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YUSUFALI : That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away.

PICKTHAL : They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before.

SHAKIR : They do not believe in it, and indeed the example of the former people has already passed.

M& HILALI : They would not believe in it (the Qur'an), and already the example of (Allah's punishment of) the ancients (who disbelieved) has gone forth.