﴿ وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ ﴾

“seeing that aforetime they had been bent on denying the truth, and had been wont to cast scorn, from far away, on something that was beyond the reach of human perception?”

(When they disbelieved in it) in Muhammad (pbuh) and in the Qur'an (of yore) before they were swallowed by the earth. (They aim at the unseen) they did but surmise in the life of the world when they said there is no Paradise or hell (from afar off) after death; it is also said that this means: after death, they ask to be returned to the life of this world by surmise.