سورة سَبَإ
Surah Saba’ 34:53
Sheba · Verse 53 of 54
وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
Abdul Mannan Omar
While they had indeed disbelieved in it before this, and they were shooting at the unknown (and making far fetched and useless conjectures about the failure of the Prophet and their own triumph) from a place far 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?
Ahmed Ali
They had surely denied it before and aimed without seeing from so far away.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
(Seeing that) they certainly disbelieved in it before. They have been aiming at the Unseen (the Hereafter) from far away (with words all untrue and without any basis in true knowledge).
Daryabadi
Whereas they disbelieved therein afore, and conjectured about the unseen from a place so afar.
Faridul Haque
For they had disbelieved in it before; and they hurl allegations without seeing, from far away.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And they indeed disbelieved in it before, and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from a distant place.
Maulvi Sher Ali
They had disbelieved in it before, while they indulged in conjectures with regard to the unseen from a far off-place.
Muhammad Asad
seeing that aforetime they had been bent on denying the truth, and had been wont to cast scorn, from far away, on something that was beyond the reach of human perception?
Muhammad Musin Khan
Indeed they did disbelieve (in the Oneness of Allah, Islam, the Qur'an and Muhammad SAW) before (in this world), and they (used to) conjecture about the unseen [i.e. the Hereafter, Hell, Paradise, Resurrection and the Promise of Allah, etc. (by saying) all that is untrue], from a far place.
Muhammad Pickthall
When they disbelieved in it of yore. They aim at the unseen from afar off.
Muhammad Sarwar
They had rejected it in their worldly life and expressed disbelief at the unseen (Day of Judgment), considering it less than a remote possibility.
Muhammed ali Shakir
And they disbelieved in it before, and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from a distant place.
Rashad Khalifa
They have rejected it in the past; they have decided instead to uphold conjecture and guesswork.
Shabbir Ahmed
They did reject the truth in the past, and they used to shoot arrows of conjecture in the darkness.