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Saba 53

Ayah 53 of 54 · Meccan

وَقَدۡ كَفَرُواْ بِهِۦ مِن قَبۡلُۖ وَيَقۡذِفُونَ بِٱلۡغَيۡبِ مِن مَّكَانِۭ بَعِيدٖ ٥٣

And they had already disbelieved in it before and would assault1 the unseen from a place far away.2

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Verbally, by conjecture and denial.

2 i.e., a position far from truth.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَقَدۡAnd certainlywaqad
  2. كَفَرُواْthey disbelievedkafarū
  3. بِهِۦin itbihi
  4. مِنbeforemin
  5. قَبۡلُۖbeforeqablu
  6. وَيَقۡذِفُونَAnd they utter conjectureswayaqdhifūna
  7. بِٱلۡغَيۡبِabout the unseenbil-ghaybi
  8. مِنfrommin
  9. مَّكَانِۭa placemakānin
  10. بَعِيدٖfar offbaʿīdin

Tafsir

And how will faith be attained for them and accepted from them, when they had disbelieved in it in the worldly life and would suspiciously accuse from a direction far from the truth, thus saying about the Messenger (peace be upon him): magician, soothsayer and poet?

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran