Surah Saba — Verse 53
Sheba · 34:53 · 53/54
وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍ
Waqad kafaroo bihi min qablu wayaqthifoonabilghaybi min makanin baAAeed
Translations of this verse 7
Saheeh International
And they had already disbelieved in it before and would assault the unseen from a place far away.
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
they denied it all in the past, and threw conjecture from a faroff place-
Marmaduke Pickthall
When they disbelieved in it of yore. They aim at the unseen from afar off.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Seeing that they did reject Faith (entirely) before, and that they (continually) cast (slanders) on the unseen from a position far off?
Mufti Taqi Usmani
while they had rejected it before, and used to make conjectures from a remote place?
Al-Hilali & Khan
Indeed they did disbelieve (in the Oneness of Allâh, Islâm, the Qur’ân and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) before (in this world), and they (used to) conjecture about the Unseen [i.e. the Hereafter, Hell, Paradise, Resurrection and the Promise of Allâh (by saying) all that is untrue], from a far place.
Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)
They disbelieved in it before and indulged in conjectures from far away.