Surah Al-Furqan (الفرقان) • The Criterion

Quran 25:27

25:27

وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا

wayawma yaʿaḍḍu l-ẓālimu ʿalā yadayhi yaqūlu yālaytanī ittakhadhtu maʿa l-rasūli sabīlan

And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way.

— Saheeh International

On that Day the evildoer will bite his own hand and say, ‘If only I had taken the same path as the Messenger.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

And (remember) the Day when the Zâlim (wrong-doer, oppressor, polytheist) will bite at his hands, he will say: "Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم).

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

وَيَوْمَwayawmaAnd (the) Day
يَعَضُّyaʿaḍḍuwill bite
ٱلظَّالِمُl-ẓālimuthe wrongdoer
عَلَىٰʿalā[on]
يَدَيْهِyadayhihis hands
يَقُولُyaqūluhe will say
يَـٰلَيْتَنِىyālaytanīO I wish
ٱتَّخَذْتُittakhadhtuI had taken
مَعَmaʿawith
ٱلرَّسُولِl-rasūlithe Messenger
سَبِيلًۭاsabīlana way