Sura- 38 [Sad Mecca 38]

The Quranic Text & Ali’s version:

وَعَجِبُوا أَن جَاءهُم مُّنذِرٌ مِّنْهُمْ ...

38:4.[Ali] So they wonder that a Warner has come to them from among themselves!

C4150. Their wonder is only stimulated. They are full of envy and spite against one of themselves who has been chosen by Allah to be His Messenger, and they vent their spite by making all sorts of false accusations. The man who was pre-eminent for truth and conscientious consideration, they call "a sorcerer and a liar"!

... وَقَالَ الْكَافِرُونَ هَذَا سَاحِرٌ كَذَّابٌ ﴿٤﴾

And the Unbelievers say,

"This is a sorcerer telling lies!

Asad’s Version:

38:4 Now these [people] deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst - and [so] the deniers of the truth are saying: "A [mere] spellbinder is he, a liar! 7