وَ لَوْ تَرٰۤی اِذْ فَزِعُوْا فَلَا فَوْتَ وَ اُخِذُوْا مِنْ مَّكَانٍ قَرِیْبٍۙ۝۵۱

If you could see when they are gripped by terror without any escape, and are seized from close at hand

وَّ قَالُوْۤا اٰمَنَّا بِهٖ ۚ وَ اَنّٰی لَهُمُ التَّنَاوُشُ مِنْ مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِیْدٍۚۖ۝۵۲

They will say: "We believe in it." How could they reach it from a place of no return?

وَّ قَدْ كَفَرُوْا بِهٖ مِنْ قَبْلُ ۚ وَ یَقْذِفُوْنَ بِالْغَیْبِ مِنْ مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِیْدٍ۝۵۳

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

وَ حِیْلَ بَیْنَهُمْ وَ بَیْنَ مَا یَشْتَهُوْنَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِاَشْیَاعِهِمْ مِّنْ قَبْلُ ؕ اِنَّهُمْ كَانُوْا فِیْ شَكٍّ مُّرِیْبٍ۠۝۵۴

A barrier shall be raised between them and what they desired, as was done with their partisans before. They too were filled with disquieting doubt.