Qeela odkhuli aljannata qala ya layta qawmee yaAAlamoona
English
Ahmed Ali
(But they stoned him to death.) It was said to him: "Enter Paradise;" and he said: "If only my people knew
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (it was said (unto him): enter paradise) paradise was decreed for him; it is also said: it was said to his spirit: enter paradise. (he said) his spirit said after entering paradise: (would that my people knew) and believed
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : it was said, to him upon his death: ‘enter paradise!’ — but it is also said that he entered it while he was [still] alive. he said, ‘o (yā is for calling attention [to something]), would that my people knew
