Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 3
لَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٌۭ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا۟ مُؤْمِنِينَ
Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.
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(It may be that thou tormentest thyself) it may be that you kill yourself with grief over them (because they believe not) because the Quraysh do not want to become believers. This is because he was very keen for them to become believers.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Perhaps O Muhammad (s) you might kill yourself out of distress for the reason that they namely the people of Mecca will not become believers la‘alla here expresses sympathy in other words what is meant is ‘have pity on it your self by alleviating the burden of this distress’.