وَلَقَدْ كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ Qur’an Al-Mulk (67:18)Walaqad ka thth aba alla th eena min qablihim fakayfa k a na nakeer i
Lit., "before them" (min qablihim). This personal pronoun relates - as does the whole of the passage beginning with verse {13} - to people of all times, who are herewith reminded of what happened to deniers of the truth in earlier times; hence my rendering of min qablihim as "aforetime".
Cf. xxii. 42-44, and n. 2822.