The letter Waw at the beginning makes this ayah act as a Ḥāl - a circumstantial clause. This means that these people rejected that they will be taken to account for their deeds because they deemed our clear signs as lies. This surah has already proven above that the day of judgment is inevitable. The worldly life necessarily has an afterlife. Just as you wake up after sleeping, so shall you wake up after death. This is a threat from rejecting this surah, these signs that Allah has shown you. Now there is a lot of emphasis placed inside this ayah because of the use of مفعول
مطلق . They denied each and every single sign of Allah, be it the Qurʾān or any other
sign of Allah. It can also mean severely and intensely denying it and the most intense way of denying something is mocking it, which is what they are doing at the start of this surah.
By deeming our signs as lies.
The letter Waw at the beginning makes this ayah act as a Ḥāl - a circumstantial clause. This means that these people rejected that they will be taken to account for their deeds because they deemed our clear signs as lies. This surah has already proven above that the day of judgment is inevitable. The worldly life necessarily has an afterlife. Just as you wake up after sleeping, so shall you wake up after death. This is a threat from rejecting this surah, these signs that Allah has shown you. Now there is a lot of emphasis placed inside this ayah because of the use of مفعول
مطلق . They denied each and every single sign of Allah, be it the Qurʾān or any other
sign of Allah. It can also mean severely and intensely denying it and the most intense way of denying something is mocking it, which is what they are doing at the start of this surah.