Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

When they denied it before, and attacked the Unseen from a place far away?

وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِه۪ مِنْ قَبْلُۚ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَع۪يدٍ
Waqad kafaroo bihi min qablu wayaqthifoonabilghaybi min makanin baAAeed
#wordmeaningroot
1waqadAnd certainly
2kafarūthey disbelievedكفر
3bihiin it
4minbefore
5qablubeforeقبل
6wayaqdhifūnaAnd they utter conjecturesقذف
7bil-ghaybiabout the unseenغيب
8minfrom
9makānina placeكون
10baʿīdinfar offبعد
  • Aisha Bewley

    when beforehand they had rejected it, shooting forth about the Unseen from a distant place?

  • Progressive Muslims

    And they had rejected it in the past; and they conjectured about the unseen from a place far off.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    They adamantly rejected the Truth before and they kept shooting the arrows of conjecture from faraway.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    When they denied it before, and attacked the Unseen from a place far away?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And they had rejected it in the past; and they made allegations regarding the unseen, from a place far off.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    They had rejected it in the past; and they conjectured about the unseen from a place far off.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They have rejected it in the past; they have decided instead to uphold conjecture and guesswork.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    They had surely denied it before and aimed without seeing from so far away.

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And they had already disbelieved in it before and would assault the unseen from a place far away.

  • 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?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    When they disbelieved in it of yore. They aim at the unseen from afar off.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    They disbelieved in it before and indulged in conjectures from far away.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    They denied it before and they assailed what is unknown or unseen and what is essentially spiritual with slander while they were far distant in the world of life below!

  • Bijan Moeinian

    They chose to reject our revelation without any objective consideration

  • 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 , from a far place.

  • 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?

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    while they had already rejected it before, guessing blindly from a place ˹equally˺ far-away ˹from the Hereafter˺?

  • Taqi Usmani

    while they had rejected it before, and used to make conjectures from a remote place?

  • Abdul Haleem

    they denied it all in the past, and threw conjecture from a faroff place-

  • Arthur John Arberry

    seeing they disbelieved in it before, guessing at the Unseen from a place far away?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    They misbelieved before, and conjectured about the unseen from a distant place.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And they shall say, "We believe in it (now). " But how can they reach faith from a position so far away from it?

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And they already disbelieved in it earlier, and they hurl (their guesses) at the Unseen from a place far (away).

  • George Sale

    Since they had before denied him, and reviled the mysteries of faith, from a distant place?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Knowing that they rejected Faith before, and that they told lies about the Unseen from a place far off?

  • Amatul Rahman 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.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    when they have already disbelieved it earlier? They shoot at the invisible from a far-off place!