Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Saba, Ayah 54
وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِم مِّن قَبْلُ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ فِى شَكٍّۢ مُّرِيبٍۭ
And prevention will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in disquieting denial.
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And a barrier is set between them and what they crave in the way of faith — in other words their craving to embrace it — just as was done with their counterparts in respect to disbelief formerly in other words before them. Indeed they used to be in grave doubt doubt causing them to have misgivings about that in which they now believe but the proofs for which they never considered in this world.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And a gulf is set between them and that which they desire) of returning to the life of this world, (as was done for people of their kind of old) and the adherents of their religion from among the disbelievers. (Lo! they were in hopeless doubt) they were in manifest doubt about the Creator of the heavens and the earth. And Allah knows best the secrets of His Book'.