Fama kana daAAwahum ith jaahum basuna illa an qaloo inna kunna thalimeena
English
Ahmed Ali
And when Our punishment overtook them they had nothing to say except crying out: "We have indeed been sinners."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (no plea) words (had they, when our terror) our punishment which destroyed them (came unto them, save that they said: lo! we were wrong-doers) idolaters.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and their only plea, their [only] words, when our might came upon them, was to say, ‘we were evildoers indeed’.
