3] Whenever the disbelievers listened to the recitation of the Quran, their hearts toyed with trifles, and overawed with the miraculous excellence of the style and substance of the word of Allah, they advised each other in secret meetings to remain on guard against the Holy Prophet who, they used to say, was a man like unto themselves but as he was a sorcerer his power of eloquence might confuse them. The Holy Prophet who brought the final message said to them that every word, whether whispered in secret or spoken openly, is known to the knower of all things. Then they said these were only confused dreams, or the Holy Prophet had forged them because he was a poet. They demanded a miracle from him as the earlier prophets had wrought, but they did not realise that the Quran was the greatest miracle Allah had given to the Holy Prophet. In fact they did not know what to do. They were a confused group. They heaped up all sorts of wild charges against the Holy Prophet-sorcerer, dreamer of confused dreams, forger, and poet. Miracles are no cure of obstinate unbelief. Miracles shown by the earlier prophets failed to convince the disbelievers of old. When they did not believe in the signs of Allah severe punishment was inflicted on the deniers of the miracles as an inevitable consequence. For ahl adh-dhikr (the Ahlul Bayt) in verse 7 refer to hadith al thaqalayn on page 6 and commentary of Nahl: 43.