When they saw (and did not recognise it) they said: "Surely we have lost the way.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but when they saw it) when they saw the fields burned down, (they said: lo! we are in error!) we have taken a wrong turn; thinking that they were not their fields
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but when they saw it, blackened and charred, they said, ‘assuredly we have strayed!’, from it, that is to say: this is not the one. then when they recognised it, they said: