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Sura 18
Aya 42
42
وَأُحيطَ بِثَمَرِهِ فَأَصبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيهِ عَلىٰ ما أَنفَقَ فيها وَهِيَ خاوِيَةٌ عَلىٰ عُروشِها وَيَقولُ يا لَيتَني لَم أُشرِك بِرَبّي أَحَدًا

(Irfan-ul-Quran)

And (because of his arrogance) all his fruits were besieged (with destruction) and in the morning he was but wringing his hands with grief bewailing all that wealth which he had invested (in raising this garden). And the garden had fallen down on its trellises and he (the embodiment of despair and despondence) said: ‘Would that I had not attributed peers to Allah (and had not employed self-conceit)!’