And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have (2:13)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

And when told to conform their will to Allah’s will and to recognise Him, believe in Him and give credence to His Omnipotence and Authority as other people have conformed to His will, they say: Shall we demean ourselves like the simpletons did and follow the same course they followed? Indeed, they are the fools who said in their hearts, There is no god, but they are ignorant and unknowing of the truth

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

(2:13) And when it is said to them, "Believe sincerely as the other people have believed", *13 they reply, "Should we believe as fools have believed?' *14 Beware! they themselves are the fools, but they know it not.

And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have meaning

*13). They are being asked to become Muslims in the same manner as others of their community became Muslims
*14). They think that those people who sincerely embraced Islam and thereby exposed themselves to all kinds of trials and persecutions, and confronted risks and dangers, were merely fools. To them it seems sheer folly to invite the hostility of the entire land merely for the sake of Truth and righteousness. In their view, wisdom consists not in bothering oneself with the distinction between truth and falsehood, but in remaining concerned only with one's own interests.
 

And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have meaning in Urdu

اور جب ان سے کہا گیا جس طرح دوسرے لوگ ایمان لائے ہیں اسی طرح تم بھی ایمان لاؤ تو انہوں نے یہی جواب دیا "کیا ہم بیوقوفوں کی طرح ایمان لائیں؟" خبردار! حقیقت میں تو یہ خود بیوقوف ہیں، مگر یہ جانتے نہیں ہیں