3086 "My people" are of course the unbelieving Quraysh. They treated the Qur'an as foolish nonsense i.e., something to he discarded. But they were only a handful of people whose vested interests were touched by the beneficent reforms initiated by Islam. They soon passed away, and all Arabic-speaking or Arabicunderstanding people have considered the Qur'an as a treasury of Truths expressed in the most beautiful possible language, with a meaning that grows deeper with research. (R).