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يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلاَناً خَلِيلاً
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-Al-Furqân ( الفرقان )

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

O woe to me! (yā waylatā: the [final] alif stands in place of the [first person singular] possessive yā’, yā waylatī, meaning ‘[alas] for my destruction!’) Would that I had not taken so and so, in other words, [that] Ubayy, as friend!


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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