La yuminoona bihi waqad khalat sunnatu alawwaleena
English
Ahmed Ali
So, they will not believe in it: The example of former people is there.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (they believe not therein) such that they do not believe in muhammad (pbuh) or in the qur'an, or that chastisement will descend upon them, (though the example of the men of old have gone before) when they denied the messengers, just as your people have denied you, and allah's norm concerning them was to punish and destroy them because of their denial.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : they do not believe in him, in the prophet (s), even though the example of the men of old has already gone before, that is, the way of god [in dealing] with them [those of old], by chastising them for denying [the truthfulness of] their prophets: those [meccans] are like these former.
