Verse. 2529

٢١ - ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء

21 - Al-Anbiya

وَلَىِٕنْ مَّسَّتْہُمْ نَفْحَۃٌ مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّكَ لَيَقُوْلُنَّ يٰوَيْلَنَاۗ اِنَّا كُنَّا ظٰلِمِيْنَ۝۴۶
Walain massathum nafhatun min AAathabi rabbika layaqoolunna ya waylana inna kunna thalimeena

English

Ahmed Ali

Even if a whiff of the Lord's chastisement were to touch them they would surely say: "Ah woe, alas, we were surely sinful."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and if a breath of thy lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: alas for us! lo! we were wrong-doers) against ourselves, and we were disbelievers in allah.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and if a whiff, a slight instance, of your lord’s chastisement were to touch them, they would indeed say, ‘o (yā, used for drawing attention [to something]) woe for us!, [o this is] our destruction! truly we were doing evil’, in ascribing partners to god and denying [the mission of] muhammad (s).