Verse. 4032

٣٨ - ص

38 - Sad

وَقَالُوْا مَا لَنَا لَا نَرٰى رِجَالًا كُنَّا نَعُدُّہُمْ مِّنَ الْاَشْرَارِ۝۶۲ۭ
Waqaloo ma lana la nara rijalan kunna naAAudduhum mina alashrari

English

Ahmed Ali

And will add: "O what has happened to us that we do not see the men we counted among the wicked.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and they say: what aileth us that we behold not) in the fire (men) meaning the poor among the believers (whom we were wont to count among the wicked) whom we counted among the lowly and paupers?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and they, the disbelievers of mecca, say, while they are in the fire: ‘what is the matter with us that we do not see [here] men whom we used to count, in the world, among the wicked?