Or say, when it sees the penalty, “If only I had another chance, I would be of the virtuous.”
Az-Zumar 39:58
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أَوْ تَقُولَ حِينَ تَرَى الْعَذَابَ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي كَرَّةً فَأَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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Or say, when it sees the penalty, “If only I had another chance, I would be of the virtuous.”
Or someone might say, when he sees the punishment, "If only I had another chance, I would be one of those who do good."
Or it might say, when it sees the punishment, "If only I had another chance, I would surely be among those who do good."
Or lest it should say when it sees the punishment, “If only I had another chance, so I could be among those who do good.”
Or say, upon seeing the punishment, “If only I had a second chance, I would be of the virtuous.”
Or say, upon seeing the punishment, “If only I had a second chance, I would be of the virtuous.”
Or [lest] it say when it sees the punishment, "If only I had another turn so I could be among the doers of good."
Or (lest) he should say when he sees the torment: "If only I had another chance (to return to the world), then I should indeed be among the Muhsinûn (good-doers - See V.2:112)."
or says, upon seeing the punishment, “If only I had another chance, I could be among those who do good.”
"Or (lest) it should say when it (actually) sees the penalty: 'If only I had another chance, I should certainly be among those who do good!'
Or should say, when it seeth the doom: Oh, that I had but a second chance that I might be among the righteous!
Or, he may say as he sees the punishment, "Would that I had a second chance, so that I could be among the doers of good."
or lest he should say, when he sees the chastisement: “O that I might return again, and be among those who do good.”
Or say, when he sights the punishment, ‘If only there were a second chance for me, I would be among the virtuous!’
Aw taqoola heena tara alAAathaba law anna lee karratan faakoona mina almuhsineena