Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Mulk, Ayah 10
وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِىٓ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلسَّعِيرِ
And they will say, "If only we had been listening or reasoning, we would not be among the companions of the Blaze."
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And they will say ‘Had we listened that is listening so as to understand or comprehended that is comprehension entailing reflection upon the truth we would not have been among the inhabitants of the Blaze’.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And they say) to the wardens: (Had we been wont to listen) to the Truth and guidance (or have sense) or desired the Truth in the life of the world, (we had not been among the dwellers in the flames) in Gehenna today.