وَقَالُوا آمَنَّا بِهِ وَأَنَّى لَهُمُ التَّنَاوُشُ مِن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
They will say, ‘We believe in it [now]!’ But how can they attain it from a far-off place,
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 34:52
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 34:52] "From a place so far away"-death removes every man far away from this world. The opportune place and time to believe in the truth, is in this world, at this time. On the day of judgement repentant believing would be of no avail whatsoever, to anyone. Aqa Mahdi Puya says: When the guilty are sentenced, and their punishment comes nearest to them, they will be far away from their earthly life, where faith held no importance for them. While they were in the state of worldly existence, and had opportunity to believe, they disbelieved, and considered the unseen world as something far beyond imagination.