ٱلزُّمَر : ٥٦

  • أَن Lest
  • تَقُولَ should say
  • نَفۡسٞ a soul
  • يَٰحَسۡرَتَىٰ Oh! My regret
  • عَلَىٰ over
  • مَا what
  • فَرَّطتُ I neglected
  • فِي in
  • جَنۢبِ regard to
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • وَإِن and that
  • كُنتُ I was
  • لَمِنَ surely among
  • ٱلسَّـٰخِرِينَ the mockers
Lest a soul should say,1 "Oh, [how great is] my regret over what I neglected in regard to Allāh and that I was among the mockers."
Footnotes
1 On the Day of Resurrection.
so apply yourselves to this, before any soul should say, 'Alas for me (yaa hasrataa is actually yaa hasratee, meaning 'O regret of mine') for what I have neglected of my duty to God, in other words, [of] obedience to Him. Indeed (wa-in: in is softened in place of the hardened form, in other words [understand it as] wa-innee) I was among those who ridiculed', His religion and His Book;