They have rejected it in the past, and made allegations from a far-off place.
Saba' 34:53
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وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
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They have rejected it in the past, and made allegations from a far-off place.
Before, they didn't believe in it, and they used to guess about things they didn't know, from far away.
They rejected it before, guessing blindly from a distant place.
They had already rejected it before, casting at the unseen from a distant place.
They have disbelieved it in the past. And they made allegations from a distant place.
They have disbelieved it in the past. And they made allegations from a distant place.
And they had already disbelieved in it before and would assault the unseen from a place far away.
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.
while they disbelieved in it before, making far-fetched conjectures about the unseen?
Seeing that they did reject Faith (entirely) before, and that they (continually) cast (slanders) on the unseen from a position far off?
When they disbelieved in it of yore. They aim at the unseen from afar off.
They had rejected it before, while they indulged in conjectures from far away.
They disbelieved in it before and indulged in conjectures from far away.
when they denied it in the past—shooting at something invisible from a far-off place—
Waqad kafaroo bihi min qablu wayaqthifoona bialghaybi min makanin baAAeedin