Thus were those [before you] deluded who were rejecting the signs of (40:63)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

Thus in like manner were deluded those who came before you, who refused to acknowledge Our Revelations and Authority; they befooled their minds and their judgement of the truth so as to cause what is false to be accepted as true

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(40:63) Thus it is only those who had denied Allah's Signs that were led astray. *88

Thus were those [before you] deluded who were rejecting the signs of meaning

*88) That is, "In every age the common people have been deluded by the misguides only because the people did not believe in the Revelations that Allah sent down through His Messengers to make them understand the Truth. Consequently; they were trapped by the selfish, dishonest people, who had set up shrines of false gods as a business. "
 

Thus were those [before you] deluded who were rejecting the signs of meaning in Urdu

اِسی طرح وہ سب لوگ بہکائے جاتے رہے ہیں جو اللہ کی آیات کا انکار کرتے تھے