Surah Saba — Verse 53

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وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍ

Waqad kafaroo bihi min qablu wayaqthifoonabilghaybi min makanin baAAeed

Verse recitation

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.