Surah Az-Zukhruf (الزخرف) • The Ornaments of Gold

Quran 43:38

43:38

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَنَا قَالَ يَـٰلَيْتَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ بُعْدَ ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ فَبِئْسَ ٱلْقَرِينُ

ḥattā idhā jāanā qāla yālayta baynī wabaynaka buʿ'da l-mashriqayni fabi'sa l-qarīnu

Until, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "How I wish there was between me and you the distance between the east and west; and what a wretched companion."

— Saheeh International

When such a person comes to Us, he will say [to his comrade], ‘If only you had been as far away from me as east is from west. What an evil comrade!’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Till, when (such a one) comes to Us, he says [to his Qarîn (Satan / devil companion)] "Would that between me and you were the distance of the two easts (or the east and west)" - a worst (type of) companion (indeed)!

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

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Word by Word

حَتَّىٰٓḥattāUntil
إِذَاidhāwhen
جَآءَنَاjāanāhe comes to Us
قَالَqālahe says
يَـٰلَيْتَyālaytaO would that
بَيْنِىbaynībetween me
وَبَيْنَكَwabaynakaand between you
بُعْدَbuʿ'da(were the) distance
ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِl-mashriqayni(of) the East and the West
فَبِئْسَfabi'saHow wretched is
ٱلْقَرِينُl-qarīnuthe companion