Muhammad Habib Shakir: They do not believe in it, and indeed the example of the former people has already passed.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away.
M.Pickthall: They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before.
Amatul Rahmân Omer: They will not believe in this (Qur´ân), though the precedence of the former peoples has already gone (before them showing how the opposition of truth makes them deserving of the punishment of God).
