سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١٤
قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ ١٤
qālū yāwaylanā innā kunnā ẓālimīna
They said, "O woe to us! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."
Verse 14 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:14), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 323 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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These wrongdoers who confessed to their sins said: “Woe and destruction for us. We were wrongdoers due to our disbelief in Allah”.
They said, “Woe to us! We were indeed wrongdoers.”
They cried: "Woe to us! Certainly we have been Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh)."
They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers.
They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"
They said: O woe to us! surely we were unjust.
They said, "O woe to us! Surely we have been unjust."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَلَئِن مَّسَّتْهُمْ نَفْحَةٌ مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّكَ لَيَقُولُنَّ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ
And if [as much as] a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, "O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers."
قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَٰغِينَ
They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.
