Verse. 2497

٢١ - ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء

21 - Al-Anbiya

قَالُوْا يٰوَيْلَنَاۗ اِنَّا كُنَّا ظٰلِمِيْنَ۝۱۴
Qaloo ya waylana inna kunna thalimeena

English

Ahmed Ali

"Woe, alas," they said, "we were really sinful."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they cried) when they were being killed and tormented: (alas for us! lo! we were wrong-doers) when we killed our prophet.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘o (yā is for calling attention [to something]) woe to us!, [this is] our destruction! we have indeed been doing wrong’, through [our] disbelief.